umanity. For if she has the will, she can bring her own life, and that
of those affected by her influence, gradually away from the sphere of
principles which are antagonistic to our national institutions.

Let a controlling majority of our sex throughout the United States thus
act--and were our threatened Government doomed now to be indeed
overturned, the startled world has no cause to despair! For then the
women of our land would prove its saviors--for, having recreated society
according to the principle of democracy, they would, through the laws of
reaction, restore that principle again to American institutions;
restore--never again to be shaken thence, because upheld by the
intelligent cooeperation of woman.

WEST OF THE MISSISSIPPI.

[The Continental, drawing its very life from its desire of upholding,
strengthening, and sustaining our sacred Union, welcomes the article
from 'west of the Mississippi,' the object of which is to encourage,
through a common literature, the fraternal relations between East and
West, and cherish the great bond of national unity by proclaiming
kindred ties.

We of the East stretch forth loving hands to our brothers of the West,
and, feeling true and loyal hearts beating through the dim spaces
dividing us, bid them God speed, as bone of our bone, and flesh of our
flesh, whose prosperity is our life, whose ruin would be our own
desolation.

'As from the East the lovely exile goes,
Fair on the West a young Aurora glows;
And all the flowers Ionian shores could yield
Blush forth, reblooming in the Hesperian field.'

EDS. CONTINENTAL.]

From our quiet homes, on the western bank of the Mississippi, very
nearly in Boston latitude, we send daily thoughts of business, friendly
interest, and political sympathy unto you who dwell upon our Atlantic
shore. Some of us look back unto you as the prodigal son is said to have
regarded his father's house. All of us have intimate ties binding us
unto you. From you, as the fountain head of literature and intelligence,
through your magazines and journals, we are constantly supplied with the
living current of thought and mental activity. Is it anything but fair
that we should occasionally seek to respond and acknowledge the debt and
the fellowship? For what shall more tend to strengthen the bonds of our
broad Union than these common sympathies of a widespread and national
fraternity of literary tastes and gratifications? Assimilation o