[41] Speech in the Senate, June 20, 1832. Works Colvin Colton, ed. New York, Putnam's, 1904, vol. 7, p. 503.
[42] Ibid., p. 503.
[43] "Speeches," E. P. Whipple, ed. Little, Brown & Co., 1910, pp. 59-60.
[44] "The Constitutional Position of Property in America," Arthur T. Hadley, Independent, April 16, 1908.
X. INDUSTRIAL EMPIRES
1. They Cannot Pause!
The foundations of Empire have been laid in the United States. Territory has been conquered; peoples have been subjugated or annihilated; an imperial class has established itself. Here are all of the essential characteristics of empire.
The American people have been busy laying the political foundations of Empire for three centuries. A great domain, taken by force of arms from the people who were in possession of it has been either incorporated into the Union, or else held as dependent territory. The aborigines have disappeared as a race. The Negroes, kidnaped from their native land, enslaved and later liberated, are still treated as an inferior people who should be the hewers of wood and the drawers of water. A vast territory was taken from Mexico as a result of one war. A quarter million square miles were secured from Spain in another; on the Continent three and a half millions of square miles; in territorial possessions nearly a quarter of a million more—this is the result of little more than two hundred years of struggle; this is the geographic basis for the American Empire.