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Rh marked the measures of emancipation and arming the blacks. These measures have been much discussed in foreign countries, and contemporary with such discussion the tone of public sentiment there is much improved. At home the same measures have been fully discussed, supported, criticised, and denounced, and the annual elections following are highly encouraging to those whose official duty it is to bear the country through this great trial. Thus we have the new reckoning. The crisis which threatened to divide the friends of the Union is past."&mdash;.

"The inner life of man is manifested in the evolution of society; the love of the family passes into the love of the state, and the love of the state rises into the all-embracing love of humanity."&mdash;.

"Christianity, which has now taken possession of the portals of nations, which is at this moment reigning or wandering over all the tribes of the earth from the rising to the setting of the sun, and which incredulous philosophy herself is obliged to acknowledge as the spiritual and social law of the world."&mdash;.

"To the eye of vulgar Logic, says he, what is man? An omnivorous biped that wears breeches. To the eye of Pure Reason what is he? A soul, a spirit, and a divine apparition. Round his mysterious Me there lies, under all those wool-rags, a garment of flesh (or of senses) contextured in the loom of heaven; whereby he is revealed to his like, and dwells with them in union and division; and sees and fashions for himself a universe, with azure starry spaces, and long thousands of years. Deep hidden is he under that strange garment; amid sounds and color, and forms, as it were, swathed in, and inextricably overshrouded: yet it is sky woven, and worthy of a God. Stands he not thereby in the centre of immensities, in the conflux of eternities?"&mdash;.

"Where are we, fathers? Are these really religious, and priests, who talk in this manner? Are they Christians? are they Turks? are they men? or are they demons? And are these 'the mysteries revealed by the Lamb to his society?' or are they not rather abominations suggested by the Dragon to those who take part with him?"&mdash;.

"If fugitive-slave laws, providing modes and prescribing penalties whereby the master could seize and recover his fugitive slave, were legitimate exercises of an implied power to protect and enforce a right recognized by the Constitution, why shall the hands of Congress be tied, so that, under an express power, by appropriate legislation, to enforce constitutional provision granting citizenship, it may not by means of direct legislation bring the whole power of this nation to bear upon States and their officers, and upon such individuals and corporations exercising public