Excerpt from A Lecture on the Republics of the Western Hemisphere, and the "Monroe Doctrine" Delivered in the Cooper Institute, N. Y., September 5th, 1866 Fellow Citizens - That is the language Of the history, the genius, and the destiny of the peoples of the Western. Hemi Sphere; and the first aurora borealis OF liberty's light, was shot UP from its northern horison, - that light ex tended and expanded until it illumined the Southern Cross. Then followed the thundering hey-note of Independence, whose reverberations did not cease, until it mingled its sound with the tremendous roarings Of the loftiest volcanoes of the Andes. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.