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solve the difficult but ever recurring problem of self government. 
Within the same period, the dark shadow of slavery that hung 
over the great republic of North America and the great empire 
of South America, has passed away like a cloud from the face of 
the new world. 
“ God said, I am tired of kings; 
I suffer them no more; 
Up to my ear the morning brings 
The outrage of the poor! 
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My angel—his name is Freedom; 
Choose him to be your king; 
He shall cut pathways east and west 
And fend you with his wing. 
Hs Hs 
I will divide my goods— 
Call in the wretch and slave; 
Hone shall rule but the humble, 
And none but toil shall have. 
I will have never a noble— 
Ho lineage counted great; 
Fishers, choppers, and ploughmen, 
Shall constitute a State.” 
Emerson—Boston Hymns , 
Democracy, spreading like a flood of light over the earth, com 
cerns every nation and every age. To the American people, who 
have staked all upon its success, and who hailed its coming as the 
dawn of a political millenium, it is at once the object of a pro¬ 
found enthusiasm and of a patriotic anxiety—the object of pro¬ 
found enthusiasm, because we believe it to be the highest type of 
ideal or actual government; of a patriotic anxiety, because from 
inexperience and human imperfection, it often falls far short of 
its brilliant theories, and has caused but too many men of un¬ 
doubted ability to despair of our republic. The old Federalists 
and the former Nullifiers did not entirely believe in the principles 
upon which our government is founded. Garrison once pro¬ 
nounced the constitution of the United States to be a “covenant 
with death and an agreement with hell.” Choate declared that 
the Declaration of Independence was made up of “glittering and 
sounding generalities.” To such straits, in one direction and 
