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6.One from Massachusetts shall be comrade to a Missourian,
One from Maine or Vermont, and a Carolinian and
an Oregonese, shall be friends triune, more precious
to each other than all the riches of the
earth.

7.To Michigan shall be wafted perfume from Florida,
To the Mannahatta from Cuba or Mexico,
Not the perfume of flowers, but sweeter, and wafted
beyond death.

8.No danger shall balk Columbia's lovers,
If need be, a thousand shall sternly immolate themselves
for one,
The Kanuck shall be willing to lay down his life for
the Kansian, and the Kansian for the Kanuck,
on due need.

9.It shall be customary in all directions, in the houses
and streets, to see manly affection,
The departing brother or friend shall salute the remaining
brother or friend with a kiss.

10.There shall be innovations,
There shall be countless linked hands—namely, the
Northeasterner's, and the Northwesterner's, and
the Southwesterner's, and those of the interior,
and all their brood,
These shall be masters of the world under a new
power,
They shall laugh to scorn the attacks of all the remainder
of the world.