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spirit had been displayed to excite a confidence in their stability. The assistance that England gave to the United Netherlands when they were struggling against Spain, and the assistance that France gave to this country during the war of our revolution, were justifiable acts, founded in wisdom and sound policy. And it is not to be doubted that the government of the United States had a perfect right, in the year 1822, to consider, as it then did, the Spanish Provinces in South America as legitimate powers which had atained sufficient solidity and strength to be entitled to the rights and privileges belonging to independent States.")

Yet as Washington wept while he condemned Maj. André, who does not also both weep over and condemn the deluded followers of Lopez, the notorious leader of the Cuban expedition in 1851 ?

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What now shall be said of the appeal of the illustrious Kossuth in behalf of the claims of the independence of Hungary? We answer: we will hail to the independence of Hungary with electric

2) See Kent's Commentaries on American Law. 21. Lecture, page 24 and fol.

joy, the instant she displays sufficient means and spirit to establish and maintain her own independence. But as Hungary has not already proved this point, every act to war in her behalf which our nation or our citizen, may commit, would not only be unlawful in us, but very likely, most mournful for her.

Were 'material aid' and republican counsel, 'means and spirit' enough, given to Hungary by our people, to establish her independence, what proof have we that she could even then maintain her independence? On the other side have we not strong circumstantial evidence tending to the conviction that the 'means and spirit' thus poured upon her by our people, would produce the effect of the vials of wrath poured out by the Angels in the Revelation where the sea 'became as the blood of a dead man: and every living soul died in the sea,' 'and the rivers and fountains of waters became blood,' 'men were scorched with fire,' 'blood was given them to drink,' and they knawed their tongues for pain.' 'That the way of the kings of the East might be prepared' for a reign of terror to come unparalleled even by the reign of terror in France. Let our people read the bloody history of this most enlightened people of Europe, and let their arms be palsied, sooner than raised to curse the banks of the Danube with the mistaken mercies of their wrath. What then shall we do for Hungary? For our sympathies are aroused in her behalf. Our intense passion for her happiness demands satisfaction. Mere expression is not enough. Something must be done. Well. Right. Bring her here to our own home. On the banks of the Mississippi her children may enjoy the fruits of liberty, which do not flourish on the uncongenial soil of the Danube. We want them here to increase the glory of our country. We want more farmers, we want more mechanics, we want more manufacturers, we want our wild lands settled, our railroads built, our mines opened, and our manufactories maintained. Hungary can do more good both for herself and for us, by coming here, than we can do for her, by going there.

Do we not want tillers of our ground, smelters of our mines, workmen of our factories to free ourselves from our own present allegiance to Russia? How much longer shall these glorious United States, so boastful of independence, remainstill dependent on Russia? materially dependent even on Russia? Aye bound to her by bands of hemp and of iron? Our Navy and our Firesides are our witnesses! With the old Roman we would ask: Who is

here so base, that would be a bondman? If any, speak; for him have I offended. Who is here so rude, that would not be American? If any, speak; for him have I offended. Who is here so vile, that will not love his country? If any, speak; for him have I offended.' 3)

We want all the resources of our country to progress rapidly in their development, and most especially those in the heart of the earth, and in the heart of the people, that our country may soon be materially and morally, as well as politically independent.

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The policy of our country is not to stir up war and tyranny abroad, but to cultivate peace and independence at home. This is not a vain and narrow policy, that is. That is not a sound and liberal policy, this is. The annihilation of wrongs is negative evil, the establishment of rights is positive good. Let us turn our minds from wrongs to rights, from the evil to the good. Let us build up here the highest and most perfect form of independence in the world. Let our national character increase towards a mature, material, mental and moral indepen lence as time passes along towards eternity, till the sons of men become equal, free and fraternal with the sons of God, -our laws transcripts of the divine-Earth in harmony with Heaven.

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In the language of one') of our independent Statesmen we conclude: 'Let us revile nobody; let us repel nobody * * Let us discuss with moderation and coolness the great topics of public policy, and endeavor to bring all men of American heart and feeling into what I sincerely believe to be the true AMERICAN CAUSE. How shall I O, how shall I express to you my sense of the obligation which rests upon this generation to preserve from destruction our free and happy republican institutions? Who shall spread fatal dissensions among us? Are we not, together under one common Government, to obtain which the blood of your fathers and of mine was poured out together in the same hard-fought fields? Nay, does imagination itself, in its highest flight, suggest any thing in the form of political institutions for which you would exchange these dearly-bought constitutions of our own? I cannot find a deeper or more fervent sentiment in my heart than that these precious institutions and liberties which we enjoy may be transmitted unimpaired to the latest posterity; that they may terminate only with the termination of all things earthly, when the world itself shall terminate

"When, wrapped in flames, the realms of ether glow,
And Heaven's last thunders shake the world below."""

