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each against all. Our government distinctly says to EACH CITIZEN, I I' am7
YOUR agent, armed with the authority and jbforce of' the whole coz7nunity,
and no number of men, or combination of numbers, shall infj)inge any
right that is Now yours;" and it moreover says, to EACII OF TIlE STATES,
" I am YouR agent, clothed in the author?ity of the United States, and the
whole world shall not invade an institution that is NOW yours." Born of
disinterested patriotism, it holds no alliance with selfish ambition. It
countenances none of the monstrous isms of the day. It scouts from
its presence the social and agragrian heresies of Mormonism, Communism, Spiritualism, Freelovism, Freesoilisrn, and Abolitionism.
Wroughit, in its formative processes, from the mental throes and convulsions of thirty centuries; won from the approving smiles of a gracious Providence ]by the highest virtue; the largest beneficence of the
supreme good in a temporal form; crowning the mind and filling the
heart here below; it has been deposited with us, the rich inheritors
of our fathers, as a sacred treasure of wisdom, founded in the love
of posterity, to mark and to learn, to guard and to keep, so that us
and our children it shall guard and keep forever! Thus far, through
its inherent perfection and your intelligent patriotism, citizens! it has
subdued the assaults of all "domestic" foes; it has quelled the Indian
tribes, "suppressed insurrections," and consigned ambitious demagogues to eternal infamy. Thus far, through its native vigor, and
your ardent and invincible courage, soldiers I it has " repelled all foreign invasion;" it has twice conquered the armies of an insolent
European power, and whelmed her proud fleets in a watery grave.
Thus far, it has preserved you, as individuals, in security and prosperity. Thus far, it has maintained you, collectively, as a nation, in
honor and in glory. And thus, citizen soldiers / may it ever be! Oh!
long may it be, before the abuse of liberty shall lead to license, accelerating the progress of anarchy and the advance of despotism.
"Long may our banner wave,
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave."
ART. X.- " AFRICAN COLONIZATION UNVEILED."
[WHEN the papers entitled "African Colonization Unveiled" were first published, in the winter of 1858-'59, in the REVIEW, there were several portions of
the manuscript, each commenting on or embracing some one branch of the general subject, which were omitted. This omission was not made because of those
portions being less pertinent to the argument, or as deeiiied less important and
impressive than others then published, but because of the then existing necessity
for the printed matter to be included in a single sheet, when put into pamphlet
form, for economy both in printing and for mail transportation. The choice of
the portions to be thus excluded, was directed, not by their inferiority of interest
in the general argument, but because these only could be separated without ma
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