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the sweet and touching words of that simple peasant girl of Scot- 

 land, addressed to Queen Catharine, — 



" Alas ! it is not when we sleep soft, and wake merrily our- 

 selves, that we think on other people's sufferings. Our hearts 

 are waxed light within us then, and we are for righting our ain 

 wrongs and fighting our ain battles. But when the hour of 

 trouble comes to the mind or to the body, and when the hour of 

 death comes, that comes to high and low, then it is na what we 

 hae done for oursells, but what we hae for others, that we think 

 on maist pleasantly ! " 



To you, then, Fellow-laborers in this great brotherhood of 

 States, let me conjure you to work out your destiny with a 

 living, vital faith. Stand up manfully to all work, and do it with 

 that inward might and majesty which becometh a Christian man. 

 That old Saxon, Ethelwald, spoke the " language of his race," 

 when he planted his foot at Wimborne, and said, "• he Avould do 

 one of two things, or there live or there die." 



This compact energy of soul, this deeprooted spirit to conquer 

 or die, comes in the blood and belongs to our race. When the 

 Pilgrim planted his foot on that rock of world-wide renown, and 

 said. Here Avill I lay the foundations of an empire, it was a fore- 

 gone conclusion in the councils of God, that then and there should 

 spring a mighty people. Before that will, forests fell, towns, 

 cities and states arose into more than noonday splendor. As ye 

 sow, so shall ye reap. 



As laborers, we have a vast interest in every idea, every 

 thought, in every principle, which promotes the integrity, pros- 

 perity and the perpetuity of these States. 



There are many in our midst, who look with despondency upon 

 our national progress. I am not, thank God, one of them ; each 

 advancing day is a brighter and happier one, in my judgment, 

 for America. We may emerge slowly from the thraldom of un- 

 fortunate events, we may have engaged in criminal enterprises of 

 ambition, but there are ideas of right, there are principles of jus- 

 tice behind our actual life ; there are forms of thought underlying 

 our frame of government, which will ameliorate the condition of 

 the humblest and weakest man in the land, and strike the shackles 

 from the arm of industry, without regard to race, without distinc- 

 tion of color, for we are by predestination an ascending nation. 



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