But there is another motive--a nobler and more generous one.

They have drunk from the cup of Liberty--the draught has pleased them, has given them happiness and joy; and, urged by that better part of our nature, they wish to share that sweet cup--ample for all--_with all men_.

This is the true motive of the conquest of civilisation; and under the banner of such a cause, it is a question whether war and anarchy and confusion be not preferable to the deceptive peace and _apparent_ prosperity of despotism, that, like the death-dealing vampire, soothes while it destroys.
I do not say that _all_ Americans nor _all_ Englishmen are entitled to the glory of such a holy motive for conquest.

No.

Too large a proportion, alas! are actuated only by the ignoble idea of selfish or national aggrandisement.