We have our own country, our religion, our heroes, our statesmen, our soldiers.

We do not owe them to contact with the English.

These things are not new to us.

When the ancestors of those who boast to-day of their enterprise and their civilization were in a disgusting state of barbarism, or rather centuries before then, we were in full possession of all the ennobling qualities of head and heart.

This holy and hoary land of ours will surely regain her position and be once more by her intrinsic lustre the home of wealth, arts, and peace.