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of every industry under a victorious flag. If wc liavc any faith 

 in the God of our fathers, let us labor for this. 



If we have any love for our children, and for those who, 

 comino- after them, shall possess and transmit our genius and 

 our blood, let us give them this goodly land and large, with a 

 restored prosperity, and with the lessons of wisdom which our 

 experience may teach them. And as they survey the trials 

 which will surround them, may they have learned from the 

 sorrows which oppress us, that, not as enemies and aliens, 

 but as brethren of one family, they are to join hands, as did our 

 fathers, for the elevation of mankind, and the promotion of 

 prosperity under a government which is based on equal protec- 

 tion to all, and which relies upon popular intelligence for the 

 removal of those evils, which an arrogant and self-righteous 

 dictation can only magnify and confirm, or remove by sweeping 

 desolation and ruin. Is there a man among us who would not 

 gladly lay down his life, if, by so doing, he could restore his 

 country to her former glories — to the hour when, animated by 

 the largest wisdom and love for mankind, our fathers adopted 

 the Constitution — to the hour when an united people drove the 

 invader from our land, and planted our flag on the high seas, 

 and gave us the names of Lundy's Lane and New Orleans, of 

 Miller and Jackson, of Decatur and Brainbridge, and Perry and 

 Macomb — to the hour when for us Scott and Taylor won their 

 renown on the fields of Mexico — to the hour when the heroic 

 declaration — " The Union must and shall be preserved," 

 thrilled the whole land, and treason shrank before an indignant 

 people — to the hour when our industry was felt in every market 

 of the world, and the success of our institutions filled with 

 hope and courage the hearts of all who were laboring to be 

 free, and our country was the refuge for the oppressed and 

 starving victims of despotism and wrong ? Is there a man 

 among us who would not gladly lay down his life, if by so 

 doing he could restore that Union which has made Massachu- 

 setts what she is ? 



I say, has made Massachusetts what she is. For, as we look 

 around and survey the origin and extent of our prosperity, do 

 we not find that, from our own State to every part of our 

 Union, we have stretched forth our hands to fill them with 

 plenty ? From the great valleys of the West, we have brought 



