"When my eyes shall be turned for the last time on the meridian sun, I hope I may see him shining bright upon my united, free, and happy country. I hope I shall not live to see his beams falling upon the dispersed fragments of the structure of this once glorious Union. I hope I may not see the flag of my country with its stars separated or obliterated; torn by commotions, smoking with the blood of civil war. I hope I may not see the standard raised of separate State rights, star against star, and stripe against stripe; but that the flag of the Union may keep its stars and its stripes corded and bound together in indissoluble ties. I hope I shall not see written as its motto, '_First_ liberty, and _then_ Union.' I hope I shall see no such delusive and deluded motto on the flag of that country. I hope to see, spread all over it, blazoned in letters of light and proudly floating over land and sea, that other sentiment, dear to my heart, 'Union _and_ Liberty, now and forever, one and inseparable.'" [40] At the beginning of the nineteenth century Marcus Tullius Cicero was often called Tully. [41] Bishop George Berkeley's (1684-1753) "On the Prospect of Planting Arts and Learning in America." [42] A remark by Fisher Ames (1758-1808), of Massachusetts,--perhaps the extremest Federalist of his time. [43] The famous phrase "honest friendship with all nations, entangling alliances with none" was not Washington's, but Jefferson's. [44] In the debate on Henry Clay's Compromise resolutions. [45] Pope's translation of Homer's Iliad, book xviii., lines 701-4. Webster changes the first word, "Thus," to "Now." [46] Shakespeare, King Henry the Fifth, Prologue, lines 1-4. [47] Mr. Webster's table contained, of course, the figures for 1793 and 1851 only. For the sake of illustration, those for 1900 are now added. [48] Including Hawaii, but not the other foreign possessions. [49] Including Alaska, but no other possession not contiguous to the United States. [50] Male population available for defence. [51] Total lighted aids in the year 1893. [52] The area given for 1851 was incorrect. [53] Exclusive of double tracks and sidings. [54] Total liabilities. [55] Excluding private lines. [56] Including public, society, and school libraries. [57] Total from all parts of the world. [58] The Washington monument here mentioned had been begun in 1848. Work was continued, by State and other donations, until 1855, when it was abandoned until 1877. But as the unfinished condition of the shaft was felt to be a sort of national disgrace, its construction was resumed in the last-named year, under a Congressional appropriation, and steadily pushed forward until the completion of the noble obelisk in 1884, at a total cost of $1,300,000. It is built of white Maryland marble, and is 555 feet high--the loftiest masonry construction in the world, though much surpassed in height by the steel Eiffel Tower in Paris.