I  have  refrained  from  adverting  to  the  higher  sentiments  of
humanity  which  enter  into  the  considerati(m  of  this  subject,  because
those  are  considerations  that  are  always  with  you.  I  will  now,  how-
ever, say  that  the  suggestions  of  justice  are  always  in  harmony  with
the  suggestions  and  impulses  of  humanity,  and  that  both  spring  from
the  same  source.  Nature  herself  seems  to  be  forbearing ;  she  seems  to
l>e  passive  and  silent.  She  \eU  nations  as  she  lets  individuals  go  on
in  their  course  of  action,  violating  her  laws ;  but  this  is  for  a  season
only.  The  time  comes  at  last  when  nature  unerringly  vindicates
every  right,  and  punishes  every  wrong,  in  the  actions  of  men  or
states.  She  comes,  then,  in  terror,  in  revolution,  in  anarchy,  in
ohnos.  You  will  let  this  government  and  this  nation  slide  down
still  further  the  smooth  declivity  of  national  vice  if  you  choose:
nature  will  bring  it  back  again  in  due  time  with  convulsions  which
will  wake  the  sighs  and  groans  of  the  civilized  world.
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POLITICAL  SPEECHES.
