Macaulay’s Prediction of American Plunder by Editor

International Tract and Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Dec 30, 1886

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 12, No. 50.

Macaulay’s Prediction of American Plunder

By Editor

THE following sentences were penned by Lord Macaulay in 1857. In view of this fact, and of current events, they are remarkable words. Though he places this time of plunder in "the twentieth century;" though there remain but thirteen years and six months more before the twentieth century comes, yet we doubt whether the nineteenth century will not see this time of plunder pictured by this justly eminent writer.