Excerpt from The Union: An Address by the Hon. Daniel S. Dickinson, Delivered Before the Literary Societies of Amherst College, July 10th, 1861 The continent of North America presents to the Observing mind one great geographical system, every portion of which, under the present facilities for intercommunication, may be more accessible to every other than were the original States to each other at the time the Con federacy was formed. It is destined at no distant day to become permanently the commercial centre, when France and England will pay tribute to New York, and the Rothschilds and the Earings will sell exchange on Wall Street at a premium; and it requires no romantic stretch of the imagination to believe that the time is at hand when man, regarding his own wants, yielding to his own impulses, and act ing in obedience to laws more potent than the laws of a blind ambition, will ordain that the continent shall be united in political as well as nat ural bonds, and form but one great Union - a free, self - governed, Con federated Republic, exhibiting to an admiring world the results which have been achieved for man's freedom and elevation in this western hemisphere. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.