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and their so-called Legislation" could be enforced only through the action and the officers of the several and sovereign states This led to such confusion and such clashing of irterests-state and sec tional-that every real statesman soon saw the necessity of a change and the old articles of confederation" were drawn up and adopted by the several states.
 Those articles were really the first con- stitution of the United States and they distinctly provided that the union" should be perpetual
 This perpetual union," however, last ed only few years and in 17s7 nine of a new union under the plan proposed by the federal convention. This plan. thus drawn up by this convention. which met in Philadelphia in May. 17S7. was the second constitution of the United States. Washington was the president of that convention and Madison, Hamilton and Franklin were among the most distin- guished members.
 The plan was completed and agreed up- on by the convention September IT. 17S7 and upon the ratification of nine states the form of government went into oper- ation in March. 17ss. with Washington as the first President
 The Journal of the Federal Conven- tion," "Elliot's Debates the Federal ist." and all the original records of the period show that there was a great deal of sectional wrangling in the federal convention and great variety of Ques- tions.
 North Carolina and Rhode Island had refused to accede to the new constitution that Is they refused to secede from the old union, under the articles of confed- eration and were incontinently left out In the cold. And very cold indeed did they find 1t, and so in the course of two years they. too. seeded from the old union now consisting of only two members "acceded to the compact'-and joined the new union under the constitution.
 No competent constitutional lawyer now denies any one of tho statements here made and they incontestahly prove that our present form of government was born of secession" and that without a secession from the so-called perpetual uuiou lt cOuiu hoVer HoSo hou eh oAaS- tencel
 But did this constitution cure sectional ism? By no means, for in a very long and elaborate letter dated New York, June 12 1789. written by the distinguished United States senator. William Grayson. of virginia. and addressed to Patrick Henry. read as follows: Many gentle men here q. G., in Congress) are of the opinion that the federalists aim at . limited monarchy to take effect in short time. This. however, I doubt extremely except in the eastern q. e., New Eng land) states. who. believe. if the ques- tion was left to them, would decide in favor of ono tomorrow. They say they have no surety in their nsheries or in the carrying business or in any particular privtleGes without strong government. h 1t not strange that monarchy should iooue from tho oastf
 "1s t not stin stFauGer that John Ad-
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IS SECTIONALISM DEAD?-By J. c. Hiden D. D.

'"The institutions of slavery and its con- sequences formed the line of demarca- ton" See g. Madison Paper, 11O4
 Bancroft says: "An ineradicable dread of the coming power of the southwest lurked in New England. especially in Massachusetts.'-6 History. 263.
 But. coming down to our own day, here is a clipping from & recent daily:
 STILL AT IT.
 In an article against the south. the New York Evening Post discusses the reported effort by the Confederate vet erans to have bitter inscription writ ten by Robert c. Ingersoll. the famous orator, removed from the walls of Arling- ton. Tho erection of a statue to Rob ert B. Lee in the national capitol" says the Post, ..cannot free him from the re- proach of having chosen to lead the forces that battled for human bondage"
 The Post Is sufficiently intelligent to know that Lee never did this. He was not in favor of human bondage. as he proved by manumitting his own slaves The Post knows that Lee took command
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spending untold millions of money. She smiles as her sons and daughters crowd the ocean liners, the whole year round, coming and going, and strew themselves, on pleasure bent, along the Nile. the Niger, the Tiber and the Thames. There is no speech nor language where their voice is not hesrd." if I may quote mis- translation for it's appositeness They leave trail of cupidity and dollars where Shakespeare went a-courting, and where Burns wept over his sins. They snatch art treasures from the poverty-palsied fingers of Europe, and swell with bloated pride over the paltry triumph. And they dream meantime that the conflict is not for them. Nothing so tragic Is in their cup of destiny. nothing but more delight, purchasable with more dollars.
