as good as the Caucasian

and now comes the

Mongolian, and asks to do the very thing you want done, and some of the very men who have declaimed loudest against distinctions of race and color talk about degradation from the contact. If you really mean to reject this timely aid that Asia offers if you really so construe the Declaration of Independence then don't talk about acts of Congress to protect ship-building and encourage commerce, but use your iron to make a high wall all round the frontier - plant a thick hedge of pine-trees outside and retire to your lofty isolation. And perhaps, a thousand years hence, some travelling Chinese will break down the barrier, worse than his own great wall, and find the remnants of cities, as unintelligible as those of Central America, and as useless to the world.

No, fellow-citizens, this would be copying China in the worst side of her character. Not so is our national duty. Rather let us go on as of yore, throwing wide open our gates to all comers, and putting the Declaration into the freest and fullest practice. In that case it can never be played out, but every year will add new glories to its celebration. And so, when a hundred years hence a worthier orator, whom you and I shall never

see, shall address our successors, when Boston shall gather in her arms, from a circuit of a hundred miles, a population of a million and a half of citizens,-when two hundred thousand children shall throng her schools-when her libraries and museums, grown to tenfold their present size, shall still be bursting with their stores of art and literature-when her harbor is crowded with five thousand sail, proudly flaunting the stars and stripes-when our ancient university shall count ten students for every one she now instructs, and show an income equal to her present capital-when the legislature shall sit but a single month in the year, except when detained on tunnel business,—when the directors of a network of railroads all over the state shall throng the state-house thrusting their surplus dividends into the hands of the state treasurer for investment-when all our hyperboles shall become less than the earnest of the prosperity of the United States-then, I say, the orator who succeeds me will claim it as the noblest honor of Boston that she stands between the old world and the new, -the advanced outpost of one, the rear-guard of the other, and the loved and cherished friend of both.