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Show Tim Need -if Tcaelilii-; I'a t riot lmu. At tho close of tho lirst half cotitur of tho government, when, for instance i Webster delivered his eulogy of Adam 1 and Jefferson, or his oration ut tin foundation of the Bunker Hill iiionu incut, there was no necessity of consid : ering how to stimulate and deepen tin 1 sent imont of nationality. The vast 1 tlood of foreign immigration with which : we aro familiar had hardly begun to j rise, aud an appeal to American patriot- ! ism touched every heart with the same emotion. That day is passed. Tho necessity and the consequent duty of instruction in national history' and of preservation of tin natioiud traditions are imperative. The funda-' mental truths that there is no liberty, without law, that every form of class! legislatitwi is anti-republican, that edu- cated intelligence is a chief bulwark of j free institutions, that individual vigi- i lance and activity are the guarantee of political progress, must be constantly ' and practical ly inculcated. 1 larper's '. Weekly. " |