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Are the wide barrier of thy borders, where,
mong thy gallant sons, that guard thee well,
Thou laugh'st at enemies: who shall then declare
he date of thy deep-founded strength, or tell
happy, in thy lap, the sons of men shall dwell?

LESSON XCVIII.

cts of the Institutions and Example of the first Settlers of New England.-QUINCY.

we cast our eyes on the cities and great towns of New and, with what wonder should we behold, did not farity render the phenomenon almost unnoticed, men, oined in great multitudes, possessing freedom and the ciousness of strength,-the comparative physical power e ruler less than that of a cobweb across a lion's path, t orderly, obedient, and respectful to authority; a people, no populace; every class in reality existing, which the ral law of society acknowledges, except one,—and this ption characterizing the whole country! The soil of England is trodden by no slave. In our streets, in our nblies, in the halls of election and legislation, men of rank and condition meet, and unite or divide on other iples, and are actuated by other motives, than those ing out of such distinctions. The fears and jealousies, h, in other countries, separate classes of men, and make hostile to each other, have here no influence, or a very ed one.

ch individual, of whatever condition, has the consciousof living under known laws, which secure equal rights, guaranty to each whatever portion of the goods of life, great or small, chance, or talent, or industry may have wed. All perceive that the honors and rewards of so, are open equally to the fair competition of all; that the ctions of wealth, or of power, are not fixed in families; whatever of this nature exists to-day, may be changed rrow, or, in a coming generation, be absolutely reversed.

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principles, interests, hopes and affections, are the universal education. Such are the consequences ality of rights, and of the provisions for the general of knowledge and the distribution of intestate tablished by the laws framed by the earliest emiNew England.

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our cities, we turn to survey the wide expanse of or, how do the effects of the institutions and examearly ancestors appear, in all the local comfort and lation, which mark the general condition of the untry;-unobtrusive, indeed, but substantial; in plendid, but in every thing sufficient and satisfactocations of active talent and practical energy, exist ere. With a soil comparatively little luxuriant, and roportion either rock, or hill, or sand, the skill and -f man are seen triumphing over the obstacles of aking the rock the guardian of the field; moulding ce, as though it were clay; leading cultivation to -p, and spreading over the arid plain hitherto und unanticipated harvests.

fty mansion of the prosperous adjoins the lowly of the husbandman; their respective inmates are in interchange of civility, sympathy and respect. e and skill, which once held chief affinity with the the sea-board, now begin to delight the interior, our rivers, where the music of the waterfall, with ore attractive than those of the fabled harp of Orlects around it intellectual man and material nature. d cities, civilized and happy communities, rise, like s, on rocks and in forests, till the deep and far-revoice of the neighboring torrent is itself lost and amid the predominating noise of successful and Labor.

essons has New England, in every period of her ven to the world! What lessons do her condition ple still give! How unprecedented, yet how pracow simple, yet how powerful! She has proved, e variety of Christian sects may live together in under a government, which allows equal privileges xclusive preeminence to none She has proved,

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at ignorance among the multitude is not necessary to order, t that the surest basis of perfect order is the information the people. She has proved the old maxim, that " No govment, except a despotism, with a standing army, can subt where the people have arms," is false. Such are the true glories of the institutions of our fathers; ch the natural fruits of that patience in toil, that frugality disposition, that temperance of habit, that general diffusion knowledge, and that sense of religious responsibility, incated by the precepts, and exhibited in the example, of ery generation of our ancestors.

LESSON XCIX.

New England.-MRS. CHILD.

