r of the two. Are these not the signs of the times?
And do they not betoken a future of anarchy in the event of the
establishment of this most pernicious and monstrous of doctrines?

And is it to be expected that these many republics, monarchies,
aristocracies, or whatever form they may take, will long remain at peace
with each other? Ask the muse who presides over the pages of history how
often has her pen been called upon to record the circumstance of
separate nations, of the same blood and antecedents, lying quietly and
peaceably beside each other. Family quarrels are proverbially the most
bitter of all on earth, and family hatreds the most unrelenting. It was
but the ties of kin that lent such a character of ferocity to our wars
with England and to the present contest with the South.

But what shall we say of that scheme which aims at a reconstruction of
the Union by leaving New England out? Simply this: that, aside from any
considerations of policy--without attempting to argue the question of a
good or evil result from such a movement, the answer is plain enough:
_you cannot do it_--and that which is impossible needs no argument for
or against. The energy and activity of mind and body, the lofty
independence, the firm self-reliance, the dogged determination and
undaunted adherence to a great and high purpose, of the whole Saxon
race, is concentrated in the people of that mountain land. Theirs have
been the heads to plan and the hands to execute every great work we have
accomplished since the foundation of our nationality. The railroads and
canals and telegraphs of the North, the South, the East, and the West
are their work; and their capital and their inventive, energetic minds
still shape and control every great commercial enterprise of our land.
Their sturdy emigrants have pushed civilization across the boundless
prairies of the West, and opened the primeval forests of the Pacific
States. Go where you will on the face of the earth, and you find them
there before you, and ever the same busy, tireless apostles of progress,
the leaders in every great work, and the rulers of commerce, everywhere
looked up to as the type of the executive mind, and, by the tacit
consent of Christendom, intrusted with the guidance of every enterprise
requiring pluck, perseverance, and ceaseless activity. And theirs will
still be the brains to control the destinies of our race, however
isolated they may become, however they may be made t