It is true they have shown a desire to extend their territory, and have made conquests to this end.

But what is the motive of these conquests?
Is it to enslave and render tribute?
No.
They conquer not _to enslave_, but to _make free_! There are two motives for Anglo-American--I may say Anglo-Saxon, conquest, for _true_ Englishmen feel these motives as much as Americans do.

They wish to bring the whole world under a liberal form of government--one that will bear the scrutiny of reason--one that in time may extinguish crime, and render poverty a thing of the past--one that is not a patent usurpation and a robbery--a robbery perhaps more criminal in the eyes of God than waylaying on the highroad, or piracy on the high seas--more criminal, because more extensive in its fatal effects.

Anglo-Saxons wish to destroy despotism, lest they or their descendants might again become what their ancestors once were--its victims.

This, then, is one motive of their conquests, and it is nothing more than the naked instinct of self-preservation.