AS Statesman and Diplomatist 95 



syllable of them abroad. Within these walls they were 

 born and here they shall die." 



So long as this sublime spirit of patriotism and mutual 

 concession shall govern the counsels and conduct of our 

 rulers and statesmen, that sun which he saw behind the 

 chair of Washington in Independence Hall, as they stood 

 before him signing our Magna Charta, and which 

 Franklin declared then and there to be the rising sun, 

 will continue in its ascendent course. But when this 

 spirit decays the sun of America will begin to set. 



