Excerpt from Biblical Repertory Princeton Review: January, 1861 Spain, France, Great Britain, Germany, are all one, not by the will of man, but by physical laws, which men can contravene only to their own detriment or destruction. The immutable law of God, as expressed in nature, makes the territory assigned to the anglo-saxon race on this continent one nation. The same mountain ranges run through the whole land. The great valley, beginning in Carolina and Tennessee, reaches to the bor ders of Canada. The broad Atlantic slope is one continuous plain. The immense basin of the Mississippi includes, as the bosom of a common mother, the states from the Lakes to the Gulf of Mexico. The Ohio, the Missouri, and the Mississippi, are arteries which carry the same living flood through the vast region through which they flow. The country is thus physically one, and therefore its organic life is one. We cannot divide a tree without destroying its life. We cannot divide a river with out producing an inundation. The union of this country, there fore, is determined by the homogeneity of its people, by its history, and by its physical character. It cannot be perma uently dissevered. The mistaken counsels or passions of men may cause a temporary separation, but the laws of nature will ultimately assert their supremacy, and avenge, by terrible dis asters, their temporary violation. Besides, there is the moral bond. We are bound together by covenants and oaths. It requires something more than annoyances, or collisions of Opinion or interests, to free men in the sight of God or man from the obligation of an oath. These states are pledged to a per petual All federal and state officers are bound by oath to maintain that union, and the constitution on which it is founded. It is admitted that there may be circumstances which will justify a nation in violating a solemn treaty, or a people in casting off the obligation of an oath of allegiance; but no man, who has the fear of God before his eyes, will ad vocate such violation except in extreme cases. 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.