whom he regards as a small figure lifted into dignity by the splendid pedestal on which he stands. The reader may conclude, with the revered Lincoln, "if we could first know where we are and whither we are tending, we could better judge what to do and how to do it ;" but no thoughtful man fails to perceive that very soon a mighty tidal wave will approach America and leave high upon the beach a mark which by and by, will become the mighty level of the ocean.

THE AUTHOR.

EXTRACTS.

"AND now the time in special is by privilege to write and speak what may help to the further discussing of matters in agitation. The temple of Janus with his two controversial faces might now not unsignificantly be set open. And though all the winds of doctrine were let loose to play upon the earth, so Truth be in the field, we do injuriously by licensing and prohibiting to misdoubt her strength. Let her and Falsehood grapple; who ever knew Truth put to the worse in a free and open encounter? How confuting is the best and surest suppressing."Milton.

"Truth indeed came once into the world with her Divine Master, and was a perfect shape most glorious to look on; but when He ascended, and His apostles after Him were laid asleep, then straight arose a wicked race of deceivers, who, as that story goes of the Egyptian Typhon with his conspirators, how they dealt with the good Osiris, took the virgin Truth, hewed her lovely form into a thousand pieces, and scattered them to the four winds. From that time ever since the sad friends of Truth, such as durst appear, imitating the careful search that Isis made for the mangled body of Osiris, went up and down gathering up limb by limb still as they could find them."-Milton.

"For who knows not that Truth is strong, next to the Almighty? She needs no policies, nor stratagems, nor licensings to make her victorious; these are the shifts and defenses that error uses against her power: give her but room, and do not bind her when she sleeps, for then she speaks not true as the old Proteus did, who spake oracles only when he was caught and bound, but then rather she turns herself into all shapes, except her own, and perhaps tunes her voice according to the time, as Micaiah did before Ahab, until she be adjured into her own likeness." -Milton.

"The people of England, delivered from a government which disgraced, oppressed, and betrayed them, fought under William as their forefathers had fought under Elizabeth, and after an almost uninterrupted struggle of more than twenty years, in which they were often abandoned by fortune, but never by their own constancy and magnanimity, they at length once more defeated those projects. of guilty ambition, boundless aggrandizement, and universal domination which had a second time threatened to overwhelm the whole civilized world. They rescued Europe from being swallowed up in the gulf of extensive empire, which the experience of all times points out as the grave of civilization-where men are driven by violent conquest and military oppression into lethargy and slavishness of heart-where, after their arts have perished with the mental vigor from which they spring, they are plunged by the combined power of effeminacy and ferocity into irreclaimable and hopeless barbarism."-Macintosh,

"But Jurisprudence, sat condoling by the death-bed of the old pro-slavery Constitution. She had beheld the awful rising and the dark setting of that blood-red orb of Despotism which lately challenged America to the Arbitrament of civil war for the maintenance of the principle of equality by due process of law.

"In the sight of the legions of rebellion, with their garments rolled in blood, they conceived the constitutional polity of equality of right armed with due process of law. They felt the deep significance of past events which might again repeat themselves in America, and they resolved upon this radical constitutional remedy.

"All the crises of the world were before the authors of these amendments. The confused noise of battle, its agony and sufferings, its sacrifices, were fully in view when they said, ‘Let us adopt a policy that no device or jugglery of statecraft can destroy, annul, or evade. We will give a fresh charter to life, liberty, and property in America. We will elevate the principle of equality by due process of law upon a high pedestal. The privileges, rights, and immunities of the citizen shall not be tortured, corkscrewed, and serpentined. They shall not be diverted to the vile uses of despotism by any of its swindles, old or new. As Americans we must stand together; and our onward march shall be marked by the inspiring music of 'Equality of Rights by Due Process of Law.' Those who come after us shall out of the stones of this temple of liberty build no sepulcher for equality before the law.

"They conceived that the absolute sway of an imperial ism which claims for its authority divine right affords no graver illustration of inequality than the decree of a court (or sans-culotte) which violates the infinite sacredness of a civic personality. Individual rights, they said, were not a matter of mere constitutional parchment, the violation of which was only a technical breach of a technical law. They contended that that decree does not conform its mandate to equality of rights by due process of law, which fails to recognize the inner spirit of man, his individual character, or the awakening of his dormant energies.

"Equality by due process of law introduced into the Constitution a new, stupendous, organic provision, conservative of the unity, growth, identity, structure, and development of the new germs of freedom unfolded by the altered conditions which now environ all American

ized races. The terms of this constitutional compact are not susceptible of any other analysis. Whatever judicial interpretation of equality by due process of law falls short of this copious construction grasps but feebly the significance of this potent instrumentality. Equality by due process of law was no longer the theoretical, but the actual, development of the constitutional policy of the equality of mankind in America. It is the most perfect realization, by the state, of the divine relations of mankind, under the best form of government which has ever existed on earth.

"Equality of right by due process of law is not a merely