It is as a war of Opinion — as the beginning of that great experiment in modern times, whether men are capa ble of self-government — that it assumes its immeasurable importance. A new World is seen rising into view — a World of Hope; and as the great lights that shone upon its morning path of advancing glory appear, the grateful inquiry is Whose were those superior minds that, amid the dark ness of a chaotic confederacy, combined the elements of Social order, and formed them into a vast majestic Empire?