As a neighbor, he must be kind, friendly, and accommodating. His discourse must be mild and instructive. He must labor to prevent quarrels, to reconcile those who differ, to comfort the afflicted. In short, he must be "ready 5 for every good work;" and all his dealings with others must show the HEAVENLY PRINCIPLE, which dwells and works in his HEART. LESSON XI.-POPULAR GOVERNMENT.-DR. SHARP. [Marked for Emphasis.] The real glory and prosperity of a nation does not consist in the hereditary rank or titled privileges of a very small class in the community; in the great wealth of the few, and the great poverty of the many; in the splendid 5 palaces of nobles, and the wretched huts of a numerous and half-famished peasantry. No! such a state of things may give pleasure to proud, ambitious, and selfish minds, but there is nothing here on which the eye of a patriot can rest with unmingled satisfaction. In his deliberate judg10 ment, 15 "Ill fares the land, to hastening ills a prey, It is an intelligent, virtuous, free, and extensive population, able, by their talents and industry, to obtain a competent support, which constitutes the strength and pros20 perity of a nation. It is not the least advantage of a popular government, that it brings into operation a greater amount of talent than any other. It is acknowledged by every one, that the occurrence of great events awakens the dormant ener25 gies of the human mind, and calls forth the most splendid and powerful abilities. It was the momentous question, whether your country should be free and independent, and the declaration that it was so, which gave to you orators, statesmen, and generals, whose names all future ages 30 will delight to honor. The characters of men are generally moulded by the circumstances in which they are placed. They seldom put forth their strength, without some powerfully exciting motives. But what motives can they have to qualify them selves for stations, from which they are forever excluded on account of PLEBEIAN EXTRACTION? How can they be expected to prepare themselves for the service of their country, when they know that their services would be RE5 JECTED, because, unfortunately, they dissent from the established religion, and have honesty to avow it! But in a country like OURS, where the most obscure in dividuals in society may, by their talents, virtues, and public services, rise to the most honorable distinctions, and 10 attain to the highest offices which the people can give, the most effectual inducements are presented. It is indeed true, that only a few who run in the race for political honor, can obtain the prize. But, although many come short, yet the exertions and the progress which they make, are 15 not lost either on themselves or society. The suitableness of their talents and characters for some other important station, may have been perceived; at least the cultivation of their minds, and the effort to acquire an honorable reputation, may render them active and useful members of the 20 community. These are some of the benefits peculiar to a POPULAR government; benefits which we have long enjoyed. LESSON XII.-REVERENCE FOR LAW.-J. HOPKINSON. From a Eulogium on Hon. Bushrod Washington.-Trial of General Bright, for obstructing the execution of a process of the Supreme Court of the United States. [The type indicates, as before, the degree of Emphasis.] Mark the conduct of Pennsylvania, at this unprecedent. ed, trying crisis. Can she recede from her absolute assertion of right? Can she take back her unqualified menaces of resistance, and promises of protection to her 5 citizens?-A judge, in himself a weak and helpless individual, supported by no power but the LAW, pronounces a sentence of CRIMINAL CONDEMNATION upon the ASSEMBLED REPRESENTATIVES of the people,-upon their SUPREME EXECUTIVE AUTHORITY; upon THEMSELVES; and orders 10 the minister of their will, surrounded by a military force under his command, to a COMMON GAOL.-And this is submitted to with a REVERENTIAL AWE; not a murmur from the prisoner; not a movement by the people, to rescue him from a punishment inflicted upon him for obeying 15 their mandates, for sustaining their authority, and defend ing their interests.-And wHY?-Because the LAW had spoken,-it was the judgment of the LAW. The people were wise and virtuous; they loved their country above all things; and to her they willingly sur5 rendered their strength, their passions, their pride, and their interest. A jury of Pennsylvania, instructed and convinced that the supremacy of the LAW had been violated, gave up the offenders,—their fellow-citizens, respected, and WORTHY of respect,—to its penalties.—What a JUDGE ! 10-how FEARLESS in his DUTY!-What a PEOPLE! how MAGNANIMOUS in their submission! How worthy of each other! No proud and passionate assertion of sovereignty; no violent menaces of insulted power; no rebellious defiance of the federal authority; no inflammatory combinations to 15 resist it; and to shatter, in their madness, the beautiful fabric of our Union. In short, no NULLIFICATION,—a new and portentous word, -but a calm and noble submission to the concentrated power of ALL the States, in a government MADE and ADOPTED 20 by all; which all are BOUND, by their solemn and pledged faith, by their hopes of peace, safety, and happiness, to MAINTAIN and OBEY. It is only by such efforts of patriotism that this great and growing Republic can be preserved. If, whenever the 25 pride of a state is offended, or her selfishness rebuked, she may assume an attitude of defiance, may pour her rash and angry menaces on her confederated sisters, may claim a sovereignty altogether independent of them, and acknowledge herself to be bound to the Union by no ties but 30 such as she may dissolve at pleasure; we do indeed hold our political existence by a most PRECARIOUS tenure; and the future destinies of our country are as dark and uncertain, as the past have been happy and glorious. Happy is THAT country, and ONLY that, where the laws 35 are not only just and equal, but supreme and irresistible; -where selfish interests and disorderly passions are curbed by an arm to which they MUST submit.