world arose from the deep of ages, and circuit of its shining.

Ex. 35. — THE NINETEENTH CENTUR

HIS century crowns the people

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man; it proclaims light. In art it of genius, writers, orators, poets, histo philosophers, painters, sculptors, musi grace, power, strength, brilliancy, dep style. It reinvigorates itself at once in ideal, and carries in its hand these two t true and the beautiful. In science it miracle; it makes saltpetre out of cott horse, of the electric fluid a messenge painter; it opens on nature two window on the great, the microscope on the little

It suppresses time, it suppresses spa suffering; it writes a letter from New and it has the answer in ten minutes; man's thigh while the man is smiling and this is not all it will do. Frontiers will will retire, everything which is a wall around commerce, around industry, arou around progress, will crumble, in spite it will rain books and journals everywhe Whatever may be the shames of the

hatever may occur for the moment to suppress our enthusiasm, none of us will disown this magnificent epoch in which we live, the masculine age of humanity. Let us proclaim this aloud, let us proclaim it under all circumstances, this century is the grandest of centuries.

Ex. 36. AN INDIAN'S SPEECH.

WHIT

HITE man, there is eternal war between me and thee! I quit not the land of my fathers but with my life. In those woods where I bent my youthful bow I will still hunt the deer. Over yonder waters I will still glide unrestrained in my bark canoe. By those dashing waterfalls I will still lay up my winter's store of food. On these fertile meadows I will still plant my corn. Stranger, the land is mine! I understand not these paper rights, I gave not my consent when, as thou sayest, these broad regions were purchased, for a few baubles, of my fathers. They could sell what was theirs; they could sell no more.

How could my fathers sell that which the Great Spirit sent me into the world to live upon? They knew not what they did. The stranger came, a timid suppliant, few and feeble, and asked to lie down on the red man's bear-skin, and warm himself at the red man's fire, and have a little piece of land to raise corn for his women and children; and now he is become strong, and mighty, and bold, and spreads out his parchment over the whole, and says, "It is mine." Stranger, there is not room for us both. The Great Spirit has not made us to live together. There is poison in the white man's cup; the white man's dog barks at the red man's heels.

If I should leave the land of my fathers, where shall I

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graves west ? the Shall I fly to

No, stranger;

fly? Shall I go to the south and dwell among the of the Pequots ? Shall I wander to the fierce Mohawk, the man-eater, is my foe. the east? — the great water is before me. here I have lived, and here I will die! and if here thou abidest there is eternal war between me and thee. Thou hast taught me thy arts of destruction. For that alone I thank thee; and now take heed to thy steps; - the

red man is thy foe. When thou goest forth by day, my bullet shall whistle by thee; when thou liest down at night, my knife is at thy throat.

The noonday sun shall not discover thy enemy, and the darkness of midnight shall not protect thy rest. Thou shalt plant in terror, and I will reap in blood; thou shalt sow the earth with corn, and I will strew it with ashes; thou shalt go forth with the sickle, and I will follow after thee with the scalping-knife; thou shalt build, and I will burn, till the white man or the Indian shall cease from the land. Go thy way for this time in safety; but remember, there is eternal war between me and thee!

Ex. 37.

TEMPERANCE.

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Yates.

HE man who is to legislate for a great country, to

help make laws and constitutions involving the destinies of millions of human beings, ought to be a man of reflection, moral principle, integrity, and, above all, a sober man. Go into your legislative halls, State and national, and behold the drunkard staggering to his seat, or sleeping at his post, and ask yourself the question whether he is not more fit to be called a monument to his country's shame than the representative of freemen.

Would it not be most fearful to contemplate that ill

fated epoch in the history of our country, when the demon of Intemperance shall come into our legislative halls without shame, remorse, or rebuke, when he shall sit upon juries, upon the bench, and drunkenness run riot among the people? Who then will protect the Ship of State upon this maddening tide? Who will steer her onward course amid the dashing billows? who spread her starry flag to the free, fresh, wild winds of heaven? And now shall this puissant nation, Columbia, queen of the world and child of the skies, pause in her efforts when there is an enemy in our land more destructive than war, pestilence, and famine combined, which sends annually one hundred thousand men to untimely graves, makes fifty thousand widows, and three hundred thousand worse than widows; filling our prisons, our poorhouses, our lunatic asylums, and swelling to an untold extent the great ocean of human misery, wretchedness, and woe?

Ex. 38.

PAUS

THE BEAUTIES OF NATURE.

AUSE for a while, ye travellers on earth, to contemplate the universe in which you dwell, and the glory of Him who created it. What What a scene of wonders is here presented to your view! If beheld with a religious eye, what a temple for the worship of the Almighty! The earth is spread out before you, reposing amid the desolation of winter, or clad in the verdure of spring,smiling in the beauty of summer, or loaded with autumnal fruit, opening to an endless variety of beings the treasures of their Maker's goodness, and ministering subsistence and comfort to every creature that lives.

The heavens also declare the glory of the Lord. The sun cometh forth from his chambers to scatter the shades

show you the immensity of space filled numbered, that your imaginations may a limit, in the vast creation of God.

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HERE is a rule for our guidance adopt at the very offstart of our life; it is coeval with human existen in every heart. It is Integrity. It is never depreciates with fluctuations, i count, but is a sure reliance in every trial. It points to honorable success in with unerring certainty, and is both sw him who would wage, with the true h the great battle of life.

What though the tempests howl, the lightnings flash, the thunders roar, and cast up its mire and dirt? he who hold tegrity will outride the danger, and fury of the elements. His bow of

itself up again in the heavens, more be as a living witness that truth can never of vice and the votaries of indolence flourish for a season, but they are perish; and when they have closed the ence, the devotees of truth will rise