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Show 204 TnE BAsrs oF ·rnE dream, but a reality. llavc not all men consciousness or " property in the memory of human transactions nvailablc for the same great purposes, the security of their ;ndividunlrights, aml the perfection of their individual hnppincss? llavc not all men a consciousness of the same equ::U. interest in the achievements of invention, in the instructions of philosophy, and in the solaces of music and the arts? And do not these achievements, instructions, and sol::tccfl., exert everywhere the same iullucnces, and prochwc the same emotions in the bosoms of all men? Since all languages arc convertible into each other, by correspondence with the same agents, objects, actions, and emotions, have not all men practically one common language? Since the constitutions and laws of all societies arc only so many various definitions of the rights and duties of men as those rights and duties arc learnctl from Natme and Revelation, hnvc not all men practically one code of moral duty? Since the religions of men, in their various climes, arc only so many diiT0r· cnt f01ms of their devotion towards a Supreme and Almighty Power entitled to their rcvm·cnce and receiving it under the various names of Jehovah, Jove, and Lord, have not all men praeticall y one religion 1 A:llE RICAN CONS'l'ITUTIO;,;" . 205 Since all men arc seeking liberty and happiness for n. season here, nnd to deserve rtml so to secure more perfect lil>crty and l1appiness somewhere in a future world, flllll, since they all Ru1stnntially agree that these temporal anti spiritual ol>jccts arc to l>c attainccl only through the knowlc<l;-''' of tmth aml tlJC praeticeof virtue, have not mankind practically one common pursuit through one common way of one common anti equal hope anti tlcstioy? lf there ha<ll>ecn no such common llumanity as I have in~istcU upon, then the American people would not ha,-c cnjo_rcd the sympathies of mankind when cstab1llihing institutions of civil n.nd religious liberty here, nor woultl their establishment here have awakcnccl in the nations of Europe and of South America desires ancl hopes of similar institutions there. If there had been no such common Tiumanity, 1.hcn we should not ever, since the American Revolution, have seen human society throughout the WOl'ld divided into two parties, the high and the low-the one perpetually foreboding and earnestly hoping the tlownf.1ll, and the other as confidently prctlicting ancl as sincerely desiring, the durability of Republican Institutions. If there had been no such common |