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Rh highest possible degree, and transmit to our families and to posterity, as the true greatness of the country and the world.

We are to look at this enlarging elevation of the working classes of men&mdash;a fact which may be considered the main index of our age&mdash;not as a difficulty to be limited, but as an attainment in which we greatly rejoice. And, if our heraldry is in the hammer and the ax and the awl and the needle, we are to feel it a higher honor than if, in their place, we could have dragons and helmets and cross-bones and skulls. Our country&rsquo;s greatness is to be the result, not of foreign war, but of domestic peace; not of the plunder of the weak, but of the fair and even principles of just commerce, a thriving agriculture, a beautiful and industrious art. Let us glory in everything that indicates this fact, as an index also of our desire for renown. This great lesson&mdash;honor to the working classes, in the proportion of their industry and merit&mdash;the world will yet completely learn.

And when the great, exalting, leveling system of Christianity gains its universal reign, mountains will be brought down and valleys will be filled; a highway shall be made for human prosperity and peace&mdash;for the elevation and dignity and security of man&mdash;over which no oppressor's foot shall pass; the poorest of the sons of Adam shall dwell unmolested and fearless beneath its own vine and fig-tree; the united families of earth shall all compete to acquire and encourage the arts of peace; nation shall not rise up against nation, and men shall learn war no more.

 

