Provo Daily Enquirer | 1891-10-21 | Page 2 | Not So Peaceful as We Seem

not so peaceful a we seem we are supposed to tie a peaceful nation but we have had our fair share of strife foreign and domestic since the revolution there have be n wars with england and with mexico with tripoli and with algiers with paraguay and corea and civil war rumors of wars with france england spain and italy there have been the john brown raid the barnburner and fenian raids to canada many incursions across the mexican border and the filibustering bu expeditions to cuba and nicaragua we have had the whisky and shay rebellions the election draft railroad reconstruction and sundry serious city riots we have had well on to deadly indian fights and many awful massacres we have lost more men in active war since than any nation of europe this is a startling record for a peaceful colonel T A dodge in forum