GOV. sprague's address. 19 



civilization. Unless the power that was now rioting over the 

 land without check and hindrance was defeated, there would be 

 no prosperity, no progress for this people. The men and women 

 of Massachusetts had been foremost in the contest to establish 

 liberty and constitutional government ; let them to-day meet this 

 greater trial, and do the greater work of perpetuating it. 



