What, then, shall we do in the advancement of our own greatness, or in the defense of our own rights and liberties? Shall we, like stupid toads, lend a suppliant ear to the siren songs of distant royalty, and extinguish ourselves in an apish effort to duplicate some other people? Or shall we not rise, in the dignity of our Revolutionary independence, and conform our society to the requisitions of nature at home. This, if you be wise, you will do—you will, with some modifications of past systems, re-establish negro slavery; and, instead of giving your country away—retreating before new tides, and beckoning for new invasions in the name of immigrations—you will re-open the slave-trade, and bring your laborers from the coast of Africa. Then you will have a laboring power of your own—a power which you can transmit, with your lands, to your children—and so protect the generations which are to follow you, against that dependence with which the youth of the present age are sorely oppressed. Then you will have your social laws based on nature’s laws, and each man, with his species, in his appropriate condition, enjoying the highest measure of civil liberty that nature and good government can, by possibility, afford. Then will America be free, and her sons, in reality, independent. Then will they roll back the tide of foreign insolence, presumption and dictation. Then will they have a national character; and, standing to their arms as soldiers, drilled to the military art, protect their rights, their laws, and their liberties against whomsoever may dare to intrude. Very respectfully, yours, DAVID QUINN. CHICAGO, ILL., June 13th, 1866. NOTICE. _To the People of the United States_: It was the intention of the undersigned, when writing the within article, to present it to Congress immediately, but on reflection he has concluded, that, inasmuch as the prayer of the petition reaches beyond Congress, to the Constitution-making power of the nation, it may be best to withhold the presentation until the paper can be read by the people. He will therefore delay bringing the subject, formally, before Congress until next winter, and in the meantime publish the article and endeavor to get it before the nation. For this reason the paper will be placed in the hands of some publisher, as soon as one can be procured, and the pamphlets sold at such prices as will merely cover expenses. But for the present, any orders addressed to us at Chicago, will be attended to and the books forwarded at ten cents a piece. Publishers and readers who wish to interest themselves in the sale or circulation, are requested to write to us, and newspaper publishers are requested to notice the article, or to publish it if they desire, and for doing either, will, if they send us their paper, marked, be forwarded two copies of the pamphlet. DAVID QUINN. _Chicago, Ill._, June 13, 1866. Transcriber’s Notes