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when in His Providence the liberties of our country shall be 

 assailed by foreign foe, 



" That should dare to march upon her peaceful bosom, 



Frighting her pale-faced villages with war, 



And ostentation of despiteful arms," — Sliakspeare's Richard II. 



Or be attempted by domestic treason, 



" For in alliance, amity and oaths, 

 There may be found some false dissembling guile," — Shakspeare's Henry IV. 



Then let him who should be privileged to participate in her 

 defence, but have at his back, sons of New-England, freemen 

 of free-thought, free tillers of their own free soil, and he need 

 ask no brighter omen of successful light ; specially so, when 

 he should know, as he surely would, that every mother, daugh- 

 ter sweetheart and wife, in the land, would arm and urge 

 them to the strife ; 



" Yes, true to God, to Freedom, to Mankind, 

 If their chained band-dogs foemen shall unbind, 

 Those stately forms, that bending even now, 

 Bow their strong manhood to the humble plough. 

 Shall rise erect, the guardians of the land. 

 The same stern iron, in the same right hand, 

 Till our hills thunder to the parting sun, 

 " Their sword has rescued what their plough-share won." — 0. W Holmes. 



A slight anagrammatic change makes " farmer" to become 

 " framer," and they were, indeed, the chief framers in erecting 

 the great temple of our liberty, and it was by their sagacity 

 and far-seeing judgment, that the foundations of our constitu- 

 tional liberty, were, after the great struggle in the field was 

 ended, laid upon a foundation that can never be moved, so long 

 as the land shall be blessed by the presence, the valor, and 

 the wisdom of farmers. 



But if the farmers have done so much, and done it so well, 

 the nation will confidently look to them to do still more. If 

 they have been 



" Great in the council, mighty in the field," • 

 the country will expect of them, and have a right to require of 

 them, still greater and mightier deeds. And to be equal to 

 this most just expectation and this most righteons requirement, 

 the farmer must be educated, — yes, educated. Not that he is 

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