the " army of execution" from the north, and around those institutions that are the Despair of partial interests, and evil influences, all over the world.

"What if a million mole-hills were to league

Their meannesses together, with due pomp,

And to some mountain say, 'In the name of God!
Whither dost thou aspire?' Does any deem
That great imperial creature would descend
To the mud-made world below, and parley there
At its own footstool, and lay down its crown
Because its height was so intolerable ?"

BOOK 11.

AMERICAN UNITY AND NATIONALITY.

CHAPTER I.

MATERIAL BASES OF UNITY.

GEOGRAPHY, STRATEGY, CLIMATE, MOUNTAINS AND RIVERS, CANALS, COMMERCE, BANKS, REVENUE, RAIL, TELEGRAPH, COIN, AND POSTAL SERVICE.

CHAPTER II.

UNITY OF IDEAS AND INTERESTS.

RACE, LANGUAGE, LITERATURE, RELIGION,
BOUNDARY, AND INSTITUTION.

CHAPTER III.

THE MORAL FORCES.

UNITY OF PRINCIPLE AND PURPOSE.

THE MATERIAL UNITY OF AMERICA.

GEOGRAPHY, STRATEGY, CLIMATE, MOUNTAINS AND RIVERS, CANALS, COMMERCE, BANKS, REVENUE, RAIL, TELEGRAPH, COIN, AND POSTAL SERVICE.

Every portion of our country finds the most commanding motives for carefully guarding and preserving the union of the whole. The North *** The South *** The East *** The West, must of necessity owe the secure enjoyment of indispensable outlets to the weight, influence, and future maritime strength of the Atlantic side of the Union, directed by an indissoluble community of interest as one nation. Any other tenure by which the West can hold that essential advantage, whether derived from its own separate strength, or from an apostate and unnatural connection with any foreign power, must be intrinsically precarious."

Washington, Farewell Address.

"These outlets, East, West, and South, are indispensable; which of the three may be best is no proper question, all are better than either, and all of right belong to that people and their successors for ever. True to themselves, they will not ask where the line of separation shall be; they will vow rather that there shall be no such line. Physically speaking we cannot separate.”

Abraham Lincoln, Message, 1862.

"The geographical position of the country contributed to increase the facilities which the American legislators derived from the manners and customs of the inhabitants; and it is to this circumstance that the adoption and maintenance of the Federal system is mainly attributable."-De Tocqueville, p. 257-8, v. 1.

"The peculiar structure of the Alleghany ridge, beginning in New Hampshire, running across the New England States, through Pennsylvania and West Virginia, stopping in the northern part of Georgia. *** Now all the world over, men that live in mountainous regions have been men for liberty, and from the first hour to this, the majority of the population of Western Virginia, which is in this mountainous region, the majority of the population of Western Tennessee, of Western Carolina, and of North Georgia, have been true to the Union."-H. Ward Beecher.