The emancipation of Massachusetts; the dream and the reality . to that automatic,yet resistless, machinery which produces innovation;wherefore, in the next generation, the great liberal 534 THE REVOLUTION. secession from the Congregational communion brokethe ecclesiastical power forever. And so, throughtoil and suffering, through martyrdoms and war, thePuritans wrought out the ancient destiny which fatedthem to wander as outcasts to the desolate New Eng-land shore ; there, amidst hardship and apparent fail-ure, they slowly achieved their civil and religious lib-erty, and conceived that constit
The emancipation of Massachusetts; the dream and the reality . to that automatic,yet resistless, machinery which produces innovation;wherefore, in the next generation, the great liberal 534 THE REVOLUTION. secession from the Congregational communion brokethe ecclesiastical power forever. And so, throughtoil and suffering, through martyrdoms and war, thePuritans wrought out the ancient destiny which fatedthem to wander as outcasts to the desolate New Eng-land shore ; there, amidst hardship and apparent fail-ure, they slowly achieved their civil and religious lib-erty, and conceived that constitutional system whichis the root of our national life ; and there in anothercentury the liberal commonwealth they had buildedled the battle against the spread of human oppression;and when the war of slavery burst forth her soldiersrightly were the first to fall; for it is her childrensheritage that, wheresoever on this continent bloodshall flow in defence of personal freedom, there mustthe sons of Massachusetts surely be. CAMBRIUGK . AlASSACHUSETTS U . S . A. V , *: 0 .?•* o
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