ties; one in
all that constitutes the unity of a family relation; one in heart, one
in aim, one in mind, purpose, education, and will. None can make us two.
Lines may be drawn by ambitious schemers, divisions discussed, but these
do not constitute separation or alienation. The heart of the people
beats in profound and resolute unison. What God hath joined together let
not man put asunder.

Rise, then, as thou art already rising, great heart of the troubled
nation, throb from one confine to the other, bid faction's agitation
hush, crush down opposition, scorn the unholy threat, dash the
traitorous scheme, and declare the resolute and solemn purpose of all
the members to live and govern together, as parts of the same living
unity, till the whole body politic becomes a prostrate, lifeless corpse.
And from the western border of the States, even from among the youngest
and least of the children of the Union of Seventy-six, the union of
oaths and the union of hearts, the union of instincts and the union of
hopes, do we, in the name of her daughters and sons, bid you, upon the
eastern confines, and the States between, you the mothers, and you the
elder daughters, all hail, and God speed you in the work of forging
anew, even in the fierce fires, the links that bind us into one; 'so
making peace.'

For we are of you and with you, and will be ever, while our setting sun
is your rising sun--ever, until we become two distinct and divergent
races--till you cease to be Joseph and we cease to be Benjamin--till you
become Edom and we become Moab--till long centuries shall have erased
all kindred ties and bonds of consanguinity, and all men, forgetful of
history, shall sink together into vassalage and ancient barbarism. But
until then we are one in heart, one in life, and must abide one in fact,
or sink together to common shameful desolation.

THE CAVALIER THEORY REFUTED.

A remarkable feature of all discussions of questions connected with the
present civil war, is the lack of any attempt to question the foundation
of important assertions. Our orators and writers have been ready to
explain or soften adverse statements, but they have rarely questioned
the existence of any asserted facts. One of the most persistent
assumptions of the secessionists has been that the inhabitants of their
States are the descendants of the gentry of England, and that the
Unionists of the loyal States have neither any identity of origin nor a
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