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them a king, for they have not rejected thee, but me." 

 And " This shall be the right of the king. * * He 

 shall take your sons and put them in his chariots, and 

 will make them his horsemen, and his running footmen 

 to run before his chariot ; and take your fields, and your 

 vineyards, and your best olive-yards, and give them to 

 his servants. Moreover, he will take the tenth of your 

 corn, and the revenue of your vineyards to give to his 

 eunuchs and servants ; your servants also, and your 

 handmaids, and your goodliest young men, and your 

 asses, he will take away and put them to his work." 

 How truly this is the case, the traveller may see ; there 

 is no one item of that prophecy that has not been ful- 

 filled. All kings and governments are evils inflicted on 

 us for our want of resolve to govern ourselves individual- 

 ly ; and who that considers these States divided into four 

 or five governments, but will acknowledge that each 

 government would be a curse, as above prophesied ? for 

 each government would necessarily be separate and di- 

 vided in interest, and all sources would be exhausted 

 to give them strength. The weakness of the one would 

 place it at the mercy of the other, and jealousy and 

 strife would exterminate a people now too happy and 

 prosperous to bend their knee to the Author of their 

 being, and acknowledge with thankfulness their happy 

 condition. If men will be considerate to each other, and 

 will consider the general good, and live in unity and har- 

 mony with each other, the movement of America must 

 be onward, and the government and people must prepare 

 for a state of things hardly to be conceived, and never 

 equalled in the pages of history a united people, em- 

 bracing an extent of surface unparalleled ; even now, with 



