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& sri BVBRT 8ATVXIOAT In advance, per year,$2 00 Not paid in advance, 2 50 Not paid until six months have expir ed, 3 00 Not paid till the year has expired, No subscription received for a less timefhn ajear, i . , nrice be paid in unless the price t advance. THE Subscriber offers his remaining stock of DRY GOODS AND GROCERIES at New York prices. Call soon if you want good bargains, as I expect to close in a few days. All persons indebted to me, either by note or account, are requested to make immediate pay ment. JOHN C. DYE. Aug, 21, IS 47. 411-3t. T I1A A second ALOU, Buggy A second-hand Pedlar's Wagon and J: C: D: v' wti m o SB W 5. 3 o 55 si e: g i c v ; X C S'3 7h2j Si fi 13 fei 3 JSQ) Fine Double-barrelled :GUNS j revolving; & various other kinds of Pistols; Military Goods; fine pocket Knive; Accordeons; Perfumeries; Violins; Flutes; Fies; Music Hoxe; Violin and Guitar Strings; lint: s hiio oiraps, ldj iui ui rixir . t;old Pens, itc &c. J. M. B- Gf At a Meeting of the Board of Superintendents of Common Schools, for Cum berland ('omit v, h-ld at the Court House in the Town of Fayetteville, on Monday the Kth day of August, IS 17, the following gentlemen were ap pointed a Committee to examine into the qualifi cations, both mental and moral, of such persons as may apply for employment as teachers in any of the Common Schools in Cumberland County, to wit : Rev. John J. Hrantlv, Dr J. T. Gilliam, Dr. Thomas N. Cameron, John Winslow, and J. G. Shepherd, Esquires ; and that said Committee meet at the Court House in Fayetteville on Tues day of September Court, next, WILLIAM McMILLAN, Chairman. Aigust 1, 1S17. 4n-;iw. State of North Carolina IJladeii county. Court of ricus and Quarter Sessions Aug Term, 1 84 f. Kon aid McMillan vs. James Cooper and wife. J'etifion for partition of Land. IT appearing to the satisfaction of the Court tint the defendants, James Cooper and Mary Kliza, his wife, reside beyond the limits of this State: it is therefore ordered by the Court, that publication be made in the North Carolinian, a paper published at Fayetteville, for six weeks, notifying the said James Cooper and wife, to be and appear at the next Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions, to be held for the county of liladen, at the Court House in Elizabeth town, on the first Monday in November next, then and there to plead, answer, or demur to the petition, other wise that th allegations contained therein will be taken pro confesso, and the petition will be heard ex parte as to them. Witness, H. H. Robinson, Clerk of our Said Court at Otlice, the 1st Monday in August, IS 17. H II. ROIilNSOX, C. C. C. Aug. 21, 1S17. 4-M-Ot. Just Received, 20 half boxes Raisins, (t Whol' boxes do, 2 Sacks soft shell Almonds. August 1, is 17. H.ERAMKERT. . , utoT A Sc f rom Ne w Yor k w lt h a inc assortment of V S w!'I5r "l uls ',i,c wliich he in fiSV M' vi,es the IM,Dlic to C;'H and NkY V. SS! examine before purchasing. "" Among his assortment may be found the ft llowing articles : (ioltl and Silver Lever Watches, Gold and Silver FEpine do.; Patent Vertical do.; Verge do.; Gold Guard Fob and Vest Chains; silk and Mohair Chains; Steel Chains; gold, silver, steel and brass Keys; scold Slides; gold, silver, and steel Spectacles; Ear Rings; Breast Pins and F'inger Rings; gold and silver Pencils; Gold Pens; bracelets; Gold Lockets ; silver butter Knives ; plated do.; gold and silver Tooth Picks ; Gold Snaps; Silver Combs; silver Head-Ornaments; Pearl salt ami mustard Spoons ; bone do.;Razors; Knives and Scissors ; Steel Reticules ; Clasps for do., and Purses; silk Purses; hair and tooth Brushes; dressing combs; silver-plated cake bas kets ; silver-plated Candlesticks ; silver-plated snullers and trays ; steel snuffers and trays; Brit tannia tea pots; sugar bowls and milk pots; back gammon boards, violin strings, &r. (cc; all of which will be sold as low as they can be purchas ed in any market. N. B. Particular attention paid to re pairing of clocks, Watches and Jewelry. EDWIN GLOVER, Hav street, a few doors above the Market. Aug. 21, 147. 41i-3m. - HERR CLINE. rip HIS Splendid Race Horse and SL Stallion will make his Fall Season inthe vicinitv of Fayetteville, 1 (commencing 20th August, and end I ine 10th October,") and will h let to a limited number of Mares at Ten Dollars each, to be paid when the Mare is ascertained to be in - . . . .i - -1 i i - - i . loal. lierr inline is me omy living con ot the old imported Sir Archy, and inferior to none, of his get, as a race horse, having made the best time in his three mile races that was ever made in America. This is probably the only opportunity of rais ing colts from this distinguished horse, as very urgent applications are made for him to go South, u.-her his colts are hitrhlv nrized. His extended Pedigree can be seen on his handbills, or the turf register. SOLOMON PARKS, Agent for the owner. August 21, 1847. 444-6t, P.31TT I BIT V7XH. S. BAiriJE. SS.2a.s lb ' LMM r d ra o lI .5 ? jf J p 1 w V V Bl fiifl s J til' The Oregon Hotel, at Liberty Point. Posses sion given on the first day of June. Apply im mediately to WILL. S. MULLINS. May 15, 1817. 