instinctive sentiment of the race has ever been on the side of right, and in due time has not failed to assert itself in favor of it. This is the redeeming fact, which has never failed to develop itself thus far, and acquits the race, as a race, of all dereliction of its high mission of duty to the rest of mankind. But, let us contemplate some of the facts which mark the progress of this race, and which establish its claim to be the great Power of these modern times. England in the sixteenth century, though classed among the great Powers of Europe, was not strong, either in population or wealth, or in those munitions which constitute the means of offense and defense; yet, weak as it was in material resources, we behold it standing almost alone agaist the whole united strength of the Latin and Roman races. France, part of the time nominally an ally, was in truth always a secret and bitter enemy. Germany was powerless under the Spanish dominion, however disposed to stand by England. Weak or strong, England stood alone, at once the champion of all who opposed the Latin tyranny, and the object of the deadliest hate from that tyranny. In that age, England was to the Latin or Papal interest, what Carthage had been to old Rome. And as "delenda est Carthago" expressed the sentiment of the latter, so that the Anglo-Saxon kingdom. must be wiped out or subjected, was the settled purpose of the Latin Power in the sixteenth century. All the influences of intrigue, treachery and force, were brought to bear against it, under various forms and at sundry times; but England stood like a deep-settled rock in midocean against which the angry waves dash themselves, only to be broken and shattered by their own fury. She maintained her integrity, supported the fainting cause of the Reformation and of Germanic civilization on the Continent; she grew and increased in strength on land and sea; she sent out and planted, one after another, the colonies in America and in other lands; she dispossessed her bitter foes of many of her fairest provinces, and made the wealth of her enemies contribute to her own aggrandizement; she became, at once, a self-sustaining Power, and the parent of nations in other lands. Thus, while she was standing on the defensive for her own life, and averting the daggers aimed at her own heart, she was making conquests and laying in many lands the deep and lasting foundations of that imperial dominion, which at this moment overshadows the whole The battle must be fought out in continental Europe, and the higher and better status of the Germanic civilization vindicated against the Roman. But the reserved force, which was ever to crown the victory, and the highest type of the Germanic power, ever belonged to the sea-girt islands of the Anglo-Saxons. In the earlier ages, while the continental nations were carrying on their struggle, on the one side, for the interest of Rome, and on the other, for the higher and truer liberty of man,-while Germany was contending, she scarcely knew for what,-pouring out human blood and human sorrows, in the vain attempts to reach a pacification, and still struggled in the toils of the great Latin tyranny,— God was planting, nurturing, strengthening and building up in the British Isles a race, who were destined, at once, to possess and emancipate the world. There were few indications of this magnificent result in those days when German emperors were helpless against Papal Interdicts. But some there were, in the superior independence of the Kingdom and Church of England, and in the ever-growing intelligence of the people and in the popular consciousness of the evils of the dominant system. The decisive act was the grand and overpowering revolution which we call the Reformation. Like most great movements among mankind, this had its roots in the religious instincts and feelings of the people; but ethnologically considered, it was the protest of Truth against Error, of Reason against Force, of Intelligence against Ignorance, of Freedom against Slavery, of a higher against a lower civilization. It was the beginning of the final repudiation, by the Germanic races, of the tutelage of Rome and the Latin Supremacy. It was in no sense, a protest, either against Religion, or against the Christian Church in her rightful authority. To suppose this is to suppose, what silly Papists claim, that the Catholic or Christian Church is inseparable from the Latin language and the Papal supremacy. That such a claim was and is set up by the Head of the Roman Church will avail nothing. This claim is precisely that which sought to wrest Religion from its true sphere, and to use it for the political ascendency of the Latin races; and was, therefore, the cause, more than any other, of the bloodshed and misery, which for a thousand years have marked the intercourse of Christian nations in Europe. In this grand act of the drama of modern civilization, the Eng it lish race received its unction, at once, the bulwark of the movement and the truest exponent of its principles. At this period, the indications of England's future power and greatness crowd more thickly upon us. We see in her complete severance, politically and religiously, from the Latin supremacy, and in the substitution of her own language for the Latin, in her religion and literature, the sure foundations for her future empire; while in her parliamentary and popular liberty, in her restraints upon absolute power, in her constitutional privileges, and in her just and equitable laws, we see the future glory and beauty of our Anglo-Saxon civilization. From the period of the Reformation, England stands forth as the armed and equipped antagonist of the Latin Dominion, and as the vindicator and protector of all the kindred races oppressed by that Dominion. The accession of Queen Elizabeth, was the deliberate setting up and consecration of the Anglo-Saxon race, for the demonstration of Christian truth, and the working out of modern civilization. The men, the deeds, the principles, the measures, and the developments,-political, social, intellectual and religious, of this reign, were the christening of the new power for the conquest of the