to give a complexion to their thoughts and style. They produced, if I mistake not, in the community at large, a feeling of comprehensive patriotism, which I fear has, in a considerable degree, passed away. While it lasted, it prompted a strain of sentiment which does not now, as it seems to me, find a cordial response from the people in any part of the country. Awakened from the pleasing visions of former years by the fierce recriminations and dark forebodings of the present day, I experience the feelings of the ancient dreamer when cured of his harmless delusions: "me occidistis, amici, Non servastis, ait, cui sic extorta voluptas, Et demtus per vim mentis gratissimus error. A few words more of explanation will perhaps be pardoned me. Although the following addresses cover a considerable portion of my life, it would be unjust to regard them as its main business. They are all of them occasional, most of them hasty productions. It is still my purpose, should my health permit, to offer to the public indulgence a selection from a large number of articles contributed by me to the North American Review, and from the speeches, reports, and official correspondence prepared in the discharge of the duties of the several official stations, which I have had the honor to fill at home and abroad. Nor am I wholly without hope that I shall be able to execute the more arduous project to which I have devoted a good deal of time for many years, and towards which I have collected ample materials that of a systematic treatise on the modern law of nations, more especially in questions which have been discussed reference to those between the gov ernments of the United States and Europe since the peace of 1783. CAMBRIDGE, May, 1850. EDWARD EVERETT. CONTENTS of Phi Beta Kappa, on the 26th of August, 1824. A Eulogy delivered at Charlestown, on the 1st of August, |