In Margaret Fuller's essay "Fourth of July," what does she say America still needs to achieve?

In Margaret Fuller's essay "The Fourth of July," which appeared in the New York Tribunein 1845, she writes that America has achieved much since its independence and is a land of "great talent and energy." However, she feels that the ideas that led to the American Revolution have been "tarnished," and that the country is starting to value wealth and power over virtue. America has yet to achieve freedom for all its people. She...

In Margaret Fuller's essay "The Fourth of July," which appeared in the New York Tribune in 1845, she writes that America has achieved much since its independence and is a land of "great talent and energy." However, she feels that the ideas that led to the American Revolution have been "tarnished," and that the country is starting to value wealth and power over virtue. America has yet to achieve freedom for all its people. She believes that the continued practice of slavery "takes from the patriot his home." She also believes that Americans' love of wealth and power detracts from their commitment to ideals. She feels that the country must be born again and that there needs to be "a new Dynasty...of Fathers of the Country." To achieve the greatness that is within America's potential, the country needs to turn against slavery and recommit itself to the values present at its founding.