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history and experience decide. The annals of 

 almost every nation are luminous with instruction 

 touching the finale of such a crisis as this, because 

 all governments have been subject to similar con 

 vulsions. Rebellion seems to be a chronic infirmity 

 of nations. None have escaped it ; many have re 

 peatedly experienced it ; most of them have sur 

 vived it. It involves the single certainty that some 

 how, and at some time, it must come to an end. 

 As we know how other rebellions have ended, we 

 may infer results as likely to succeed the termina 

 tion of this. I grant that the long smothered but 

 fierce heartburnings which precede and precipitate 

 them, are not, have never been, and cannot be im 

 mediately forgotten. In some instances, they have 

 been wholly obliterated in a single generation. In 

 others, they have survived for ages. Scotland has 

 no scowl for England now, notwithstanding the 

 murderous outbreak a century ago, and the equally 

 bloody war of the roses no longer lives in personal 

 animosities ; yet Ireland continues sullen and un 

 tamable. Even the Reign of Terror survives only 

 in Parisian history. But the desolation of modern 

 Greece remains fresh in the public memory, because 

 the family of Bozzaris still exists. 



Our own history, however, furnishes abundant 

 illustrations of how rebellions end. They are of 

 greater significance, too, because occurring among 

 ourselves. What the past has done for us we may 

 feel assured the future will accomplish. The Revo 

 lutionary war closed with the withdrawal of the 

 British armies from our shores and the breaking up 



