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The election of Franklin Pierce, indeed, gave the signal for the revolution to begin. We will restrict our treatment here, due to space limitations, to two, intimately connected objectives of this revolutionary project:

The election of Franklin Pierce, indeed, gave the signal for the revolution to begin. We will restrict our treatment here, due to space limitations, to two, intimately connected objectives of this revolutionary project:

* The destruction of the liberties of the emerging republics of Latin America, and their colonial reconquest; and

* The destruction of the liberties of the emerging republics of Latin America, and their colonial reconquest; and

* the breakup of the United States and the overthrow of its republican

* the breakup of the United States and the overthrow of its republican government.

government.

These two objectives had been combined in the plans of America's enemies since the mercenary army of Aaron Burr sailed from Ohio to the Gulf South, and remain so in the twentieth century.|||Mazzini, 1853}}

These two objectives had been combined in the plans of America's enemies since the mercenary army of Aaron Burr sailed from Ohio to the Gulf South, and remain so in the twentieth century.|||Mazzini, 1853}}