CITY OF BOSTON.

-IN BOARD OF ALDERMEN, July 8, 1872.

Resolved, That the thanks of the City Council are due, and they are hereby tendered, to CHARLES FRANCIS ADAMS, JR., for his exceedingly eloquent and interesting oration delivered before the municipal authorities of this City on the fourth of July; and that he be requested to furnish a copy for publication.

Passed. Sent down for concurrence.

S. LITTLE, Chairman.

IN COMMON COUNCIL, July 11, 1872.

Concurred.

M. F. DICKINSON, JR., President.

Approved July 11, 1872.

WILLIAM GASTON, Mayor.

stern as themselves, by ties of years and battle blood, which is thicker than water. Their hearts throb with memories of personal valor which thrill the workshops and the fields. Constitutions are as weak as withes before the throes of Agonistes in his discontent. As a conservative power, these men have saved the life of the nation. As a destructive element, they can imperil it. Make them conservative by a just division of profits, or by the necessary legislation to start them in co-operative partnerships.

Let the State in its own factories raise wages to the just point, where, if the capitalist can comfortably live, a poorer republican citizen can live in comfort and hope also. Compel these men to be honest in their labor as an equivalent for justice and honesty in wages. These soldiers will obey the law. Use their equality against the discontent of the vicious and improvident when the evil day shall come. The national glory is a common bond of sympathy. The flag is not more loved and honored in the high street where trumpets sound, than in dark lanes where some anxious daughter of the people-too poor to leave her needle even for an hour-gives a glance of tearful triumph at her treasures to-day, the flaxen lock of her patriot son, and the coat with its once crimson stain, her beloved Red, White, and Blue.

A strong government founded on consent is possible, if we are practically, unselfishly grateful for the Declaration of Independence. The life of the immortal words, uttered on the field of Gettysburg with the inspiration of Isaiah, is their glow of consecration. Only in this spirit of consecration, by yielding some portion of our individual liberty and prosperity to the necessity of making the armed and voting mass conservative, can we approach the Ideal Republic, the ultimate government of the world, the strongest government out of Heaven, that highest social organism of virtue, wisdom, and power, the type and image of God himself,-law-enacting, law-obeying, consentient mankind.