How we cite our quotes: (Chapter.Paragraph)
Quote #4
The cries, the vociferations, the succession of cheers, Hip, hip, hurrahs! and other onomatopoeia in which the American language is so rich (3.1)
The Gun Club's mission is met by a rabid patriotic fervor. This is actually one of the more positive examples of patriotism in the novel—here it's used to unite people rather than divide them. In fact, this scene is notable because it sees members of different ethnic groups uniting as one, and you don't get more American than that.
Quote #5
We may therefore say […] that twenty-five millions of hearts inflated with pride, beat with the same pulsation (3.8)
Although the whole world follows the project with eager interest, no one is as invested in it (both literally and metaphorically) as the American people. And to think that this is coming less than a decade after the Civil War.
Quote #6
An English troupe advertised the play of Much Ado about Nothing […] but the population of the town […] saw in this title an allusion to the projects of President Barbicane. (3.14)
This is where things start to get a nasty—and hilarious. Is there anything funnier than the image of a bunch of Americans losing their minds over the title of a Shakespeare play? Regardless, this is our first sign that patriotism has a dark underbelly, causing regular folks to do patently insane things out of a misguided sense of national pride.