I NEVER view the thriving villages of New England, which eak so forcibly to the heart, of happiness and prosperity, hout feeling a glow of national pride, as I say, "This is own, my native land." A long train of associations is anected with her picturesque rivers, as they repose in their ceful loveliness,-the broad and sparkling mirror of the avens,—and with the cultivated environs of her busy cities, ich seem every where blushing into a perfect Eden of fruit

flowers. The remembrance of what we have been, nes rushing on the heart in powerful and happy contrast. In most nations, the path of antiquity is shrouded in darkss, rendered more visible by the wild, fantastic light of le; but with us, the vista of time is luminous to its retest point. Each succeeding year has left its footsteps tinct upon the soil, and the cold dew of our chilling dawn still visible beneath the mid-day sun. Two centuries, only, e elapsed, since our most beautiful villages reposed in the disturbed grandeur of nature; when the scenes now rened classic by literary associations, or resounding with the of commerce, echoed nought but the sound of the hunter, the fleet tread of the wild deer. God was here in his y temple, and the whole earth kept silence before him!

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voice of prayer was soon to be heard in the desert. which, for ages beyond the memory of man, had he strange, fearful worship of the Great Spirit of ness, was soon to shed its splendor upon the altars ng God. That light, which had arisen amid the of Europe, stretched its long luminous track across ic, till the summits of the western world became h its brightness. During many long, long ages of 1 corruption, it seemed as if the pure flame of is every where quenched in blood;-but the watchhad kept the sacred flame still burning deeply and Men, stern and unyielding, brought it hither in bosom, and, amid desolation and poverty, they kinthe shrine of Jehovah.

enlightened and liberal age, it is perhaps too fashlook back upon those early sufferers in the cause ormation, as a band of dark, discontented bigots. loubt, there were many broad, deep shadows in cters; but there was, likewise, bold and powerful e peculiarities of their situation occasioned most ults, and atoned for them. They were struck off ned, opulent and powerful nation, under circumnich goaded and lacerated them almost to ferocity; wonder that men, who fled from oppression in their try, to all the hardships of a remote and dreary should have exhibited a deep mixture of exclusive. morose passions.

LESSON C.

of a Discourse, delivered Sept. 18th, 1828, in oration of the first Settlement of Salem, Mass.STORY.

ve reflect on what has been, and is, how is it poso feel a profound sense of the responsibleness of lic to all future ages! What vast motives press

pon us for lofty efforts! What brilliant prospects invite ur enthusiasm! What solemn warnings at once demand ur vigilance, and moderate our confidence!

The old world has already revealed to us, in its unsealed ooks, the beginning and end of all its own marvellous ruggles in the cause of liberty. Greece, lovely Greece, the land of scholars and the nurse of arms," where sister publics in fair processions chanted the praises of liberty. nd the gods,-where and what is she? For two thousand. ears, the oppressor has bound her to the earth. Her arts e no more. The last sad relics of her temples are but e barracks of a ruthless soldiery; the fragments of her olumns and her palaces are in the dust, yet beautiful in ruin. he fell not when the mighty were upon her. Her sons ere united at Thermopyla and Marathon; and the tide of er triumph rolled back upon the Hellespont. She was conered by her own factions. She fell by the hands of her vn people. The man of Macedonia did not the work of estruction. It was already done by her own corruptions, nishments and dissensions.

Rome, republican Rome, whose eagles glanced in the rising ad setting sun,—where and what is she? The eternal city et remains, proud even in her desolation, noble in her deine, venerable in the majesty of religion, and calm as in e composure of death. The malaria has but travelled in e paths worn by her destroyers. More than eighteen cenries have mourned over the loss of her empire. A mortal sease was upon her vitals, before Cæsar had crossed the ubicon. The Goths, and Vandals, and Huns, the swarms the North, completed only what was already begun at me. Romans betrayed Rome. The legions were bought d sold, but the people offered the tribute money.

And where are the republics of modern times, which clusred round immortal Italy? Venice and Genoa exist but in me. The Alps, indeed, look down upon the brave and aceful Swiss in their native fastnesses; but the guarantee their freedom is in their weakness, and not in their ength. The mountains are not easily crossed, and the lleys are not easily retained. When the invader comes, he oves like an avalanche, carrying destruction in his path

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