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The Battalion.
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Published Monthly by the Austin and Calliopean Literary Societies
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Voi, 3 ^ COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS, JUNE, 1896. -I No. 8.
LITERARY.
The Safety of oup l^epublie.
BY A. M. HILDEBRANDT.
When we contemplate the history of our government,
and behold the wonderful and rapid growth of its nation, its
sound institutions, the wonderful thrift and enterprise of its
people, and the demonstrated superiority of its free govern
ment, its peaceful condition at home as well as abroad, since
it has no national wrongs to redress, being on good terms
with the entire world, having no thought of a national con
flict, when we think of all this is it to be wondered at if we
surrender ourselves to its glorious aspect and become heedless