The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battle-field, and patriot grave, to every living heart and hearth-stone, all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union, when again touched, as...

It does not require much historical knowledge (though it may require a certain historical perspective) to see that many, if not all, of the “aristocratic” elements of the Constitution (as in other countries) have gradually...