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Why should not the purest People work out for man the greatest problem of the future?

Why should not the only Democracy in the world realise the hopes of all ages? Why should not this Royal nation enact the thoughts that have flushed the purple visions of earth's greatest Intellects?

UNIVERSALITY and ONENESS are written on the Geography of America by the hand of God, ---Were imprinted on her indelibly by that glorious Statesmanship that would not obstruct human nature by imposing the past on the future, nor divide the nation into close corporations with hostile interests, nor weaken by swathing it in murderous bonds and old-world formularies. Miracles in mechanics also, help to enact and confirm political institutions.

The soil and the nation, the body and soul, of America, are thus one by a thousand influences,one in interest, in intercourse, in sympathies, and in politics, as nation never was before.

Who shall separate them? What can disunite them? Assuredly not that 190,000 head of Slaveholding carrion in the Gulf States, that "lives in the saddle and is sparsely settled" over that region,— that exists on the unpaid labour, and wasted lives, and degraded souls of other men, - that reduces prostitution to a science in economics,that is accustomed to sell its own flesh and blood

into slavery, and that is called "chivalry," by newspapers, which, on the question of Slavery, have been the common houses of ill fame for all the world!

CHAPTER V.

"MARE'S-NESTS;"

OR

JOHN BULL AND "THE CHIVALRY.”

BEGGING OF QUESTION.

CONTRADICTIONS.

SERVILE WAR.

SLAVERY AND BIBLE.

UNITY,-"DESPOTISM."

DESPOTISM,—“ UNITY.”

RIGHT OF SECESSION.

SLAVERY PROFITABLE.

SLAVERY AND NATIONALITY.
CONFEDERATE "BONDS."

"I sing how casual bricks in airy climb,
Encountered casual cow hair, casual lime;
How rafters borne through wondering clouds elate,
Kissed in their slope blue elemental slate,
Clasped solid beams in chance directed fury,

And gave to birth our renovated (Drury).”

"I swear to fear, revere, and serve God; to suffer death rather than renounce Christ; to maintain the rights of the People, the widows, and the orphan; to offer no wilful or deliberate offence to any one; never to be engaged in any transaction for the pure love of gain."-Oath on taking the degree of Esquire.

**“En obant de vous tout orgueil. ** Soyez loyal en faits, et en dits. * * Soyez secourables a pauvres et orphelins."

Mother of Bayard to her Son.

"Sez John C. Calhoun, sez he,

· Human rights airnt no more

Right on this 'ere floor,

No more than the man in the moon,'-sez he."

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Biglow Papers.

MARE'S-NESTS.

"In short I firmly do believe in Humbug generally, For it's a thing that I perceive to have a solid vally;

This hath my faithful shepherd been, in pastures sweet hath led me, And this 'll keep the people green, to feed as they have fed me."

In the "Carnival of Cant" of Slaveholders, the following theories and contradictions have been running a muck at each other and at everything else that is intelligible.

The "begging of the American question," is a feat sturdily persisted in by the friends of the "Chivalry" or in the interests of Slavery, after many exposures. It is not to the credit of the leaders of English public opinion, that the impostures require now even a slight notice.

It is asserted that the 6,000,000 whites, South, are a nation, and therefore cannot be exterminated, and that because they cannot be exterminated, they cannot be subdued. That this rebellion, though to maintain Slavery, is a glorious undertaking.

It is asserted that the 4,000,000 negroes, South, are not a nation. That they ought not to be emancipated till convenient to the white nation. That for them to fight for freedom, would be a bad war, because it would be a "servile war."

It is asserted that "the South is an aristocracy." That an aristocracy ought to lead, that chivalry must conquer, and that a war to set them in their proper place, is a war of nature and necessity.

It is asserted that Slavery is sanctioned by the Bible, and that therefore it is a divine institution,

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