 But these are not all the sons and daughetrs that our dear Mother Ameri- ca has dandled on her knees There are others, and they do not hie them over seas to avoid the pressure of the con fict, nor stop their ears to the noise of the battle. They have seen vision. They begin to understand the sublime meaning of it all. They know that once
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of the southern army not to support human bondage, but to repel the fnva- sion of his native state. The Post knows that when Lee took command of the army slavery was not the issue. and Lincoln had given the distinct assurance that it was not the purpose of the north to interfere with slavery His purpose, he said, was to preserve the union and that alone. The south was fighting Tor the right to leave the union, and the north was fighting to keep 1t from leav- ing the union. Emancipation was mere ly a move in the game of war, which had no official indorsement when Lee took command. It is singular how the New York Evening Post still holds on to its sectional bitterness and seeks to pervert and misrepresent history when everywhere-north and south-we hear the echo of General Grants words. Let us have peace" "-Baltimore Sun.
 And, under the same title. here comes an editorial from recent Alabama daily;
 STILL AT IT.
 It is doubtful If any newspaper in tho country has more persistently misrepre- sented and maligned the south than has the New York Evening Post That newspaper undertakes to read the south lecture pretty much every time a negro criminal comes to grief by the commis- sion of some heinous offense in this part of the country. Little is said in the way of warning to negroes to quit their mean ness. but the white man of the south comes in for any amount of abuse and denunciation-
 Not long ago Georgia negro who had engaged in a shooting with white man was set upon by . mob and lynched- This was of course deplorable, and the news papers of the south were outspoken in their denunciation of the thing. as Is nearly always the case in the south when these lynching outrases take placa-
 But the New York Evening Post. which seems to forget to engage in much villi- fication over such bachanalia of blood as was witnessed of late in Illinois. takes the incident as another excuse to engage in its usual exhibition of slobbering ne- grophilism as set forth in the foiiowing
 "But what terrible hindrance these barbarities must be to the good work of Booker Warrington and to the white men who are holding up his handsi Hard ly has his wise counsel to negroes to uphold the law in all ways fallen upon their ears. when their passions are aroused by story Ike this. which must tend to make them feel as though, being subject to such lawless inhumanity. they were likewise outside the pale of legal obligation"
 The Richmond Times Dispatch, which has published many favorable comments about Booker washington, says in this connections:
 gro put Booker Washington forward as the one great insistent voice for law and order between the races in the south, with only incidental support from white mon. Is an audacfty as be- sotted and insolent as anything that ever came out of this notoriously perverted source.
 Al for tho last broad anA a-ten,A-
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h HE general election in Great Britain
 is over and parliament will assem-
 A ble on Tuesday. February 15. The fposition of parties will be the return of MT. Asquith to power with a majority of about 12o over the unionsts That majority will be made up of liberals, na- tionalists and laborites. a majority big enough to carry any measures the liberal party may propose. Will MT. Asquith take office or will he not? That's tho question. He Is reported to have stated that he would not attempt to form gov ernment unless he had majority of 40 Independent of the nationalists and that he is unlikely to have, but with them he will have majority of 12e or over. It is up to MT. Asquith to be a man or a mouse. The grand old man." otherwise MT. Gladstone. would not have hesitated under the circumstances, and the chance gf Asquith's life has arrived
 What are the facts? The nationalsts are members of the House of Commons much against their desire, as they would
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ABDUL BAHA-By c. F. Markell

Some days he is clad all in purple, some days in pure white and on others In deep est red. He wears his hair in long. wavy locks and his hands are said to be most white and delicately fash toned, possessing . wonderfully sympa- thetie touch Abdul Baba was questioned by some of his followers as to whether, in course of time, he would pay the ac- customed debt to nature or pass away after the manner claimed for his proto- types, but hs declined to make reply.
 Tho Bahaists claim to number over B. 900, 900 souls and the oneness of their re- lig1on is their special boast Christians they assert, have . score of denomina- tions, and wffls their cult has much in 1t that is good. Christianity is far from complete
 Bahist teachers receive no pay. yet con- verts to Christianity, 1t is said. are as . drop in . bue,rst of water when conn pared with tho hosts that are nocking from all nations around Abdul Baha's standard Christianity. they point out is nearly 200 years old. while Bahaism has scarcely seen two score years, ana nu- merically has already become a giant in strength. Preparations are far advanced for the erection of Bahaist temples in New York and Chicago. and the move msnt Is entering the new world.
