King of Terrors! to blast the world's best hope, and, by depriving us of all the conductors of our glorious Revolution, compel us to bury our liberties in their tombs! O Hamilton! great would be the relief of my mind, were I permitted to exchange the arduous duty of attempting to portray the varied excellence of thy character, for the privilege of venting the deep and unavailing sorrow which swells my bosom at the remembrance of the gentleness of thy nature of thy splendid talents and placid virtues!

I tremble to think that I am called to attack, from this place, a crime, the very idea of which almost freezes one with horror: a crime, too, which exists among the polite and polished orders of society; and which is accompanied with every aggravation: committed with cool deliberation, and openly in the face of day!

And was there, O my God! no other sacrifice valuable enough: would the cry of no other blood reach the place of retribution and wake justice, dozing over her awful seat!

Had it not had its advocates, had not a strange preponderance of opinion been in favor of it, never, O lamented Hamilton! hadst thou thus fallen in the midst of thy days, and before thou hadst reached the zenith of thy glory!

O that I possessed the talent of eulogy, and that I might be permitted to indulge the tenderness of friendship, in paying the last tribute to his memory! O that I were capable of placing this great man before you.*

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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 subterranean dwelling-this is all that now remains of Hamilton!

Where would be the spirit, where the courage of their slain fathers Snatched and gone from ignoble sons! What should we answer to the children we leave behind; who will take their praise or their reproach, from the conduct of their sires, and those sires republicans; who, rejecting from the train of their succession the perishing honors of a riband or a badge, are more nobly inspired to transmit the unfading distinctions that spring from the resolute discharge of all the patriot's high duties!

Impious as well as insulting! The leopard cannot change his spots or the Ethiopian his skin, but we, we, are to put off our bodies and become unlike ourselves as the price of our safety!

When it happens that some of them are surrendered up, on ex

*Each of these exclamations is the first part of a single compact, beginning with if: the second part beginning with then being understood. If it was so that, &c., then, &c.

amination and allowance of the proofs, it is not unusual to advert to it as an indication of British justice and generosity! The very act, which, to an abstract judgment, should be taken as stamping a seal upon the outrage by the acknowledgment it implies from themselves of the atrocity, is converted into the medium of homage and praise! Inverted patriotism: drooping, downcast honor! to derive a pleasurable sensation from the insulting confession of a crime!

They did not know that the angel of the Lord would go forth with them, and smite the invaders of their sanctuary: they did not know that generation after generation, would, on this day, rise up and call them blessed; that the sleeping quarry would leap forth to pay them voiceless homage; that their names would be handed down, from father to son, the penman's theme and the poet's inspiration; challenging, through countless years, the jubilant praises of an emancipated people, and the plaudits of an admiring world! no! they knew, only, that the arm which should protect, was oppressing them; and they shook it off: that the chalice presented to their lips was a poisoned one; and they dashed it away!

Sole survivor of an assembly of as great men as the world has witnessed, in a transaction, one of the most important that history records; what thoughts, what interesting reflections must fill his elevated and devout soul! If he dwell on the past, how touching its recollections: if he survey the present, how happy; how joyous; how full of the fruition of that hope, which his ardent patriotism indulged if he glance at the future, how does the prospect of his country's advancement almost bewilder his weakened conception! Fortunate, distinguished patriot! interesting relic of the past!

Alas! those attic days are gone: that sparkling eye is quenched: that voice of pure and delicate affection, which ran with such brilliancy and effect through the whole compass of colloquial music, now bright with wit, now melting in tenderness, is hushed forever in the grave!

Thus lived and thus died our sainted Patriots! May their spirits still continue to hover over their countrymen, inspire their councils, and guide them in the same virtuous and noble path; and may that God, in whose hands are the issues of all things, confirm and perpetuate, to us, the inestimable boon which through their agency, he has bestowed, and make our Columbia the bright example for all the struggling sons of liberty around the globe!

Great Heaven! how frail thy creature man is made:
How by himself insensibly betrayed!

How blest the solitary's lot;

Who all-forgetting, all-forgot,
Within his humble cell,

law,) how that the law hath dominion over a man as long as he liveth?

Is it, (permit me to ask,) because this affords no immediate profit, that you refuse to pursue it?

Could he possibly have committed this crime, (I am sure he could not,) which, as all will acknowledge, is at variance with the character he has borne, and the whole tenor of his life?

And what now, (I ask you,) is to save us from the abuse of all this power! What is to prevent our free democracy (especially when our country becomes crowded with people, as it will be byand-by, even though our woods and prairies, and our cities are choked with men, almost stifling each other with their hot breath,) from following its natural bent, and launching us all, or those who come after us, in a wild and lawless anarchy

She had managed this matter so well, (oh! she was the most artful of women!) that my father's heart was gone before I suspected it was in danger.

It was represented by an analogy, (oh! how inadequate !) which was borrowed from the religion of paganism.

Shall we continue (alas! that I should be constrained to ask the question!) in a course so dangerous to health, so enfeebling to mind, so destructive to character?

I wished (why should I deny it ) that it had been my case instead of my sister's.

