the grave, can all the illusions of ambition realized, can all the wealth of an universal commerce, can all the achievements of successful heroism, or all the establishments of this world's wisdom, secure to empire the permanency of its possessions? Alas! Troy thought so once; yet the land of Priam lives only in song! Thebes thought so once, yet her hundred gates have crumbled, and her very tombs | are but as the dust they were vainly intended to commemorate. So thought Palmyra -where is she? So thought the countries of Demosthenes and the Spartan, yet Leonidas | is trampled | by the timid slave, and Athens insulted by the servile, mindless,* and enervatet Ottoman. In his hurried march Time has but looked at their imagined immortality‡—and all their vanities, from the palace to the tomb, have, with their ruins, erased the very impression of his footsteps! The days of their glory | are as if they had never been; and the island, that was then a speck, rude and neglected | in the barren ocean, now rivals, the ubiquity§ of their commerce, the glory of their arms, the fame of their philosophy, the eloquence of their senate, and the inIspiration of their bards!

Who shall say, then, contemplating the past, that ENGLAND, proud and potent | as she appears, may not one day be what Athens is, and the young AMERICA | yet soar to be what Athens

My brave associates-partners of my toil, my feelings, and my fame !—can Rolla's words add vigor | to the virtuous energies | which inspire your hearts-No!-You have judged as I have, the foulness of the crafty plea | by which these bold invaders would delude you. Your generous spirit has compared, as mine has, the motives which, in a war like this, can animate their minds and ours.

Mindless, heedless, ignorant. † Enervate, powerless.

Immortality, endless existence. § Ubiquity, existence everywhere.

THY, by a strange frenzy driven, fight for power, for plunder, and extended rule ;-wE, for our country, our altars,* and our homes. THEY follow an adventurer | whom they fear, and obeya power which they hate :-we serve a monarch whom we bve--a God whom we adore. Where'er they move in ange, desolation tracks their progress! Where'er they pause in anity, affliction mourns their friendship.

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They boast they come but to improve our state, enlarge our thoughts, and free us from the yoke of error !—yes :—they will giveenlightened freedom to our minds, who are themselves | the slaves of passion, avarice, and pride. They offer us their protection-Yes, such protection as vultures give to lambscoveing and devouring them! They call on us | to barter all the good we have inherited and proved, for the desperate chance of something better | which they promise. Be our plan answer this:-The throne we honor | is the people's choce the laws we reverence | are our brave fathers' legacy† -tle faith we follow | teaches us to live in bonds of charity | win all mankind, and die with hope of bliss | beyond the grae. Tell your invaders this, and tell them, too, we seek no chage; and, least of all, such change as they would bring us.

LLOW me to add one flower to the chaplet, which, though it prang in America, is no exotic.§ Virtue planted it, and it is nauralized everywhere. I see you anticipate me—I see you cacur with me, that it matters very little what spot may be th birth-place of such a man as Washington. No people can clim, no country can appropriate him. The boon|| of Providace to the human race, his fame is eternity, and his resi

Altar, a place for sacrifice or worship.
Legacy, what is left by will.

Exotic, a foreign plant.
Boon, a gift.

Chaplet, a wreath of flowers.

dence creation. Though it was the defeat of our arms, and the disgrace of our policy, I almost bless the convulson in which he had his origin. If the heavens thundered, and the earth rocked, yet, when the storm had passed, how pur was the climate that it cleared! how bright, in the brow of the firmament, was the planet which it revealed to us!

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In the production of Washington, it does really appear as if Nature was endeavoring to improve upon herself, and that all the virtues of the ancient world | were but so many studies preparatory to the patriot of the new. Individual instances, no doubt there were, splendid exemplifications* of some singular qualification: Cæsar was merciful, Scipio was continent,Hannibal was patient; but it was reserved for Washington | to blend them all in one, and, like the lovely masterpiece ɗ the Grecian artist, to exhibit, in one glow of associated beauty, the pride of every model, and the perfection of every master.

