12 again in heart, and be a model among the kingdoms of the world. But disloyal to Him, we shall be scattered and peeled—a dismembered body, a reproach and a hissing, and a byeword among the nations. Thanks be to the long-suffering and blessing of our God, we have lived and prospered as fellow-citizens of the United States, under a National Constitution. But, destroy the Union, we are dead. And the ruins of the noblest Temple that political wisdom, guided and inspired by God’s Word, has ever reared around the altars of Liberty and Law, for the protection and for the development of man, shall, in times to come, be visited by our degenerated posterity of pigmy children ; who shall gaze upon the shattered, colossal fragments of our Constitution with stupid wonder at the greatness of their forefathers, and with muttered curses against the suicidal treason of this generation, who deprived themselves of a secure Home ; who exiled their offspring to vagrancy and despair; and who blasted the blooming expectations of Humanity,-just as the fruit of Constitutional Liberty was becoming set in the Tree of political life in the midst of Europe, among the civilized nations of the Earth.
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