Whether to deck with clouds the un-colored sky, Or wet the thirsty | earth with | falling showers, Rising or falling, still ad- vance | his praise. 11111 1| | | His praise, ye | winds that from | four | quarters blow, 1771 Breathe | soft or | loud! | and | wave your | tops, || ye | pines, | With every plant, in sign of | worship, | wave. | Fountains and | ye that | warble as ye | flow | | | Join | voices, | all ye | living | souls. || Ye | birds, That singing, | up to | heaven's | gate as- | cend, 71 Bear on your wings, and in your notes | his Ye that in waters | glide, | and | ye that | walk The earth, and | stately treador | lowly creep! Witness if I be | silent, morn | or | even, | To | hill or valley, | fountain or | fresh | shade, | Made vocal by my song, and | taught | his Hail, | uni- | versal | Lord! ||be| bounteous | still, | To give us | only | good; Have gathered | aught of | evil, and if the | night or con- | cealed, | Disperse it, as now | light | dis- | pels the | dark. 1771771 MILTON. SPEECH OF THE EARL OF CHATHAM, ON THE SUBJECT OF EMPLOYING INDIANS TO FIGHT AGAINST THE AMERICANS. I CANNOT, my | lords, | I of flattery cannot | save us | i in this will not, | join in and dis- | grace. is a perilous | ▼ rugged and | It is now | necessary to in the language of | truth. | if possible, | dis- | pel the which en- | velope it; and | display, in its | full | danger and genuine | colors, the ruin │which is | brought to our | doors. | 7777 Can | ministers | still pre- | sume to ex- | pect sup- port in their in- | fatu- | ation? Can | parliament | be | so | dead to its | dignity and | duty, |◄ as to give its support | lords, empire to scorn and con- | tempt? But yes| | | which have re- | duced this | late | flourishing | terday, and England | might have stood against the | world; reverence! | now, | none so poor as to do her | The | people | (whom we at | first de- | | spised as | rebels, but | whom we | now ac- | knowledge as enemies), are a- | betted against us, sup- plied with every | military | store, their | interest con- | sulted, | | and their am- | bassadors | enter- | tained by our in- | veterate enemy; || and | ministers | do not, | and | dare not, | inter- | pose with | dignity | or ef- | fect. | 77777 | The | desperate | state of our | army a No man is in part known. No man highly es- | teems and | honors the | English | troops I do: 17717I know their | virtues i | | broad more | than and their | valor; I know they can achieve anything but impossibilities; and I know that the | conquest of | English A- | merica | is an impossibility. | worst You cannot, my lords, you | can- | not | ▼ conquer A- | merica. | 1717 What is your present | | situation there? We do not know the | | | | but we | know that in | three cam- | paigns | we have done nothing | and | suffered | much. 111 || You may | swell every ex- | pense, ac- | cumulate | every assistance, and ex- | tend your | traffic to the shambles of every | German | despot; || your at- | tempts will be for | ever | vain and | impotent; | | doubly | so, in- | deed, from this | mercenary | aid on | which you re- | ly; for it | irritates to the minds of your | | an in- | curable re- | sentment, | adversaries, to | over- | run them with the | mercenary | sons of rapine and | plunder, de- | voting | them and sessions to the ra- | pacity of hireling | | cruelty. 771 But, dition my lords, | who is the | man, | that, in ad- | to the dis- | graces and | mischiefs of the | war, has dared to authorize and associate to our arms | the tomahawk | and | scalping-knife of the savage? to call into | civilized al- | liance | the | wild and in- | human in- | habitants of the woods? ||to| delegate to the | merciless | Indian | the de- | fence of dis- | puted | rights, and to | wage the | horrors of his barbarous | war || against our | brethren? || My lords, these e- | normities | cry a- | loud dress and punishment. But, my lords, barbarous measure | has been de- | fended, not only for re- | this | | | and ne- | cessity, |◄ but | on the principles of policy "for it is perfectly "to | use | all the have | put into our | I am as- | tonished! I am | shocked! to hear such | principles con- | fessed; to hear them a vowed in | this | house, | or in | this | country. |◄ 1|17|1 My | lords, I did not in- | tend to en- Į croach so much on your attention, but I | cannot re-press my | indig- | nation. I feel my| self impelled to speak. 1711 My | lords, 1 we are called upon, as members of this | house, men, as Christians, to pro- | test against such 17 | as | horrible bar- | barity! || "That | God and | nature have | put into our hands!" | What i deas of God and nature that | noble | lord may enter | tain, I know not; but I know that | such de- | testable | principles are equally ab- | horrent to religion and humanity. |17| What, to at | tribute the sacred | sanction of | God and | nature | to the massacres of the | Indian | scalping-knife! | to the savage, torturing and murdering his un- | | | | happy victims! |17|77| Such | notions | shock | every | sentiment of honor. nable | principles, These a- | bomi and this more a- | bominable a- | vowal of them, de- | mand the | most de- | cisive indig- | nation. ។ 177/79/71 | call upon that | right reverend, |◄ and this most | learned | Bench, |to| vindicate | the religion of their | God their 991 ។ | country. to sup- | port the | justice of I call upon the bishops to inter-pose the un- | sullied | sanctity of their | lawn; | upon the judges to | inter- | pose the | purity of their | ermine, to save us from | this pol- | lution. | 7177171 call upon the honor of your | lordships, | to reverence the dignity of your ancestors, and to main- | tain your own. |17|19|71 1| call upon the | spirit | and hu- | manity of my country, to vindicate the national character. I in- | voke the | genius of the | British consti- | tution. From the | 7 | that a- | dorns | these walls, the im- | mortal of this | noble | lord | frowns with | indig- | naat the dis- | grace of his | country. | | tapestry | ancestor tion and es- | tablish |