world, and threw a halo of imperishable glory around it. So far as the English monarchy as a local government is concerned, we would be no apologist for any sins and excesses which may have committed in its day. But, in the discussion of the present theme, we must treat England as the nucleus, the representative, the centre and source of everything which the Anglo-Saxon race is to-day. Neither political unity, nor political dependency is necessary to the idea of the Anglo-Saxon empire in the world. That empire to-day is a fact, patent to every eye; but it is not more under the political control of England, than that of our own Republic, England's first and noblest child. In this matter of empire, there is a radical difference between the Latin and the AngloSaxon idea. Political unity, political dependency, and imperial supremacy were necessary to the integrity and perfection of the former; but in the case of the latter, wholeness and perfection are consistent with a wide diversity of governments. Not that there is no common principle of unity; far from this, but this principle does not require the outward embodiment of political consolidation. It matters not, whether the constituent elements, separately con earth, and girdles it with the glory of her civilization. Why was not England and her hardy race crushed like Carthage of old? It was because the aegis of the Divine protection was over her, and the Great Ruler of all things had determined to bestow imperial dominion upon her sons. There is no other solution of the problem, the world was to be advanced; the human race was to be lifted above the standard of the Latin civilization; and God made the Anglo-Saxons in England, America and everywhere the instru ment for that elevation. Does any man speaking the English language, and tracing his descent from the Anglo-Saxon stock, doubt the propriety of such a solution as this? If there be such a doubter, then it must be he who would prefer the social and civil order of Italy, Spain, Mexico, or South America, to that of England or the United States. It must be he who doubts the vitality, the strength, the intelligence and the increasing power of the English-speaking race. The man who doubts the Divine and Providential choice of the AngloSaxons as the instruments for the welfare and progress of the human race, must equally deny that the English dominion and the republic of the United States have been a success, or that, that dominion has conferred any benefits, whatever, upon India and Africa, Australia and the barbarous islands of the Indian and Pacific seas. Why have England and America been permitted to extend their political and commercial control over the earth, to take into wardship and training so many heathen nations, and to dispossess France, Spain and Portugal of many of their noblest possessions? Surely the reasons for these things will be found in all that distinguish those countries and their once promising dependencies from the English-speaking nations of to-day. It is because England and America have been placed in charge of a higher, nobler and truer mission to mankind than those nations. Why was it, again, that England was permitted to triumph over the naval and commercial greatness of Holland and Denmark,-kindred peoples with us, and to take the lead of all the other Germanic nations? Surely for no other reason than that her people were Divinely designated by a nobler genius for control, a higher and truer vitality, and more enduring and useful forms of truth. This island race was, in the providence of God, better fitted to plant and beget nations, and to lead the van in the march of modern civilization, -- It because divine and heavenly truth had taken a deeper and truer hold there than elsewhere. Let us inquire, what the nature of our Anglo-Saxon civilization is, and what chiefly distinguishes it from the Latin? Has it any principle in it which can render it final and perpetual, or will it yet be superseded by any other? We answer that it can never be superseded or overthrown, and, as we believe, is intimately bound up and interwoven with the final consummation of all things. The Anglican race represents an empire or we may call it an ascendency-in the world, which depends upon and requires no centralized political unity. In this respect, it differs toto cœlo from the Latin idea. All the political dependencies of England may become independent of her control; they may become each a separate nation, just as these States have; their forms of government may vary; the English monarchy itself may be swept away; and the political theory of government in these states may change, and yet the Anglo-Saxon empire in the world will remain,-all for the reason that the principles upon which this empire rests cannot be affected by the political divisions of the race, or the forms under which they are governed. The foundations are a rational, religious faith, and intelligence generally diffused; upon which must unfailingly arise, under all political forms, the glorious superstructure of liberty, progress, intellectual, social and moral development. Our race, by Divine favor, possesses the highest and purest forms of ultimate and absolute truth; these forms of truth are in themselves immovable and eternal, and they are realized and grasped in the mind of the Anglo-Saxon race, as they are not, and never have been in the mind of any other race. No political changes or revolutions, and no combination of circumstances can rob the race and the world of these eternal principles; they are that Divine heritage against which "the gates of Hell shall not prevail." For all history and all experience prove that whatever of real truth has been once. grasped, realized and comprehended in the human mind, can never afterwards be lost, even though the race which rose to the comprehension of it perish. It will be taken up, even as it has been, by the succeeding race, and still further developed under the guidance of a larger revelation of truth, until the final and perfect type of human culture and civilization is reached. This highest type is reached as we believe, and is in the progress of its perfect devel |