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in the strife for your country. Behold, how altered! The same heavens are indeed over your heads; the same ocean rolls at your feet;-but all else how changed!

4. You hear now no roar of hostile cannon,-you see no mixed volumes of smoke and flame rising from burning Charlestown. The ground strowed with the dead and the dying; the impetuous charge; the steady and succesful repulse; the loud call to repeated assault; the summoning of all that is manly to repeated resistance; a thousand bosoms freely and fearlessly bared in an instant to whatever of terror there may be in war and death; all these you have witnessed, but you witness them no more.

5. All is peace. The heights of yonder metropolis, its towers and roofs which you then saw filled with wives, and children, and countrymen, in distress and terror, and looking with unutterable emotions for the issue of the combat, have presented you to-day with the sight of its whole happy population, come out to welcome and greet you with a universal jubilee. Yonder proud ships, by a felicity of position appropriately lying at the foot of this mount, and seeming fondly to cling around it, are not means of annoyance to you, but your country's own means of distinction and defense.

6. All is peace; and God has granted you this sight of your country's happiness, ere you slumber in the grave forever. He has allowed you to behold and to partake the reward of your patriotic toils; and he has allowed us, your sons and countrymen, to meet you here, and, in the name of the present generation, in the name of your country, in the name of liberty, to thank you.

7. But the scene amidst which we stand, does not permit us to confine our thoughts or our sympathies to those fearless spirits who hazarded or lost their lives on this conse rated spot. We have the happiness to rejoice here in the presence of a most worthy representation of the survivors of the whole revolutionary army.

8. Veterans! You are the remnant of many a well-fought field. You bring with you marks of honor from Trenton and Monmouth, from Yorktown, Camden, Bennington, and Saratoga. VETERANS OF HALF A CENTURY! when in your youthful days you put every thing at hazard in your country's cause, good as that cause was, and sanguine as youth is, still your fondest hopes did not stretch onward to an hour

net'-u-oun, rushing with violence.
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Jubi-les, a public periodical festivity d Con'-se-a-ted, hallowed, dedicated San'guins, confident, full of b

like this! At a period to which you cou you could not reasonably have expected to arrive; at a moment of national prosperit such

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the fellowship of old soldiers, and to receive

gratitude.

the overflowings of a universal 9. But your agitated countenances, and your your heaving breasts inform me, that even this is not an unmixed joy. perceive that a tumult of contending feelings rushes upon images of the dead, as well as the persons of the Living our embraces. The scene overwhelms you, and I turn from it. May the father of all mercies bless then, and smile your declining years. EW BOY aud bra 10. And when you shall here have braces; when you shall once more exchanged your empressed the hands which have been so often extended" eato give succor in adversity, or grasped in the exultation of ictory; then look abroad t into this lovely land, which your young valor defended, and into the whole earth, and see whiled; yea, look abroad. with which is a name you have contributed to give to your country, and what a praise you have added to freedom; and then rejoice in the sympathy and gra

titude reed upon your last days from the improved

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Speech of Titus Quinctius to the Romans.

961 1. Tuotan Fam not conscious, O Romans, of any crime by me committed, it is yet with the utmost shanie and confusion that I appear in your assembly. You have seen it posterity vill know it in the fourth consulship of Titus Quinctius, The Aqui and Volsci (scarce a match for the Hernici alone) Came in arms to the very gates of Rome, and went away unchastised to sex grow 18 2013-20

2. The course of our manners, indeed, and the state of ent daffairs have long been such, that I had no reason to presage manuch good; but, could I have imagined that so great an igbaniny would have befallen me this year, I would, by banishwanent or death, (if all other cans had failed,) have avoide the station I am now in What I might Rome then have been taken if those men who were at our gates had not wanted erage for the attempt Rome taken whilst I was cons!! Of honors I had sufficient-of life enough- --more than enough 1 should have died my third consulate

Consul ship, a chief office in ancient Roms

3. But

are they that our dastardly enemics thus despise to consuls, or you, Romans? If we are in fault, depose us, or punish us yet more severely. If you are to blame may neither gods nor men punish your faults! only may you repent!--No, Romans, the confidence of our enemies is not owing to their courage, or to their belief of your cowardice: they have been too often vanquished not to know both themselves and you.

4. Discord, discord is the ruin of this city! The eternal disputes between the senate and the people, are the sole cause of our misfortunes. While we set no bounds to our dominion, *hor you to your liberty; while you impatiently endure Patrician magistrates, and we Plebeian; our enemies take heart, grow elated and presumptuous. In the name of the immortal gods, what is it, Romans, you would have? You desired Tribunes; for the sake of peace, we granted them. You were eager to have Decemvirs;d dwe consented to their creTation. You grew weary of these Decemvirs;—we obliged them to abdicate.

5. Your hatred pursued them when reduced to private men; and we suffered you to put to death, or banish, Patricians of the first rank in the republic. You insisted upon the restoration of the Tribuneship; we yielded; we quietly saw Consuls of your own faction elected. You have the protection of your Tribunes, and the privilege of appeal; the Patricians are subjected to the decrees of the Commons. Under preWense of equal and impartial laws, you have invaded our rights; and we have suffered it, and we still suffer it. When shall we see an end of discord? When shall we have one interest, and one common country? Victorious and triumphant, you show less temper than we under defeat. When you are 140 contend with us, you can seize the Aventine hill-you can possess yourselves of the Mons Sacer.

