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Show "These United States." . This is a common but erroneous form of expression, says an exchange. Wise educated and national men use it. It is a remnant of state sovereignty, of secession, seces-sion, of confederacy. It brings up memories mem-ories of evil, bloody, sickening days. It drags before the present the blood-stained history of the past. There is no such thing as these United States. There is such a thing as this United States ; and it is a great Nation, ahvavs to be spelled with a big N. Uncle Sam is proprietor of the ranch. |