12 icạ; and if the people of the United States would but remember the sorrows of Washington, and the supplications of Franklin in Congress, they would be just towards their brethren of Central America in their uncertain steps on the difficult road of republicanism and liberty.
Latin publicists say that the race is dying out; that the mother tongue is disappearing; that the Saxon is triumphant, and that the dominion of the world belongs to him. Let come what must! The empires of Augustus and of Constantine the Great are mouldering in the dust.
All things change; but all the elements of past ages, spiritual and material, are living to day in the modern organism, and existing civilization is the result and sum of the civilizations of the past. Our spirits are illumined by rays that had their birth in Greece and Egypt, and at the remoter hearth of the Aryan people from whom we sprang Who can arrest the progress of events or halt the motion of things? The very sun is not stationary in the centre of the solar system, but carries us travelling along with it towards the Constellation of Hercules. In this manner we are travelling towards the sun of humanity, which shall ultimately shine in resplendent beauty at the end of the centuries. Let us learn to love the future as we do the past, thus inducing a conditon of harmony.
VI.
Whither, then, is the American Government tending?
When we consider the federal form of government and contemplate the visible forces of evolution in the United States, we are compelled to the conclusion that it is on