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Show 208 THE AMERIC.AN CoNSTITU'riON. hopes of mankind. If there had been no such common humanity, then certainly Europe and Africn, and m·en new America, would not, after the bpsc of centuries, have recognized a common Redeemer, from all the sufferings and perils of human life, in a culprit who bad been jgnomlniously executed in i1c ol scurc Roman province of Judea; nor would Europe lio1·c ever gone up in arms to Palestine, to wrest from t.hc unbelieving Turk the tomb where that culprit hacl slept for only three days and nights after his descent from the cross,-much less wouhl his traditionary instructions, preservecl by fishermen and publicans, have become the cl1icf agency in the renovation of human society, through after-coming ages. WoL II. SEW.IRD. "COULD I embody and unbosom now, 'l'hat which is most within me ;-could I wreak ~[y thoughts upon expression, and thus throw Soul, heart, mind, passions, feelings strong or weak, All that I would have sought, and all I seck, Dear, know, and feel, and brcatL.c,- into one word, And that one word were Jii htning 71- I woulcl speak it, not to crush the opprcss01·, but to melt the chains of slave and master, so tltat !Joth should go fJCc. N.~::w Y orlK, KO\'embcr SlL, 1853. |
