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change or reformation, and every gallant Briton must be cut 

 down in battle, or subdued by overwhelming numbers, from 

 Cornwall to Caithness, before the government can be abrogated, 

 or the nation yielded up to foreign conquest. 



Who will ask the cause of this intense attachment to their 

 homes and firesides, of this lofty and ardent patriotism, when 

 there is not an acre of land in England, that has not been ren- 

 dered famous in history, or dear to the inhabitants by some re- 

 markable event, some deed of valor, some monument of art, or 

 some developement of mind. Every hill-top and vale, every 

 forest, grove and glade, the ocean which bathes its rock 

 bound shores, each island, river and stream, each sequestered 

 dell and shaded fountain, the daily life and evening pastimes, 

 from prattling childhood to hoary age, all, all are embalmed 

 in the traditions of England. Her literature is redolent of that 

 captivating scenery, which nature and art have rendered so ad- 

 mirable ; and the glorious feats of war, the splendid achieve- 

 ments of genius, and taste in peace, with the names of her 

 illustrious men, have been immortalized by her gifted bards, 

 the undying echoes of whose thousand harps are yet heard 

 in every passing breeze, and make vocal, even the desert still- 

 ness of the star-lit night. These have rendered the whole 

 island precious in the sight and memory of Englishmen. To 

 them it is indeed, a holy land, and ere it can become the prize 

 of conquest, like Jerusalem, it must first be made desolate. 



Knowing what has been the salutary influence, in one nation, 

 of comingling wealth, intelligence and industry over the entire 

 surface of a country, should we not hasten to follow the exam- 

 ple. It is an axiom in morals as well as physics, that well au- 

 thenticated facts constitute the elements of those theories, by 

 j which general truths are evolved and principles established. 

 [In the history of the past then, we should behold mirrored the 

 future ; and if it is not reflected with that distinctness of out- 

 line and accuracy of detail, by which every object can be readily 

 recognized, still, the shadowings forth are so palpable to the 

 philosophic eye, that they are confidently proclaimed as ap- 

 proaching realities : and thus, the revelations of exalted intelli- 

 gence assume the imposing character of prophecy, when in truth 



