with its benign influence, every kingdom, and state, and city, 

 and hamlet, and human habitation. That spirit has already 

 gone forth. The fires of revolution that have been kindled in 

 France, in Spam, in Italy, in Greece, that even yet linger 

 amid the still smouldering ashes of Poland, attest the depth 

 and energy of its operations. The conventions of crowned 

 heads, that have, at different times, been held at Vienna, at 

 Verona, at Laybach, attest the same fact. The direct ten- 

 dencies of things in that interesting }>ortion of our globe can- 

 not be mistaken. Institutions that are recommended solely by 

 their antiquity ; that are whitened by the frosts of centuries ; 

 that have owed their origin and continuance thus far to a dif- 

 ferent spirit from that which now predominates, are fast 

 crumbling away beneath the influence of public opinion. We 

 have quite recently seen a crown going abroad in search of a 

 head to wear it ; and even when found, the natural affinity 

 between head and shoulders was by no means strengthened 

 by the golden incumbrance. Yes, the old world is hereaf- 

 ter to receive its main impulses from the new. From that 

 world we have received much, to it we are to communicate 

 more. In the sole department of discovery, we might now 

 almost claim to hold its people our debtors. While we cheer- 

 fully accord to them all the commendation they so justly de- 

 serve for their numerous and splendid discoveries in the ele- 

 ments of industry, of government, of the arts, of religion, aod 

 of philosophy ; they, in return, will thank our Franklin that 

 the thunderbolt falls harmless from their dwellings, and bless 

 our Fulton that the steam-boat almost annihilates time and dis- 

 tance on their rivers. At this very period, one of the govern- 

 ing principles in all their material movements, is a direct 

 reference to the state and condition of things on this side the 

 Atlantic. 



The successful developement, so happily commenced, of 

 all the separated elements of humanity in the new world, has 

 appealed to similar elements in the old. That appeal has 

 met with a response fatal to kingly claims. Government is 

 there endeavoring to mould itself after our model. Let us 



