62 ever is valuable in our system of Government over this new convert to our national policy. Fifty millions of people there are to be enlightened ; the printing-press is to catch the daily thought and stamp it upon the page; the magnetic wire must yet vibrate along her highways, and Niphon must be made to tremble to her centre, at each heart-beat of our ocean steamers, as they sweep through her waters or thunder round her island homes. [Cries of " Good," and applause.] All hail ! all hail ! to these children of the morning. All hail ! all hail ! to the great Republic of the West, that ushers them into life. From every age that has passed there comes a song of praise for the treaty that has been consummated. The buried masters of three thousand years start again to life, and march in solemn and in grand procession, before the eyes of these new-found empires. Homer with his songs, Greece with her arts, Rome with her legions, and America with her heroes, all come to them with the novelty and freshness of the newly-born. Wipe off the mould which time has gathered upon their tombs, and let them all come forth and answer, at the summons of new-born rations, that call them again to life; wrapped in the winding-sheet of eighteen centuries, the fishermen of Galilee tell to these strangers the story of the resurrection ; clutching in their hands their dripping blades, the warriors recount their conquests ; and joined at last in harmonious brotherhood, Copernicus, with bony fingers pointing upAvard, tells to Confucius his story of the stars. [Loud and enthusiastic cheering.] Fellow-citizens, I have spoken of but one of our many peaceful triumphs. In this I may have been guilty of a digression from the subject which calls us together ; but my aim has been to hold up our commercial conquests, gained while a law-abiding, united people, as eminently worthy of all the sacrifice of blood and treasure that we are called upon to make, in order to secure their legitimate fruits. It is really our numerous victories of peace, such as that of which I have spoken, that make us, as a nation, the wonder of the world. And let it be remembered that it was freedom, not slavery, that won these triumphs; it is freedom that must defend them. I appeal to you, shall all these peaceful honors of our people, shall all these hopes of the future, shall all these promised fruits from the struggles of the past, be swept away by the dissolution of the Union and the destruction of the Government? Forbid it, Almighty God ! Kather perish, rather a thousand times perish, the cause of the rebellion, and over the ruins of Slavery let peace once more resume her sway, and let the cannon's lips grow cold. [Vociferous cheering.] Delenda est Carthago, said the old Roman patriot, when gloom settled upon his state ; the rebellion must be crushed, with the same determination say we all to-day. [Applause.] The cannon that opened the fire upon Fort Sumter reverberated from the Penobscot to the Rocky Mountains, and has called the northern lion from his lair. Down with party, sect and class, and up with a sentiment of unanimity when our country calls to arms. Massachusetts, glorious old Massachusetts, first at the cradle of liberty in 1776, she will be the last at the grave, if fate intends that grave shall ever be. Again the " bones of her sons lie mingling and bleaching with the soil of every State from Maine to Georgia, and there they will lie forever." From her new-made graves she sends forth a constant prayer to Heaven, and let traitors tremble lest that prayer be
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