The first form of the famous concluding passage was as follows:
"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.
[56] Including public, society, and school libraries.