PAGE. Maj. Brantz Mayer, U. S. A., Maryland, 110 THE MISSISSIPPI.......... THE WOMEN OF SEVENTY-SIX.....Mrs. E. F. Ellet, New York, 140 Rev. A. Cleveland Coxe, D.D., New York, 148 Ex-Gov. E. Washburn, LL.D. Law Prof. Harv. Un. Mass. 206 A VOICE..................Mrs. Sophia May Eckley, Massachusetts, 212 BALTIMORE LONG AGO....... Hon. John P. Kennedy, Maryland, 214 Lieut. E. Thornton Fisher, 139th Reg. Vols., New York, 243 Charles Eliot Norton, Ed. N. Am. Rev., Massachusetts, 246 WOMEN OF THE TIMES.... Mrs. C. B. W. Flanders, New York, 253 PAGK An unpublished poem of the late Chancellor Kilty, Maryland, 316 FIELD LILIES...............Mrs. C. A. Hopkinson, Massachusetts, 319 Mrs. E. F. Ellet, New York, 326 AIME DE MON CŒUR............ Miss C. G. de Valin, Maryland, 329 INTRODUCTION. THOUGH DEAD, THEY YET SPEAK. THERE was a time in the History of our Country when the question of UNION or Disunion was fully discussed by the master minds of that period. It would seem as if the Almighty Ruler of Nations permitted discontent to rise up against the Government, in order to elicit the incontrovertible arguments which must ever stand out, against all attempts to sever the Union of the States. As time goes on, we are in danger of forgetting first principles. Let us then briefly retrace the events which attended the formation of our National Government, as introductory to some quotations from the great Advocates of the Constitution, WASHINGTON, HAMILTON, JAY and MADISON. In the second year after the Independence of America, delegates from the thirteen original States assembled at Philadelphia, agreed upon the original Articles of Confederation, known as the "Old Constitution." After ten years had elapsed, there was a general call for a stronger National Government; and on the 17th of September, B |