ocr: STATÉS AND TERRITORIES.--MASSACHUSETTS. 73 States succeeds admirably, even beyond the expectation of many wise and good men. And while the ever-varying phases of government, in those provinces of this western continent which shook off the yoke of Spain, exhibit an instability of condition* and character that still portends increase of evils, the march of our Union has been onward; and its citizens have exhibited the cheering spectacle of a nation enjoying the widest desirable range of human liberty regulated and rendered stable by law. Itis trae, that. to a foreigner, it would appear impractic ...