3) Shakspeare.

4) Daniel Webster.

RAILROAD LITERATURE.

SELECTED.

The London Times states the interesting fact that at many of the book stalls on the English rail-ways, for which large rents are now paid, -none but healthful, valuable publications can be procured. The trash of other days, and so common still on the thoroughfares of this country, is superseded by standard works. "At the North-western terminus," says this writer, "we searched in vain for trash. We asked for something 'highly colored.' The bookseller politely presented us with the 'Hand-book of Painting.' We shook our head, and demanded a volume more intimately concerned with life and the world. We were offered 'Kosmos.' 'Something less universal,' said we. We were answered by 'Prescott's Mexico,' 'Modern Travel,' &c. We could not get rubbish, whatever price we might offer to pay for it. There were no 'Eugene Sues for love or money no cheap translations of any kind-no bribes to ignorance or unholy temptations to folly. Can you sell such books as these?' we asked. Constantly; we can sell nothing else.' 'What, have you nothing for the million?' 'Certainly; here is 'Logic for the Million,' priee 6s.; will you buy it?" "Thank you; but surely books of a more chatty character.' Chatty? oh, yes. Coleridge's Table Talk' is a standard dish here, and never wants purchasers." "

A revolution like this is needed; we hope it is advancing here. Men of the baser sort still demand the blood-and-murder literature; but the great body of travelers are sickened with the disgusting issues of the corrupt press. The magazines, though not all they should be, are yet vastly better than the miserable trash which recently flooded the land; and they are rapidly engrossing the market for light reading: while valuable religious works of the Tract Society and other publishers are widely distributed through these channels. We trust the time is not far distant when a corrected public sentiment will scout the vender of moral poison from every steamboat and rail-car-when here, as in the place alluded to above, "no bribes to ignorance or unholy temptations to folly" can be purchased "for love or money."

CONVERSATION. Dean Swift said that nature has given every man a capacity of being agreeable, though not of shining in company; and "there are a hundred men sufficiently qualified for both, who, by a very few faults that they may correct in half an hour, are not so much as tolerable."-Sir W. Temple says, that the first ingredient in conversation is truth; the next, good sense; the third, good-humor; and the fourth, wit.

ATALA.

From the French of M. Viscount de Chateaubriand.

IN CONTINUATION.

THE DRAMA.

"Though my dream of happiness was lively, it was also of a short duration, and its termination awaited me at the cave of the hermit. I was surprised, on arriving there at midday, that Atala could not be seen hastening to meet us. A sudden, mysterious horror seized me. Approaching the cave I dared not call the daughter of Lopez: my imagination was equally terrified, either by the noise, or by the silence which succeeded my shrieks. Alarmed still more by the darkness which reigned at the entrance of the rock, I said to the missionary: 'O thou who art accompanied and protected by Heaven, penetrate this gloom.'

'How weak is one who is a slave to his passions! How strong is he who reposes in God! There was more courage in the heart of that monk withered away by six and sixty years, than in all the ardor of my youth. The man of peace entered the cave, and I remained outside full of terror. Soon a faint murmur like mournful lamentations issued from the depth of the rock, and struck my ear. Crying aloud, and regaining my energies, I plunged into the darkness of the cavern * * * Spirits of my Fathers, ye alone know the sight which struck my eyes!

"The hermit had lighted a pine torch; he held it in a trembling hand over the couch of Atala. That beautiful and young woman, half reclining on her elbow, her hair hanging in wild disorder, looked pale as death. The drops of a painful sweat glittered on her forehead; her glances half languishing still sought to express her love to me, and her mouth tried to smile. Struck as by a flash of lightning, with eyes set, arms stretched, lips half-open, I stood immovible. Deep silence reigned a moment around the three personages of that mournful scene. The hermit broke it first: 'This, said he, will be a fever occasioned only by fatigue; and, if we resign ourselves to the will of God, he will have mercy on us.'

"At these words, the suspended blood began again to flow in my heart, and, with the rapidity of the Savage, I suddenly passed from the excess of fear to the excess of confidence. But Atala did not leave me there long. Beckoning sadly with her head, she drew us to her couch. 'My Father, said she with a still small voice, addressing the

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