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and rivers that, _tumbling or loitering, run wanton to

      the sea._ Of the three essential items of all industries--cotton,

      iron and wood--that region has easy control. _IN COTTON, a fixed

      monopoly--IN IRON, proven supremacy--IN TIMBER, the

      reserve supply of the Republic._ From this assured and

      permanent advantage, against which artificial conditions cannot

      much longer prevail, has grown an amazing system of industries.

      Not maintained by human contrivance of tariff or capital, afar

      off from the fullest and cheapest source of supply, but resting

      in divine assurance, within touch of field and mine and forest--not

      set amid costly farms from which competition has driven the

      farmer in despair, but amid cheap and sunny lands, rich with

      agriculture, to which neither season nor soil has set a limit--this

      system of industries is mounting to a splendor that shall dazzle

      and illumine the world. _THAT, SIR, is the picture and the promise

      of my home--A LAND BETTER AND FAIRER THAN I HAVE TOLD YOU, and

      yet but fit setting in its material excellence for the loyal and

      gentle quality of its citizenship._

      This hour little needs the _LOYALTY THAT IS LOYAL TO ONE SECTION

      and yet holds the other in enduring suspicion and estrangement._

      Give us the _broad_ and _perfect loyalty that loves and trusts

      GEORGIA_ alike with _Massachusetts_--that knows no _SOUTH_, no

      _North_, no _EAST_, no _West_, but _endears with equal and

      patriotic love_ every foot of our soil, every State of our

      Union.

      _A MIGHTY DUTY, SIR, AND A MIGHTY INSPIRATION impels every one

      of us to-night to lose in patriotic consecration WHATEVER

      ESTRANGES, WHATEVER DIVIDES._

      _WE, SIR, are Americans--AND WE STAND FOR HUMAN LIBERTY!_ The

      uplifting force of the American idea is under every throne on

      earth. _France, Brazil--THESE ARE OUR VICTORIES. To redeem the

      earth from kingcraft and oppression--THIS IS OUR MISSION! AND WE

      SHALL NOT FAIL._ God has sown in our soil the seed of His

      millennial harvest, and He will not lay the sickle to the

      ripening crop until His full and perfect day has come. _OUR

      HISTORY, SIR, has been a constant and expanding miracle, FROM

      PLYMOUTH ROCK AND JAMESTOWN,_ all the way--aye, even from the

      hour when from the voiceless and traceless ocean a new world

      rose to the sight of the inspired sailor. As we approach the

      fourth centennial of that stupendous day--when the old world

      will come to _marvel_ and to _learn_ amid our gathered

      treasures--let us resolve to crown the miracles of our past with

      the spectacle of a Republic, _compact, united INDISSOLUBLE IN

      THE BONDS OF LOVE_--loving from the Lakes to the Gulf--the

      wounds of war healed in every heart as on every hill, _serene

      and resplendent AT THE SUMMIT OF HUMAN ACHIEVEMENT AND EARTHLY

      GLORY, blazing out the path and making clear the way up which

      all the nations of the earth, must come in God's appointed

      time!_

      --HENRY W. GRADY, _The Race Problem_.

      _ ... I WOULD CALL HIM NAPOLEON_, but Napoleon made his way to

      empire _over broken oaths and through a sea of blood._ This man

      never broke his word. "No Retaliation" was his great motto and

      the rule of his life; _AND THE LAST WORDS UTTERED TO HIS SON IN

      FRANCE WERE THESE: "My boy, you will one day go back to Santo

      Domingo; forget that France murdered your father." I WOULD CALL

      HIM CROMWELL,_ but Cromwell _was only a soldier, and the state

      he founded went down with him into his grave. I WOULD CALL HIM

      WASHINGTON,_ but the great Virginian _held slaves. THIS MAN

      RISKED HIS EMPIRE rather than permit the slave-trade in the

      humblest village of his dominions._

      _YOU THINK ME A FANATIC TO-NIGHT,_ for you read history, _not

      with your eyes, BUT WITH YOUR PREJUDICES._ But fifty years

      hence, when Truth gets a hearing, the Muse of History will put

      _PHOCION for the Greek,_ and _BRUTUS for the Roman, HAMPDEN for

      England, LAFAYETTE for France,_ choose _WASHINGTON as the

      bright, consummate 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, THE MARTYR, TOUSSAINT

      L'OUVERTURE._

      --Wendell Phillips, _Toussaint l'Ouverture_.

      Drill on the following selections for change of pitch: Beecher's

      "Abraham Lincoln," p. 76; Seward's "Irrepressible Conflict," p. 67;

      Everett's "History of Liberty," p. 78; Grady's "The Race Problem," p.

      36; and Beveridge's "Pass Prosperity Around," p. 470.

      EFFICIENCY THROUGH CHANGE OF PACE

      Hear how he clears the points o' Faith

      Wi' rattlin' an' thumpin'!

      Now meekly calm, now wild in wrath,

      He's stampin' an' he's jumpin'.

      --ROBERT BURNS, _Holy Fair_.

      The Latins have bequeathed to us a word that has no precise equivalent

      in our tongue, therefore we have accepted it, body unchanged--it is the

      word _tempo_, and means _rate of movement_, as measured by the time

      consumed in executing that movement.

      Thus far its use has been largely limited to the vocal and musical arts,

      but it would not be surprising to hear tempo applied to more concrete

      matters, for it perfectly illustrates the real meaning of the word to

      say that an ox-cart moves in slow tempo, an express train in a fast

      tempo. Our guns that fire six hundred times a minute, shoot at a fast

      tempo; the old muzzle loader that required three minutes to load, shot

      at a slow tempo. Every musician understands this principle: it requires

      longer to sing a half note than it does an eighth note.

      Now