420-tf " CHARACTER IS AS IMPORTANT TO STATES AS IT IS TO INDIVIDUALS J AND THE GLORY OF THE STATE IS THE COMMON PROPERTY OF ITS CITIZENS." ADDRESS OF THE HON. JOHN Y. MASON, Before the Alumni Association of the Uni versity of North Carolina, June 2, 1847. In appearing before you to-day, while I regret that your invitation had not found one possessed of more leisure than I have had in which to meet its requirements, I am glad of the opportunity which has thus been afforded me to testify my continued interest in my Alma. Mater, and my sin cere regard for those great purposes of science and of virtue which it is the for tunate office of an American University to promote. After intervals of absence some of them embracing more than a quarter of a century we visit again, mindful yet of oar literary brotherhood, the cherished scenes of our youthful studies, and renew for a few brief hour:-, amid the fragrant memorials of Chapel Hill, our ancient com panionship of letters, and our old associa tions of classic life. Turning aside trom our accustomed pursuits, we enchange the greetings of friendship in halls long sacred to religion and to truth ; and before the altars of our early worship, we gather fresh motives of gratitude to the venerable in stitution whose virtues they commemorate. We surrender ourselves to the mild influ ences of the day and the occasion. We forget the discords of professional strife ? the hard competitions of business ; the feverish thirst for fame ; and hushing j all the thousand voices of party zeal, we bow ourselves in unresisting submission to the divinity of the place. In such influences we find our best pre paration for the anniversary which we cele brate, lt is a festival less of the head than of the heart It has more concern with generous impulses and warm affections, thau with the cold deductions of reason, or the dry speculations of metaphy sics. It is wisely intended, not so much for the exhibition of hoarded knowledge and the discussions of abstruse thought, as for the promotion ot kind feelirig, the strengthening of good resolves, the awaken ing and quickening ot a spirit of improve ment in ourselves and in others. It brings together, from remote places and various paths, those whose only memories in com mon cluster around this seat of learning ; and it thus perpetuates attachments wliich , mignt otnerwise lie uurieu iorever in tne dust of years. In this view of its charac ter, it claims rewards of patriotism, no less than the regards of friendship; and j strengthens our union as citizens, by reviv ing our connexion as students. The bonds which hold together our extended confed eracy of States, are not those alone which are to be read in written constitutions and gathered from the enactments of legal codes : but those, rather, wliich are found in the interchange of social kindness: in the attractions of literary intercourse ;and in the manifold associations which spring from the communions of religion and the pursuits of business. Every institution, therefore; which, like our own society, gathers its members at frequent periods from distant sections and different States, forms a new link in that most important chain of causes, upon which we must chief ly rely, under Providence, for the support and perpetuity of our republican system. In behalf of that system, how numerous and powerful are the motives which appeal to us on an anniversary like this. The tranquillity of these academic walks the circumstances under which we assem ble, speak to us of a beneficent government and a prospered country. The experience, too, of every one of us enforces the same lesson with the. strength and vividness of a personal conviction. In what other nation has honest ambi tion so vide a range, and merit so certain and so brilliant a reward ? Where else, in the civilized world, can a virtuous educa tion be so surely obtained, and lead to re sults of such transcendant worth ? A distinguished illustration of this truth we have present in our own companionship to-day. The youth, whom some of us re member .as a student of Chapel Hill in the class of 1818, whose- feeble health had threatened to quench his ardent thirst of knowledge, returns to us now, the occu pant of the highest political station which is known on earth. We recognise here no distinction of artificial rank ; no claims of lineage ; no assumption of wealth, but we acknowledge that the honors conferred upon our brother-in-letters are reflected back upon our University and ourselves, and we recognise them as the fruit of wise instruction, and as incentives to efforts in others, to whom opportunities are offer ed, more favorable even, than were his. We greet him on this auspicious occasion, not alone as the Chief Magistrate of the republic, but in a more near and friendly relation, as our ancient associate in study, and a graduate, with us, of the same honor ed institution. Here, where in the bright morning of life he laid, in virtue, in indus try, and in science, the deep foundations of his subsequent success, he comes back with us, to pay the sincere homage of grati tude for those early privileges to which he owes so much, and which he can now, more than ever, value as they deserve. In his recollection, as in the memory of us all, this ancient place yet glows with its old attractions, and our affections fondly turn to it, amid the wanderings