We  are  perpetually  forgetting  this  subtle  and  com|ntx,  yet  ol
and  natural  mechanism  of  our  constitution ;  and  because  we
get  it,  we  are  continually  wondering  how  it  is  that  a  oonfederacj  o
thirty  and  more  states,  covering  regions  so  vast,  and  regolatia
interests  so  various  of  so  many  millions  of  men,  constituted  an
conditioned  so  diversely,  works  right  on.  We  are  oontinoally  looh
ing  to  see  it  stop  and  stand  still,  or  fall  suddenly  into  pieoca.  Bd
in  truth,  it  will  not  stop  ;  it  cannot  stop ;  it  was  made  not  to  atoi
but  to  keep  in  motion — in  motion  always,  and  without  force.  Fa
my  own  pan,  as  tliis  wonderful  machine,  when  it  had  newly  eon
from  the  handa  of  its  almost  divine  inventors,  was  the  ad
of  my  earlier  years,  although  it  was  then  but  imperfectly
abroad,  so  now,  when  it  forms  the  ccntrnl  figure  in  the  economr
the  world's  civilization,  and  the  best  sympathiw*  of  mankind
its  contiuuance,  I  expect  that  it  will  stand  and  work  right  01
men  shall  fear  its  failure  no  more  than  we  now  apprehend  that
sun  will  cease  to  hold  his  eternal  place  in  the  heavens.
Nevertheless,  I  do  not  expect  to  se«i  tlus  purely  fK>pu]ar
majestic  system  always  working  on  unattended  by  the  prescn<
exhibition  of  human  temper  and  human  passions.     T!    '
to  expect  to  enjoy  reward.-i,  benefits  and  blessings,  w
care  and  watchfulness — an  expectation  contrary  to  divine  a{
meat    These  are  the  discipline  of  ibe  Ameriuait  cittsea.
THB  UNION  EVERLASTING.
