ble being, can not
innocently merge her individuality in that of her brother, or
accept from him the limitations of her sphere. In all life's
great extremities she also is thrown upon her inward resources,
and stands alone. Man can not step in between her and the
"accusing angel" of her own conscience; alone in the solitude of
her spirit she must wrestle with her own sorrows; none can walk
for her "the valley of the shadow of death!" When her brother
shall be able to settle for her accountabilities, and "give to
God a ransom for her soul," then, and not till then, may she
rightly commit to him the direction of her powers and activities.

We ask, in fine, for the application of the fundamental
principles of Christianity and republicanism to this, as to all
other questions of vital importance; and appealing to all who
desire the progression and happiness of the whole race, we ask
them, as magnanimous men and true women, to examine this subject
in the spirit of a generous and candid investigation.

RUSH PLUMLY said: Although institutions which recognize all the
rights of all classes of the people, and allow scope for the
growth and activity of every faculty, must, in their very nature,
increase in power and permanence; yet, compared with the duration
of things, the oldest nations and the best founded governments
have had but an ephemeral existence, appearing, maturing, and
decaying with startling rapidity and endless succession.

No form has been exempt from this national mortality.
Theocracies, oligarchies, monarchies, despotisms, republics, have
arisen, flourished, and vanished into history or tradition. So
inevitable does the successive ruin appear, that we have
incorporated into our religious faith the idea that limitation,
conflict, and decay, rather than expansion, permanence, and
peace, are inherent in all human governments, and, in despair man
postpones his hope of national, as well as of individual
stability and happiness, to some future existence.

For results so certain and so universal among all people, in
every age, there must be some profound and radical cause which
religion and philosophy have not discovered, or for which they
have proposed no remedy. It is not sufficient to say that these
are consequences of human imperfe