And theirs will
still be the brains to control the destinies of our race, however
isolated they may become, however they may be made the objects of
distrust and contempt. Ay! shut them out if you will, and from that
moment New England becomes the Switzerland of America, the home of great
ideas and great men, the temple where Freedom shall take up her
everlasting abode, and the altar fires of Liberty shall never die away.
And her people will become the priests of that great religion which,
taking its rise in a lofty appreciation of the true end of human
existence, is already bursting out all over the Christian world, in
fitful flames, which shall yet become the devouring element that shall
wither and consume away oppression and kingcraft from the face of the
earth. Shut her out, then, if you will, but you cannot shut out the
flame which she shall kindle; you cannot shut out the tones of her
trumpet voice, proclaiming to the world the doctrines of eternal truth.
Self-reliant, possessing within themselves every element of success, her
people can and will make their way, as heretofore, alone and unaided.
Asking no favors of the world, they will pursue the even tenor of their
way, undisturbed by the mutterings and growlings of their impotent foes,
while their little republic, like a city set upon a hill, continues to
reflect from her glittering pinnacles the sunlight of heaven to all
quarters of the earth.
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