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federacy, and if the class government that rules 

 Great Britain can make it a deadly hostility to us, 

 they are forced to do so by the very exigencies of 

 self-preservation. The statesmen of England know, 

 and so do those of America, that the race for life is 

 now being run by the broad and genial republican 

 theories of America, and the limited and partial 

 theories of that simulacro of freedom — European 

 constitutional monarchy. One or the other of these 

 systems must perish. If republicanism triumphs, 

 England must concede the five points to her people, 

 and seek her defence against the autocratic theories 

 of Europe, in a sincere friendship with America. 

 If constitutional monarchy triumphs, and this Union 

 is dismembered, the theory of a democratic repre- 

 sentative government will have failed before the 

 world, and the effete theories of Europe will pass 

 safely through the crisis that now attends them, and 

 receive new vigor from the scattered elements that v 

 now constitute our vitality and moral power. 



It is because the aristocratic classes that govern 

 England are well aware of these truths, and see in 

 them the ultimate extinction of their class-system of 

 government, that Great Britain has never yet taken 

 the stand of true friendship to this country. When 

 impelled by interest, for a feeling of popular sym- 

 pathy has never impelled her to it, they have 