-We look back with horror and affright to the dark and troubled ages, when a cruel and gloomy superstition tyrannized over the 40 people of Europe; dreaded alike by kings and people; by governments and individuals; before which the LAW had NO FORCE; JUSTICE NO RESPECT; and MERCY NO INFLUence. The sublime precepts of morality, the kind and endearing charities; the true and rational reverence for a bountiful Creator, which are the elements and the life of our religion, were TRAMPLED upon in the reckless career of AMBITION, PRIDE, and the LUST of POWER. Nor was it much better when the arm of the warrior, and the sharpness of 5 his sword, determined every question of right; and held the weak in bondage to the strong; and the revengeful feuds of the great, involved, in one common ruin, themselves and their humblest vassals.—These disastrous days are GONE, never to return. There is no power but the 10 LAW, which is the power of ALL; and those who administer it are the MASTERS and the MINISTERS of ALL. LESSON XIII.-BIRTHPLACE OF LIBERTY. PROF. STUART. [This, and the two following pieces, are intended to be marked by the reader, as an exercise in applying the rules of Emphasis.] · The members of the legislature now before me, are convened on holy ground. Here is the sacred place where liberty, in its best form, first struggled into being. This is the very spot where the pulsation of the heart of 5 true freedom began to beat. I, who was born and nurtured in another state, may venture to say this without the appearance of self-gratulation. The remembrance of early days rushes upon my mind, and rekindles the enthusiasm with which I then read the story of your efforts 10 and sufferings on this ground, in behalf of your country's freedom, while I bedewed with tears the pages which recorded them. Increasing years have not diminished that feeling; and it has been greatly augmented by a personal knowledge of this place and people. It is now my most 15 fervent supplication to GoD, that here, where freedom began, her reign may continue down to the end of time. Here may the flame of Christian liberty, which has been kindled, burn brighter and brigh.er, until states and empires shall be no more! 20 But if, in the inscrutable purposes of HEAVEN, and in judgment to our race, the cause of Freedom must again sink; if she is to be wounded in every part, and the current of her blood to be drained from every vein and artery of the body, may the seat of life here still remain in 25 action! But if even the very heart too must be drained of its last drop, and life cease to beat, then let the funeral obsequies of human happiness be kept in solemn sadness; *Of Massachusetts. let the heavens be hung with black, and the earth clothed with habiliments of mourning, in token of grief, that the liberty of man is no more. LESSON XIV.—CHARACTER OF WASHINGTON.-Smyth. [To be marked for Emphasis, by the reader.] To the historian, few characters appear so little to have shared the common frailties and imperfections of human nature, as that of Washington. There are but few particulars that can be mentioned even to his disadvantage. 5 Instances may be found where, perhaps, it may be thought that he was decisive to a degree that partook of severity and harshness, or even more; but how innumerable were the decisions which he had to make!-how difficult and how important, through the eventful series of twenty years 10 of command in the cabinet or the field! Let it be considered what it is to have the management of a revolution, and afterwards the maintenance of order. Where is the man who, in the history of our race, has ever succeeded in attempting successively the one and the 15 other?—not on a small scale, a, petty state in Italy, or among a horde of barbarians; but in an enlightened age, when it is not easy for one man to rise superior to another, and in the eyes of mankind, 20 "A kingdom for a stage, And monarchs to behold the swelling scene." The plaudits of his country were continually sounding in his ears; and neither the judgment nor the virtues of the man were ever disturbed. Armies were led to the field with all the enterprise of a hero, and then dismissed 25 with all the equanimity of a philosopher. Power was accepted, was exercised, was resigned, precisely at the mo ment and in the way that duty and patriotism directed. Whatever was the difficulty, the trial, the temptation, or the danger, there stood the soldier and the citizen, eter30 nally the same, without fear and without reproach, and there was the man who was not only at all times virtuous, but at all times wise. The merit of Washington by no means ceases with his campaigns; it becomes, after the peace of 1783, even more 35 striking than before; for the same man who, for the sake of liberty, was ardent enough to resist the power of Great Britain, and hazard every thing on this side the grave, at a later period had to be temperate enough to resist the |