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The Continental Monthly, Vol. 4, No. 2,
by Various
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Title: The Continental Monthly, Vol. 4, No. 2, August, 1863 Devoted to Literature and National Policy
Author: Various
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THE
CONTINENTAL MONTHLY:
DEVOTED TO
LITERATURE AND NATIONAL POLICY.
VOL. IV.--AUGUST, 1863.--No. II.
OUR FUTURE.
In these exciting times, when our country is enduring the throes of political convulsion, and every time-honored institution, every well-regulated law of society seems tottering from the broad foundation of the past, how few are there who ask themselves the question, What is to be our future? For the past two years we have lived in a state of extraordinary and unnatural excitement, beside which the jog-trot existence of the former days, with all its periodical excitements, its hebdomadal heavings of the waves of society, pale
The Continental Monthly, Vol. 4, No. 2, August, 1863
by Various Authors