...hat from the date of the peace in ‘83, when we were a mere league of petty sovereignties, we sank rapidly, in the words of Mr. Motley, whose conclusive essay in the London Times has enlightened Europe , into a condition of utter impotence, imbecility, and anarchy, which continued until we were rescued from it by The Constitution of the United States, which made us, in every sense, one nation &mda...