caste or political corruption, you are responsible. The weapons of your warfare are not carnal, but spiritual, and mighty through God to the pulling-down of strongholds.' The well-springs of life are within you: pour its streams into dead men, and social, civil organisms, everywhere. Send the power of soul-liberty throbbing through the hearts of the people and the nations. 'Stand fast in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made you free, and be not entangled again in the yoke of bondage." If these orders are heard and obeyed, the new American Church will be a living, united, free, evangelical Church, the vital force and grand working power of the new nation.

THE NEW AMERICAN MANHOOD.

A man is narrow and weak when he is not willing that another human being shall be a man. The manhood of America, strong as has been its development, has been limited by its selfishness, its prejudices, its exclusiveness. In every attempt to announce his own freedom, the American citizen has felt his self-contradictions. In every indulgence of national pride, he has been humbled by national injustice. At home or abroad, in his jubilant praises of republican freedom, he has been arrested, and stung to madness, by the abrupt response, "Look at your four millions of slaves!" Only in one condition for a hundred years has an American been a man, always and everywhere a true man; that is, in a genuine Christian life that revealed a plain, clear, working antagonism to America's great wrong. Humbling as is the confession, in all our cringing, apologetic submission to this grandest, vilest despotism, we have been less than men; and there has been enough of this to dwarf the general manhood of the nation.

Thanks to God only, we have done with that; and we are stronger, greater, than we were. It is true, the emancipation is not yet universal; but it will be. The fiat has gone forth. No true American will hereafter be awed into silence

by insulting threats of violence when he undertakes to expose a vice or denounce a great injustice. The press and the pulpit will speak out in any part of our great country in the cause of the defrauded, the poor, and the helpless. So thorough and bold are the workings and outpushings of Liberty, that she will go everywhere. She will paralyze the hand that seizes a man to bind upon him the fetters of slavery.

And the new nation is more humane for its justice. No vindictive spirit is born of Freedom's struggle and triumph. No deeper sympathy, no truer love, has ever honored the manhood of man than that, which, in the might of Christian justice, arose to strike off the fetters of slavery, and which, in the spirit of Jesus, is now endeavoring to "beat our swords into ploughshares, and our spears into pruning-hooks;" and love still aspires to absolute dominion in the new American manhood.

The free spirit of science and the true genius of art, the heroism of truth and the omnipotence of prayer, will powerfully crowd forward our manhood march toward its typal perfection; and it will include every American, every man.

"I verify the fact, that America is one of the most moral and enlightened nations on earth. I verify the fact, that, if democratic levelling be detestable, America has at least known how to extract from it what makes the man,-conscience. If certain acts of violence have taken place, the electoral contest in America has almost always preserved complete liberty. These orators of the different parties arriving like princes to the sound of salutes of artillery; these assemblies of ten thousand, twenty thousand, auditors; these vast questions, in which the fate of nations is involved, discussed from the shores of the Atlantic to the recesses of the desert, all this is a spectacle which does not lack majesty; "* and which, we may add, fitly characterizes the new nation.

* America before Europe, by COUNT DE GASPARIN, pp. 374, 375.

See the poet's prophecy rapidly passing into history:

On the rocks we read the story

Of the revolutions grand
Which in ages past and hoary

Swept o'er mountain, sea, and land:
There we trace the mighty stages

Of the world's historic time;
And we mark the buried ages

By their monuments sublime.
Out of fiery storms of forces,
Out of cycles never calm,
Nature, in her mystic courses,

Shapes the mammal and the palm.

History points with solemn finger
To her records dim and old;
And, as thoughtfully we linger,
Still the lesson there is told.

Through the struggles and the burnings,
Through the stern and frantic strife,
Through the nations' fierce upturnings,
Put they on a fresher life;
Then they pass to higher stages
Both of greatness and renown:

In the conflict of the ages

Glory doth the nations crown.

Lo! we feel the wild upheaval
Of a nation's hidden fires :
Right is battling with the Evil,
And the smoke to heaven aspires;
War, tumultuous and red-lighted,
Sweepeth with sirocco blast;

And our green young land is blighted
As the tempest whirleth past.
Not the death-throe of the nation
Is this wild and awful hour:
'Tis its painful transformation
To a nobler life of power.

As the fossils huge were buried
In the massy folds of rock,
So our saurian crime is hurried

To its death-throe in the shock.
'Neath the Union's broad foundations
Shall the monster Slavery lie,
While the coming generations
Ponder o'er the mystery.

On to years of coming glory,
Through a long triumphal prime,
On through paths of deathless story,
Shall the Union live sublime.

Nobler, freer, and more glorious,

Shall the future Union be:
O'er the despot's rod victorious,

All the lands its strength shall see.
North and South in one dominion,

One in freedom evermore,
O'er one land on loving pinion

Shall the lordly eagle soar:
Northern lake and Southern harbor,
Cotton-field and prairie wide,
Seaside slope and greenwood arbor,
All shall boast the Union's pride.

On, through all the stormy trial,

God shall bring us on our way:

Let us meet the stern denial;

Let us watch and wait and pray.

Up from all this tribulation

We shall rise a nobler land,

And in peerless exaltation

'Mid the nations envied stand.

Welcome storm and fire and peril!
Fields Elysian yet shall rise
O'er our war-worn wastes and sterile,
Wrought by freemen's sacrifice.*

The Union as it Shall Be, by DWIGHT WILLIAMS.

CHAPTER II.

THE GREAT REPUBLIC IN HISTORY.

"A nation of such men is the only true national unity, and is alone fit to enter with other such nations into those grander combinations of economy, of harmony, and of the progress and ambitions of peace, for which the world prepares.”— Partridge.

THE place of the Great Republic in the history of the race is now becoming distinct and important. Arguing from the character and government of God, it might have been inferred, and was, long ages ago, that he would somewhere, and at some time, undertake to establish a government which should conform in its principles to the plans of the creation. There are reasons to believe, as we trust this discussion has shown, that this is that grand attempt. The country, the colonization, the independence, the development, the government, and the emancipation, all under the controlling power of the Christian religion, clearly indicate it. In the prosecution of this great providential purpose, the following results have become evident.

REPUBLICANISM PASSES OUT OF ITS EXPERIMENTAL INTO ITS HISTORICAL PERIOD.

That is often an experiment to the eyes of men which cannot be so to the mind of God. Representing the human view, we concede the fact, that governments attempted by the people, in the history of the world, have been unsuccessful experiments. We need not trace them. They have been the recoil of natural freedom from the usurpations of tyranny, the change and multiplication of the agents of