favor to the people of the New World.  The builders recognized the rights of human nature as universal.  Liberty, the great first right of man, they claimed for ‘all men,’ and claimed it from ‘God himself.’  Upon this foundation they erected the temple, and dedicated it to Liberty, Humanity, Justice, and Equality.  Washington was crowned its patron saint.  Liberty was then the national goddess, worshiped by all the people.  They sang of liberty, they harangued for liberty, they prayed for liberty.  Slavery was then hateful.  It was denounced by all.  The British king was condemned for foisting it upon the colonies.  Southern men were foremost in entering their protest against it.  It was then everywhere regarded as an evil, and a crime against humanity.”

Then the Bible and the Bible alone is the Protestant rule of faith; and liberty to worship God according to the dictates of one’s own conscience is the standard of religious freedom in this land.  And from the quotations herewith presented, it is evident that while the government pledges to all its citizens the largest amount of civil freedom, outside of license, it has determined to lay upon the people no religious restrictions, but to guarantee to all liberty to worship God according to the Protestant principle.

Here, then, are two great principles standing prominently before the people:  Republicanism and Protestantism.  And what can be more just, and innocent, and lamb-like, than these?  And here, also, is the secret of our strength and power.  Had some Caligula or Nero ruled this land, we should look in vain for what we behold to-day.  Immigration would not have flowed to our shores, and this country would never have presented to the world so unparalleled an example of national growth.

Townsend, Old World and New, p. 341, says:—­

“And what attached these people to us?  In part, undoubtedly, our zone, and the natural endowments of this portion of the globe.  In part, and of late years, our vindicated national character, and the safety of our Institutions. But the magnet in America is, that we are a republic.  A republican people!  Cursed with artificial government, however glittering, the people of Europe, like the sick, pine for nature with protection, for open vistas and blue sky, for independence without ceremony, for adventure in their own interest,—­and here they find it!”

One of these horns may therefore represent the civil republican power of this government, and the other, the Protestant ecclesiastical.  This application is warranted by the facts already set forth respecting the horns of the other powers.  For (1) the two horns may belong to one beast, and denote union instead of division, as in the case of the ram, Daniel 8; and (2) a horn may denote a purely ecclesiastical element, as the little horn of Daniel’s fourth beast; and (3) a horn may denote the civil power alone, as in the case of the first horn of the Grecian goat.  On the basis of these facts, we have these two elements, Republicanism and Protestantism here united in one government, and represented by two horns like the horns of a lamb.  And these are nowhere else to be found.  Nor have they appeared since the time when we could consistently look for the rise of the two-horned beast, in any nation upon the face of the earth except our own.