CONSTITUTIONAL RESPONSIBILITY OF SENATORS FOR THEIR VOTES IN CASES OF IMPEACHMENT. Resolutions in the Senate, June 3, 1868. . 411 INDEPENDENCE, AND THOSE WHO SAVED THE ORIGINAL WORK. Let- ter on the Soldiers' Monument at North Weymouth, Mass., July 2, 1868 COLORED SENATORS, - THEIR IMPORTANCE IN SETTLING THE QUES- TION OF EQUAL RIGHTS. Letter to an Inquirer in South Caro- FINANCIAL RECONSTRUCTION THROUGH PUBLIC FAITH AND SPECIE 440 NO REPRISALS ON INNOCENT PERSONS. Speech in the Senate, on the Bill concerning the Rights of American Citizens, July 18, 1868 481 THE CHINESE EMBASSY, AND OUR RELATIONS WITH CHINA. Speech at the Banquet by the City of Boston to the Chinese Embassy, THE REBEL PARTY. Speech at the Flag-Raising of the Grant and Col- fax Club, in Ward Six, Boston, on the Evening of September 14, 1868 ENFRANCHISEMENT IN MISSOURI: WHY WAIT? Letter to a Citizen of St. Louis, October 3, 1868 . ISSUES AT THE PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION. Speech at the City Hall, SOLYOGE PUBLE LIBRARY, DISCARDED. PROPHETIC VOICES CONCERNING A MONOGRAPH. I have another and a far brighter vision before my gaze. It may be but a vision, but I will cherish it. I see one vast confederation stretching from the frozen North in unbroken line to the glowing South, and from the wild billows of the Atlantic westward to the calmer waters of the Pacific main, -and I see one people, and one language, and one law, and one faith, and, over all that wide continent, the home of Freedom, and a refuge for the oppressed of every race and of every clime. -JOHN BRIGHT, Speech at Birmingham, December 18, 1862: Speeches on Questions of Public Policy, ed. Rogers, (London, 1868,) Vol. I. p. 225. THIS monograph appeared originally in the "Atlantic Monthly" for September, 1867. It is now revised and enlarged. In the celebration of our hundredth birthday as a nation, now fast approaching, these prophetic voices will be heard, teaching how much of present fame and power was foreseen, also what remains to be accomplished. MARCH, 1874. C. S. History shows that the civilization to which we belong is subject to a general law which makes it advance with halts, in the manner of armies, in the direction of the Occident, making the sceptre pass successively into the hands of nations more worthy to hold it, more strong and more able to employ it for the general good. So it seems that the supreme authority is about to escape from Western and Central Europe, to pass to the New World. In the northern part of that other hemisphere offshoots of the European race have founded a vigorous society full of sap, whose influence grows with a rapidity that has never yet been seen anywhere. In crossing the ocean, it has left behind on the soil of old Europe traditions, prejudices, and usages, which, as impedimenta heavy to carry, would have embarrassed its movements and retarded its progressive march. In about thirty years the United States will have, according to all probability, a hundred millions of population, in possession of the most powerful means, distributed over a territory which would make France fifteen or sixteen times over, and of the most wonderful disposition. . . Vainly do the occidental and central nations of Europe attribute to themselves a primacy, which, in their vanity, they think sheltered from events and eternal: as if there were anything eternal in the grandeur and prosperity of societies, the works of men! - MICHEL CHEVALIER, Rapports du Jury International: Exposition Universelle de 1867 à Paris, Tom. I., Introduction, pp. DXIV-DXVI. America, and especially Saxon America, with its immense virgin territories, with its republic, with its equilibrium between stability and progress, with its harmony between liberty and democracy, is the continent of the Future, the immense continent stretched by God between the Atlantic and Pacific, where mankind may plant, essay, and resolve all social problems. [Loud cheers.] Europe has to decide whether she will confound herself with Asia, placing upon her lands old altars, and upon the altars old idols, and upon the idols immovable theocracies, and upon the theocracies despotic empires, - or whether she will go by labor, by liberty, and by the republic, to cooperate with America in the grand work of universal civilization. EMILIO CASTELAR, Speech in the Spanish Cortes, June 22, 1871. |