text:  The League themselves ostentatiously proclaim it whilst pretending to impugn the retention of the very shadow of a shade of the same principle for the country above all others which has grown to greatness under it--the very breath of whose nostrils it has been during the struggles of infancy and progress to that full-blown maturity when assuredly it seeks (and need seek only ) willingly proffers and readily accepts equality of condition--reciprocity of interchange with all the world