6. The enemy is at our gates, the Esquiline is near being taken, and nobody stirs to hinder it! But against us you are Valiant; against us you can arm with diligence. Come on, then, besiege the senate-house, make a camp of the forum, fill the jails with our chief nobles, and when you have achieved these glorious exploits, then, at last, sally out at the Asquiline gate with the same fierce spirits against the enemy.

7. Does your resolution fail you for this? Go, then, and behold from our walls your lands ravaged, your houses plun

Des tard le, cowardly, moanly, De-pose, to lay down, dethrone. Tribunes, keepers of the liberties of the people against the energáchments of the Senate.

d Decem virs, ten men who governed the commonwealth instead of consuls.. e Ab-di-cate, to abandon an office,

dered and in flames, the whole country laid waste with fire and sword. Have you any thing here to repair these damages? Will the Tribunes make up your losses to you? They will give you words as many as you please; bring impeachments in abundance against the prime men in the state; heap laws upon laws, assemblies you shall have without end ;—but will any of you return the richer from those assemblies?

8. Extinguish, O Romans! these fatal divisions; generously break this cursed enchantment, which keeps you buried in a scandalous inaction. Open your eyes, and consider the management of those ambitious men, who, to make themselves powerful in their party, study nothing but how they may foment divisions in the commonwealth.-If you can but summon up your former courage, if you will now march out of Rome with your consuls, there is no punishment you can inflict which I will not submit to, if I do not in a few days drive those pillagers out of our territory. This terror of war, with which you seem so grievously struck, shall quickly be removed from Rome to their own cities.

SECTION XV.

Extract from Judge Story's Centennial Address, delivered at Salem, Mass. Sept. 18, 1828.

1. WHEN We reflect on what has been, and is now, is it pos sible not to feel a profound sense of the responsibleness of this Republic to all future ages? What vast motives press upon us for lofty efforts. What brilliant prospects invite our enthusiasm. What solemn warnings at once demand our vigilance, and moderate our confidence.

2. The old world has already revealed to us in its unsealed books, the beginning and end of all its own marvelous struggles in the cause of liberty. Greece, lovely Greece, "the land of scholars and the nurse of arms," where sister republics in fair processions chanted the praises of liberty and the gods; where and what is she? For two thousand years the oppressor has bound her to the earth. Her arts are no inore. The last sad relics of her temples are but the barracks of a ruthless soldiery; the fragments of her columns and her pa laces are in the dust, yet beautiful in ruin,

3. She fell not when the mighty were upon her. Her son. were united at Thermopyla and Marathon; and the tide of her triumph rolled back upon the Hellespont. She was conquered by her own factions. She fell by the hands of her own

| Im-peach'-ments, accusations by autho Fe-ment, to cherish with heat, to batha.

people. The man of Macedonia did not the work of destrucjon. It was already done by her own corruptions, banishments, and dissensions. Rome, republican Rome, whose eagles glanced in the rising and setting sun, where, and what is she? The eternal city yet remains, proud even in her desolation, noble in her decline, venerable in the majesty of religion, and calm as in the composure of death.

4. The malaria has but traveled in the paths worn by her destroyers. More than eighteen centuries have mourned over the loss of her empire. A mortal disease was upon her vitals, before Cæsar had crossed the Rubicon; and Brutus did not restore her health by the deep probings of the senate chamber. The Goths and Vandals and Huns-the swarms of the north-completed only what was already begun at home. Romans betrayed Rome. The legions were bought and sold; but the people offered the tribute money.

5. And where are the republics of modern times, which clustered around immortal Italy? Venice and Genoa exist but in name. The Alps, indeed, look down upon the brave and peaceful Swiss, in their native fastnesses; but the guaranty of their freedom is in their weakness, and not in their strength. The mountains are not easily crossed, and the valley's are not easily retained.

6. When the invader comes, he moves like an avalanche, carrying destruction in his path. The peasantry sink before him. The country is too poor for plunder, and too rough for valuable conquest. Nature presents her eternal barriers on every side, to check the wantonness of ambition; and Switzerland remains with her simple institutions, a military road to fairer climates, scarcely worth a permanent possession, and protected by the jealousy of her neighbors.

7. We stand the latest, and, if we fail, probably the last experiment of self-government by the people. We have begun it under circumstances of the most auspicious nature. We are in the vigor of youth. Our growth has never been checked by the oppressions of tyranny. Our constitutions have never been enfeebled, by the vices or luxuries of the old world. Such as we are, we have been from the beginning, simple, hardy, intelligent, accustomed to self-government and self-respect.

8. The Atlantic rolls between us and any formidable foe. Within our own territory, stretching through many degrees of latitude and longitude, we have the choice of many products, and many means of independence. The government 4 Ma-la-ri-a, ill air, peculiar to some parts C Avalanche, a vast body of snow aliof Italy. ding down a mountain. d'Aus-picious, lucky, favorable.

Guar'-an-ty, a warrant.