privileges that carry with them great responsibilities. JOHN WILLIAM
DAWSON.

From "On the Progress of Science in Canada."

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From your great cities and teeming prairies, from your learned altars
and countless cottages, from your palaces on sea and land, from your
millions on the waters and your multiplied millions on the plains, let
one united cheering voice meet the voice that now comes so earnest from
the South, and let the two voices go up in harmonious, united, eternal,
ever-swelling chorus, Flag of our Union! wave on; wave ever! Ay, for it
waves over freemen, not subjects; over States, not provinces; over a
union of equals, not of lords and vassals; over a land of law, of
liberty, and peace, not of anarchy, oppression, and strife! BENJAMIN
HARVEY HILL.

From "On the Perils of the Nation."

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It is really astonishing to hear such an argument seriously urged in
this House. But, say these gentlemen, if you found yourself upon a
precipice, would you stand to inquire how you were led there before you
considered how to get off? No, sir; but if a guide had led me there I
should very probably be provoked to throw him over before I thought of
anything else. At least I am sure I should not trust to the same guide
for bringing me off; and this, sir, is the strongest argument that can
be used for an inquiry. LORD CHATHAM.