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hio, carrying ninety | guns, | finished as | late as | eighteen | hundred and thirty- | six, | for five | hundred and | forty-seven thousand | eight | hundred and eighty-eight | re- | paired | only | two years | afterwards, | in hundred and thirty-eight, for two |

dollars;
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hundred and twenty-three thousand and twelve | dollars; with an armament which has | cost | fifty-three | thousand nine | hundred and forty-five | dollars; 11

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making an a- | mount of | eight | hundred and | thirty- | four | | thousand eight hundred and | forty-five | dollars,* | || |

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as the actual | cost at | this | moment of ❘ that | single | ship; more than one | hundred thousand be- | yond all the a- | vailable ac- | cumu- |lations of the richest 1 and most ancient | seat of | learning in the | land! |◄

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Choose ye, my | fellow | citizens of a | Christian | state, between the | two | caskets-that where- | in is the loveliness of knowledge and | truth, | or | that which contains the | carrion | death. 1

I re- fer | thus par- | ticularly to the O- | hio, be- | cause she | happens to be in our | waters. But in | so | doing, I do not | take the | strongest | case af- | forded by our | navy. || Other | ships have ab- | sorbed | still | larger sums. The ex- | pense of the | Delaware, in | |

| eighteen | hundred and | forty- | two, | had been | one | million | fifty-one | thousand | dollars. ||

Pur- | sue the com- | parison | still | further. The

*Document No. 132, House of Representatives, 3d Session, 27th Congress.

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| | ex- penditures of the | Uni- | versity | during the | last | year, for the general | purposes of the | College, the in- | struction of the | under- | graduates, | and for the | schools of law and di- | vinity, |a-mount to forty- ¦ six thousand nine hundred and forty-nine | dollars. | The | cost of the O- | hio for | one | year in | service, in | salaries, wages, and pro- | visions, is two | hundred and twenty thousand | dollars; being | one hundred and seventy-five | thousand | dollars | more than the | annual ex- | penditures | of the | Uni- | versity; | more than | | | | four times as much. In | other | words,

for the | annual | sum which is | lavished on | one | ship of the | line, four insti- | tutions, like | Harvard Uni- | versity, | might be sus- | tained through- | out the | country! |

SUMNER.

INDUSTRY NECESSARY TO THE ATTAINMENT OF ELOQUENCE.

THE history of the world is full of | testimony | to prove how much de- | pends upon | industry; |17| not an eminent | orator has lived | | but is an ex- | ample of it.

| Yet, in | contra- | diction to | all | this, |

the almost uni- | versal | feeling ap- pears to be |▾ that |

industry can ef- | fect | nothing; that | eminence

is the result of | accident, and that every one | must

be con

be.

| tent to re- main | just | what he may | happen to | | Thus | multitudes, who | come | forward as | teachers and guides, suffer them- | selves to be ¦ | | satisfied with the | most in- | different at- | tainments, |◄

| | |

and a miserable | medi- ocrity, with- | out so much

as in- | quiring | how they may | rise | higher, || much | less making any at- | tempt to | rise.

For any prenticeship,

other | art | they would have | served an ap

and would be a- | shamed to practice it in public be- | fore they had | learned it. || 7 If | any one would sing, he at- | tends a master,

| drilled in the very | ele- | mentary | principles; | only | after the | most la- | borious | process | dares to cise his voice in | public.

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This he does, | though

he has scarce anything to | learn but the mechanical

| exe- | cution of | what | lies in | sensible | forms be- | fore

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the eye. But the ex- | tempore | speaker, who is to | | |

in- | vent as | well as to | utter, to | carry | on an | ope- |

ration of the mind, as well as to pro- | duce | sound, |

enters upon the | work with- | out pre- | paratory | dis

cipline, and then | wonders that he | fails.

If he were | learning to | play on the | flute | for | public exhi- | bition, what | hours | and | days would he | spend |

in | giving fa- | cility

ing the power of the execution!

to his | fingers, and at- | tainswiftest and most ex- | pressive |

If he were de- | voting him- | self to the organ, what months and years would he | | | | labor, that he might | know its | compass, and be | master of its keys, and be

able to draw | out, at | will, | all

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its various combi- | nations of har- | monious | sounds,

and its full | richness and delicacy of ex- | pression!

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And yet he will | fancy that the | grandest, ❘ the most various, and most ex- | pressive of all | instru

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ments which the | infinite Cre- | ator has | fashioned, by the union of an | intel- | lectual | soul of speech, may be | played upon

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|structed | tyro, and | thinks to | manage | all its | stops,

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and command the whole | compass of its | varied | and comprehensive | power! | he finds himself a | bungler in the at- tempt, is

failure, | and | settles it in his

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mortified at his

mind for | ever | that the

Success in every | art, what- | ever may | be the | natural | talent, and pains.

is always the re- | ward of | industry

But the | instances are many, |of| men of the finest | natural | genius, | whose be- | ginning has promised | much, but | who have de- | generated | wretchedly as they ad- | vanced, be- | cause they | trusted to their gifts, | and | made | no | efforts to im- prove. That there have | never | been | other | men of equal en- | dowments with De- | mosthenes and | Cicero, none would | venture to sup- pose;

but

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who have so de- | voted them- | selves to their | art, be- come | equal in | excellence? If those | great | men had been conI | tent like others to con- tinue as they be- gan, | ◄ and had | never | made their | perse- | vering | efforts for im- | provement, what would their

countries have | benefited from their | | world have known of their | fame?

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that

H. WARE.

have been lost in the undis- | tinguished | crowd

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sunk to ob- | livion a- | round them.

TO THE URSA MAJOR.

WITH | what a stately and ma- | jestic | step |

That glorious | constel- | lation of the | north |
I
Treads its eternal | circle! | going forth

Its princely way a- | mongst the | stars, in | slow
And silent | brightness! || Mighty one, | all | hail! |
I joy to see thee | on thy | glowing | path |

Walk like some stout and | girded | giant, || stern, | whose | toiling | foot

Un- | wearied, resolute,

| |

Dis- | dains to | loiter on its | destined | way. |17|

The other tribes for- | sake their | midnight | track, | And rest their | weary | orbs be- | neath the | wave; |

But thou dost | never | close thy | burning | eye, |

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Nor stay thy steadfast | step. But | on, | still | on! | While | systems | change and suns re- | tire, and | worlds | Slumber and wake, thy | senseless | march pro- | ceeds. The near ho- | rizon | tempts to | rest in | vain. 77 Thou, faithful | sentinel, dost | never quit

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