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God ; in the quenching of local jealousies arid sectional ani- 

 mosity not by the obliteration of national or State lines, nor 

 by the destruction of man's individuality, but rather by 

 the growth of a pnhlir opinion which shall be crystallized in a 

 universal law founded on the principle that no man can be 

 lnirliied at the expense of another without in some measure 

 injuring himself ; and finally, gentlemen, in the confederation 

 of all nations and the sudden full of Dom Pedro, in Brazil, 

 "i \rscolor to the thought into a grand, harmonious Republic 

 formed upon the model of our own Union of indestructible 

 States, flying a flag, not of forty-two stars, but one blazoned 

 \\il.li all the stars of heaven, thus realizing that sublime and 

 livine condition of the world which the rapt poet sees in his 

 vision: 



"When the war drums throb no longer, 



And the battle flags are furled, 

 In the Parliament of num. 

 The federation of the world." 



I have only now to thank you for the kind and cordial atten- 

 tion which yon have given me, and to say to you that old Wil- 

 liam and Mary College has arisen in strength like the Pha-nix 

 from her ashes, and that she numbers upon her roll, in the 

 second year after a suspension of seven, 172 students, and that 

 her number will run up in the next two or three years, I pre- 

 dict, to three' and tour hundred. I feel from the letters that 

 we have received from all parts of the country from the 

 pines of Maine to the magnolias of Alabama that we have 

 the heart of the Union with us. In three years hence, we cele- 

 brate the bicentennial anniversary of William and Mary Col- 

 lege, and my last words are to invite all here present to be 

 there on that occasion ; and if we cannot show you any great 

 public halls like what you have here in Philadelphia, nor any 



