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100 steamers, which never yet, with gliding keel, have kissed their golden faces, nor ever embraced their sweet and liquid forms. To make all this reality, seems the plain duty and the manifest destiny of. This is our work, and we must do it or must die. For when God gives a man, or a number of men,—a nation, place, circumstance, opportunity, advantage, and appliance, with

thereunto added, for a great and noble work; such as the deliverance of a people, or the freedom of a race, or the laying the foundations of a new state, or the building wp of a great commonwealth, or the development of civilization in a new sphere, or introducing the kingdom of Christ into very domain of Satan; and they have neither sight to see, nor judgment to gauge, nor brains to understand, nor hardihood of sold to endure and to achieve, nor manly honor to meet their duty and to fulfil their work and mission; then the avenging angel of God stands in the way of such a people, and Jehovah's glittering sword cuts the cumberers down to the ground. There are some fears; but far more and higher are the hopes, that such blindness to duty, and such fearfulness of penalty, will never fall upon this nation; for nigh at hand, and within our reach, are keen and quickening incentives, and the instruments that are mighty and commanding. Our religion is the Christian religion,—, God be praised, in its main characteristics; and it is harmonious, in all its utterances, as the music of the sphere's. Our civilization,