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lions # Shakespeare, Locke, and Mi
Ton, Vhese sublime inaeiniugs and
profound philosophy tnptivnlc tho lan4
tyoHd illuminate iho ddrkentd intel
leels II the once polished Arrivc mud
proud Atltniun When they appfr.
pfcciate what is noble IN man, and
graceful In ar, and estimable in the
improvements Of other clmes, md re-.
collect that those refined requirements
we're once their own peculiar privt
legc, what power in nature prevents
their future elevation to the summit Of
literary rcnown and political great.
ncssi And If future bards, and states
men, and orators, and painters, and
Sculptors, should arrive atno distant
day to rival the glory of Phidias, and
Perlcles, and Pindar, the work. shall
have received proud coniutation Of
her supposed irremedable degeneracy.
Such men will DO called up by the ne.
cessstles Of their situation. We well
remember in our own history, and at
the period we have met to commemo
rate the constellation of orators and
statesmen who arose to guide the des-
TIMES Of the republic. While tile
states were then mere appendages Of
crown, the names of heroes had
slumbered in seclusion, but when the
time for action came they seemed TO
spring into existence, they raised a
warning voice which rang like a tone
! Of prophecy from the land to the sea
and from the sea to the land. The
people rose at the call, and what they
achieved remains for us to perpetu-
late. The boon for which they fought
WAS independence, for that, and Tor
mat alone, they poured to freedon's
God the red libatlon from their veins.
Other objects may be rendered dear
to us by circumstances, outwe should
suffer none to bear away the affection
land allegiance which we owe to that
first and highest privilege. 1t may
sometimes conduct us'tTough rugged
and stormy scenes, but who would moi
rather live in the whirlwind and TEN
pest of liberty than the cold, dull, dead
calm Of slavcrvi IL there be one whc
prefer his own to his country's glory
who consents to part with liberty ioi
gilded chains, may those shackles cor
rode his limbs and render his life the
sport of scorn and grinning infamy--
49," Till shame shall burn
:. His craven cheek, and conscience turn
;. Each coward tear the slaves lie; fall,
Back on his breastin drops of GALL
! England has only to be true to Eng
: land, said the greatest of her bards
this confederacy has only to be true Il
! themselves. IL unitedln council, an,
I ever prompt TO resist aggression, the.
! are safe.
Man spurns the worm, but pauses era.h
wake
: The slumbcring venom Of the iolde
/ snake.
Q Their separate independence is th
Il talisman which rules their fate; thei
$ sovereignty the Thesperian fruit the
\ have to guard-whilc they maintai
J the integrity of that inviolate, age
Q past shallleave them, and coming Ger
y turtles find them in the possession {
e liberty, prosperity and equal rights.