As a general, he marshalled the peasantt into a vetean,‡ and supplied by discipline | the absence of experience; as a statesman, he enlarged the policy of the cabinet§ | into the nost comprehensive system of general advantage; and suchwas the wisdom of his views, and the philosophy of his counsels, that, to the soldier and the statesman, he almost added the character of the sage! A conqueror, he was untainted with the crime of blood; a revolutionist, he was free from any stain of treason; for aggression commenced the contest,and his country called him to the command.

Liberty unsheathed his sword, necessity stained, victor returned it. If he had paused here, history might have douted what station to assign him: whether at the head of her citizens or her soldiers, her heroes, or her patriots. But thelast glorious act crowns his career, and banishes all hesitation

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Who, like Washington, after having emancipated a heni

sphere, resigned its crown, and preferred the retirement of domestic life to the adoration of a land he might be almost said to have created!

"How shall we rank thee upon Glory's page,

Thou more than soldier, and just less than sage?
All thou hast been reflects less fame on thee,
Far less than all thou hast forborne to be!"

Such, sir, is the testimony of one not to be accused of partiality in his estimate of America. Happy, proud America! The lightnings of heaven | yielded to your philosophy! The temptations of earth | could not seduce your patriotism.

FORTY-SECOND LESSON.

SCOTLAND. Flagg.
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STATESMEN-Scholars-divines-heroes and poets-do you want exemplars* worthy of study and imitation? Where will you find them brighter than in Scotland? Where can you find them purer than in Scotland? Here no Solon, indulging imagination, has pictured the perfectibility of man. No Lycurgus, viewing him through the medium of human frailty alone, has left for his government an iron code‡ graven on eternal adamant.§ No Plato, dreaming in the luxurious gardens of the Academy, has fancied what he should be, and bequeathed a republic of love. But sages, knowing their weakness, have appealed to his understanding, cherished his virtues, and chastised his vices.

Friends of learning! would you do homage | at the shrine of literature? Would you visit her clearest founts?---Go to Scotland. Are you philosophers, seeking to explore the hidden mysteries of mind?-Bend to the genius of Stewart ! Student, merchant, or mechanic, do you seek usefulness?-Consult the pages of Black and of Adam Smith. Grave barrister! would you know the law-the true, the sole expression of the people's will?There stands the mighty Mansfield!

Exemplars, patterns, models.

† Perfectibility, capacity for becoming perfect.

Code, a system of laws.

Adamant, a very hard stone

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Servants of Him, whose name is above every other name, and not to be mentioned-recur to days that are past: to days that can never be blotted from the history of the church. Visit the mountains of Scotland; contemplate the stern Cameronian, the rigid covenanter, the enduring puritan. Follow them to their burrows | beneath the earth; to their dark, bleak caverns in the rocks. See them hunted like beasts of prey. See them emaciated,* worn with disease, clung with famineyet laboring with supernaturalf zeal-in feeding the hungry | with that bread | which gives life for ever more. Go view them, and when you preach faith, hope, charity, fortitude and long-suffering-forget them not; the meek, the bold, the patient, gallant Puritans of Scotland.

Land of the mountain, the torrent and dale!-Do we look for high examples | of noble daring? Where shall we find them brighter than in Scotland? From the " bonnyt highland heather"§ of her lofty summits, to the modest lily of the vale, not a flower but has blushed with patriot blood.

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From the proud foaming crest of Solway, to the calm polished breast of Loch Katrine, not a river or lake but has swelled with the life-tide of freemen! Would you witness greatness ? -Contemplate a Wallace and a Bruce. They fought not for honors, for party, for conquest. 'Twas for their country and their country's good; religion, liberty and law. Would you ask for chivalry?-that high and delicate sense of honor, which deems a stain upon one's country—as individual disgrace; that moral courage | which measures danger, and meets it against known odds; that patriot valor, which would rather repose on a death-bed of laurels | than flourish in wealth and power under the night-shade of despotism?-Citizen soldier, turn to Lochiel; "proud bird of the mountain!" Though pierced with the usurper's|| arrow, his plumage still shines | * Emaciated, reduced in flesh, lean.

† Supernatural, being beyond the laws of nature, miraculous.