Justice of England-used this remarkable language: "Of these orders in Council, Napoleon had no right to complain; but they were grievously unjust to neutrals; and it is now generally allowed, that they were contrary to the law of nations, and to our own municipal law !"

These liberal admissions have come too late to repair the ruined fortunes, or to heal the broken hearts of the sufferers; they will not recall to life the thousands who fell on hard-fought fields, in defense of their country's rights. But they do not come too late to rebuke the levity with which it is now intimated, that the United States stand at the august bar of Public Law, not as reasoning men, but as spoiled children; not too late to suggest the possibility to candid minds, that the next generation may do us the like justice, with reference to more recent controversies.*

Thus, fellow-citizens, I have endeavored, without vain-glorying with respect to ourselves, or bitterness toward others, but in a spirit of candor and patriotism, to repel the sinister intimation that a fatal degeneracy is stealing over the country; and to show that the eighty-fourth anniversary finds the United States in the fulfillment of the glowing anticipations with which, in the self-same instrument, their Independence was inaugurated, and their Union first proclaimed. No formal act had as yet bound them together; no plan of confederation had even been proposed. A common allegiance embraced them, as parts of one metropolitan empire; but when that tie was sundered they became a group of insulated and feeble communities, not politically connected with each other nor known as yet in the family of nations. Driven by a common necessity, yearning toward each other with a common sympathy of trial and of danger, piercing with wise and patriotic foresight into the depths of ages yet to come-led by a Divine counsel-they clung together with more than elective affinity, and declared the independence of the United States. North and South, great and small, Massachusetts and Virginia, the oldest and then the largest ; New York and Pennsylvania, unconscious as yet of their destined preponderance, but already holding the central balance; Rhode

* Lord Campbell's Lives of the Chancellors, vol. vii., p. 218; Story's Miscellaneous Writings, p. 283; Phillimore's International Law, vol. iii., pp. 250, 539; Manning's Commentary on the Law of Nations, p. 230; Wildman's Institutes of International Law, vol. ii., pp. 183, 185; also, the French publicists, Hautefeuillo and Ortolan, under the appropriate heads.

Island and Delaware, raised by the Union to a political equality with their powerful neighbors, joined with their sister republics in the august Declaration for themselves and for the rapidly multiplying family of States, which they beheld in prophetic vision. This great charter of independence was the life of the Revolution, the sword of attack, the panoply of defense. Under the consummate guidance of Washington it sustained our fathers under defeat, and guided them to victory. It gave us the alliance with France, and her auxiliary armies and navies. It gave us the Confederation and the Constitution. With successive strides of progress it has crossed the Alleghanies, the Ohio, the Mississippi, and the Missouri; has stretched its living arms almost from the Arctic circle to the tepid waters of the Gulf; has belted the continent with rising States; has unlocked the golden treasures of the Sierra Madre; and flung out the banners of the Republic to the gentle breezes of the Peaceful Sea. Not confined to the continent, the power of the Union has convoyed our commerce upon the broadest oceans to the farthest isles; has opened the gates of the Morning to our friendly intercourse; and-sight unseen before in human history— has, from the legendary Cipango, the original object of the expedition of Columbus, brought their swarthy princes, on friendly embassage, to the western shores of the world-dividing ocean.

Meantime, the gallant Frenchmen, who fought the battles of liberty on this continent, carried back the generous contagion to their own fair land. Would that they could have carried with it the moderation and the wisdom that tempered our revolution! The great idea of constitutional reform in England, a brighter jewel in her crown than that of which our fathers bereft it, is coeval with the successful issue of the American struggle. The first appeal of revolutionary Greece-an appeal not made in vain-was for American sympathy and aid. The golden vice-royalties of Spain on this continent asserted their independence, in imitation of our example, though sadly deficient in previous training in the school of regulated liberty; and now, at length, the fair "Niobe of Nations," accepting a constitutional monarchy as an installment of the long-deferred debt of freedom, sighs through all her liberated States for a representative confederation, and claims the title of the Italian Washington for her heroic Garibaldi.

Here then, fellow-citizens, I close where I began; the noble prediction of Adams is fulfilled. The question decided eighty-four

years ago in Philadelphia was the greatest question ever decided in America; and the event has shown that greater, perhaps, never was nor never will be decided among men. The great Declaration, with its life-giving principles, has, within that interval, exerted its influence, from the central plains of America to the eternal snows of the Cordilleras, from the Western shores of the Atlantic to the farthest East, crossed the earth and the ocean, and circled the globe. Nor let us fear that its force is exhausted, for its principles are broad as humanity-as eternal as truth. And if the visions of patriotic seers are destined to be fulfilled; if it is the will of Providence that the lands which now sit in darkness shall see the day; that the South and East of Europe and the West of Asia shall be regenerated; and the ancient and mysterious regions of the East, the cradle of mankind, shall receive back in these latter days from the West the rich repayment of the early debt of civilization, and rejoice in the cheerful light of constitutional freedom, that light will go forth from Independence Hall in Philadelphia; that lesson of constitutional freedom they will learn from this day's declaration.

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