Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 39, Number 85, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 June 1907 — Our Unexampled Republic. [ARTICLE]

Our Unexampled Republic.

The world has but one republic that has illustrated constitutional fieedom in all its beneficence, power and grandeur, and that is our own priceless inheritance. As a government our republic has alone been capable of and faithful to representative free institutions, with equal rights, equal justice and equal laws for every condition of our fellows. All the nations of the past furnish no history that can logically repeat ! self in our advancement or decline. Created through the severest trials and sacrifices, maintained through foreign and civil war with unexampled devotion, faithful to law as the offspring and safety of liberty, progressive in all that ennobles our peaceful industry and cherishing enlightened

and liberal Christian civilization as the and pride of our citizens, for our government of the people, none but itself can be its parallel.—Col. A. K. MoClure.