The Life And Writings of George Washington Doane .. 4
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IV. 18 274 THE TOUISTG A]VIERICA]Sr. It is tlie very spirit of what David sang to his angelic liai'p, in that proudest paean, which patriotism ever prompted : " Jerusalem is built as a city, that is at unity in itself." " O, pray for the peace of Jerusalem ; they shall j^rosper, that love thee. Peace be within thy walls, and plenteousness within thy palaces. For my brethren and companions' sake, I will wish thee pros- perity." The sentiment, of which I speak, with its resulting duties and resj^...onsibilities, is as true of America, as it ever was of Sparta, Rome or England. I shall not be extravagant to claim for it a deeper and a truer tinith ; more stringent and more urgent. For, in the first place, the accountability of every nation is in exact proportion to its capacity for influence, "with other nations. And, in the second place, the whole amount of a nation's responsibilities is distributed among its citizens, in the exact ratio of their several capacities for influence. The chronological position of this nation among the tides of time ; its geographical situation, between the two great oceans, bridging the sjDace which separates them ; its vast extent ; its various and infinite resources ; the expansive nature of its free institutions ; with the immense machinery, which science puts at its command, through steam and magnetism, combine to confer on it an influence, which never yet has been attained by any nation : combine, therefore, to lay on us, who are its citizens, an individual responsibility, which never fell before on the inhabitants of any countiy.
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