[7] which contributed to the greatness of our republic. They are: 1. The extent and richness of its eminent domain. 2. The martial spirit ready on sea and land for the country's sure defence. 3. A people enlightened, industrious, progressive and religious, possessing qualities which fit them for citizenship. 4. The jealous maintenance of all the first principles of human right against all power at home or abroad arrayed to destroy them. 5. Last and not least, the integrity of the Constitutional Union, whose dissolution is to be unthinkable until the martial spirit become extinct, the people lose their virtues, and the principles of liberty are dead; and then may
The stars be old, and the sun grow cold,
And the leaves of the judgment book unfold.