Him I am to leave here, being first cleansed of the deep dye with which, by my art, (and what art is it I am not familiar with f) I have stained his skin to the darkest hue of the African.

Sir, to borrow the words of one of your own poets, whose academic sojourn was in the next college to that in which we are now assembled, (and in what language but that of Milton, can I hope to do justice to Bacon and Newton) if their star should ever for a period go down, it must be to rise again with new splendor.

Then went the captain with the officers and brought them without violence; (for they feared the people, lest they should have been stoned;) and when they had brought them, they set them

before the council.

Let the bishop be one that ruleth well his own house having his children in subjection: (for if a man know not how to rule his own house, how shall he take care of the Church of God !) not a novice, lest being lifted up with pride, he fall into condemnation of the devil.

I will therefore chastise him and release him. (For of necessity, he must release one of them at the feast.) And they cried out all at once: saying, Away with this man and release unto us Barab

bas; (who for a certain sedition made in the city, and for murder, was cast into prison.)

Brethren! be ye followers together of me, and mark them which walk so, as ye have us for an example. (For many walk, of whom I have told you often, and now tell you even weeping, that they are the enemies of the cross of Christ; whose end is destruction; whose god is their belly; and whose glory is in their shame: who mind earthly things.) For our conversation is in heaven.

God hath a special indignation against pride above all other sins; and he will cross our endeavors, not because they are evil, (what hurt could there be in laying one brick upon another; or in rearing a Babel more than any other edifice) but because this business is proudly undertaken.

Let me earnestly impress it on every one who wishes to be saved, (and if we do not, why approach the sanctuary of God: why hear the words of this book why lift up a prayer to the throne of heaven in the name of the great Redeemer) if you wish to be saved, go not into such society; or if you enter it unawares, remain not in it.

CHAPTER VII.

EXERCISES ON PARAGRAPHS, OR SENTENCES IN CONTINUOUS DISCOURSE.

In the portion of this work on which we are about to enter, the student is gradually left, after the first three sections, to which I have appended copious notes, to his own resources in the analysis of sentential structure, and the application of preceding principles and rules. If, as is here supposed, he has carefully committed to memory and thoroughly digested those principles and rules, he will meet with no difficulty on the succeeding pages, which he cannot easily surmount: without such preliminary preparation he will probably stumble over the simplest passages; and his progress, if he make any progress, will be slow, embarrassed and extremely discouraging. As elsewhere, the diligent student will find here his merited reward: the indolent and heedless, his appropriate punishment.

In the notes succeeding each of the first three sections I have

THE MIXED SENTENCE, CIRCUMSTANCE AND PARENTHESIS

I. THE MIXED SENTENCE.

RULE XX. The mixed sentence is delivered in conformity to the rules which govern the delivery of the particular sentences of which it is composed.

As the student is now supposed to be fully acquainted with every sentence in the English language, with its peculiar structure and the law of its delivery, and consequently with all the elements which, in combination, form the mixed sentence, I will not trouble him in this place with examples, but simply refer him to the Classification, where a sufficient number for illus tration and practice will be found.

II. THE CIRCUMSTANCE.

RULE XXI. At the beginning and in the middle of declarative, or declarative exclamatory sentences without partial close, and of the parts of sentences ending with partial close, the circumstance always terminates with the bend; and at the end of such sentences and parts of sentences, it terminates with partial or perfect close. At the beginning, in the middle, and at the end of interrogative or interrogative exclamatory sentences, it conforms to the slide.

A particular species of circumstance, of which "said he," "cried James," "answered Cornelius," &c., though not forming a part of the question which precedes them, and usually having the interrogative or exclamatory point between them and the question, is nevertheless delivered with a continuation of the same slide. For examples of this and of other circumstances, for illustration and practice, I refer the student, as above, to the Classification.

III. THE PARENTHESIS.

RULE XXII. If the parenthesis follows a part of a sentence making imperfect sense, it terminates with the bend if it follows partial or perfect close, that is to say, if it is placed between parts of a sentence making perfect loose, or between two sentences, it ends with the partial or perfect close.

With regard to declarative parenthetical sentences, this rule, I believe, holds universally true:* interrogatives modify it somewhat. After imperfect sense, the rising slide being nearly allied to the bend, and having but a slight tendency to break the connection, is pretty fully developed; but the falling slide, like the inferior sweep of emphasis, must return to the level of the sentence, or it will sever the connection altogether, like partial or perfect close, to which it is nearly related. After perfect sense, or partial and perfect close, the slides are unchecked. Apart from the termination, the parenthesis should be delivered according to the nature of the sentence of which it consists.

To distinguish the parenthesis from the including sentence, it should, in general, be read with less force, or a lower tone of voice. I say in general, because the reverse of this is sometimes necessary; as when the parenthesis consists of a rapid and vehement question, or startling exclamation. The main thing is, to mark the parenthesis as such; and as doing this gracefully is a necessary qualification of the good reader or speaker, I subjoin copious examples for practice: including those already adduced in the Classification.

Examples.

We hold, you know, (and rightly too,) that all government is, or ought to be made and managed for the benefit of the people.

• Except in cases in which writers have violated propriety in composition.