equality of right to the weakness of our humanity."Justice and Jurisprudence.

"These gross approaches to inequality are the short cuts, the by-roads, over which the loathsome phantom, Despotism, always makes stealthy advances upon the territory of freedom."-Justice and Jurisprudence.

"Is it a task too Herculean for the intellectual backwardness of the enlightened aristocracy of America to apprehend the truth, that upon the divine side of this principle stand the Christian martyrs, the articles of Magna Charta, the Declaration of Independence, Washington, Sumner, Seward, Lincoln, those advance couriers of Equality, those agitators of the slavery question, the authors of civil rights, and an innumerable array of bright and shining lights? That by its human side stand Herod of Jewry, the Middle Ages of serfdo feudalism, slavery, the original compromise between the North and South embodied in the Constitution which acknowledged slavery, the Fugitive-Slave Law, and the slavery events which preceded secession and armed rebellion in America, the dark shadows of the spirit of the piratical Malay, the assassinating Thug, Booth, Czardom, Nihilism, the socialism of Chicago."-Justice and Jurisprudence.

"From prehistoric ages downward this divine principle has erected temples to the unknown Providence which worked by universal, inevitable law which altereth not; the law of a wise Providence, the unvaryingness of

whose rules of action is the same in the workings of nature as in the administration of governments-a law, the moral and political equilibrium of which can no more be disturbed with political impunity than a cyclone resulting from a disturbance of the atmospheric equilibrium can be controlled by the hand of man. It was this great law working in their hearts which piloted the Pilgrim Fathers to America. For the preservation of its primitive sacredness the organic union of the American state was first formed. To the holy covenant for this 'rule of right' the hand of Washington afterward set the crimson seal at Yorktown; for its overthrow Sumter's bombardment challenged the nation to civil war. After a career of matchless greatness, Grant, the intrepid hero, enthroned at Appomattox the natural justice of this immortal principle. The highest insignia of General Grant's glory as a Christian, warrior, statesman, and citizen are in the grandeur of the precedent, that illustration of the American principle of equality which this great conqueror of the New World afforded those of the Old-an example second to that of Washington alone, who, having also surrendered his sword to the state whose life it had saved, sat down at the foot of Peace and extended everywhere her olive branches."-Justice and Jurisprudence.

"Despotic power would clap her hands for joy at the eclipse of the star of liberty, and would view with delight the spectacle of the moping owls, whom its brightness had

blinded, leaving their squalid nests to reign again amid the darkness."-Justice and Jurisprudence.

"Upon this grand, broad, colossal, humane, and Christian foundation rest the commandments of these three Articles. They are the embodiment of the experience and wisdom of the long line of the generations of the sons of men, who sought, through all forms of government, from the primitive ages of savagedom downward, for equality of right by due process of law. The Philosophic statesmen who laid these foundations had long known that ever since the origin of the American government the divine and human side of equality of rights, like separate streams, had held divergent courses. They saw that aggregations of separate races of men, with local antagonistic interests, and lacking that reciprocity and community of interests which are the true amalgamators of nations, could not without a war of races or sections long adhere together under any form of government; that the society of the American state must be one in adversity or in prosperity, in sunshine or in storm, in sympathy, in purpose, in sacrifice."―Justice and Jurisprudence.

"It was evident to these profoundly sagacious intellects that the law toward which all governments tendthe law of equal freedom-must properly be considered the law of nature and the governing and guiding principle which best preserves the equilibrium of the state; that the principle of the constitutional system which works the necessary cohesion of the individuals of the state by the universal equality of liberty, political, intellectual,

sociological, and moral, was the very corner-stone of popular liberty. They reflected that the strength of the nation consists in the just appreciation of the civic grandeur of the station of individual members. Their political reason sought some deep foundation for the firm establishment of kind feelings and the promotion of good-will between the members of the great political family of America, and they provided the three amendments, each intended to be as substantial as the great pyramids of Egypt."―Justice and Jurisprudence.

"These philosophic statesmen cast forth this precious seed of liberty and watered it with the blood of their brave hearts, that their children might gather the fruit of the full-grown tree when those who planted it were moldering in peace beneath its shade. Their doctrines declared, with the Great Master upon whose doctrines all really higher civilization is founded, 'I am the way, the truth, and the life;' 'All ye are brethren; "Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself.' Successive generations of heroes, large-souled men, in the long succession of the ages have fought and struggled, with sore travail and sufferings untold, with the courage of Titans and a fortitude never yielding to despair; but they never could -for it was not so decreed-with all their grand efforts, found any system so happily fitted to guide the family of the state in the way of advancing civilization and insure the happiness of the whole people as that now (it is to be trusted) firmly welded to the Constitution of the United States."-Justice and Jurisprudence.

The Power-Holding Class

VS.

The Public.

Imaginary Dialogue of
McKinley and Hanna.

ACT I.

Time-evening after adjournment of Congress. Scene 1. White House-President's private library. President intently gazing on diagram.

(Enter SENATOR HANNA.)

Good-evening, Mr. President.

PRESIDENT (pointing to diagram): See there! Behold! look! lo! The diagram is no air-drawn dagger, no false creation of the mind proceeding from the heat-oppressed brain. It is sensible to feeling as to sight. That pitchy cloud of infernal darkness still marshals the public the way the Power-holding Class has been going for upward of forty years. The maw of the lower regions ransacked and made to give up her concealed destruction could not give vent to a more horrible blast. What will a discerning public think (points to pamphlet) of this tragic tomfoolery? What a portentous embodied show and efflorescence of shoddy guffawing picturesqueness! (Reads from pamphlet:)