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mit to our families and to posterity, as the true greatness of their 

 country and the world. We are to look at this enlarging elevation 

 of the working classes of men — a fact which may be considered the 

 main index of our age — not as a difficulty to be limited, but as an 

 attainment in which we greatly rejoice. And if our heraldry is in the 

 hammer, and the axe, and the awl, and the needle, we are to feel it 

 a far higher honor than, if in their place, we could have dragons 

 and helmets, and cross bones and skulls. Our countrj^'s greatness is 

 to be the result, not of foreign war, but of domestic peace; not of 

 the plunder of the weak, but of the fair and even principles of a just 

 commerce, a thriving agriculture, and beautiful and industrious art 

 Let us glory in every thing that indicates this fact, as an index also 

 of our own desire for renown. This great lesson — honor to the work- 

 ing classes, in the proportion of their industry and merit — the world 

 will yet completely learn. And when the great exalting, leveling 

 system of Christianity gains its universal reign, mountains will be 

 brought down, and valleys will be filled; an highway shall be made 

 for human prosperity and peace — for the elevation and dignity, and 

 security of man— over which no oppressor's foot shall pass ; the 

 poorest of the sons of Adam shall dwell unmolested and fearless be- 

 neath his own vine and fig tree; the united families of earth shall all 

 compete, to acquire and encourage the arts of peace; nation shall 

 not rise against nation, and men shall learn war no more. Let this, 

 which is the purpose of your Institute, be the universal purpose of 

 our people, and the greatness of America shall know no limited ze- 

 nith, and fear no tendency to decline. 



