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ests under the same administration. Hence it follows 

 that you serve the cause of good government when you do 

 two things, — when you perfect your own business as one 

 of the great productive forces which feed and cover hu- 

 manity, — and when you bring that calling into amity and 

 reciprocity with other callings. Unless God fails to fur- 

 nish a law for his children in his own love, the right po- 

 litical state for mankind is the state of brotherhood. The 

 same law holds of trades, handicrafts, professions, as of 

 persons. These pursuits enter into their " holy alliance," 

 when they harmonize the two aims, to improve themselves 

 and help one another. While men and women are good 

 Samaritans, it certainly was not meant that their doings 

 should be priests and levites, or pirates and robbers. The 

 commonwealth is not served, till the different branches of 

 industry merge their jealousies in good-will. You read 

 this law in the beautiful balancings, and musical accord, 

 in which the Divine Spirit has attuned his creation. The 

 very lands you daily traverse and handle, preach the right 

 doctrine of politics. Animal, vegetable, mineral king- 

 doms support one another. Sun and water, vapor and vege- 

 tation, earth and clouds, are ever friendly and hospitable ; 

 they are perpetually running on some missionary errand 

 in each other's behalf; their bureau of benevolence is 

 older than the Holy College. And so it happens that no 

 class of men are so well fitted as you, to re-stamp this 

 divine intention on civil institutions and public laws. If 

 there is any order that can be looked to, to pull off dis- 

 guises from selfish demagogues, — voting greediness and 

 falsehood out of office, and single-hearted patriotism in, — 

 it must be your own order, — the order of Christian chiv- 

 alry, whose knights errant are the njen that " conquer all 

 hard weather," whose martial music is the rustle of corn, 

 and the stroke of flails, — who give you, instead of coats 

 of arms, arms with the coats thrown off, and for banners 

 sheaves of grain. 



