our internal trade burdened with numberless restraints and exactions; communication between distant points and sections obstructed, or cut off; our sons made soldiers, to deluge with blood the fields they now till in peace; the mass of our people borne down and impoverished by taxes to support armies and navies; and military leaders, at the head of their victorious legions, becoming our lawgivers and judges. The loss of liberty, of all good government, of peace, plenty, and happiness, must inevitably follow a dissolution of the Union. supporting it, therefore, we support all that is dear to the freeman and the philanthropist.

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2. The time at which I stand before you is full of interest. The eyes of all nations are fixed on our republic. The event of the existing crisis will be decisive, in the opinion of mankind, of the practicability of our federal system of government. Great is the stake placed in our hands; great is the responsibility which must rest upon the people of the United States. Let us realize the importance of the attitude in which we stand before the world. Let us exercise forbearance and firmness. Let us extricate our country from the dangers which surround it, and learn wisdom from the lessons they inculcate. Deeply impressed with the truth of these observations, and under the obligation of that solemn oath which I am about to take, I shall continue to exert all my faculties to maintain the just powers of the constitution, and to transmit unimpaired to posterity the blessings of our Federal Union.

3. At the same time, it will be my aim to inculcate, oy my official acts, the necessity of exercising, by the

general government, those powers only that are clearly delegated; to encourage simplicity and economy in the expenditures of the government; to raise no more money from the people than may be requisite for these objects, and in a manner that will best promote the interests of all classes of the community, and of all porions of the Union. Constantly bearing in mind that, in entering into society, "individuals must give up a sharf liberty to preserve the rest," it will be my desire so to discharge my duties as to foster with our brethren, in all parts of the country, a spirit of liberal concession and compromise; and, by reconciling our fellow-citizens to those partial sacrifices which they must unavoidably make, for the preservation of a greater good, to recommend our invaluable Government and Union to the confidence and affections of the American people. Finally, it is my most fervent prayer to that Almighty Being before whom I now stand, and who has kept us in his hands from the infancy of our republic to the present day, that he will so overrule all my intentions and actions, and inspire the hearts of my fellowtizers, that we may be preserved from dangers of all kinds, and continue for ever a UNITED AND HAPPY

PEOPLE.

THE TORCH OF LIBERTY.-Thomas Moore.

I saw it all in Fancy's glass

Herself the fair, the wild magician,
Who bade this splendid day-dream pass,
And named each gliding apparition.

'Twas like a torch-race-such as they
Of Greece performed, in ages gone,
When the fieet youths, in long array,
Passed the bright torch triumphant on.

2.

I saw the expectant Nations stand,
To catch the coming flame in turn ;—
I saw, from ready hand to hand,

The clear, though struggling, glory bur And, Oh! their joy, as it came near, 'Twas, in itself, a joy to see ;While Fancy whispered in my ear, "That torch they pass is Liberty!"

3.

And each, as she received the flame,
Lighted her altar with its ray;
Then, smiling, to the next who came,
Speeded it on its sparkling way.
From Albion first, whose ancient shrine
Was furnished with the fire already,
Columbia caught the boon divine,

And lit a flame, like Albion's, steady.

4.

The splendid gift then Gallia took,
And, like a wild Bacchanté, raising
The brand aloft, its sparkles shook,
As she would set the world a-blazing!
Thus, kindling wild, so fierce and high
Her altar blazed into the air,

That Albion, to that fire too nigh,

Shrank back, and shuddered at its glare!

5.

Next, Spain, so new was light to her,
Leaped at the torch; but, ere the spark
That fell upon her shrine could stir,

'Twas quenched, and all again was dark!
Yet, no-not quenched,—a treasure, worth
So much to mortals, rarely dies:
Again her living light looked forth,
And shone, a beacon, in all eyes!

6.

Who next received the flame?

Alas!

Unworthy Naples. Shame of shames,
That ever through such hands should pass
That brightest of all earthly flames!
Scarce had her fingers touched the torch,
When, frighted by the sparks it shed,
Nor waiting even to feel the scorch,
She dropped it to the earth-and filed!

7.

And fallen it might have long remained;
But Greece, who saw her moment now,
Caught up the prize, though prostrate, stained,
And waved it round her beauteous brow.
And Fancy bade me mark where, o'er
Her altar, as its flame ascended,

Fair laureled spirits seemed to soar,
Who thus in song their voices blended:

8.

"Shine, shine forever, glorious Flame,
Divinest gift of gods to mea!

From Greece thy earliest splendor came,
To Greece thy ray returns again.

Take, Freedom, take thy radiant round;
When dimmed, revive,-when lost, return,
Till not a shrine through earth be found,
On which thy glories shall not burn!”

A COLLOQUY WITH MYSELF.--Barton.

As I walked by myself, I talked to myself,
And myself replied to me;

And the questions myself then put to myself,
With their answers, I give to thee.

Put them home to thyself, and if unto thyself Their responses the same should be,

Oh look well to thyself, and beware of thyself, Or so much the worse for thee.

2.

What are Riches? Hoarded treasures
May, indeed, thy coffers fill;

Yet, like earth's most fleeting pleasures,
Leave thee poor and heartless still.

3.

What are Pleasures? When afforded,
But by gauds which pass away,
Read their fate in lines recorded
On the sea-sands yesterday.

4.

What is Fashion? Ask of Folly,
She her worth can best express.
What is moping Melancholy?
Go and learn of idleness.