perpetrated,
fraud and injustice execute their projects and cruelty bathe its hands
in blood, and no one be guilty; Heaven be defied, and earth be
stained, but no one culpable! A State is bound to keep good faith as
much as an individual. It is bound to deal righteously and glorify
God, to "eschew evil and do good." The doctrine broached in some
quarters, that legislation may be dishonest and yet reproach not
cleave to the State which suffers it, is as false as it is base. They
by whom it is promulgated are enemies nurtured at the bosom of the
Republic. Their

"dishonour
Mangles true judgment, and bereaves the State
Of that integrity which should become it;
Not having the power to do the good it would,
For the ill which doth control it."

Of generosity; for the sentiment of love may warm a nation's breast.
Political institutions need not engender exclusiveness. Nations should
treat one another honestly and openly, discarding that maxim on which
the international relations of the world have in past ages been
conducted, that the prosperity of each must be promoted by the
obstacles thrown in the way of the rest. This is neither a Christian
nor a sound maxim. Men are beginning to open their eyes upon the fact,
that it is unsound and pernicious; yet how slow are they in coming to
the real truth, that the nation which pays the most sincere respect to
the rights, and shows the most liberal spirit in regard to the
interests, of other nations, will most effectually secure its own
rights and advance its own interests. It is time that the old Pagan
notion of patriotism should be displaced by more just ideas. Love of
country was once interpreted to mean hatred of all other people,--in
days when virtue had no other meaning than courage, and he was thought
to show the most lofty patriotism who bound the greatest number of
captives to the car of victory. It is time that the more modern
conception of national glory as identical with national superiority,
if not in arms, in some other class of achievements, should give place
to a right appreciation of the end for which a nation should labour.
This end is neither aggrandizement nor superiority, but virtue. To
what should a nation make all its laws and institutions and the whole
action of its government subservient? To the improvement of the
people; to their intellectual and moral elevation; to their individual
and social advancement. As this impro