on your ears, and will foon teach you better manners have yet learned. than you Duel. Oh my honor, my honor, to what infamy art thou fallen! SPEECH OF AN INDIAN CHIEF, OF THE STOCKBRIDGE TRIBE, TO THE MASSACHUSETTS CONGRESS, IN THE YEAR 1775. BROTHERS! remember, when you first came over the great waters, I was great and you were little; very small. I then took you in for a friend, and kept you under my arms, fo that no one might injure you. Since that time we have ever been true friends: there has never been any quarrel between us. But now our conditions are changed. You are become great and tall. You reach to the clouds. You are feen all round the world. I am become fmall; very little. I am not fo high as your knee. Now you take care of me; and I look to you for protection. Brothers! I am forry to hear of this great quarrel between you and Old England. It appears that blood muft foon be fhed to end this quarrel. We never till this day understood the foundation of this quarrel between you and the country you came from. Brothers! Whenever I fee your blood running, you will foon find me about you to revenge my brothers' blood. Although I am low and very finall, I will gripe hold of your enemy's heel, that he cannot run fo faft, and fo light, as if he had nothing at his heels. Brothers! You know I am not fo wife as you are, therefore I ask your advice in what I am now going to fay. I have been thinking, before you come to action, to take a run to the weftward, and feel the mind of my Indian brethren, the Six Nations, and know how they ftand; whether they are on your fide, or for Now your enemies. If I find they are against you, I will try to turn their minds. I think they will liften to me; for they have always looked this way for advice, concerning all important news that comes from the rifing fun. If they hearken to me, you will not be afraid of any danger from behind you. However their minds are affected, you shall foon know by me. I think I can do you more fervice in this way than by marching off immediately to Boston, and staying there. It be a great may while before blood runs. Now, as I said, you are wifer than I, I leave this for your confideration, whether I come down immediately, or wait till I hear fome blood is fpilled. Brothers! I would not have you think by this, that we are falling back from our engagements. We are ready to do any thing for your relief, and fhall be guided by your counfel. Brothers! One thing I ask of you, if you fend for me to fight, that you will let me fight in my own Indian way. I am not used to fight English fashion ; therefore you must not expect I can train like your men. Only point out to me where your enemies keep, and that is all I fhall want to know. ON THE CREATION OF THE WORLD. Tin O the ancient philofophers, creation from nothing appeared an unintelligible idea. They maintained the eternal existence of matter, which they fuppofed to be modelled by the fovereign mind of the univerfe, into the form which the earth now exhibits. But there is nothing in this opinion which gives it any title to be opposed to the authority of revelation. The doctrine of two felf-exiftent, independent principles, God and matter, the one active, the other paffive, is a hypothefis which prefents difficulties to human reafon, at least as great as the creation of matter from nothing. A dhering then to the teftimony of scripture, we believe, that "in the beginning, God created," or from non-exiftence brought into being, "the heavens and the earth." But though there was a period when this globe, with all that we fee upon it, did not exist, we have no reason to think, that the wisdom and power of the Almighty were then without exercife or employment. Boundless is the extent of his dominion. Other globes and worlds, enlightened by other funs, may then have occupied, they ftill appear to occupy, the immenfe regions of space. Numberlefs orders of beings, to us unknown, people the wide extent of the univerfe, and afford an endless variety of objects to the ruling care of the great Father of all. At length, in the course and progrefs of his government, there arrived a period, when this earth was to be called into existence. When the fignal moment, predestinated from all eternity, was come, the Deity arofe in his might, and with a word created the world. What an illuftrious moment was that, when, from non-existence, there fprang at once into being this mighty globe, on which fo many millions of creatures now dwell! No preparatory measures were required. No long circuit of means was employed. "He fpake; and it was done: He commanded, and it ftood faft." The earth was, at firft, "without form, and void; and darkness was on the face of the deep." The Almighty furveyed the dark abyfs; and fixed bounds to the feveral divifions of nature. He faid, "Let there be light, and there was light." Then appeared the fea, and the dry land. The mountains rofe; and the rivers flowed. The fun and moon began their courfe in the fkies. Herbs and plants clothed the ground. The air, the earth, and the waters, were stored with their refpective inhabitants. At laft, man was made after the image of God. peared, walking with countenance erect; and received his Creator's benediction, as the lord of this new world. The Almighty beheld his work when it was finished, and pronounced it good. Superior beings faw He ap with wonder this new acceffion to existence. "The morning stars fang together; and all the fons of God fhouted for joy." But, on this great work of creation, let us not merely gaze with aftonishment. Let us confider how it fhould affect our conduct, by prefenting the divine perfections in a light which is at once edifying and comforting to man. It displays the Creator as fupreme in power, in wisdom, and in goodness. Let us look around, and furvey this ftupendous edifice, which we have been admitted to inhabit. Let us think of the extent of the different climates and regions of the earth; of the magnitude of the mountains, and of the expanfe of the ocean. Let us conceive that immenfe globe which contains them, launched at once from the hand of the Almighty; made to revolve inceffantly on its axis, that it might produce the viciffitudes of day and night; thrown forth, at the fame time, to run its annual course in perpetual circuit through the heavens. After fuch a meditation, where is the greatness, where is the pride of man? Into what total annihilation do we fink, before an omnipotent Being? Reverence, and humble adoration ought fpontaneously to arife. He, who feels no propenfity to worship and adore, is dead to all fenfe of grandeur and majesty; has extinguished one of the most natural feelings of the human heart. LINES SPOKEN AT A SCHOOL-EXHIBITION, BY A LITTLE BOY SEVEN YEARS OLD. YOU'D fcarce expect one of my age, You To fpeak in public, on the ftage; Don't view me with a critic's eye, Large ftreams from little fountains flow; Mayn't Maffachuffetts boaft as great As any other fifter state? Or, where's the town, go far and near, Or, where's the boy, but three feet high, Great, not like Cefar, ftain'd with blood; EXTRACT FROM MR. PITT'S SPEECH IN THE BRITISH PARLIAMENT, IN THE YEAR 1766, on THE SUBJECT OF THE STAMP-ACT. I T is a long time, Mr. Speaker, fince I have attended in parliament. When the refolution was taken in the Houfe to tax America, I was ill in bed. If I could have endured to have been carried in my bed, fo great was the agitation of my mind for the confequences, that I would have folicited fome kind hand to have laid me down on this floor, to have borne my teftimony against it. It is now an act that has paffed. I would fpeak with decency of every act of this House; but I must beg the indulgence of the Houfe to fpeak of it with freedom. I hope a day may be soon appointed to confider the ftate of the nation with refpect to America. I hope |