of earth, with something of youthful ardor, as well FAYETTEVILLE, SATURDAY, AUGUST 28, as of filial respect. However, in other scenes and less tranquil pursuits, " the ear is all unstrung, " Still, it loves the lowland tongue." But time, which matures and ripens, also destroys ; and as our eyes wander over this assembly, we mourn the absence of many a familiar countenance and many a beloved form . While we acknowledge new welcome accessions to our number from the youthful graduates of the year, we are compelled to remember that they occupy the seats of ealier companions, who have been swept away in the lapse of years and who repose now in the silent shadows of the grave. To those of us who were together here thirty years ago, "rarinantes ingur gite vastoS' these mournful recollections come with peculiar power Like dim voices of the dead, they speak to us from the chair of the instructor as well as from the bench of the pupil. 44 Now kindred merit fills the sable bier ; Now lacerated friendship claims a tear; Ye:r chases year ; decay pursues decay; Still drops some joy from withering life away," And here I should doinjustic to the occa sion and to my own feelings, if i did not pursue this painful theme for a moment, to pay the tribute ot my affectionate re gard to the memory of him who for so many years, often under most adverse circum stances, but still with signal success, ad ministered the affairs of the University as its presiding officer. No one, 1 am sure, who has ever shared his counsels or profit ed by his mild reproofs, can easily forget the wisdom and the virtues of President Caldwell. Uniting extended learning1 with sound judgment, he possessed the rare and difficult art to temper admonition with kindness, and to render discipline more effectual by making it less repulsive. " His life was gentle; and the elements, So mixed in him, that Nature might stand up, And say to all the world, 'that was a man." " His character and his usefulness what he was, and what he was enabled to do suggest a theme, which in this theatre of his labors, and among these witnesses of his fame, it would be a grateful task under other circumstances to pursue. But his own example would rebuke us, if we should allow even his merits to turn us aside from contemplating the great objects on hi toil. Iet us seek rather to understand and to do homage to those vast interests of enlighten ed culture if our own country, which he lived, and, 1 had almost said, he died to promote. To this general subject we are invited,' not only by the proprieties of the occasion, but by its own intrinsic dignity and worth. In its broad and comprehensive sense, the work of education is the grand business of human life ; and in these United States, I need hardly say, it can never be neglect ed, but at the hazard of consequences which no patriot can contemplate without alarm. , This belief was present with America at its very birth and stamped upon it's ris ing institutions the great impress of free dom ami perpetuity. In the history of other nations, learning has been the slow growth of society already formed, and has existed, at last, only as the ornament ol wealth or the champion of power. But with the Fathers of our Republic, next to religion, it was the first thing thought of ; not as a luxury, but as a necessity ; not as the handmaid of privilege, but as the nurse of equality ; not as the child of endowment or the accident of place, . but as the surest basis -of public prosperity and of private happiness. They planted knowledge, there fore, in the wilderness ; established schools as soon as they builded habitations; and laid the foundations of a University, while yet they were struggling with the ravages of disease and the "'apprehension of want. More than a century ago the charter governments were celebrated for 'promoting letters by free schools ami colleges' and to this feature of their char acter has been traced the seret of their great success. "Kvery child born into the world was lifted from the earth by the genius of its country, and in the statutes of the land received, as its political birth right, a pledge of the public care for its morals and its mind " a In the republics of antiquity, religion wa only a part of their political system, and the head of the State was also the father of the church. This unnatural connexion, fatal alike to Christianity and to liberty, which even yet lingers in the Old Wo'rld, has been wholly repudiated inthe new ; and the land of Roger Wil liams and Thomas Jefferson proclaims liber ty of conscience from sixty thousand chur ches, and inculcates virtue and toleration in as many Sabbath schools. Free govern ment is valuable, after all, not so much for any direct exertion of its own, as for what it permits the people to work our for themselves. The press began its work in 1639: a century afterwards it had earned the pro hibition of England, and was strong enough to defy it j and, at this day, it asserts its freedom by an influence which is only not despotic because it is not harmonious. Far outstripping by its enterprise the fertility of our own writers, the American press appropriates unshrinkingly the literary treasures of the whole earth ; while it al most forbids importation of books by the cheapness with which it reprints them, -nd facility with which it scatters them among all classes of the reading community. But the most striking displays of its activity ami and power are only to be witnessed in the neiu oi journalism, wnere it mure man equals France in energy, and knows no other rival throughout the'world It print ed the first newspaper in America in the year 1784; in 18-28 it had joined an ad ditional number of eight hundred and fifty; and, at this day, it acts upon the popular mind through the teeming columns of more than two thousand journals. Sharing, as well as stimulating, the progressive spirit of the age, it advances into the wilderness with our hardy pioneers ; keeps company with our commerce anions: the islands of the sea ; and contends for .