. The journal of American history. us need fear that the future will fail to vindicate our integrity. When those aregone that fought the good fight, and philosophy comes to strike the balance-sheet, it will be shown that the makers of the Constitution left the relationof the States to the Federal Government and of the Federal Governmentto the States open to a double construction. The battle was long thoughunequal. Let us believe that it was needful to make us a Nation. Let uslook upon it as into a mirror, seeing not the desolation of the past, but theradiance of the present; and in the heroes
. The journal of American history. us need fear that the future will fail to vindicate our integrity. When those aregone that fought the good fight, and philosophy comes to strike the balance-sheet, it will be shown that the makers of the Constitution left the relationof the States to the Federal Government and of the Federal Governmentto the States open to a double construction. The battle was long thoughunequal. Let us believe that it was needful to make us a Nation. Let uslook upon it as into a mirror, seeing not the desolation of the past, but theradiance of the present; and in the heroes of the New North and the NewSouth who contested in generous rivalry up the fire-swept steep of ElCaney and side by side re-emblazoned the national character in the watersabout Corregidor Island and under the walls of Cavite, let us beholdhostages for the Old North and the Old South blent together in a Unionthat recks not of the four points of the compass.—Colonel Henry Wattersonof Louisville, Kentucky, in The Cosmopolitan. MUM I. Hi£§ Mr *3B
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