My gold, my father's presents, jewels, rings,— Catiline.-Aurelia !-wife! All will be well; but hear me,-stay a little; Aurelia. [Indignantly and surprised.]—Róme? Aurelia.-Let me look on you; are you Catiline? Catiline. [Wildly.]-Not yet,-not yet! Aurelia.-Let them take all. · Catiline.-Seize my last sésterce! Let them have their will. We must endure. Aye, ransack,—ruin all; Tear up my father's grave, tear out my heart! Aurelia.-Before I stir, they shall hew off my Aurelia.--Hear me, Lord Catiline ; hands. The day we wedded,-'tis but three short years since! Was Marius' daughter! There was not in Rome An eye, however haughty, but would sink When I turned on it; when I passed the streets, My chariot wheel was followed by a host Of your chief Senators; as if their gaze Beheld an empress on its golden round; An earthly providence! Catiline.-'Twas so !-'twas so! But it is vanished,-gone. Aurelia.-By yon bright sun! That day shall come again; or, in its place, One that shall be an era to the world! Catiline. [Eagerly.]-What's in your thoughts? Has left us strangers to each other's souls; But now we think alike. You have a sword,- Aurelia. Have the walls ears? I wish they had, Catiline.-Would you destroy? Rome's ship is rotten; Has she not cast you out? and would you sink Who'd face the pestilence in his foe's house? Catiline. [Shrinking.]—It will not come to this. Aurelia.-Doubtless he'll see us to the city gates; "Twill be the least respect that he can pay To his fallen rival. Do you hear, my lord? For Catiline!-for him that would be consul!" Catiline. [Turning away.]-Thus to be like the scorpion, ringed with fire, Till I sting mine own heart! [Aside.] There is no hope! Aurelia.-One hope there is, worth all the rest-REVENGE ! The time is harassed, poor, and discontent,— Catiline. [Scornfully.]-Yet, who has stirred? Aurelia.-Wère my will a sword! [Rome Catiline.-Hear me, bold heart! The whole gross blood of Could not atone my wrongs! I'm soul-shrunk, sick, Weary of man! And now my mind is fixed The lion in his hunger,-than of man! Aurelia.—I had a father once, who would have plunged Rome in the Tiber for an angry look! You saw our entrance from the Gaulish war? Catiline. My legion was in Spain. Aurelia. We swept through Italy, a flood of fire, A living lava, rolling straight on Rome. For days, before we reached it, the whole road Was thronged with suppliants,-tribunes, consulars, We entered Rome, as conquerors, in arms; I by my father's side, cuirassed and helm'd, Catiline. [With coldness.]-The world was yours. The dying left his bed to look and die. The way before us was a sea of heads; Enthroned, rode on, like twofold destiny! Catiline. [Sternly interrupting her.]-Those triumphs are but gewgaws. All the earth, What is it? Dust and smoke! I've done with life! Aurelia. [Coming nearer and looking steadfastly on him.]— Before that eve, one hundred senators And fifteen hundred knights, had paid,-in blood,— That will not now bear questioning.-Away! [As Aurelia moves slowly toward the door.] Where are our veterans now? Look on these walls, I can not turn their tissues into life. Where are our revenues,-our chosen friends? Are we not beggars? Where have beggars friends? I shake the stăte! I,--what have I on earth If 'tis our last;—it may be,-let us sink As if the heavens were thick with sudden gloom; Were hanging o'er my head. They say such thoughts Shall I be like thee yet? The clouds have past— To his red city in the west, that now LESSON CXX. EXPLANATORY NOTES.-1. In the year 1832, a state convention of South Carolina passed an ordinance, declaring that certain enactments of Congress, in regard to imposts, were unconstitutional, and therefore null and void, and that any attempt on the part of the United States' government to enforce them, would produce the withdrawal of that State from the Union, and the establishment of an independent government. This doctrine was promptly met by the President of the United States, ANDREW JACKSON, in a proclamation, which he issued Dec. 11, 1832, from which the following is an extract. The sentiments of the proclamation met with a cordial response from all the friends of the Union, and South Carolina with becoming promptness and patriotism receded from her hostile position. 2. CHARLES C. PINKNEY and THOMAS PINKNEY, brothers, were distinguished Revolutionary officers. They were natives of South Carolina, but were educated at Oxford in England. The former was made an Aidde-Camp to General Washington, and was also a member of the convention which framed the Constitution of the United States. 3. SUMTER was a celebrated general of South Carolina, in the American Revolution. He was distinguished for his insuperable firmness and courage. 4. JOHN RUTLEDGE and EDWARD RUTLEDGE were eminent Revolutionary Patriots of South Carolina. The former was a member of the first Continental Congress, 1774, and was distinguished for his Demosthenian eloquence. The latter was one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence, and also an officer in the army in South Carolina. AN APPEAL TO THE PATRIOTISM OF S. CAROLINA. ANDREW JACKSON. 1. FELLOW CITIZENS of my native State! let me not only admonish you, as the first magistrate of our common country, not to incur the penalty of its laws, but use the influence that a father would over his children whom he saw rushing to certain ruin. In that paternal language, with that paternal feeling, let me tell you, my countrymen, that you are deluded by men who either are deceived themselves or wish to deceive you. Mark under what pretenses you have been led on to the brink of insurrection and treason, on which you stand. 2. You were told that this opposition might be peaceably, -might be constitutionally made,-that you might enjoy all the advantages of the Union, and bear none of its burdens. Eloquent appeals to your passions, to your state pride, to your |