[Manta-bugs] The Ohio and Mississippi to New Orleans, he will trace the

[Cefaratti B. <exa...@lu...>]

And Mississippi to New Orleans, he will trace the line across which the
two nations looked in defiance at each other, and see instantaneously
that the claims of France were inadmissable, and that another war was
inevitable. It mattered little that of the forty-five years immediately
preceding the treaty of Aix La Chapelle, fourteen, or one-third of the
whole number, had been years of war between these two neighbors. They
were now, after a peace of only half a dozen years, as ready for a fresh
contest as if they were to meet for the first time upon the battle
field. In fact, another conflict was unavoidable; a conflict of the
Teuton with the Gaul; of medievalism with daylight; of conservatism with
progress; of the old Church with the new; of feudalism with democracy--a
conflict which should settle the destiny of North America, making it
English and Prote