RO 1 R O claim Shakspeare, and Newton, and Chatham, for our countrymen; whose government | is the freest on earth, our own only | excèpted; hold fróm | whom every valuable principle of our own institutions has LO been borrowed-representation, trial by júry, voting the supplies, writ of habeas corpus — our whole civil and criminal jurisprudence; —against our fellow-Protestants, identified in blóod, in lánguage, in 1 BO religion, with ourselves. In what school did the worthies of our land—the Washingtons, Hénrys, Háncocks, Franklins, Rútledges, of America- learn those principles of civil liberty which were so nobly asserted by their wisdom and valor? American resistance to British usurpation has not been more warmly | cherished by these great men and their com pátriots, not more by Washington, Hancock and Henry,- than by 8 LO Chatham and his illustrious associates in the British Pârliament. It R C F on br 1 ought to be remembered, too, that the heart of the English people R O was with us. It was a selfish and corrupt mìnistry, and their servile tools, to whom we were not more opposed than they were. I trust that none such may ever exist among ùs; for tools will never be B C wanting to subserve the purposes, however ruinous or wicked, of kings and ministers of state. I acknowledge the influence of a Shakspeare and a Milton upon my imagination; of a Lòcke upon my understanding; of a Sidney upon my political principles; of a RO h R O 1 R Chatham upon qualities which | would to God | I possessed in còm lfs RO 18 R mon with that illustrious man! of a Tillotson, a Sherlock and a PòrO w to br R C F w to RO 1 B C teus upon my religion. This is a British influence which I can never | shake | òff. Richard L. Sheil. 29. IRISH AGITATORS, 1834. - 30. MILITARY QUALIFICATIONS DISTINCT FROM CIVIL, 1828.John Sergeant. (Page 201, Orator's Manual.) 213. Antithetical and Ironical: Circumflex Inflections. Predominating Compound Stress (§ 103) on emphatic syllables. 31. THE RIGHT TO TAX AMERICA.-Edmund Burke. 1. “But, Mr. Speaker, we have a right to tax Amèrica." Oh, inêstimable right! Oh, wonderful, transcendent right! the assertion of which has cost this country thirteen | provinces, six | islands, one hundred thousand | líves, and seventy | millions | of money! Oh, R W Ꭱ Ꮯ tr to br 1 invâluable right! for the sake of which we have sacrificed our rank | WRC to m SRC R C W among nations, | our importance | abroad, | and our happiness | at R O 1 R home! Oh, right, more dear to us than our existence, | which has 1 already eost us so | much, | and which seems | likely | to cost us our BO 1 f all! Infatuated | man! miserable | and undone | country! not to ROF 1 fo F W 8 R C know that the claim of ríght, without the power | of enforcing it, | is nùgatory and idle. We have a rìght to tax America, the noble 1 R lord tells us, therefore we ought to tax America. This is the pro found | logic | which comprises the whole | chàin | of his reasoning. 2. Not inferior to this was the wisdom of him | who resolved to shear the wôlf. What, shear a wolf! Have you considered the W 1 8 LC resistance, the difficulty, | the danger, | of the attempt? No, says W tr to LC Ft on waist the madman, I have considered nothing but the right. Man has a 1 L 1 L O right of dominion over the beasts of the forest; and, therefore, I will 1 Во wh BC tr and to h BC shear the wolf. How wonderful that a nation could be thus delùded! But the noble lord deals in cheats and delusions. They are the daily | traffic of his invention; and he will continue to play off his cheats 1 R O on this house, so long as he thinks them necessary to his purpose, 1 RO snatch to waist and so long as he has money enough at command to bribe | gentle 1 RO fRO slowly men to pretend that they beliève him. But a black | and bitter lift h C shake h C day of reckoning | will surely còme; and whenêver that day comes, I trust I shall be able, by a parliamentary impeachment, to bring h с pr m с upon the heads of the âuthors of our calamities the punishment they deserve. 32. THE PARTITION OF POLAND, 1800.