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We are two millions one-fifth fighting men. We are bold and vigorous, and we call no man master. To the nation, from whom we are proud to derive our origin, we were ever, and we ever will be, ready to yield unforced assistance; but it must not, and it never can be extorted.

Some have sneeringly asked, "Are the Americans too poor to pay a few pounds on stamped paper?" No! America, thanks to God and herself, is rich. But the right to take ten pounds, implies the right to take a thousand; and what must be the wealth, that avarice, aided by power, cannot exhaust. True, the specter is now small; but the shadow he casts before him is huge enough to darken all this fair land. Others, in sentimental style, talk of the immense debt of gratitude which we owe to England. And what is the amount of this debt? Why, truly, it is the same that the young lion owes to the dam, which has brought it forth on the solitude of the mountain, or left it amid the winds and storms of the desert.

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We plunged into the wave, with the great charter of freedom in our teeth, because the faggot and torch were behind us. have waked this new world from its savage lethargy; forests have been prostrated in our path; towns and cities have grown up suddenly as the flowers of the tropics; and the fires in our autumnal woods are scarcely more rapid than the increase of our wealth and population. And do we owe all this to the kind succor of the mother country? No! we owe it to the tyranny that drove us from her to the pelting storms which invigorated our helpless infancy.

But perhaps others will say, "We ask no money from your gratitude we only demand that you should pay your own expenses." And who, I pray, is to judge of their necessity? Why, the king-(and with all due reverence to his sacred majesty, he understands the real wants of his distant subjects as little as he does the language of the Choctaws.) Who is to judge concerning the frequency of these demands? The ministry. Who is to judge whether the money is properly expended? The cabinet behind the throne. In every instance, those who take are to judge for those who pay. If this system is suffered to go into operation, we shall have reason to esteem it a great privi lege, that rain and dew do not depend upon parliament; other wise they would soon be taxed and dried.

But thanks to God, there is freedom enough left upon earth to resist such monstrous injustice. The flame of liberty is extin guished in Greece and Rome, but the light of its glowing embers is still bright and strong on the shores of America. Actuated by its sacred influence, we will resist unto death. But we will

not countenance anarchy and misrule. The wrongs, that a desperate community have heaped upon their enemies, shall be amply and speedily repaired. Still, it may be well for some proud men to remember, that a fire is lighted in these colonies, which one breath of their king may kindle into such fury, that the blood of all England cannot extinguish it.

GOD'S REBUKE TO JOB.

THEN the Lord answered Job out of the whirlwind, and said, Who is this that darkeneth counsel oy words without knowledge ?

Gird up now thy loins like a man; for I will demand of thee,

and answer thou me.

Where wast thou when I laid the foundations of the earth? declare, if thou hast understanding.

Who hath laid the measures thereof, if thou knowest ? or who hath stretched the line upon it?

Whereupon are the foundations thereof fastened? or who laid the corner-stone thereof?

When the morning stars sang together, and all the sons of God shouted for joy?

Or who shut up the sea with doors, when it break forth, as if it had issued out of the womb ?

When I made the cloud the garment thereof, and thick darkness a swaddling band for it,

And brake up for it my decreed place, and set bars and doors, And said, Hitherto shalt thou come, but no farther and here shall thy proud waves be stayed?

Canst thou bind the sweet influences of Pleiades, or loose the bands of Orion ?

Canst thou bring forth Mazzaroth in his season? or canst thou guide Arcturus with his sons?

Knowest thou the ordinances of heaven? canst thou set the dominion thereof in the earth?

Canst thou lift up thy voice to the clouds, that abundance of waters may cover thee?

Canst thou send lightnings that they may go, and

thee, Here we are?

say unto

Who hath sent out the wild ass free? or who hath loosed the bands of the wild ass?

Whose house 1 have made the wilderness, and the barren land

his dwellings.

He scorneth the multitude of the city, neither regardeth he the crying of the driver.

The range of the mountains is his pasture, and he searcheth after every green thing.

Hast thou given the horse strength? hast thou clothed his neck with thunder?

Canst thou make him afraid as a grasshopper? the glory of his nostrils is terrible.

He paweth in the valley, and rejoiceth in his strength: he goeth on to meet the armed men.

He mocketh at fear, and is not affrighted; neither turneth he back from the sword.

The quiver rattleth against him, the glittering spear and the

shield.

He swalloweth the ground with fierceness and rage: neither elieveth he that it is the sound of the trumpet.

He saith among the trumpets, Ha, ha; and he smelleth the battle a far off, the thunder of the captains, and the shouting. toward the south? the hawk fly by thy wisdom, and stretch her wings

Doth

Doth the eagle mount up at thy command, and make her nest on high ?