 These are facts that Christianity can not evads nor ignore. Tho condition is ono with which 1t has to deal. Nor must 1t bs forgotten that all religions had their birth in the east, 70 that Asia has be- como known as the cradle of relisions Christ was an Oriental and up to the preeeut erA his tsachings have dominated the west. whether Abdul Baha's cult win do % remains yet to be seen. but nevertheless confederation of Max Null lers Quasi-prophecy is commanded by the uomentary success of the creed of the pr1ea Of Aeca.
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fenseless naked majority :. You would be astonished at the progress of man ufacturers in the seven eastern states; if they go on in the same proportions for seven years, they will pay very lit tie on imports while the south will con- tinue to labor under the pressure. This, added to the advantage of carrying for the productive states. will place them in the most desirable situation whatever"
 I make no apologyp for those long ex- tracts from MT. Grayson's letters; for Q) they illustrate my thesis; @ they are interesting history, and (S) the quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore'' from which I have taken them is access sible to very few of my readers.
 Again: In the constitutional convention Mr. Madison said the antasonism between north and south would prove the most enduring and deep-seated of all. What a prophecy He further said: Tt seems now to be pretty we'll understood that the real difference of interests lay, not between the large and small, but boz tween tho northern and southern states"
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is styled the religion of love. It Is based upon universal brotherhood and fraternal affection and it's essential features are the culling from past religions and pres ent creeds all that is best and most salient in the construction of each
 It is not positively asserted that Ab- dui Baha is the son of God, though many of his followers seem pleased to deem him such, but he claims inspira- ton direct from the Almighty and de- clares that his mission was essential to meet the requirements of an advanced axe. In truth, he maintains that with the progress of ideas and advancement of knowledge especial revelations are re- quisits to preserve man in touch with his Maker and he points out that such in- spired mediums have marked the dispen- sations of God in the past. zoroaster, Confucius, Buddhs, Christ and AAhom- med. he maintains. were his respective predecessors, each charged with~a . divine revelation and each especially commits sioned to accommodate himself to the progress and thought accomplished up to the respective periods of his appear 
 ance.
 The Bahaists base their claim as to the divine personality of their chief upon certain scriptural prophecies and passagss and Acca has been identined with the To- cality specifically deaignatsd h holy writ.
 The prophet greets his gussts with . benign smils and gentle manner. and those who have seen him declare him to be . man of impressive mein and winning per sonality. Many who have visited Acca to scorn and criticise have fallen at his fest in homage end worship. Each pile grim is accorded . brothsrly welcome end departs with the masters blessing. firmly convinced that hs is in truth tho latest Messiah.
 Abdul Baha each day dons different garb, alwayu . graceful. loosely nowtno robe, with turban of corresponeano eeeers
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YyY] HOEvER would analyze the con- w might easily disentangle from the confused chaos of weltering forces two tremendous antagonists They loom large in things literary, political, social, industrial, commercial. They are pre- cisely those which Frederick Denison Maurice made it his great prophetic bus mess to Identify and portray in his day. a half century ago
 What shall we call them, these trans cendent powers, now doing sublime bat tie In our modern world? Must we un- earth some forgotten names or hunt through Asiatic religion for queer, un- ceuth. mystfying terms? Wnl men really ,lhin anything by talking about things so insistent and so real in language borrowed from Buddhism or from some obscure Mohammedan heretio, or from ancient Egypt or modern Persia? Nothing could be easier. And contemporary religion tinkers have been doing this so easy and so cheap trick to the amazement of many and to the attraction of not few
 It seems so wonderful to preach about
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Heavy Laden.
From Life.

From Life.
 Archbishop Ireland says that the asi- tation against the late King Leopoid's ad- ministration of the Congo originated in England among fanatical preachers who were irftated that a Catholic ruler should hold sway over such immense territory" and interruptions merchants who wanted the whole of the Congo coun- try for themselves.
