Chapter 17 HOME AGAIN.

"Where'er we roam,

Our first, best country ever is at home."

"What constitutes a state?

Men who their duties know;

But know their rights, and knowing, dare maintain.

"And sovereign law, that states collected will

O'er thrones and globes elate,

Sits empress; crowning good, repressing ill.

"This hand to tyrants ever sworn a fo