-upremacy with the sword upon every1attle-neld which is won by our victorious arms. Already it sends us shipping lists from the Sandwich islands, chronicles the news of the day in La Vera Cruz, and echoes back the thun der of our cannon from the shores of the far Pacific. Becoming thus the missionary as well as the schoolmaster of republican ism, it plants among other nations the seeds of freedom, which it has itself ripened up on our soil ; and having first contributed to the glory of America at home, it crowns its labor of patriotism, by making it better known, and therefore more honored, abroad With influences such as these, it more than pays back to our country whatever of nurture it has received from it, and richly atones for all the imperfections or abuses by which it so often deserves the reproaches of society, and sometimes seems almost to require the censorship of law. The force of enlightened public opinion constitutes, after all, its best restraint, and the only one wliich would leave to it all its value. Under this guidance, if its teachings are not always pure, they are seldom danger ous ; for its errors are met by truth as soon as they appear; and, like the lance of Achilles, it has the virtue to heal the wounds which it has itselinflicted. In the ligher branches of literature, the good wliich it confers is never doubted : and if it is less free from censure in its higher publications, yet its agency even there is on the side of virtue and in favor of liber ty. ' Were it left to me to decide," writes Mr Jefferson, ''whether we should have a government without newspapers, or newspapers without . government, 1 would not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter." Paradoxical as this may seem, it cannot be doubted that no government can be maintained in the spirit of liberty and purity, without the chastening influen ces of the newspaper press. It is sometimes said that a rich source of instruction is closed to us, because America has no monuments; ami if by this it is meant that she is not yet marked with the decay of age and the ravages of time, the assertion is strictly true. But unless ruin more desirable than greatness, and the dim figures of antiquity more pre cious than the fresh and glowing forms of youth, this feature of her character is rather her glory than her reproach. The monuments of America are not found in the scattered fragments of the.dusty past, but point all of them to the rising grandeurs of the far-off future; and while older na tions " look back through the twilight of ages that lose themselves in night," the genius of our republic goes forth in the dawn of morning, to meet and welcome the approach of day. No feudal castles, crum bling upon our hills, attest the ancient violence of robber-lords; and not for us do the glorious relics of a noble ancestry bear witness, in buried columns and bro ken arches, to the degenerate spirits of their unworthy sons; but in place of these, and far better than these, we crown our landscapes with contented homes, we build altars to science by the hearthstone of every citizen, and with the spires of thousands of churches we point our children the path to Heaven. While we can preserve, un impaired to our country, free instruction. free religion, and a free press, we need ask no other support tor our institutions, and no other witnesses to our fame To the means of instruction which have been already mentioned, I should do wrong not to add that other and peculiar education which springs from the very working of our republican system, and from which no member of the community can well escape, even if he would. Un der our policy, every citizen is a part of the government, and some of its most im portant duties are periodically devolved upon him, both by law and by necessity. He wields the power of elective franchise, and determines by his vote the choice alike of measures and of men not only who shall rule him, but what shall rule him ; he sits in the jury-box, and the fortune, the fame, nay, the very life of his neighbor, rest upon his decision; he is called as a witness, and is sworn to give true testi mony on questions involving the deepest interests and the most important results; or, by the suffrages of his fellow citizens, he is clothed with still greater trusts, and assumes responsibilities which belong only to the highest stations in the gift of the people. A sovereign in his own right, the symbols of his authority are thus' constant ly before his eyes; and from every new exercise