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; hundred and twenty-three thousand and twelve | dollars; with an armament which has | cost | fifty-three | thousand nine | hundred and forty-five | dollars; 11 making an a- | mount of | eight | hundred and | thirty- | four | | thousand eight hundred and | forty-five | dollars,* | || | 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! |◄ 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. | | 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. and is and | exer This he does, | though he has scarce anything to | learn but the mechanical | exe- | cution of | what | lies in | sensible | forms be- | fore | 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 its various combi- | nations of har- | monious | sounds, and its full | richness and delicacy of ex- | pression! And yet he will | fancy that the | grandest, ❘ the most various, and most ex- | pressive of all | instru ments which the | infinite Cre- | ator has | fashioned, by the union of an | intel- | lectual | soul of speech, may be | played upon or practice. with the powers with- | out | study |structed | tyro, and | thinks to | manage | all its | stops, 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 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 or 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? that H. WARE. have been lost in the undis- | tinguished | crowd 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 | Its princely way a- | mongst the | stars, in | slow 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, | 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 |