The True Aims of American Ambition

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Excerpt from The True Aims of American Ambition: An Address Delivered Before the Literary Societies of Pennsylvania College, Gettysburg, September 15, 1852What a contrast is presented to this arrogant adventure of wrong and rapine, by the departure and return of that high and holy enterprlse which, many ages after, and when Athens and Syracuse were remembered dreams, left the port of Palos to dare an unknown ocean and an unknown fate! Their feeble vessels glittered with no pomp and blazed with no anticipated triumph, and though friends were there, pale and anxious, to bid a falter ing God Speed to the majestic Columbus and his hardy followers, no shout broke the Silence, and their adieus were uttered amid tears, and prayers, and hopes that trembled like terrors. The sea, whose 'untracked waste they entered upon, stretched before them - as the expanse of time, my young friends, stretches before you - chartless and limitless, and they sought, as you seek, a world - the Atlantis of Plato, the vision of the poet and philosopher for ages. Launched upon that sea, their aim the loftiest that ever lifted human ambition, how did they return? A continent leaned forward to receive them. Princes and monarchs hastened to give them welcome. They had sought a world and won it, and, amid prayers and rejoicings, the ring ing of bells and the firing of cannon, Columbus displayed the evidences and trophies of that achievement which made him 1m mortal, and changed the aspect and destinies of the world.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.