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26 dition, the roots from which have sprung so fair and so beautiful a tree. And these conserving elements, carefullv guarded, deepened and strengthened in their foundations from age to age, as wisdom and sagacity seemed to dictate; illustrated and eulogized by the highest genius, and the most consummate legal ability; have carried these states, the old country, the Republic of America, and the constitutional colonies of Britain, through many a convulsive political crisis; the ship of state, rocked and tossed by the wild waves of passion, and the agitations of faction; but in the end leaving her to return again to the repose of calm and quiet waters!

In states thus constituted, no matter how deep may be the grievance, how severe the suffering, the obstructive element has to disappear; the disturbing force, whether man or system, must be annihilated!—for freedom is terrible as well as majestic; and the state emerges from the conflict with a fresh acquisition of strength, and with an augmented capacity for a nobler career and loftier attainments. This fact explains the progressive features of all Anglican political society. Revolution seems exoteric to it; but the tide of reform in legal, constitutional, channels, sweeping away obstructive hindrances, goes onward and upward in its course. I quote here a remark of a distinguished writer, a lady:—"The original propensities of race are never eradicated, and they are nowhere more prominent than in the progress of the social state in France and England. The vivacity and speculative disposition of the Celt, appear in the rapid and violent changes of gov-