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God ; in tlie quencliing of local jealousies and sectional ani- 

 mosity — not by the obliteration of national or State lines, nor 

 by the destruction of man's individuality, but rather by 

 the growth of a public opinion which shall be crystallized in a 

 universal law founded on the principle that no man can be 

 benefited at the expense of another without in some measure 

 injuring himself; and finally, gentlemen, in the confederation 

 of all nations — and the sudden fall of Dom Pedro, in Brazil, 

 gives color to the thought — into a grand,, harmonious Republic 

 formed upon the model of our own Union of indestructible 

 States, flying a flag, not of forty-two stars, but one blazoned 

 Avith all the stars of heaven, thus realizing that sublime and 

 divine condition of the world which the rapt poet sees in his 

 vision : 



"When the war drums throb no longer, 

 And the battle flags are furled, 

 In the Parliament of man, 

 The federation of the world." 



I have only now to thank you for the kind and cordial atten- 

 tion which you have given me, and to say to j^ou that old Wil- 

 liam and Mary College has arisen in strength like the Phoenix 

 from her ashes, and that she numbers upon her roll, in the 

 second year after a suspension of seven, 172 students, and that 

 her number will run up in the next two or three years, I pre- 

 dict, to three and four hundred. I feel from the letters that 

 we have received from all parts of the country — -from the 

 pines of Maine to the magnolias of Alabama — that we have 

 the heart of the Union with us. In three years hence, we cele- 

 brate the bicentennial anniversary of William and Mary Col- 

 lege, and mj' last words are to invite all here present to be 

 there on that occasion; and if we cannot show you any great 

 public halls like what you have here in Philadelphia, nor an}'- 



