... as the bright side of our condition. But it is a melancholy study which fills the bosom of the philanthropist and the friend of liberty with sorrow. But the history of liberty− the history of ... This is the real history of man, of the human family, of rational immortal beings The trial of adversity was theirs; the trial of prosperity is ours. Let us meet it as men who know their duty ... flower of our earlier civilization, and John Brown the ripe fruit of our noonday, then, dipping her pen in the sunlight, will write in the clear blue, above them all, the name of the soldier, the statesman,...