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The Fall of a Nation
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The President and his Cabinet, released from Fort Warren, reviewed our victorious fleet the following day.
There were no vulgar cheers. Their souls were stirred to greater depths.
When the triumphal procession swung past the old Armory on the East Side of New York, Virginia Holland, with Zonia and Marya, rode at the head of a division of fifty thousand Daughters of Jael. The orderly outrider on her left was a slender Italian mother, on whose breast was pinned a tiny blood-stained flag of the Republic.
Congress met in December. The Senate used the East Room of the Executive Mansion, the House of Representatives met in the Belasco Theater. These two buildings stood intact.
John Vassar was elected speaker of the House without a dissenting voice. His bride from her seat in the gallery watched through tear-dimmed eyes as he took his seat on the dais, and two wistful girls, with smiling faces, sat beside her.
The first bill for consideration was passed without debate in just the time it took to call the roll – the bill which Vassar had introduced five years before – providing for a mobile army of citizen soldiers of a million men with heavy artillery and perfect equipment.
The cost of our defeat and humiliation with two years of slavery had been more than thirty billions of the wealth of the people. This fabulous sum could have been saved by a paltry half billion invested in a navy.
Taught wisdom at last in the school of defeat, a mighty nation lifted her head and girded her loins for a glorious future.
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