Immigration would not have flowed to our shores, and this country would never have presented to the world so unparalleled an example of national growth.
Townsend, Old World and New, p.

341, says:-- "And what attached these people to us?
In part, undoubtedly, our zone, and the natural endowments of this portion of the globe.

In part, and of late years, our vindicated national character, and the safety of our Institutions.

_But the magnet in America is, that we are a republic_.

A republican people! Cursed with artificial government, however glittering, the people of Europe, like the sick, pine for nature with protection, for open vistas and blue sky, for independence without ceremony, for adventure in their own interest,--and here they find it!" One of these horns may therefore represent the civil republican power of this government, and the other, the Protestant ecclesiastical.