Excerpt from The Crisis: An Appeal to Our Countrymen, on the Subject of Foreign Influence in the United States The nature ofthe government and of the civil and religious insti tutions of our country are well known to be diametrically opposed to those of most others, and especially the most powerful, yet the. Most unhappy of the eastern world. It is therefore plain that those interested, either from prejudice or selfishness, in the continuance of the governments and institutions of these nations, would very na totally, and hence very probably, seek to destroy, in some way, the government and institutions of our own. Of this disposition and of the attempts of such to do so, the people of the United States have now numerous examples; but we shall endeavor to show, in the following remarks, that this disposition is stronger, more active and more alarming, and the attempts more frequent, strong and con certed, than our native citizens are aware. 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.