Some good men have attained the title, an Alfred, a Peter, a Charlemagne; but most have been great in crime and blood; an Alexander, a Pompey, a Caesar, a Herod, a Louis, a Henry, a Frederic, a Charles, a Buonaparte. They were great in many things ; great, perhaps, in ability, great in resolution of will, great in means of influence, and striking in their results; but little in the elements of a truly great character ; little in honesty, in truth, in love, mean, selfish, crafty, cruel, and implacable. Since I have heard lately so much about the dismemberment of Mexico, I look back to see how in the course of events which some nations call “Providence or destiny”, have fared with other nations, who engaged in this work of territorial advance and dismemberment. I see in the later half of the 18th century, three powerful nations , Russia Austria and Prussia, United in the dismemberment of Poland, one of the largest European nations at its time. They said too as many empires do today, “it is our destiny”. They wanted room. Doubtless of each of these thought with his share of Poland, his power was too strong ever to fear invasion, or even insult! One had his California, another his New Mexico, and the third his Veracruz! Did they remain untouched and incapable of harm? Alas, no very, very far from it! Retributive justice must fulfill it’s destiny too! A few years pass off and we hear of a new Man, a Corsican lieutenant, the self named armed soldier of democracy, Napoleon! He ravages Austria, covers her land with blood, drives the northern Caesar from his capitals, and sleeps in his palace! Austria may now remember how her power trampled upon Poland, did she not pay dearly, very dearly for her California?! But has Prussia no atonement to make ? You see this same Napoleon the blind instrument of Providence, at work there too! The thunders of his cannon at Jena proclaim the work of retribution for Poland's wrongs; and the successors of the Great Frederick, the drill-sergeant of Europe are seen flying across the sandy plain that sorround their capital, right glad if they escape captivity or death! But how fares it with the autocrat of Russia? Is he secure in his shares of spoils from Poland? No! Suddenly we see 600,000 armed men marching to Moscow! He who holds the winds in His fist, Christ the lord and the heavenly powers, gathered the snows of the North and blew them upon his six hundred thousand men; they fled--they froze-they perished! Does his Veracruz protect him now!? Far from it! Blood, slaughter, and desolation spread over Russia, and finally the conflagration of that old commercial metropolis of Russia, left abandoned and engulfed in flames, closes the retribution that she too must pay for her share in the dismemberment of her weak and impotent neighbor! All I see is nothing but that cardinal rule, that eternal principle “thou shall not covet thy neighbors property or anything that is his! -War with Mexico Reviewed, Abiel Livermore 1850 American Peace Society
They had a failure in Translation... Schlacht means big Battle Not massacre ...massacre is Massaker in German 😊🇩🇪iam from prussian,North prussian ♥️🇩🇪😔 They North remember 😔
Well, I just had to go through the comments for one purpose. 2 I guess.. to see what people yap about, but also.... if my username be showing up the way I see it.... and.. you know, Prussia, German Empire.. my last name definitely seems familiar
Love a good comment section like this one. I believe this movie is actually Danish? I feel like only the Danes could make a patriotic war movie about their own country losing a war lol
