le which has ever entered into the governmental
relations of men. It must turn and overturn till, as rightful
sovereign it is placed securely upon the throne of all nations,
for, from the inherent nature of things, it is destined to become
the mightiest revolutionist of the ages. The reinstating of that
principle in the chair of our Republic will be the net result of
this war of the Rebellion!

When the statesmen of '76 sought to embody this principle in the
complicated machinery of a vast government, there they partially
failed--there they designedly failed. The minority seceded from
it in that day as in this, and then they compromised. The
antagonism which they engrafted on the young Republic assuming,
as it does, that power, not humanity, is statute-maker, could not
be more diametrically opposed to the axiom which asserts, that
humanity, not power, is lawful arbiter of its own rights. The
man, unwashed, unmended, unlearned, is yet a safer judge of his
own interests, than is all the rank, the wealth, or the wisdom of
men or angels. Thomas Simms is a better witness as to his own
need of freedom than the combined wisdom of all the Boston
lawyers, judges, and statesmen. We can keep ice and fire upon
the same planet, but it never does to bring them too near
together. A nation proclaiming to the astonished world that
governments derive all just powers solely from the consent of the
governed, yet in the very face of this assertion enslaving the
black man, and disfranchising half its white citizens, besides
minor things of like import and consistency--do you wonder that
eighty years of such policy culminated in rebellion?

Do we expect the whole-hearted sympathy of any monarchy? Cannot
they see, also, that two entire opposing civilizations are
mustered into the conflict? They may hate slavery, and since we
have found the courage to point our cannon more directly against
the heart of that, they may rejoice so far; but do they desire to
establish the subordination of any government to the rights of
the very meanest of its subjects? Are they in love with our
plebeian heresy, that all the magnificent civil machinery of
nations is but so much base clay in the hands of the multitude of
royal potters? We are now testing the practical possibilities of