feast, we hope to join you at your richer, your more bountiful board, where the mind is refreshed and strengthened, by the Feast of Reason, and the Flow of Soul."" Talbot looked with more love, with greater pride, on that fair girl, as she stood, in the simplicity of her domestic attire, lovely, gentle, delicate, truthful, than if she had been a crowned queen; and passing an arm gently round her waist, he kissed her, so tenderly, so delicately, that the fair cheek scarcely blushed to receive his salutation. แ CHAPTER X. "Be to the poor like onie whunstane, No matter, stick to SOUND BELIEVING. BURNS. Throwinge offe stones as neighboures' windowes passe, Noe man shoulde, when his owne bee made offe glasse.' AFTER dinner, their necessary domestic duties being done, the ladies, Mrs. and Miss Gray, joined their friends in the parlor; and, by their intelligent and pleased attention, by their easy and sensible remarks, they showed themselves accustomed to the society of rational beings, on equal terms; and also proved themselves conscious of the possession of independent character, and of the action of free capabilities. "But shall we resume our subject?" asked Mr. Harrison, with a glance at Talbot, who had been assisting Ednah in disentangling her netting thread. was going to observe some time ago, that it is a miserable hypocrisy it is a contemptible servility, which emboldens us to strut, like the daw, in fable, sporting our borrowed plumage -false notions of gentility-imagining ourselves very fine, while, in fact, we are a spectacle and admired, only as we make the observer merry." "We might as well attempt to decorate the untamed elephant with gauze ; " said Mr. Harrison, "or, to bring the simile nearer home, to bind point lace round the shaggy neck of our own wild bison, calling the frippery a decoration, as to fling the miserable gossamer, the very shreds of European distinctions, which are fast wearing out, even there, over the free limbs, and untrameled soul, of a native Yankee. If any is willing to wear them, or can see beauty, or propriety in them, when worn by others, depend upon it, he is deteriorating — he is retrograding from the noble, and the true. The mass of the people, it is to be hoped, will not long submit to, nor recognise such innovations; or, rather, it is to be hoped that they who will inevitably rise above the mass, may become imbued with a higher spirit of patriotism with a purer philanthropy - using their power to elevate, rather than to depress, their -- less gifted, and less fortunate brethren. All who have the power, and yet do not this, are, virtually, traitors to our constitution, and apostates from our national character. Just at this moment the front door bell rang; and an addition was made to the party, in the person of Mr. Crosby, of whom each one of us may form his own opinion. He was seated; and after some few casual remarks, Mr. Filbrook went on. 66 Labor, with us, should certainly be honorable, for, later or earlier, in some form or other, all our people labor; or, at least, the exceptions to this rule are neither many, nor honorable. The necessity of labor being then the lot of all, we create our distinctions in regard to its kind. There must be, it is true, at least, for a long time, distinctions, and gradations in society. Like will naturally -nay, inevitably, be associated with like; but as the moral character of the higher classes, and the intellectual character of the lower-nominally so called — become elevated, and ameliorated, there will be a gradual process of assimilation between these extremes and the intermediate class; until every false distinction shall pass away, and be no more known, for ever, "I beg your pardon, gentlemen," said Mr, Crosby, "but it seems to me you are getting radical. This savors of ultraism. We should, to be sure, respect the rights of the people; but is there not great danger in promulgating opinions, tending to make the lower classes discontented with their lot. Is it not a necessary condition of things, that there should be ranks and grades in society? Must I invite the man who saws wood at my door, whether white or black, to dine at my table?" "Certainly not, unless you choose to do so," said Mr. Harrison; "for he, not having been accustomed to your mode of living, you would only make him uncomfortable by doing so. But I consider your table as a no more honorable place than your servants' table, unless your true moral dignity is greater than theirs. Understand me, sir. It is not for these outward circumstances that we contend; but for THE RIGHTS AND LIBERTIES OF THE SOUL. These are the property of every man; and of these, no man may waste his own, or abuse his brother's with impunity." "I have often thought that we have committed a great mistake," said Ednah, "in placing our standard of the man, in something without, or external to the man, in dress in his profession in the dignity of his fathers |