of his power, the American citi zen derives fresh excitement to his intel lect, and increased dignity to his charac ter. In all his public acts, the double mo tive presses upon him to ensure a reward and to avoid disgrace. - Under a free gov ernment, he knows full well that, with in telligence and fidelity, there are no plau dits which he may not win, and no prizes tin I VOl. 0 of ambition which are above his reach : while, on the other hand, nowhere else is corruption so inexcusable, and ignorance so wholly out of place In other countries, where passive obedience is the fruit oi" despotism, a stolid people is the natural accompaniment of an educated prince; but the genius of our institutions contem plates no such thing as an ignorant man, and deems itself defrauded of its just claims when it finds a citizen faithless to his duty. The large requirements, there tore, of American politics, which are with superficial observers the subject of hasty regret, constitute in reality one of the most valuable features of our republican L system, a most affluent source of ennoblin instruction, and tend, with inevitable cer tainty, not only to increase the popular intelligence, but to give energy, expan sion, and elevation to the popular mind. Tranquility and the repose of exclusive devotion to personal pursuits at e not the most favorable elements either for great conceptions or distinguished action. The highest heroism, on the contrary, springs from the strongest excitements ; and the period of revolution is also the period of awakened genius. The same causes which break up ancient abuses in society, break up, with equal efficacy, old absurdities in science and in art; and Irom the still-heaving waves of tumult and reform, emerge side by side the warrior, the statesman, the orator, and the poet. The sublime productions of Milton had their birth in the same times which produced Oliver Cromwell; and the harsh, passionate voice of the one comes softened to our ears by the lofty. melody of the other. Amid the fierce passions and new-found energies of revolutionary France, Mirabeau and Robespierre announced together the rising fortunes of the "man of destiny." And after convulsions, such as the earth has rarely seen. Napoleon comes upon the stage prepared for him, and writes his name in iron characters, not only upon the history of Europe, but upon the very forehead of the world. The experience of modern times is confirmed upon this subject by all the lessons of antiquity. The home of freedom was every where the dwelling place of letters; and we read the exam ples of successful genius, not amoug the subjects of despotic Babylon, but among ine uetnocracy ot Alliens. x lierc was no literary fame, even in Greece, until the era opened of her republican principles: but then she became the matchless land of civilization and refinement. " Where science struck the thrones of earth and heaveiij " Which shook but fell not; and the harmonious mind Poured itself forth in all prophetic song, And music lifted up the listening spirit, Until it walked exempt from mortal care, Godlike, o'er the clear hillows of sweet sound, And human hands lirst mimicked, and then mocked With moulded limbss more lovely than its own, The human form, till marble grew divine." And the literature of Greece must prove forever the kindling influences of Grecian liberty. But as no people can continue indefinite ly in a state of revolution, these excitations of the popular mind in other ages anil other countries, always producing the same noble fruits, have, after a brief antl brilliant reign been as invariably followed by the paralyz ing torpor ol despotism- It was reserved for our country to devise a system our own incomparable federative system which, with the liberalizing influences of the Christian religion in freedom and in purity, is constantly instructing and stim ulating the popular mind, and thereby developing all the energies of our na ture. It is a problem successfully worked out, which justly commands the admiration of the world, equally auspicious to liberty and to literature, and promises blessings to mankind which the human imagination can hardly conceive. At this moment the dis astrous and ominous condition of Europe, which men of philosophical inquiry and re flection, begin to ascribe to inveterate, radical, and permanent evils of political and social systems, but renders more vivid and dazzling the bright aspects of our manifold prosperity.'' But this is not the occasion to pursue this train ot thought. Devoted in patriotism, and ever ready to act on the noble principle sulus re- ipublicae suprema lex our countrymen have yet neglected nothing which was cal culated to adorn domestic life and promote individual happiness. Female education has, therefore, always been a subject of primary attention. Elevated to her appropriate position in society; adorned, refined, and accomplish ed by careful . instruction, the American woman is the happy companion of the American freeman gladdening his heart by her smile of confidence and love, and cheering him in his great career of public duty by her voice of counsel and approba tion. Glorious as our institutions are, their fruit would have turned to ashes, without the lovely association of the softer sex, fitted by