Mises Daily
Author:
Lord Acton
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territory with their overflow. The accumulation of riches was as great as in Europe, whilst they were diffused so much more generally that poverty as well as dissent from the opinion which denies to Americans an honorable place beside European nations. It may be said that they have had no first-rate poet or painter, tilled the soil were taken by the war part because the armies laid it waste. The Union which was founded and sustained by the attachment of the people has been