Oblivious to Canada, and British Columbia and the Spanish provinces, it warned the despots of Europe off the grass in America.

We actually went to war with Mexico, having enjoyed two wars with England, and again and again we threatened to annex the Dominion.

Everything betwixt hell and Halifax was Yankee preempted.
"Truth to say, your Uncle Samuel was ever a jingo.

But your Cousin Woodrow, enlarging on the original plan, would stretch our spiritual boundaries to the ends of the earth and make of us the moral custodian of the universe.

This much, no less, he got of the school of sweetness and light in which he grew up.
"I am a jingo myself.