cause of the estrangement between us, so far
as it has been an estrangement between the nations, not merely between
certain sections and classes. It is a cause which will henceforth
operate no more. A Scandinavian hero, as the Norse legend tells, waged a
terrible combat through a whole night with the dead body of his
brother-in-arms, animated by a Demon; but with the morning the Demon
fled.

Other thoughts crowd upon my mind,--thoughts of what the two nations
have been to each other in the past, thoughts of what they may yet be to
each other in the future. But these thoughts will rise in other minds as
well as in mine, if they are not stifled by the passion of the hour. If
there is any question to be settled between us, let us settle it without
disparagement to the just claims or the honor of either party, yet, if
possible, as kindred nations. For if we do not, our posterity will curse
us. A century hence, the passions which caused the quarrel will be dead,
the black record of the quarrel will survive and be detested. Do what we
will now, we shall not cancel the tie of blood, nor prevent it from
hereafter asserting its undying power. The Englishmen of this day will
not prevent those who come after them from being proud of England's
grandest achievement, the sum of all her noblest victories,--the
foundation of this the great Commonwealth of the New World. And you will
not prevent the hearts of your children's children from turning to the
birth-place of their nation, the land of their history and of their
early greatness, the land which holds the august monuments of your
ancient race, the works of your illustrious fathers, and their graves.

GOLDWIN SMITH.

WE ARE A NATION.

The great national triumph we have just achieved renders that foggy and
forlorn Second Tuesday of November the most memorable day of this most
memorable year of the war. Under the heavy curtain of mist that brooded
low over the scene, under the sombre clouds of uncertainty that hung
drizzling and oppressive above the whole land, was enacted a drama whose
grandeur has not been surpassed in history. The deep significance of
that event it is not easy for the mind to fathom. As the accumulating
majorities for the Union came rolling in, like billows succeeding
billows, heaping up the waters of victory, it was not alone the ship of
state that was lifted bodily over the bar, but all her costly freight of
human liberties and human hopes was up