with any other, for a uniform, zealous, ardent, and uncalculating devotion to the Union, that state is South Carolina. Sir, from the very commencement of the Revolution, up to this hour, there is no sacrifice, however great, she has not cheerfully made; no service, she has ever hesitated to perform. She has adhered to you in your prosperity; but, in your adversity, she has clung to you, with more than filial affection. 2. What, sir, was the conduct of the south during the Revolution? Sir, I honor New England for her conduct in that glorious struggle. But, great as is the praise which belongs to her, I think at least equal honor is due to the south. They espoused the quarrel of their brethren with a generous zeal, which did not suffer them to stop to calculate their interest in the dispute. Favorites of the mother country, possessed of neither ships nor seamen to create commercial rivalship, they might have found in their situation a guarantee that their trade would be forever fostered and protected by Great Britain. But, trampling on all considerations, either of interest, or safety, they rushed into the conflict, and, fighting for principle, periled all in the sacred cause of freedom. 3. Never were there exhibited, in the history of the world, higher examples of noble daring, dreadful suffering, and heroic endurance, than by the whigs of Carolina, during the Revolution. The whole state, from the mountains to the sea, was overrun by an overwhelming force of the enemy. The fruits of industry perished on the spot where they were produced, or were consumed by the foe. drank up the most precious blood of her citizens! Black, and smoking ruins marked the places which had been the habitations of her children! Driven from their homes, into the gloomy and almost impenetrable swamps,-even there, the spirit of liberty survived; and South Carolina, sustained by the "The plains of Carolina" example of her Sumpters,a and Marions, proved, by her conduct, that though her soil might be overrun, the spirit of her people was invincible. LESSON VII. SOUTH CAROLINA AND MASSACHUSETTS.-WEBSTER. [Extract of a speech, delivered in the United States Senate, in reply to Mr. Hayne, of South Carolina, in 1830.—Rule 3, p. 168.] b 1. The eulogium pronounced on the character of the state of South Carolina, by the honorable gentleman, for her Revolutionary and other merits, meets my hearty concurrence. I shall not acknowledge that the honorable member goes before me, in regard for whatever of distinguished talent, or distinguished character South Carolina has produced. I claim part of the honor; I partake in the pride of her great names. I claim them for countrymen, one and all, the Laurenses, the Rutledges, the Pinckneys, the Sumpters, the Marions,-Americans, all, whose fame is no more to be hemmed in by state lines, than their talents and patriotism were capable of being circumscribed within the same narrow limits. In their day and generation, they served and honored the country, and the whole country; and their renown is of the treasures of the whole country. Him whose honored name the gentleman himself bears, does he suppose me less capable of gratitude for his patriotism, or sympathy for his sufferings, than if his eyes had first opened upon the light in Massachusetts, instead of South Carolina? Sir, does he suppose it is in his power to exhibit a Carolina name so bright, as to produce envy in my bosom? No, sir; increased gratification and delight, rather. Sumpter and Marion were distinguished officers, and rendered valuable services in the southern states during the Revolutionary war. b Laurens, Rutledge, &c., men distinguished in the American Revolution. M 2. Sir, I thank God, that if I am gifted with little of the spirit which is said to be able to raise mortals to the skies, I have yet none, as I trust, of that other spirit, which would drag angels down. When I shall be found, sir, in my place here, in the senate, or elsewhere, to sneer at public merit, because it happened to spring up beyond the little limits of my own state or neighborhood; when I refuse, for any such cause, or for any cause, the homage due to American talent, to elevated patriotism, to sincere devotion to liberty and the country; or, if I see an uncommon endowment of Heaven,—if I see extraordinary capacity and virtue in any son of the south, and if, moved by local prejudice, or gangrened by state jealousy, I get up here to abate the tithe of a hair from his just character and just fame, may my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth! 3. Sir, let me recur to pleasing recollections; let me indulge in refreshing remembrances of the past; let me remind you that, in early times, no states cherished greater harmony, both of principle and feeling, than Massachusetts and South Carolina. Would to God that harmony might again return! Shoulder to shoulder, they went through the Revolution; hand in hand, they stood round the administration of Washington, and felt his own great arm lean on them for support. Unkind feeling, if it exist,―alienation and distrust,— are the growth, unnatural to such soils, of false principles since sown. They are weeds, the seeds of which that same great arm never scattered. behold her, and the world knows There is Boston,a 4. Mr. President, I shall enter on no enconium upon Massachusetts; she needs none. There she is, judge for yourselves. There is her history, it by heart. The past, at least, is secure. and Concord, and Lexington, and Bunker Hill, and there they will remain forever. The bones of her sons, fallen in the Boston, Concord, &c., places of peculiar interest in the history of the Revolution great struggle for independence, now lie mingled with the soil of every state from New England to Georgia,- and there they will lie forever. And, sir, where American liberty raised its first voice, and where its youth was nurtured and sustained, there it still lives in the strength of its manhood, and full of its original spirit. If discord and disunion shall wound it, if party strife and blind ambition shall hawk at and tear it,— if folly and madness, if uneasiness under salutary and necessary restraints, shall succeed to separate it from that Union by which alone its existence is made sure, it will stand in the end, by the side of that cradle in which its infancy was rocked; it will stretch forth its arm, with whatever of vigor it may retain, over the friends who gather round it; and it will fall at last, if fall it must, amidst the proudest monuments of its own glory, on the very spot of its origin! LESSON VIII. MARIUS & SEATED ON THE RUINS OF CARTHAGE. b-CHILD. [The pupil may scan the following piece, and tell to what kind of verse it belongs, and to which form. See Construction of Verse, p. 210 and 211.] 1. Pillars are fallen at thy feet, Fanes quiver in the air, A prostrate city is thy seat, And thou alone art there. 2. No change comes o'er thy noble brow, ▲ Caius Marius was a distinguished Roman general. He was made consul seven times. In consequence of dissentions between him and Sylla, Marius had to flee from Rome. After wandering from place to place, he landed in Africa, and in his melancholy state of mind, seated himself on the ruins of Carthage. b Carthage, an ancient city in Africa, near the present site of Tunis. It was destroyed by the Romans, 147, B. C. Thine eyebeam burns as proudly now, 8. It cannot bend thy lofty soul, Though friends and fame depart; 4. And genius hath electric power, Bright suns may scorch, and dark clouds lower,— 5. The dreams we loved in early life, May melt like mist away; High thoughts may seem, 'mid passions' strife, 6. And proud hopes in the human heart, Like moldering monuments of art, 7. Yet there is something will not die, Some towering thoughts still rear on high, LESSON IX. THE BIBLE.-GRIMKE. [Didactic. The pupil may point out the cases of contrast in this piece, and tell how they should be read. See Rule 5, p. 92.] 1. The Bible is the only book which God has ever sent, and the only one he ever will send into the world. All other |