the noble humanity of our Cumberland and Westmoreland. May we not hope that the republican spirit will grow there to maturity and power, before any emergency shall demand a consolidated opinion. It is impossible not to notice the immense advantages the future must derive from the method of colonization and conquest. It seems to us now that the great curse of our country has been its feudalism, that arose from the method of territorial acquisition. Feudalism included the law of primogeniture; thus there was perpetuated, from age to age, a chiefman system, an aristocracy more unquestionably ridiculous in its outline character than any of the nations of the earth has known, an aristocracy who may present as their representative the King of men to-day, and the Dunce of men to-morrow. From this most serious evil the new colonies of the world will be saved. In the attempt to thread the future, it is impossible not to be cheered by the growth of power in the West; it is, indeed, the newc hapter in the great book of Time. Comparing the demon violence of the builders of the castles of the middle ages with even the worst of those who are building their homes in Texas or Iowa, which are, we take it, the great metropolitan cities of rascaldom and knavery, there is hope for the world; the strength which fights and struggles with the swamp and the morass, the mountain and the wood, is not one whit inferior to that which conquered Northumbria or formed the Heptarchy, while the influences of a generous refinement may be expected to pre

vail eventually over the rough, and rugged, and primitive Saxonism of manner. But in colonizing we have yet to learn much. Government might with advantage imbibe more of the ancient Roman spirit and wisdom in its aids to the colonist; that it must aid, is now, by most whose opinion is worth consulting, a settled matter; and when it shall come forward, and surrender its battle-ships to "bridge the ocean" over, and make its soldiers pioneers for the future adventurers-when it shall attempt the yet unattempted work of colonizing India and Africa-when, in the spirit and manner of a workman needing not to be ashamed, it shall meet the difficulties at home by creating a market abroad, thinning the population here, and opening the boundless infinitude of resources there there will be at once a blessing conferred on this despairing land, and a happy augury for the future.

CHAPTER X.

MODERN UTOPIAS.

PROLOGUE OF QUOTATIONS.

"MEN, my brothers, men, the workers ever reaping something new; That which they have done, but earnest of the things that they shall do. For I dipt into the future, far as human eye could see,

Saw the vision of the world and all the wonder that would be.
Saw the heavens fill with commerce, argosies of magic sails,
Pilots of the purple twilight dropping down with costly bales;
Lo! the war drums throb no longer, and the battle flags are furled,
In the parliament of man, the federation of the world."

TENNYSON.

"We are on the eve, it seems to me, of what may be called the constructive era of society."

Rev. J. S. BOONE, One Manifold.

"I looked; aside the dust cloud rolled,
The Waster seemed the Builder too;
Upspringing from the ruin old

I saw the new.

"'Twas but the ruin of the bad,

The wasting of the wrong and ill;
Whate'er of good the old time had,
Was living still,

"Take heart, the waster builds again,
A charmed life old goodness hath;
The tares may perish, but the grain
Is not for death.

"God works in all things; all obey,

His first propulsion from the night.
Ho! wake and watch, the world is gray
With morning light."

J. G. WHITTIER,

"To work, then, one and all; hands to work."

CARLYLE. Latter Day Pamphlets.