 As to the Congo country we have no special knowledge, but if our Roman Catholic friends in this country have un- dertaken, in addition to the Systematic defamation of Terrier the expurgation of the character of Leopold. their burden h indeed heavy and we offer them assur- ances of sympathy.
 We had never thought of Leopold as q "Catholio rulsr.' and 1t still seems to us unlxind and unjust to identify so exe- crable a character with any church. He died Catholic, to be sure, and due pains seemed to be taken to give him as good send-on as his church could man age. But an that was formal and doubt less proper enough. The picturing of him as a slandered "Catholic ruler and an object of Protestant malice is different and now what win Conan Doyle have to say about it2
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<(Y B roi est mort: vive le roi."
 The king is dead: Long live
 - tho king!-old French saw. .Hippoorates dira quil plaira; mais le cocher est mort" Hippocrates may say what he pleases. but the coachman is dead.-Moliere CD.
 An Irishman, seeing a headless snap ping turtle walking about in quite lively style, soliloquized: His heads off, and he's dead to be sure; but he don't seem to be sensible of 1t"
 Well, there are texts enough; so we may proceed to improve" The truth Is that sectionalism has been alive and wide awake in this country since the Puritans settled New England, and the cavaliers. and the Huguenots settled Virginia and South Carolina
 Race characteristics are about the most powerful and persistent forces in the whole realm of human nature and his- tory. New Bedford. Mass. is one of the cleanest and best-behaved cities have ever known. During my residence there 1t was sometimes "wet'' and sometimes dry" but the only drunken person l ever saw there was handsome. we'll dressed woman, whom the police had ar rested on the streetsi
 And yet, on street car crowded with men you might see woman standing, with baby on one arm and basket on the other, and not man would budge to give her . seat. Even in New York the same phenomenon can be observed. Could 1t occur in Richmond or in Charleston?
 My old classmate. Alexander Rives, a son of tho late Judge Rives of the United States district court of Virginia, was on Q crowded street car in New York. A woman entered and Rives and one other gentleman arose at once to give her a scat. The rest of the male passengers kept their seats and stared in amaze- ment at the scene Rives offered his hand to the other gentleman who had arisen, and said: Let mo shake hands with you, sir; I'm glad to seo that you are from the south." There. you sec. were sectional manners.
 Our very forms of speech arc sectional. What southerner ever pronounced c. Q. W. "keow," or .. [. Q. n. .. "stun." or q. u. {. y. "dooty," CT q c. o. Il. .. t. 1. Q. .. 'acowsticks"f Where . southerner says, 'Is that sof" the Yankee says. T want to know" ''Moxiz Addums" tells us of a virginian who was SO fixed in his R-phobia as to say, "Ths man was 70 DO (poor) and his feet were 70 70 (sore) he came into the sto (stors) and fell down on the no (nooz) right close to the doc (door)."
 But further:
 Let us take . brief glance at the hiss tory of the constitution. When the col- onies took up arms agatnst the mother country. the continental congress-an ad- visory council il-assumed the direction of military affairs and of our foreign in- tercourse, and ft was only by common oonsent--not hy delegated powers-that they oxercised thie direction for q short timo aftor the elose of tho revolutionary
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Where Authority Ends.

From Harpers Bazar.
 Rogers is a born leader of men. Thou sands of them would follow him into the jaws of death."
 'sYes. but he can't mako his 2-year-oad hnr ao much as qit in ohaaxse
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rule for Ireland. and they will support whatever party introduces bill to that effect Time and again have the Irish members declared their willingness to leave the settlement of English questions to Englishmen if they would be allowed to settle Irish questions by Irishmen. If Englishmen will insist upon the presence of Irish members In the house of con1- mons they must not expect these Irish members to sit around like logs when advantage to their own country can be gained by interference. The peace and prosperity of both countries is only to be obtained by separate parliaments
 The prospects of Ireland for oh'-'f home rule are brighter arS ef 'ae than they have Nss
 land quest practically Ez et
 that was tlie Ere rrr HHst
 in Gladstol fff fs-s
 came from a ~u con fiscation bu exists no longer. The political parties in England are so nearly equal that the Irish nationalists are able to dictate terms to both and one of them is certain to meet the demand
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