Excerpt from Iowa, the Promised of the Prophets: And Other Patriotic Poems Great Britain resolved to conquer America. She has succeeded in fastening upon our people an interest bearing debt - bonds and mortgages - amounting to not less than twenty billions of dollars and thus she exacts from us a vastly greater tribute than from all' her direct dependencies. Her agents were sent over to prepare the way for our enslavement. Bonamy Price, the Oxford professor, travelled extensively here, lecturing in our principal cities and chief towns. The Spoke in Council Bluffs, Iowa, to the grangers, telil ing them that gold is the only money. Great American statesmen, who had won the confidence of our people during the civil war - trust-cd leaders North. And South - were gained over to the British interest. The friends of American freedom and independence uttered their patriotic protests in vain - unheeded by the people, blinded by party Spirit, and hoodwinked by venal demagogues. 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.