On this question of principle, while actual suffering was yet afar
off, they [the Colonies] raised their flag against a power to which,
for purposes of foreign conquest and subjugation, Rome in the height
of her glory is not to be compared,--a power which has dotted over
the surface of the whole globe with her possessions and military posts,
whose morning drum-beat, following the sun,
-- Daniel Webster (1782-1852)
-- Speech, May 7, 1834, p. 110
