1880.] O&O [Fralcy. 



and sustained by many grave struggles and partial 

 civil wars, before the complete settlement of the insti- 

 tutions of that country, in nearly their present form was 

 finally accomplished, by the full acknowledgment of 

 the House of Hanover as the source of sovereignty. 

 That government is the only one in Europe that has 

 not been changed by violent revolution, and its per- 

 manence under wise provisions for general amend- 

 ment, seems now to be perfectly secured. Our own 

 Country in 1776, then thirteen Colonies, literally strug- 

 gling under many political burthens and disadvantages, 

 boldly struck for its independence and freedom, and 

 after a seven years' struggle, conquered the full 

 acknowledgment of them, from the British King, 

 They soon found that the bands of a Confederacy were 

 too weak and loose for a Nation, and in a peaceful 

 examination of respective rights, powers and duties, 

 the sovereign States yielded enough of sovereignty 

 to the people to establish a glorious and permanent 

 Union, to be a model for the world, of the advantages 

 of self-government, and of adaptation to meet the 

 wants of a constantly growing Empire. The thirteen 

 feeble Colonies of 1776, have grown to be thirty-eight 

 powerful States. The three millions of people that 

 won independence, are now swelled to more than forty 

 millions, and our Country, in Arts, Science, Manufac- 

 tures, Literature and Arms, is acknowledged as a great 

 power in moving and molding the world. 



France copying from the United States has within the 

 century tried four times to remodel her government in 

 the interest of true liberty, and has three times relapsed 

 into the bonds of despotism, but we may hope that the 

 fourth effort will be attended with happier results. 



