again make them the slaves to your voluptuousness, ard the panders or the victims of your vices? Tell me, you royalists and hierarchs, or advocates of royalty and hierarchy were the poor and the ignorant again in your power, to be tasked and titled at your pleasure, would you not turn another Ireland into paupers, and colonize another Botany Bay with criminals? Would you not brutify the men of other provinces into the " Dogs of Vendée," and debase the noble and refined nature of woman, in other cities, into the " Poissardes of Paris?"

8. O! better, far better, that the atheist and the blasphemer, and he who since the last setting sun, has dyed his hands in parricide, or his soul in sacrilege, should challenge equal po litical power with the wisest and the best- better, that these blind Samsons, in the wantonness of their gigantic strength, should tear down the pillars of the republic, than that the great lesson which Heaven, for six thousand years, has been teaching to the world, should be lost upon it; the lesson that the intel. lectual and moral nature of man is the one thing precious in the sight of God; and therefore, until this nature is cultivated, and enlightened, and purified, neither opulence nor power, nor learning, nor genius, nor domestic sanctity, nor the holiness of God's altars, can ever be safe. Until the immortal and godlike capacities of every being that comes into the world are deemed more worthy, are watched more tenderly, than any other thing, no dynasty of men, or form of government, can stand, or shall stand upon the face of the earth; and the force of the fraud, which would seek to uphold them, shall be but 66 as fetters of flax to bind the flame."

9. In all that company of felons and caitiffs, who prowl over the land, is there one man, who did not bring with him into life, the divine germ of conscience, a sensibility to right, and capacities which might have been nurtured and trained into the fear of God and the love of man? In all this company of ig.

norance, which, in its insane surgery, dissects eye and brain and heart, and maims every limb of the body politic, to find the disease, which honestly, though blindly, it wishes to cure; in all this company, is there one, who did not bring with him into life, noble faculties of thought, capabilities of judgment, and prudence, and skill, that might have been cultivated into a knowledge, an appreciation, and a wise and loving guardianship of all human interests and human rights?

10. The wickedness and blindness of the subjects are the judgments of heaven for the neglect of the sovereign; for, to this end, and to no other, was superiority given to a few, and the souls of all men preädapted to pay spontaneous homage to strength and talent and exalted station, that through the benignant and attractive influence of their possessors, the whole race might be won to wisdom and virtue. Let those, then, whose wealth is lost or jeoparded by fraud or misgovernment; let those who quake with apprehension for the fate of all they hold dear; let those who behold and lament the desecration of all that is holy; let rulers whose counsels are perplexed, whose plans are baffled, whose laws defied or evaded-let them all know, that whatever ills they feel or fear, are but the just retributions of a righteous heaven for neglected childhood.

11. Remember, then, the child whose voice first lisps, to-day, before that voice shall whisper sedition in secret, or thunder treason at the head of an armed band. Remember the child whose hand, to-day, first lifts its tiny bauble, before that hand shall scatter fire-brands, arrows, and death. Remember those sportive groups of youth in whose halcyon bosoms there sleeps an ocean, as yet scarcely ruffled by the passions, which soon shall heave it as with a tempest's strength. Remember, that whatever station in life you may fill, these mortals, these immortals, are your care. Devote, expend, consecrate yourselves to the holy work of their improvement. Pour out light and truth, as God pours sunshine and rain. No longer seek knowl

edge as the luxury of a few, but dispense it amongst al as the Learn only how the ignorant may learn; how

bread of life.

the innocent may be preserved; the vicious reclaimed.

12. Call down the astronomer from the skies; call up the geologist from his subterranean explorations; summon, if need be, the mightiest intellects from the council-chamber of the nation; enter cloistered halls, where the scholiast muses over superfluous annotations; dissolve conclave and synod, where subtle polemics are vainly discussing their barren dogmas; collect whatever of talent, or erudition, or eloquence, or authority, the broad land can supply, and go forth and teach THIS PEOPLE. For, in the name of the living God, it must be proclaimed, that licentiousness shall be the liberty; and violence and chicanery shall be the law; and superstition and craft shall be the religion; and the self-destructive indulgence of all sensual and unhallowed passions, shall be the only hap piness of that people who neglect the education of their children.

LESSON XVII.

THE OCEAN'S POWER.

BYRON.

1. On! that the desert were my dwelling-place,
With one fair spirit for my minister,

That I might all forget the human race,
And, hating no one, love but only her!
Ye elements! in whose ennobling stir,
I feel myself exalted, can ye not
Accord me such a being? Do I err

In deeming such inhabit many a spot!

Though with them to converse can rarely be our lot?

2. There is a pleasure in the pathless woods,
There is a rapture on the lonely shore,
There is society where none intrudes,
By the deep sea, and music in its roar:
I love not man the less, but nature more,
From these our interviews, in which I steal
From all I may be, or have been before,
To mingle with the universe, and feel
What I can ne'er express, yet cannot all conceal

3. Roll on, thou deep and dark blue ocean—rc`!
Ten thousand fleets sweep over thee in vain
Man marks the earth with ruin-his control
Stops with the shore; upon the watery plain.
The wrecks are all thy deed, nor doth remain
A shadow of man's ravage, save his own;
When for a moment, like a drop of rain,

He sinks into thy depths with bubbling groan, Without a grave, unknelled, uncoffined, and unknown.

4. The armaments which thunderstrike the walls
Of rock-built cities, bidding nations quake,
And monarchs tremble in their capitals,
The oak leviathans, whose huge ribs make
Their clay creator the vain title take
Of lord of thee, and arbiter of war!
These are thy toys, and, as the snowy flake,
They melt into thy yeast of waves, which mar
Alike the Armada's pride, or spoils of Trafalgar.

5. Thy shores are empires, changed in all save thee—
Assyria, Greece, Rome, Carthage, what are they?
Thy waters wasted them, while they were free,
And many a tyrant since; their shores obey
The stranger, slave, or savage; their decay

Has dried up realms to deserts: not so thouUnchangeable, save to thy wild waves' play; Time writes no wrinkle on thine azure brow; Such as creation's dawn beheld, thou rollest now.

6. Thou glorious mirror, where the Almighty's form Glasses itself in tempests; in all time,

(Calm, or convulsed, in breeze, or gale, or storm,
Icing the pole, or in the torrid clime

Dark-heaving,) boundless, endless, and sublime-
The image of eternity-the throne

Of the Invisible; even from out thy slime

The monsters of the deep are made! each zone Obeys thee; thou goest forth, dread, fathomless, alone,

LESSON XVIII.

TELL'S ADDRESS TO THE MOUNTAINS.

KNOWLES.

1. YE crags and peaks, I'm with you once again!
I hold to you the hands you first beheld,
To show they still are free. Methinks I hear
A spirit in your echoes answering me,
And bid your tenant welcome to his home
Again! O, sacred forms, how proud you look!
How high you lift your heads into the sky!
How huge you are! how mighty and how free!

2 Ye are the things that tower, that shine-whose smile Makes glad—whose frown is terrible—whose forms, Robed or unrobed, do all the impress wear

Of awe divine. Ye guards of liberty!