calm, uiiallerable resolve of UHprejudiced reason, to peril even 

 life itself upon a mere issue of right. 



The government established upon its termination varied 

 from any ever before attempted. It combined, in almost 

 equal proportions, federal and national principles. It united 

 the distinctive characteristics of monarchy, aristocracy and 

 democracy in harmonious proportions. It amalgamated the 

 pritciple of accountability, the basis of the Greek and Roman 

 •commonwealths, with the system of checks and balances es- 

 tablished in 'tnodern Europe. It admirably tended to unite 

 the Greek and Roman love of country with the European 

 love of self. In selecting the perfections of all previous 

 models, and combining them together in beautiful propor- 

 tions, man only acted in accordance with the lessons already 

 taught him by nature in the physical formation of his Happy 

 country ; lessons which he could read written in legible 

 characters upon the summit of every mountain; in the bosom 

 of every valley- ; on riie shore of every lake.; in the courstj of 

 every stream. 



We are here called upon to witness the separation of the 

 last elements that still remained in a state of combination. 

 Government and religion had continued indissolubly bound 

 together during all the three previous eras. Neither of them 

 had improved from the alliance. Here 'was sundered the 

 bond of their union. Government ^as called upon to ac- 

 count to man; man only recognized his accountability to his 

 God. The last lingering tie that connects industry with 

 govwrftnent is also about being sundered in the rejection of 

 the restrictive system. 



Well might humanity hold a jubilee upon the final separa- 

 tion of her elements. Well might she pause upon this proud 

 pinacle of her attainment, this elevated Himaleh of her world, 

 and examine the successive steps of her progress hither. 

 The world had been the theatre of her action; time the 

 chronicler of her acts; nations and individuals her actors. 

 She had travelled over the fallen column ; the mouldering 



