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Africa, arid the West Indies, by the Slave-empire of Brazil, 

 and the Hispano- American Republics, with their mestizo dic- 

 tators, as compared with the mighty development and glori- 

 ous promise of the British colonies in Asia, Africa, America, 

 and Australia, governed as they are by constitutional laws, and 

 enjoying full civil and religious rights ! Here the energy of 

 free self-governing men, aided by a keen spirit of enterprise 

 and investigation, has obtained a victory over all impediments 

 of a primeval nature, and not alone opened to European civil- 

 ization new channels for the extension of commerce and in- 

 dustry, but also accomplished important social and political 

 reforms, for which many a civilized state in old Europe is 

 still sighing in vain ! 



And to the German who has circumnavigated the globe, 

 the consideration of these lofty themes is mingled with a 

 glow of pride and satisfaction, in reflecting that it is a 

 kindred Anglo-Saxon race, to whom apparently has been 

 assigned the glorious mission of diffusing a new life over the 

 earth, of carrying the light of Christian civilization, of po- 

 litical liberty, and spiritual culture, to the most primitive 

 tribes in the furthest regions of the world, and of heralding, 

 amid the ruins of slavery and despotism, the day-spring of a 

 lasting era of Freedom, Peace, and Prosperity ! 



THE END. 



