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 thought is a power in the state and the life of the government.

"Again and again has constitutional liberty turned on this very point, and again and again has it been baptized in the blood of the martyrs who defended and bequeathed it to us their children as the richest heritage God or man can bestow. Shall we be recreant to the trust and barter away this glorious magna-charta of our liberties, that the most flagrant crime that ever darkened the universe of God may pursue its mad career!

"You cannot imprison the immortal soul of man. An emanation from the divine One who spurns alike the lordly tyrant and the cowering slave, it is ever towering upward to meet the stature of its prototype.

"Ye learned doctors of divinity and versed expounders of the law, tell me if you can where, in the annals of paganism, or the advancing light of civilization, you can point to a single nation that has laid its corner-stone in the violated instincts of the human soul, and reared its pillars at the expense of its own acknowledged principles of justice, without meeting sooner or later those convulsions that upheave the foundations of society in the struggle for the maintenance of those rights which antedate every text and every parchment. The spirit of, the Pilgrims who first sought these shores that they might enjoy unmolested the blessings of civil and religious liberty, still lives on this soil. You cannot conquer it, for it is invincible. Heed it, be guided by it before it is too late! Once submit to the dictation of the myrmidons of the south, and before this generation shall