of Europe first declared, and practically enforced, within their own European dominions, the vital truth of freedom, that man cannot hold property in his brother-man. Algiers and Tunis, like Saul of Tarsus, have been turned from the path of persecution, and now receive the same faith. Algiers and Tunis now help to plead the cause of Freedom. Such a cause is in sacred fellowship with all those principles which promote the Progress of Man. And who can tell that this despised portion of the globe is not destined to yet another restoration? It was here in Northern Africa that civilization was first nursed, that commerce early spread her white wings, that Christianity was taught by the honeyed lips of Augustine. All these are again returning to their ancient home. Civilization, commerce, and Christianity once more shed their benignant influences upon the land to which they have long been strangers. A new health and vigor now animate its exertions. Like its own giant Antæus, whose tomb is placed by tradition among the hill-sides of Algiers, it has been often felled to the earth, but it now rises with renewed strength, to gain yet higher victories. FAME AND GLORY. AN ORATION BEFORE THE LITERARY SOCIETIES OF AMHERST COLLEGE, AT THEIR ANNIVERSARY, AUGUST 11, 1847. But if there be in Glory aught of good, It may by means far different be obtained, By patience, temperance. PARADISE REGAINED. FAME AND GLORY. THE literary festival, which we are assembled to commemorate, is called Commencement. To an interesting portion of my hearers it is the commencement of a new stage of life. The ingenuous student, who has passed his term of years - a classical Olympiad — amidst the restraints of the academy, in the daily pursuits of the lecture-room, observant of forms, obsequious to the college curfew, now renounces these restraints, heeds no longer the summoning bell, divests himself of the youthful gown, and here, under the auspices of Alma Mater, assumes the robe of manhood. At such a change, the mind and heart are open to receive impressions which may send their influence through remaining life. A seasonable word to-day may, peradventure, like an acorn dropped into a propitious soil, send upwards its invigorating growth, till its stately trunk, its multitudinous branches, and sheltering foliage shall become an ornament and a protection of unspeakable beauty. Feeling more than I can express the responsibility of the position in which, by your partial kindness, I am now placed, I trust that what I shall say may be found not unworthy of careful meditation, and that it may ripen in this generous soil with no unwelcome growth. I am to address the Literary Societies of Amherst College, and my subject will naturally bear some relation to the occasion and to the assembly. But, though addressing literary societies, I feel that I should inadequately perform this office at this time, if I spoke on any topic of mere literature without moralizing the theme; nor could I satisfy myself, — I trust I should not satisfy you, if I strove to excite merely a love of knowledge, of study, of books, or even of those classics which, like the ancient Roman roads,— the Appian and Flaminian ways, once trod by returning proconsuls and tributary kings, - still continue the thoroughfares of nations. I may well leave these things to the lessons of your able company of instructors, and to the influences of this place; nor, indeed, can I expect to touch upon any topic which has not already, under the various mingled teachings of the pulpit and the chair, been impressed upon your minds with more force than I can command. Still, I may not vainly indulge the hope, by singling one special theme, to present it with distinctness and unity, so that it may be connected in your minds, in some humble measure, with the grave and pleasant memories of this occasion. Standing on the threshold of life, anxious for its honors, more anxious, I trust, for its duties,—it is to you an important and interesting subject of inquiry, what should be your aims, and what your motives of |