and what will be the verdict of impartial history,
should we suffer these accumulated outrages to
go unavenged.??

"Antaeus was our brother, born of that same
beloved parent to whom we owe the thews
and sinews, as well as the courageous heaits,
which made him proud of our relationship. He
was our faithful ally, and fell fighting as much
for our national rights and immunities as for his
own personal ones. We and our forefathers
have dwelt in friendship with him, and held
affectionate intercourse, as man to man, through
immemorial generations. You remember how
often our entire people have reposed in his great
shadow, and how our little ones have played at
hide and seek in the tangles of his hair, and how
his mighty footsteps have familiarly gone to and
fro among us, and never trodden upon any of
our toes. And there lies this dear brother
this sweet and amiable friend this brave and
faithful ally this virtuous Giant this blame-
less and excellent Antaeus dead! Dead! Si-
lent! Powerless! A mere mountain of clay!
Forgive my tears! Nay, I behold your own:
Were we to drown the world with them, could
the world blame us??

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