lution for the sake of oppression; because it
leads to absolutism. Revolution in the interests of order, justice, and
freedom, we hold to be the only right worthy of the name, and God help
our nation never to oppose such a revolution!

Since the foregoing was written, an article in _Frazer's Magazine_, for
last October, has fallen under the writer's notice, which discusses the
point under consideration, and expresses similar views with those here
stated. An extract from it is given to show how the question is viewed
from a British stand-point:

'The principle of American independence was, that when a
considerable body of men are badly governed and oppressed by a
government under which they live, they have a right to resist and
withdraw from it; and unless everything in the history of England
of which we have been accustomed to boast, from Magna Charta to the
Reform Bill, was a crime, this principle is perfectly true. To deny
to the United States, as most of our public writers did deny to
them, the right of putting down resistance not justified by
oppression, and to impose upon them the duty of submitting at once
to any resistance whatsoever, whether justified or not, was
equivalent to maintaining that chronic anarchy was the only state
of things which could exist in North America.'

It is refreshing to read in a British periodical so clear a statement of
this just distinction. We cannot forbear to cite another extract from
the same article, because it confirms so clearly the argument of this
paper:

'The Dutch fought the Spaniards for their hearths, homes, and
churches; the French fought all Europe with famine and the
guillotine behind them, and empire and plenty in front. The English
in India had the pride of superior race and the memory of
inexpiable injuries to urge them against the Sepoys; but if ever a
nation in this world sacrificed itself deliberately and manfully to
an idea, this has been the case with the Americans.'

What is this idea to which we have thus bravely sacrificed ourselves,
even a phlegmatic Englishman being the judge? It is the idea of the
nation--the idea that the nation is the gift of God, to be cherished and
defended as a sacred trust; and that we can no more rid ourselves of its
obligations than we can rid ourselves of the obligations of home or the
church. To the reckless assertion of those who