unrelenting enemy. He has no friends to cheer him in the terrible conflict; for if he had friends, how could he die of hunger? He has not the hot blood of the soldier to maintain him; for his foe, vampire-like, has exhausted his veins.

Who will hesitate to give his mite to avert such awful results? Give, then, generously and freely. Recollect that in so doing you are exercising one of the most godlike qualities of your nature, and at the same time enjoying one of the greatest luxuries of life. We ought to thank our Maker that he has permitted us to exercise equally with himself that noblest of even the divine attributes-benevolence. Go home and look at your family, smiling in rosy health, and then think of the pale, famine-pinched cheeks of the poor children of Ireland, and you will give according to your store, even as a bountiful Providence has given to you-not grudgingly, but with an open hand; for the quality of benevolence, like that of mercy,

"Is not strained;

It droppeth like the gentle rain from heaven
Upon the place beneath. It is twice bless'd:
It blesses him that gives, and him that takes."

THE SETTLEMENT OF PENNSYLVANIA.-H. D. GILPIN.

If the foundation and settlement of Pennsylvania were planned and accomplished upon a system so benignant and just, alike to the red man and the emigrant, as to elicit the praise and wonder of the age, to what was it due but to his promises, made in advance and never swerved from, of just and gentle dealings towards the one, and, to the other, that they should "be governed by laws of their own making, so that they might be a free, and, if they would, a sober and industrious people," possessing "all that good and free men could reasonably desire for the security and improvement of their own happiness"? "Let the Lord," he said, "guide me by His wisdom to honor His name, and to serve His truth and people, so that an example and a standard may be set up to the nations."

If the constitution of our state, now and always, has declared that no right of conscience, and no form or mode of religious worship, shall be controlled or interfered with, and requires, in offices of the highest trust, no religious qualification but a belief in the existence of the Supreme Being, and His power to punish or reward our actions, we proudly remember that this glorious principle is foremost in the earliest of our laws, voluntarily proclaimed by Penn before he left the shores of England; and that he, among all legislators, was the first to guarantee, by the enactments of his civil code, the full enjoyment of this Christian liberty to every one living in his province, "who should confess and acknowledge one Almighty God to be the creator, upholder, and ruler of the world."

THE PATRIOTISM OF THE WEST-CLAY.

No portion of your population is more loyal to the Union than the hardy freemen of the West. Nothing can weaken or eradicate their ardent desire for its lasting preservation. None are more prompt to vindicate the interests and rights of the nation from all foreign aggression. Need I remind you of the glorious scenes in which they participated during the late wara war in which they had no peculiar or direct interest, waged for no commerce, no seamen of theirs? But it was enough for them that it was a war demanded by the character and the honor of the nation. They did not stop to calculate its costs of blood or of treasure.

They flew to arms; they rushed down the valley of the Mississippi with all the impetuosity of that noble river. They sought the enemy. They found him at the beach. They fought; they bled; they covered themselves and their country with immortal glory. They enthusiastically shared in all the transports occasioned by our victories, whether, won on the ocean or on the land. They felt, with the keenest distress, whatever disaster befell us. No, sir, I repeat it, neglect, injury

itself cannot alienate the affections of the West from this government. They cling to it as to their best, their greatest, their last hope. You may impoverish them, reduce them to ruin, by the mistakes of your policy, but you cannot drive them from you.

MAN'S IMMORTALITY.-PROUT.

WHAT is to become of man? Is the being who, surveying nature, recognises to a certain extent the great scheme of the universe; but who sees infinitely more which he does not comprehend, and which he ardently desires to know; is he to perish like a mere brute-all his knowledge useless; all his most earnest wishes ungratified? How are we to reconcile such a fate with the wisdom-the goodness-the impartial justiceso strikingly displayed throughout the world by its Creator? Is it consistent with any one of these attributes thus to raise hopes in a dependent being which are never to be realized—thus to lift, as it were, a corner of the veil-to show this being a glimpse of the splendor beyond-and after all to annihilate him? With the character and attributes of the benevolent Author of the universe, as deduced from His works, such conceptions are absolutely incompatible. The question then recurs -What is to become of man? That he is mortal, like his fellow-creatures, sad experience teaches him; but does he, like them, die entirely? Is there no part of him that, surviving the general wreck, is reserved for a higher destiny? Can that, within man, which reasons like his immortal Creator--which sees and acknowledges His wisdom, and approves of His designs, be mortal like the rest? Is it probable, nay, is it possible, that what can thus comprehend the operations of an immortal Agent, is not itself immortal?

Thus has reasoned man in all ages; and his desires and his feelings, his hopes and his fears, have all conspired with his reason to strengthen the conviction that there is something

within him which cannot die: that he is destined, in short, for a future state of existence, where his nature will be exalted and his knowledge perfected; and where the GREAT DESIGN of his Creator, commenced and left imperfect here below, WILL BE

COMPLETED.

EULOGY ON HAMILTON.-NOTT.

From that

His inter

He stood on an eminence, and glory covered him. eminence he has fallen-suddenly, for ever fallen. course with the living world is now ended; and those who would hereafter find him must seek him in the grave. There, cold and lifeless, is the heart which just now was the seat of friendship. There, dim and sightless, is the eye whose radiant and enlivening orb beamed with intelligence; and there, closed for ever, are those lips on whose persuasive accents we have so often, and so lately, hung with transport. From the darkness. which rests upon his tomb there proceeds, methinks, a light in which it is clearly seen that those gaudy objects which men pursue are only phantoms. In this light how dimly shines the splendor of victory! how humble appears the majesty of grandeur! The bubble, which seemed to have so much solidity, has burst, and we again see that all below the sun is vanity. Approach, and behold, while I lift from his sepulchre its covering! Ye admirers of his greatness, ye emulous of his talents and his fame, approach and behold him now. How pale! How silent! No martial bands admire the adroitness of his movements; no fascinated throng weep, and melt, and tremble at his eloquence. Amazing change! A shroud! a coffin! a narrow, subterraneous cabin! This is all that now remains of Hamilton.

THE RULE OF AMERICAN CONDUCT.-WASHINGTON.

THE great rule of conduct for us, in regard to foreign nations, is, in extending our commercial relations, to have with them ast little political connection as possible. So far as we have already formed engagements, let them be fulfilled with perfect good faith. Here let us stop.

Europe has a set of primary interests, which to us have none, or a very remote relation. Hence she must be engaged in frequent controversies, the causes of which are essentially foreign to our concerns. Hence, therefore, it must be unwise in us to implicate ourselves, by artificial ties, in the ordinary vicissitudes of her politics, or the ordinary combinations and collisions of her friendships and enmities.

Our detached and distant situation invites and enables us to pursue a different course. If we remain one people, under an efficient government, the period is not far off when we may defy material injury from external annoyance; when we may take such an attitude as will cause the neutrality we may at any time resolve upon, to be scrupulously respected; when bellige rent nations, under the impossibility of making acquisitions upon us, will not lightly hazard the giving us provocation; when we may choose peace or war, as our interest, guided by justice, shall counsel.

SWITZERLAND, AN EXAMPLE.-HENRY.

SWITZERLAND consists of thirteen cantons expressly confederated for national defence They have stood the shock of four hundred years that country has enjoyed internal tranquillity most of that long period. Their dissensions have been, comparatively to those of other countries, very few. What has passed in the neighboring countries? wars, dissensions, and intrigues-Germany involved in the most deplorable civil war thirty years successively, continually convulsed with intestine