2. But hów, it may be ásked, is it broken down? Do not men tóil? it may be said. They do, indeed, tòil; but they too génerally dó, because they must. Many submit to it, as to, in some sórt, a degrading necèssity; and they desire nothing so much on éarth as an escape from it. This way of thinking is the heritage of the absurd and unjust feudal system, under which serfs lábored, and gentlemen spent their lives in fighting and feasting. It is time that this opprobrium of toil were done away.

3. Ashamed to toil! Ashamed of thy dingy wórkshop and dusty lábor-field; of thy hard húnd, scarred with service more honorable than that of war; of thy soiled and weather-stained gárments, on which mother Nature has embroidered míst, sún and ráin, fire and steamher own heraldic honors!

4. Ashamed of those tokens and titles, and envious of the flaunting robes of imbecile idleness and vănity! It is treason to Nature; it is impiety to Heaven: it is breaking Heaven's great òrdinance. Tóil—tóil—either of the brain, of the heart, or of the hand-is the only true manhood, the only trúe nobility !

ORVILLE DEWEY.

14. THE FUTURE OF AMERICA.

1. It cannot be denied, but by those who would dispute against the sun, that with America, and in America, a new èra commences in human affairs. This éra is distinguished by free representative governments, by entire religious liberty, by improved systems of national intercourse, by a newly awakened and an unconquerable spirit of free inquiry, and by a diffusion of knowledge through the commúnity, such as has been before altogether unknown and unheard of.

2. América, América, our country, our own dear and

native lúnd, is inseparably connected, fast bound up, in fórtune and by fáte, with these great interests. If they fall, wé fall with them; if they stand, it will be because we have upheld them.

3. Let us contémplate, then, this connection which binds the prosperity of others to our own; and let us manfully discharge all the dúties which it impòses. If we cherish the virtues and the principles of our fáthers, Heaven will assist us to carry on the work of human liberty and human happiness.

4. Auspicious ómens chèer us. Great examples are before us. Our own firmament now shines brightly upon our path. Washington is in the clear upper sky. Those other stars have now joined the American constellation; they circle round their cénter, and the heavens beam with new light. Beneath this illuminátion, let us walk the course of life, and at its clóse devoutly commend our beloved country, the common parent of us áll, to the Divine Benignity.

DANIEL WEBSTER.

15. PATRIOTISM.

1. Bereft of patriotism, the heart of a nation will be cold and cramped and sordid; the arts will have no enduring impulse, and commerce no invigorating soul; society will degenerate, and the mean and vicious will triumph. Patriotism is not a wild and glittering passion, but a glorious reality. The virtue that gave to Paganism its dazzling luster, to Barbarism its redeeming trait, to Christianity its heroic form, is not dead. It still lives to console, to sanctify humanity. It has its altar in every clime; its worship and festivities.

2. On the heathered hills of Scotland, the sword of Wallace is yet a bright tradition. The genius of France, in the brilliant literature of the day, pays its high

homage to the piety and heroism of the young Maid of Orleans. In her new Senate-hall, England bids her sculptor place, among the effigies of her greatest sons, the images of Hampden and of Russell. In the gay and graceful capital of Belgium, the daring hand of Geefs has reared a monument full of glorious 'meaning to the three hundred martyrs of the revolution.

3. By the soft blue waters of Lake Lucerne stands the chapel of William Tell. On the anniversary of his revolt and victory, across those waters, as they glitter in the July sun, skim the light boats of the allied cantons, from the prows hang the banners of the republic, and as they near the sacred spot, the daughters of Lucerne chant the hymns of their old poetic land. Then bursts forth the glad Te Deum, and Heaven again hears the voice of that wild chivalry of the mountains, which five centuries since pierced the white eagle of Vienna, and flung it bleeding on the rocks of Uri..

T. F. MEAGHER.

16. THE FOURTH OF JULY.

1. On the Fourth of July, 1776, the representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, declared that these United Colonies are, and of right ought to be, free and independent States. This declaration, made by most patriotic and resolute men, trusting in the justice of their cause, and the protection of Providence and yet not without deep solicitude and anxiety has stood for seventy-five years, and still stands.

2. It was sealed in blood. It has met dangers and overcome them; it has had enemies, and it has conquered them; it has had detractors, and it has abashed them all; it has had doubting friends, but it has cleared all doubts away; and now, to-day, raising its august form higher than the clouds, twenty millions of people

contemplate it with hallowed love; and the world beholds it, and the consequences which have followed, with profound admiration.

3. This anniversary animates, and gladdens, and unites all American hearts. On other days of the year we may be party men, indulging in controversies more or less important to the public good; we may have likes and dislikes, and we may maintain our political differences often with warm, and sometimes with angry feelings. But to-day we are Americans all in all, nothing but Americans.

4. As the great luminary over our heads, dissipating mists and fogs, cheers the whole hemisphere, so do the associations connected with this day disperse all cloudy and sullen weather, and all noxious exhalations in the minds and feelings of true Americans. Every man's heart swells within him;-every man's port and bearing become somewhat more proud and lofty, as he remembers that seventy-five years have rolled away, and that the great inheritance of liberty is still his; his, undiminished and unimpaired; his, in all its original glory; his to enjoy, his to protect, and his to transmit to future generations.

DANIEL WEBSTER.

17. TRUE GREATNESS.

1. The poet tells us, in pathetic cadence, that "The paths of glory lead but to the grave." But this is true only in the superficial sense. It is true that the famous and the obscure, the devóted and the ignoble, "alike await the inevitable hour." But the path of true glory does not end in the grave. It passes through it to larger opportunities of service.

2. A great náture is a sèed. "It is sown a nátural body; it is raised a spiritual body." It germinates thus

in this world as well as in the other. Was Warren buried when he fell on the field of a deféat, pierced through the brain, at the commencement of the Revolútion, by a búllet that put the land in mourning?

3. No; the monument that has been raised where his blood reddened the sód-gránite though it be in a hundred courses-is a feeble witness of the permanence and influence of his spirit among the American pèople. He mounted into literature from the moment that he fell; he began to move the soul of a great community; and part of the principle and enthusiasm of Massachusetts to-day is due to his sacrifice, to the presence of his spirit as a power in the life of the State.

4. Did Montgomery lose his influence as a force in the Revolution, because he died without victory on its threshold, pierced with three wounds, before · Quebec? Philadelphia was in tears for him; his eulogies were uttered by the most eloquent tongues of América and Britain, and a thrill of his power beats in the volumes of our history, and runs yet through the onset of every Irish brigade beneath the American bánner, which he planted on Montreal.

5. Did Lawrence díe when his breath expired in the defeat on the séa, after his exclamation, "Don't give up the ship!" What victorious captain in that naval war shed forth such power? His spirit soared and touched every flág on every frigate, to make its red more commanding and its stars flame brighter; it went abroad in sòngs, and every sailor felt him and feels him now as an inspiration.

6. The soul is not a shadow. The body is. Génius is not a shadow; it is substance. Pátriotism is not a shadow; it is light. Great purposes, and the spirit that counts death nothing in contrast with hónor and the welfare of our country-these are the witnesses that man is not a passing vapor, but an immortal spirit.

THOMAS STARR KING.