ion, and the colonies became a nation. Again the bars went down,
and then came the Mexican war, giving the nation the room necessary for
its expansion, the space necessary for the homes of the millions from
the Old World who sought the freedom of the New. From Atlantic to
Pacific that little fringe of people of the colonial times had evolved
until they were a great nation. We needed the precious metals, and gold
and silver were found sufficient for our purposes. God had let down the
bars. But one thing remained, one canker and sore, one great evil which
threatened and worried and troubled, but God in His own good time again
let down the bars and it was forever swept away, for He allowed the
rebellion. He gave humanity and justice and right the victory. He
restored the Union, He will heal the sores, He will lead the people to
its final destiny as the advance guard of civilization, progress and the
upbuilding and elevation of mankind, and in good time the bars will be
again let down for the benefit of humanity--when or why we know not, but
He knows."

In the light of recent events, the utterances of these two great men are
certainly deserving of the utmost consideration. Both of them really
seem to be seers, who, from their observations of the past, saw visions
of the future for the native land they loved so well.

The Paris Figaro, in a remarkable article, says that, willingly or
forcibly, America must belong to the Americans. The New World must gird
up its loins and be ready to fulfill its mission. And this must be done
by force when persuasion is not sufficient. And when the Americans shall
have rejoined Europe in some portion of Asia, concludes the Figaro, and
closed the ring of white civilization around the globe, will they stop
or can they stop? That is the secret of the future. Its solution will
depend upon what they will find before them--a Europe torn and divided,
or, as it has been said, the United States of Europe. At all events,
they will have the right to be proud, because they will have carried out
their destiny.

Now to turn to an opinion by an Englishman, and be it remembered that
England stood by us in a remarkable way from the very beginning of the
Spanish-American war and undoubtedly prevented the other European
nations from interfering.

The opinion we are about to give is from the pen of Mr. Henry Norman,
the special commissioner of the London Chronicle.

Among other things, Mr. Norman says in an