She

dwelleth and abideth on the rock, upon the crag of the rock, and the strong place.

From thence she seeketh the prey, and her eyes behold afar off. Young ones also suck up blood: and where the slain are,

Her

there is she.

CHATHAM'S REPLY TO HILLSBOROUGH

THIS is the second time that I have been interrupted. I sub.

mit

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I am sure it is contrary to the orders of the house, and a gross violation of decency and politeness. I listen to every noble lord in this house with attention and respect.

The noble lord's

design in interrupting me, is as mean and unworthy, as the manner in which he has done it is irregular and disorderly. He flatters himself that, by breaking the thread of my discourse. he shall confuse me in my argument. But, my lords, I will not sumit to this treatment. I will not be interrupted. When I

have concluded, let him answer me if he can. As to the word which he has denied, I still affirm that it was the word he made use of; but if he had used any other, I am sure every noble lord will agree with me that his meaning was exactly what I had expressed it. Whether he said course or train is indifferent.

He told your lordships that the negotiation was in a way that promised a happy and honorable conclusion. His distinctions are mean, frivolous, and puerile. My lords, I do not understand the exalted tone assumed by that noble lord. In the distress and weakness of this country, my lords, and conscious as the ministry ought to be how much they have contributed to that distress and weakness, I think a tone of modesty, of submission, of humility, would become them better; quædam causæ modestiam desiderant. Before this country they stard as the greatest criminals. Such I shall prove them to be: for I do not doubt of proving to your lordships' satisfaction, that since they have been intrusted with the conduct of the king's affairs, they have done everything that they ought not to have done, and hardly anything that they ought to have done.

THE FEDERAL UNION.

I PROFESS, sir, in my career hitherto, to have kept steadily view the prosperity and the honor of the whole country, and the preservation of the Federal Union. I have not allowed myself to look beyond the Union, to see what might lie hidden ir the dark recess behind. I have not coolly weighed the chances of preserving liberty, when the bonds that unite us together shall be broken asunder. I have not accustomed myself to hang over the precipice of disunion, to see whether, with my short sight, I can fathom the depths of the abyss below; nor could 1 regard him as a safe counselor in the affairs of this government, whose thoughts should be mainly bent on considering, not how the Union should be preserved, but how tolerable might be the condition of the people when it shall be broken up and destroyed While the Union lasts, we have high, exciting, gratifying pros pects spread out before us, for us and our children. Beyond that, I seek not to penetrate the vail. God grant, that, in my day, at least, that curtain may not rise! God grant, that on my vision never may be opened what lies behind! When my eyes

shall be turned to behold, for the last time, the sun in heaven. may I not see him shining on the broken and dishonored frag.

ments of a once gl.rious Union; on states dissevered, discordant, belligerent; on a land rent with civil reuds, or drenched, it may be, in fraternal blood! Let their last feeble and lingering glance rather behold the gorgeous ensign of the republic, now known and honored throughout the earth, still full high advanced, its arms and trophies streaming in their original luster, not a stripe erased or polluted, nor a single star obscured, bearing for its mctto, no such miserable interrogatory as, What is all this worth? nor those other words of delusion and folly, Liberty first, and Union afterward; but everywhere spread all over in characters of living light, blazing on all its ample folds as they float over the sea, and over the land, and in every wind under the whole heavens, that other sentiment, dear to every true American heart: LIBERTY AND UNION, NOW AND FOREVER, ONE

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INSEPARABLE.

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WEBSTER.

NECESSITY OF A PURE NATIONAL MORALITY.

THE crisis has come. By the people of this generation, by Curse'ves, probably, the amazing question is to be decided, -whether the inheritance of our fathers shall be preserved or thrown away; whether our sabbaths shall be a delight or a loathing; whether the taverns, on that holy day, shall be crowded with drunkards, or the sanctuary of God with humble worshipers; whether riot and profaneness shall fill our streets and poverty our dwellings, and convicts our jails, and violence our land; or whether industry, and temperance, and righteousness, shall be the stability of our times; whether mild laws shall receive the cheerful submission of freemen, or the iron rod of a tyrant compel the trembling homage of slaves. Be not deceived. The rocks and hills of New England will remain till the last conflagration. But let the sabbath be profaned with impunity, the worship of God be abandoned, the government and religious instruction of children neglected, and the streams of intemperance be permitted to flow, and her glory will depart. The wall of fire will no longer surround her, and the munition of rocks will no longer be her defense. The hand that overturns our doors and temples, is the hand of death unbarring the gate of pandemonium, and letting loose upon our land the crimes and miseries of hell. If the Most High should stand aloof and cast not a single ingredient into our cup of tembling, it would seem to be full of superlative woe. But he will not stand aloof. As we shall

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