- Charles J. Fox. Now, sir, what was the conduct of your own allies to Pôland? Is there a single | atrocity | of the French in Itály, in Switzerland, in Egypt, if you pléase, more unpríncipled and inhúman than that of Rússia, Aústria, and Prússia, in Póland? What has there been in the conduct of the French to foreign powers; what in the viola1 fROF 1fROF W 1 R C w . 1 tion of solemn | treaties; what in the plunder, devastation, and dis1 f R OF 1 f 8 R C memberment of unoffending countries; what in the horrors and R OF WRC to murders perpetrated upon the subdued victims of their rage in any district which they have overrùn,- worse than the conduct of those thrẽe | great | põwers in the miserable, devòted, and trampled-on Kingdom of Poland, and who have been, or are, òur | allies in this war for religion, social | ôrder, and the rights of nâtions? Ô, but W L C back WLC back you "regrêtted the partition of Poland!" Yês, regrêtted!—you 1 LO W back L C 1 f BO regretted the violence, and that is all you did. You united your 1 8 BO 1 ВО selves with the actors; you, in fact, by your acquiescence, confìrmed exaggerated BO ВО wide the atrocity. But they are your allies; and though they overran and BO w m tr B C to s BC and m s BC divided Poland, there was nôthing, perhaps, in the mânner of doing 8 prone B C m it which stamped it with peculiar infamy and of Poland, perhaps, was mêrciful and mild! L O superior to Bõnaparte in bravery, and in the down disgrace. The hero He was "as much w tr and to s m discipline which he LC tr and to me L C down maintained, as he was superior in virtue and bomânity! He was azimated by the pärest principles of Christianity, and was restrained 1 B0 exaggerated R O in his career by the benevolent précepts which it incluates!" Was be? LCF tr and Let unfortunate Warsaw, and the miserable inhabitants of the suburb of Prága in particular, tell! What do we understand to have been the conduct of this magnánimous hèro, with whom, it 1 S RO seems, Bonaparte is not to be compared? (fast) He entered the suburb of Prága, the most populous suburb of Warsaw, and there C he let his soldiery loose on the miserable, unarmed and unresisting hs Cw C SC people! Men, women and children,—nay, infants at the breast,— were doomed to one | indiscriminate | massacre! Thousands of them were inhumanly, wantonly butchered! And (slow) for what? Because they had dared | to join in a wish | to mèliorate their own condition as a People, and to improve their Constitution, which had been confessed, by their own | sovereign, to be in wànt of amènd 1 L W tr to br B C and ment. And such is the hero upon whom the cause of "religion and to m BC prone 1 в о social order" is to repose! And sûch is the man whom we praise for his discipline and his vîrtue, and whom we hold out as our bôast 1 R OW R C and our dependence; while the conduct of Bōnaparte unfits him to be even treated with as an enemy! 33. CATILINE TO THE GALLIC CONSPIRATORS.—Rev. George Croly. Men of Gaul! What would you give for Freedom?— wm tr RC to fm RC For Frêedom, | if it stood before your èyes; W m RC to waist C Ft For Freedom, if it rushed to your embrace; W R CFt to 8 C Ft For Freedom, | if its sword were ready dráwn w turn to 1 RO To hew your chains off? Ye would give death | or life! Then marvel not lf LO 1 s f LO That I am here that Câtiline would join you! The great Patrícian? - Yês-an hour agō— w to R But now the rèbel; Rome's eternal fòe, 1 L O 1 LO And yôur | sworn | friend! My desperate wrong's my plèdge There's not in Róme,-nó—not upon the earth, A man so wronged. The very ground I trèad 1 B C Ft crossed w1 ВО Is grùdged me.- - Chieftains! ere the moon be down, W to h CF and shake h R C For lùcre. But there's a time at hand! - Gaze on! If I had thought you cõwards, I might have come And told you lies. But you have now the thing 1 0 Ft I âm; - Rome's enemy,- and fixed | as fàte | ILO SLO To you and yours forever! The State is weak as dust. lift Rome's broken, | helpless, | heart-sick. Vengeance sits And it must | fall. Her boasted strength's | a ghost, 1 s RC W to C Ft on waist Fearful to dastards; - yet, to trenchant swôrds, W to hf RC Thin as the passing aîr! A single | blow, In this diseased and crumbling state of Róme, Would break your chains like stubble. |