nationality was the prime necessity for the greatest development of strength and prosperity at home, and respect abroad. They did much toward creating a nationality. The elements of weakness which they suffered to remain affect us now. But whatever tends to strengthen the nationality of a people, is a good to that people. It is not enough that individuals or sections should be for a time prosperous and happy for their permanent good ; the nation of which they are a part must be firmly established. The nation must not only possess the elements of power, but have them at its command. The people and the nation are not precisely the same. The people are multitudinous, having varied interests ; the nation is a unit, and its interests a unit. The people may be rich, and manage their private affairs prosperously ; the nation may be poor, and unable to defend itself from internal and external foes, and when a nation is assailed, all the interests of the people suffer. I proceed, therefore, to show the cause we have for thankfulness from the effect of this war to establish our nationality. I. It is making us rich, as a nation. Some one may meet this statement with the remark that it is a singular way to enrich a nation by running it into debt six, seven, eight hundred
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