[Rarebooks] FS: SIGNED Woodrow Wilson Speech on American Sacrifice

[Charles Agvent]

WILSON, Woodrow. ADDRESS OF PRESIDENT WILSON AT THE BROOKLYN NAVY YARD 
BROOKLYN, N. Y. MAY 11, 1914. Services in memory of those who lost their 
lives at Vera Cruz, Mexico. Washington: [Government Printing Office], 
1914. First Edition. Printed wraps, 8 pages, including the covers. 
SIGNED by the President at the end of the text. Toning to text. Near Fine.

"We have gone down to Mexico to serve mankind, if we find out the way. 
We do not want to fight the Mexicans. We want to serve the Mexicans, if 
we can, because we know how we would like to be free and how we would 
like to be served if there were friends standing by in such case ready 
to serve us. A war of aggression is not a war in which it is a proud 
thing to die, but a war of service is a thing in which it is a proud 
thing to die.

"Notice how truly these men were of our blood. I mean of our American 
blood, which is not drawn from any one country, which is not drawn from 
any one stock, which is not from any one language of the modern world; 
but free men everywhere have sent their sons and their brothers and 
their daughters to this country in order to make that great compounded 
Nation which consists of all the sturdy elements and of all the best 
elements of the whole globe. I listened again to this list of the dead 
with a profound interest because of the mixture of the names, for the 
names bear the marks of the several national stocks from which these men 
came. But they are not Irishmen or Germans or Frenchmen or Hebrews or 
Italians any more.They were not when they went to Vera Cruz; they were 
Americans, every one of them, and with no difference in their 
Americanism because of the stock from which they came.They were in a 
peculiar sense of our blood, and they proved it by showing that they 
were of our spirit, that no matter what their derivation, no matter 
where their people came from, they thought and wished and did the things 
that were American; and the flag under which they served was a flag in 
which all the blood of mankind is united to make a free Nation."
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