RC 1 lift the palace, and the warehouse costlier than the palace, rear their drop to C prone ponderous shapes | above the waves that battle at their bàse—has SRCF prone W RC F outstripped the merchant of the Rialto—has threatened England in f mCF m SRC to the Thàmes—has swept the channel with her broom—and, though WRC to W S RC tr to br RC W for a day she reeled before the bayonets of Dumoúriez, she sprang to her feet again and strùck the trícolor from her dykes! And yôu—yôu, who are eight millions stròng—you, who boast at lift to h BO and drop to every meeting that this island is the finest which the sun looks down во upon-you, who have nô threatening | sea to stêm, no avalanche to drêad—you, who say that you could shield along your coast a thousand | sàil, and be the princes of a mighty | còmmerce—you, who by the magic of an honest | hánd, beneath each summer | sky, W 1 tr R C to br C W to 1 might cull a plenteous | hàrvest from your sòil, and with the sickle 8 R C strike away the scythe of death-you, who have no vùlgar | hìstory to read-you, who can trace, from field to field, the evidences of civilization | òlder than the Cònquest—the relics of a religion | far more ancient than the Gòspel—you, who have thus been blessed, thus been gífted, thus been prómpted to what is wisé and generous w1 B C bk and great—you will make no èffort—you will whìne, and bèg, and WR Ctr to C on waist skùlk, in sòres and ràgs, upon this favored lànd—you will còngregate drop to 1 RC mRC in drowsy councils, and then, when the very earth is loosening 1 R с W tr RC and to m beneath your féet, you will bid a prosperous voyage to your last w to 1 RC grain of corn-you will be bèggared by the mìllion-you will pèrish h R CF by the thousand, and the finest island which the sun looks down shake h RC m f C upon, amid the jêers and hôotings of the world, will blacken into a 51. GREAT BRITAIN AND AMERICA. Newman Hall. 52. (Page 235, Orator's Manual.) THE CAUSE OF TEMPERANCE. -John B. Gough. (Page 237, Orator's Manual.) 53. DUTY OF AMERICA TO GREECE. - Henry Clay. (Page 239, Orator's Manual.) 217. Explanatory and Categorical. The following begin with a short, sharp Terminal (§ 101), becoming, at times, Initial stress (§ 100), and end with a longer Terminal, sometimes becoming Median (§ 102). A few of the selections may take Pure Quality at the opening; all should close with the Orotund (§§ 131-137). 54. SMALL BEGINNINGS OF GREAT HISTORICAL MOVEMENTS. G. S. Hillard. The first forty | years of the seventeenth | century were fruitful in striking | occurrences | and remarkable | mèn. Charles II | was born in 1630. When he had reached an age to understand the rudiments of historical | knowledge, we may imagine his royal father to have commissioned some grave and experienced counselor of his court to instruct the future monarch of England in the great | events which had taken place in Eúrope since the opening of the century. W 1 B Upon what thèmes would the tutor of the young prince have been 1 B O f R likely to discourse? He would have dwelt upon the struggle between Spain and the Netherlands, and upon the Thirty Years' War in bring S RO Germany; and he would have recalled the sorrow that fell upon the Ꭱ O br hold to R C F 1 on heart of England when the news cáme of the disastrous battle of R O Prague. LC to He would have painted the horror and dismay | which ran through br France at the assassination of Henry IV. He would have attempted 1 to convey to his young pupil some notion of the military genius of L 1 S L Maurice of Nassau, of the vast political capacity of Cardinal Rìche wmLC to br lieu, and of the splendor and mystery that wrapped the romantic life LC of Wallenstein. But so seemingly insignificant an occurrence as the sailing of a RO 1 f RO IRO W few Puritans from Delph Haven, in the summer of 1620, would doubt less have been entirely overlooked; or, if mentioned at all, the young prince might have been told, that in that year a congregation of RO 8 R 0 W 10 1 I ко fanatical Brownists sailed for North Virginia; that, since that tíme, hold ôthers of the same factious and troublesome sect had followed in to 1 RO 1 W their path, and that they had sent home many cargoes of fish and RO poultry. But with our eyes, we can see that this humble event was the 1 BO 1 BO seed of far more memorable consequences than âll the sièges, battles, 1 Во W m LC to and treaties of that momentous pèriod. The effects of those fields of slaughter | hardly | lasted | longer | than the smoke and dust of the contending armies; but the seminal principles which were carried to America in the Mayflower, which grew in the wholesome air of to 8 RO Ft 1 obscurity and neglect, are at this moment vìtal forces in the move Ꭱ C Ꭱ 0 ments of the world, the extent and influence of which no political foresight can measure. Ideas which, for the first time in the history 1 LO of mankind, took | shape | upon our soil, are the springs | of that 8 LCF h CF contest | now going on in Eûrope | between the Past and the Future, m C h CF the end of which no man can see. h L 0 1 LO May God inspire us and our rulers with the wisdom to presèrve 1 LO and transmit, unimpaired, those advantages | secured to us by our starting without | the weary | burdens | and perplexing | entanglements of the Past. May we throw into the scale of struggling freedom in the Old World, not the sword of physical fórce, but the to br and to 1 RO 1 weight of a noble example—the moral argument of a great people, invigorated, but not intoxicated, by their liberty-a power which, mf B C h f B though unsubstantial, will yet, like the uplifted hands of Mõses upon Hòreb, avâil mòre | than hosts | of armed | mèn. 55. IN BEHALF OF STARVING IRELAND.-S. S. Prentiss. (Page 243, Orator's Manual.) 56. DANGER OF THE SPIRIT OF CONQUEST. — Thomas Corwin. (Page 244, Orator's Manual.) 57. HAMLET'S INSTRUCTIONS.- Shakspeare. 218. Demonstrative and Diffusive. The following selections begin with median stress (§ 102) and orotund quality (§ 137); they end with terminal stress (§ 101) and the aspirated orotund (§ 138). 58. IGNORANCE IN OUR COUNTRY A CRIME.-Horace Mann. In all the dungeons of the Old World, where the strong champions of freedom are now pining in captivity beneath the remorseless power of the tyrant, the morning sun does not send a glimmering ray into their cells, nor does night draw a thicker veil of darkness between them and the world, but the lone prisoner lifts his iron-laden 1 LO arms to heaven in prayer that wé, the depositaries of freedom and of 1 LO human hopes, may be faithful to our sacred trùst; — while, on the other hand, the pensioned advocates of despotism stand, with listenslowly tr and to m ing ear, to catch the first sound of lawless violence that is wafted from our shòres, to note the first breach of faith or act of perfidy amongst us, and to convert them into arguments against | liberty and the rights of man. There is not a shout sent up by an insane mob, on this side of the Atlantic, but it is echoed by a thousand | presses and by ten thou LC tr sand tongues along every mountain | and valley, on the ôther. to opposite There is not a conflagration | kindled | here | by the ruthless hand of violence, but its flame | glares over all | Eûrope, from horizon | to 8 LCF zenith. On each occurrence of a flagitious scene, whether it be an act of turbulence | and devastation, or a deed of perfidy | or breach R O of fàith, mõnarchs | point them out as fruits of the growth | and turn to ms RC omens of the fate | of repùblics, and claim for themselves and their R O W tr to C Ft on waist Ꭱ Ꮎ heirs The experience of the ages that are pást, the hopes of the ages that are yet to cóme, unite their voices in an appeal to ùs; they im plore us to think more of the character of our people than of its ВО w m LC numbers; to look upon our vast | natural | resources, not as tempt ers to ostentátion and príde, but as a means to be convérted, by the refining | alchemy of education, into mental and spiritual | trèasures; they supplicate us to seek for whatever complacency or self satisfaction | we are disposed to indulge, not in the extent | of our térritory, or in the products | of our sóil, but in the expansion | and RO perpetuation of the means of human | happiness; they beseech us во to exchange the luxuries of sẽnse | for the joys of chârity, and thus give to the world the example of a nation whose wîsdom | increases m во 1 f BO 1 wide BO with its prospèrity, and whose virtues | are equal to its power. For these ends they enjoin upon us a more earnest, a more universal, a more religious devotion of our exertions and resources to the culture | 1 RO W to br C F W of the youthful | mind and heart of the nation. Their gathered | to m RO 1 RO voices assert the eternal | truth that, in a Repùblic, ignorance | is a crime; and that private | immorality is not less an opprobrium to the state than it is guilt | in the perpetrator. |