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Noble country, and noble the people that inhabits it! Frank 
people, whom the ancient world saluted, from its first appearance 
on the scene of history, by the title of Saviour of the Christian 
Unit}^ and buckler of God. For long before the fierce Sicambrian 
had bent his brow for the blessing of the humble servant of Christ, 
the extermination of the hordes of Attila, the scourge of God, 
already proclaimed the prowess of the hero Frank, and the might 
of his invincible ai'm ! Already the holy and emancipating virgin, 
whose mildly radiant aureole was to color with such poetic reflec- 
tions every heroic page of our annals, had made her appearance 
in the legend. A great nation, so generous, so repugnant by na- 
ture to ignoble traffic, that makes a liar of man, that it has had to 
fetch from Judah and Geneva, mercenaries trained to cheating to 
keep its shops. It has been obliged to draw from the stranger its 
parasitical tribe of money-shavers, as it already had drawn its 
chimney-sweeps ! A. great and holy nation — the only one in which 
the spirit of nationality is absent; I mean the spirit of ancient 
barbarism, the hatred of the stranger, the exclusive love of their 
own parish. Ah, let the incense-bearers of the golden calf, let 
all the partners of the Jew King deplore the incapacity of my 
countiy people for affairs of commerce, and their want of national 
selfishness ; I uphold these defects as France’s proudest titles 
of glory, as the clearest signs of my nation’s superiority ! That 
spirit of ardent nationality is good for the people of prey. It is 
well for the Englishman, who, out of England, sees only people 
to plunder, to wallow in his insular patriotism. The Englishman 
is another Jew, who, like the latter, has declared war upon all the 
peoples of the wmild, and whose fortune can be made only by the 
ruin of all the other peoples. But it is precisely because it has 
been thus for the Jewish people that it must be otherwise for the 
French people — a Cliristian nation. When the drunken English- 
man exclaims in his stupid pride — The vine does not groio in our 
island, and we drinJc the luine of all nations the Frenchman 
should answ^er, ‘‘ If God has given us the vine, it is because He 
wished to make us the cup-bearers of the globe ; let us take the 
cup of fraternal communion, and pour out the wine for all the 
nations.” When the bloody barbarian, the opium merchant, takes 
