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out, and this great continent become one family govern- 

 ing themselves by Christian doctrines. Love God above 

 all things, and your neighbor as yourselves. Agricul- 

 turists must manage their affairs, and communicate with 

 each other through agricultural societies mechanics 

 through their societies, and merchants through their 

 chambers. And the necessary union and dependence of 

 each society on the other must be freely acknow- 

 ledged. We all know the first rudiment of prosperity 

 is the fecundity of the soil ; THAT is THE ROOT and 

 if insecurity, arising from want of due protection, or 

 from anarchy arising from agitators, or invasion of bar- 

 barians, interrupts its taking deep hold on a mighty con- 

 tinent like that of America, the whole fabric of society 

 must fall to the ground. EVERY MAN MUST GOVERN 



HIMSELF, AND MUST ON ALL OCCASIONS BE PREPARED TO 

 MAKE A GENEROUS AND NOBLE SACRIFICE TO THE WELL- 

 BEING OF SOCIETY. If not, a government will govern 

 him with a despotic sway, and he will be but a serf 

 biting and foaming in the irons that bind and goad him. 

 Be not mistaken, Americans. God rules all ; and the man 

 that accepts not him as his God and his Ruler, will be a 

 servant of servants. Those writers, who have their ex- 

 perience or knowledge from the class of books they read, 

 will write only from that class of books and are imbued 

 only with their principles, except where a holy reverence 

 animates them. And as such, a Gibbon, a Bolingbroke, a 

 Hume, and others, may sneer at great truths ; but the 

 men who would go over this globe of ours must cast aside 

 their miserable theories, and bow to an Almighty Benevo- 

 lent Power, whose designs we ourselves frustrate. " Give 

 us a king," cried the Jews and God said, " Samuel, give 



