associations of its infant charge, and to dwell with thankful interest upon him who has said, "in heaven their angels do always behold the face of my Father who is in heaven." And Oh, that coming generations may receive, amid these wild and impressive scenes, the inspiring lessons of truth, of piety, and religious hope. 16. May the eye that from this point, looks mournfully upon the surrounding landscape, be favored, like Moses from the summit of Pisgah, with bright visions of the promised rest in heaven. May the tears that fall upon these consecrated grounds, water a harvest of religious fruits, which shall be gathered into life everlasting. From this mount of vision, may 66 prayer ardent open heaven," "Let down a stream of sacred glory On the consecrated hour, Of man in audience with the Deity." 17. From these groves may levity be forever banished, to give place to the awful emotions awakened by the conscious presence of ethereal spirits. Let the step be slow and reverential-let the voice be pitched to tones of seriousness and truth-let the bosom heave with tenderness and love and let the whole soul bow in devout adoration of him who holds the keys of life and of death.-P. Church. The address from which this beautiful extract is taken, was delivered by Rev. Pharcellus Church, at the Rochester Cemetery, called "Mount Hope," in the fall of 1833, and repeated before the Athenæum and Young Men's Association of that city. EXTRACT FROM A SPEECH IN THE SENATE 1. If there be one State in the Union, Mr. President, that may challenge comparison 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. 2. She has adhered to you in your prosperity; but in your adversity, she has clung to you with more than filial affection. No matter what was the condition of her domestic affairs, though deprived of her resources, divided by parties, or surrounded by difficulties, the call of the country has been to her as the voice of God. Domestic discord ceased at the sound, every man became at once reconciled to his brethren, and the sons of Carolina were all seen, crowding together to the temple, bringing their gifts to the altar of their common country. 3. 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. 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. 4. "The plains of Carolina" drank up the most precious blood of her citizens. Black 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 example of her Sumpters, and her Marions, proved by her conduct, that though her soil might be overrun, the spirit of her people was invincible.-Robert Y. Hayne. EXTRACT FROM A SPEECH IN THE U. S. SENATE IN REPLY TO MR. HAYNE. 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 Laurens, 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. 2. 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 ? 3. 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. 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. 4. 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. 5. Mr. President, I shall enter on no encomium upon Massachusetts-she needs none. There she is behold her and judge for yourselves. There is her history-the world knows it by heart. The past, at least, is secure. There is Boston, and Concord, and Lexington, and Bunkerhill : and there they will remain forever. 6. 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 restraint, 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 still retain, over the friends who gather around it; and it will fall at last, if fall it must, amidst the proudest monument of its own glory, and on the very spot of its origin.-D. Webster. THE ADVANTAGES OF KNOWLEDGE. 1. Education, properly uderstood, includes morality, as well as a knowledge of the sciences. In vain may we become familiar with the various branches of education which are taught in our schools, unless we cultivate and practice correct moral habits. To educate the intellectual faculties and stop there, is not enough. It is the solemn duty of all teachers, to present before the "mind's eye" of youth, the pure principles of morality, even of that morality, the perfection of which, is found alone in the doctrines and conduct of our Savior and the Apostles. 2. Let them early understand, that every dereliction from moral rectitude brings calamities upon themselves; that all crime drags its perpetrator down to a level with the brute, and often sinks a being "made but little lower than the angels," even below the animal creation. Teach them that if it were possible to throw off all the claims and obligations of morality and religion, that even then, it would not be policy, to do any thing wrong, for the reason, that no man, since the world began, ever yet had intellect enough to commit atrocious crimes and escape detection. The very efferts which the guilty make to shroud their iniquity "in the mantle of the dark," not unfrequently bring it to light. Under the inscrutiable workings of an all-wise Providence, the dark cloud under which crime is perpetrated, "turnes her silver lining upon it," and the guilty are punished. 3. Well did Dr. Blair say, that "the short space of seventy years is not worth being a villain for." The pleasures of sin, if indeed it can be said to have any pleasures, are transient as the flight of the meteor which calls our attention only to witness its fall. And moreover, they are always "followed by long woes." 4. Cicero, although he lived anterior to the coming of Christ, says: "I would do nothing that is dishonorable or lascivious, even though I knew the act would be forever disguised both from the immortal gods and men." And shall not we who believe in the existence of that God, who knowing the secrets of all hearts, will assuredly punish vice and reward virture, walk in the morning effulgence of the great truths of Christianity? And will not the instructors of our youth, teach them that moral culture is no less essential than intellectual? 5. Will not parents employ teachers of moral worth, as well as literary attainments? Who does not know that as children are taught, so, with very few exceptions, they will act through life? Dr. Paley compares them when uneducated, to "mad dogs in the streets." Shall we not then, wage an exterminating war againgst ignorance? Let our cry be, down with the monster, for wherever it "lives It strikes deadly blows, nor feels the wounds it gives." 6. Not so with knowledge. The light with which it fills the mind, is " a lamp to our feet." It introduces to us the best society the world ever produced. We can converse, so to speak, with the great and good men of all ages by reading. And it is easy to "see clearly, and not as through a glass, darkly," that those who cultivate a taste for Elocution, will occupy their leisure moments in reading well written books, rather than in visiting places of improper resort. "What is man if the chief good and market of his time |