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Rh America, in the colossal statue of a goddess bearing on high a flaming torch, which she has fitly named 'Liberty Enlightening the World.'"

"I must warn you," said the Chief Justice, "in reference to your employment of terms, that, while you intended to say the 'bulwark of your civil liberty,' you said, 'civil rights': the former is to the latter as the genus is to the species, although the phrase 'civil rights' is in a manner sui generis. You will find my countrymen, especially in Georgia and Kansas, a little sensitive about it. When you have read the authors I have just recommended, I would suggest for your perusal the letters of Alexander Hamilton, John Jay, and James Madison, most of which appear in the 'Federalist,' and you might afterwards acquaint yourself with the letters of Helvidius, also by Madison, and of Pacificus, by Hamilton. Study these authors with the utmost deliberation along with a careful review of the contemporary debates upon the adoption of the Constitution, by the giants of those days, the glorious sovereigns of yore, who yet rule us from their tombs. To lay broad and deep your foundation of knowledge, go afterwards to those other storehouses of learning; and select from such statesmen, philosophers, patriots, and orators as Otis, Henry, Drayton, Warren, Livingston, Ames, Rutledge, Randolph, Hancock, Adams, Washington, Dickinson, Ramsay, Martin, Ellsworth, Morris, Harper, Emmet, Marshall, King, Bayard, Pinckney, Randolph, Dexter, John Quincy Adams, Clay, Burgess, Webster, Story, Wirt, Calhoun, Sergeant, Gaston, Hayne, Prentiss, and a host of others. When you have risen from this sumptuous entertainment, which, I promise you, will prove one of the most delightful feasts to be enjoyed in a scholar's lifetime, more charming than even Lucullus was wont to spread, and when you have taken leave of a company as illustrious as ever the sun shone upon, I shall ask your kind permission to discharge the last and most agreeable office I can perform, in presenting you in person to a most distinguished citizen of America, Mr. James G. Blaine, whose talents and fame are far from being circumscribed even by the broad limits of his own great country. If I may borrow from the bountiful imagery of Horace, this son of America, in his 'Review