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"On‘fame’s ete1·nal camping ground . A  
Their silent tents are spread, V  
. And glory guards with solemn round  
The bivouac of the dead."  
We know the decree of the past, now let us turn our faces to the  
future and as patriots and lovers of individual liberty, discuss these l` 
A questions, master and confront these dangers. _ T
The right of the States to leave the Union has been denied and . rl;
that denial has been made good forever, but the States were never  
deprived of their sovereignty.  
The Union that survived the storm of conflict is “an indissoluble  
Union of indest1·uctible States.   if
In order that liberty may be preserved, the equilibrium between L.
the rights of the individual and the Government must be maintained.  
This was the aim that our fathers had in delegating certain powers  
to the general Government and others to the States.  
But there has always been a tendency in our Government toward  
centralization. Forfrom its very foundation there have always ex-  
isted two great political parties setting forth diverging policies of  
government, one giving rise to national supremacy, the other to `_
States sovereignty, championed by the greatest statesmen the world ’  
had ever seen. Hamilton, Webster and the North on one side, Jeffer- _ »
son, Calhoun and the South on the other.
It is not strange that there should he a tendency toward central- r  
ization in America. Steam and electricity have revolutionized the  
world. The railroads have shortened distances until they have A °
` brought the Atlantic within a few days journey of the Pacific. The *
telegraph has obliterated time. \Vith the pressure of the electric .
button the work of a million men is begun. Reason, to a consider- .
· able extent, has taken the place of physical power. Science is every- , l.
thing. Science prepares the soil for the farmer, harvests his grain ‘
and carries it to market. She has builtbridges across the impassable A
rivers, tunneled the mountains and cstablislied the highways of the .  
earth. _g_
The splendor of central government dazzles the unthinking multi-  
tudes; its strength assures the rich andthe timid; its patronage Tx; ’`r`
A incites the_spoilsinan and its powers influence the partisan. The Q