than on the other side of the sea of China, and the people are the more respectable and hopeful for the flavor of manliness that compensates for a moderate but visible admixture of savagery.  We of North America may be proud of it that the atmosphere of our continent, when it was wild, was a stimulant of freedom and independence.  The red Indians of our forests were, with all their faults, never made for slaves.  The natives of the West Indies, the fierce Caribs excepted, were enslaved by the Spaniards, and perished under the lash.  Our continental tribes—­the Seminoles and the Comanches, the Sioux and Mohawks, the Black Feet and the Miamis—­from the St. Lawrence to Red River and the oceans, fought all comers—­Spaniards, French and English—­only the French having the talent of polite persuasion and the gift of kindness that won the mighty hunters, but never subjugated them.  We may well encourage the idea that the quality of air of the wilderness has entered the soil.  When, in Manila, I have seen the men bearing burdens on the streets spring out of the way of those riding in carriages, and lashed by drivers with a viciousness that no dumb animal should suffer, I have felt my blood warm to think that the men of common hard labor in my country would resent a blow as quickly as the man on horseback—­that even the poor black—­emancipated the other day from the subjugation of slavery by a masterful and potential race, stands up in conscious manhood, and that the teachings of the day are that consistently with the progress of the country—­as one respects himself, he must be respected—­and that the air and the earth have the inspiration and the stimulus of freedom.  The Chinese and Japanese are famous as servants—­so constant, handy, obedient, docile, so fitted to minister to luxury, to wait upon those favored by fortune and spurred to execute the schemes for elevation and dominance, and find employment in the enterprise that comprehends human advancement.  It must be admitted that the Filipinos are not admirable in menial service.  Many of them are untamed, and now, that the Americans have given object lessons of smiting the Spaniards, the people of the islands that Magellinos, the Portuguese, found for Spain, must be allowed a measure of self-government, or they will assert a broader freedom, and do it with sanguinary methods.  As Americans have heretofore found personal liberty consistent with public order—­that Republicanism was more stable than imperialism in peaceable administration, and not less formidable in war, it seems to be Divinely appointed that our paths of Empire may, with advantage to ourselves, and the world at large, be made more comprehensive than our fathers blazed them out.  But one need not hesitate to go forward in this cause, for we have only gone farther than the fathers dreamed, because, among their labors of beneficence, was that of building wiser than they knew, and there is no more reason now why we should stop when we strike the salt water