education to be the friend, the joy, the pride of American patriots It our country, from the very nature of its government, demands much of its citi zens, let us remember that it makes them capable of doing much; and that, by giv ing to them the stimulus and nature of tree institutions, it places within the reach, even of the most humble, the highest at tainments of learning and the noblest achievements of mind. I lhe value of this nurture and oi mis TERJTtS OF AOVSnTZSZKO 3 One square of twenty-one lines or lss, for one inser-4 tion, GO cents ; every sub sequent insertion, 30 cents, except it remain in for sev am Tul 'months, when it will be charged 3 for two months, 4 for three &c. 10 for twelve months. Gcj- Liberal deductions - NO, 445. lor large advert isrment y the ear or six months t stimulus is but attested by the reat re- suits which they have already accomplish ed; and thus measured by the standard of results, our whole republic is but a monu ment to their praise. Under their influ ence, constantly cherished and constantly in turn exerted,"it has not only maintained successfully its freedom and its power but it has pursued a career of progress and improvement which is without a parallel lit the history of the world. Fifty-eight year ago it elected its first President. It theri embraced a population of little more than three millions, occupying thirteen States, on the Atlantic coast, and covering an area of less than five hundred thousand square miles. Its population has now swelled tfr more than twenty millions, and it has ad ded nearly a million of square miles to it represented territory. It has more tlmit doubled the number of States, and new sovereignties still form themselves hi thtf wilderness to claim its confederate honors. N ith this astonishing increase ot its num bers and of its peopled and cultivated ter ritory, has grown up, also in a ratio equal ly rapid, every important interest which can possibly atld either to national wealth or national glory. In agriculture, it ha invented new implements of industry, and applied them to fresh fields of toil; and Irom the rich abundance of its gathered harvests, it not only fills each avenue of want at home, but freights its storeshipa with a people s tribute to the lamine-strick- en children of kingdoms abroad. Its com merce whitens the very ocean with it enterprise, and exchanges products with every climate under tne sun; wmie in tnc rapid advancement of its manufactures, it bids fair, at no distant day, to rival eVett the skill of English industry and to trans fer to this side ot the Atlantic the work shop of the world." Pursuing with boundless, because uu fettered zeal, each Opening of foreign traf fic, it at the same time unites its own terri tory by constantly extending and improv ing its means of internal intercourse and trade. I he remotest inhabitant ot the con federacy is not beyond the reach of it post office, and its civilization travels not only with the marvellous power of wind and steam but with the speed of electrici ty, subdued by the art of man, along the lines of its magnetic telegraph Scarcely more than twenty years agof it was without a single mile of" railroad in 1836, its iron engines traversed a com pleted track of 160O miles, and it has now" more miles of railroad than,-in the time of Washington, it had of post routes. In proportion to its population, it has more than three times as many canals as Eng land, and more than four times as many as France; and the canal connecting the Hudson with the lakes, is the longest of these artificial rivers which has been con structed in the world. In the year 1807", Robert fulton attract ed ridicule by building its first steamboat and ten years after, it had no regular lint: of steamboats in all its western waters. They now crowd in hundreds Upon its ocean rivers and its inland seas, gathering: the rich products of the most remote and laud-locked regions of our country, and pouring them into the lap of commerce; they defy every form of danger upon ita Atlantic coast; they keep company with its navy against the northers of the Gulf ot Mexico; and, under the fostering care of Congress, they will soon'cross the ocean with its mails, and minister to the wants of our ships of war, and protect our merchant 'marine in every quarter of th&globe. A single one of its western States possesses more steamboats than the whole kingdom of France, and there are said to be as many steamers on Lake Erie as in the Meditcr ranean sea. Its increasing means of communication thus keep pace with its extending settle ments, and its whole Union is bound to gether in the strung embraces of mutual intercourse, mutual knowledge, and mutual interest. In this way it administers with facility one government for twenty-eight sovereignties, and from a single central heart diffuses the healthy life-blood of law and justice through all portions of the body politic vet, with us, Paris is not France f and that heart would soon become corrupt, and the stream of sanitary circulation tor pid, but for the purifying application of the federative principle, and the chastening and correcting influences of the subdivis ions of power amongst the States and the people, to whom so large a share in the duty of self-government is wisely confided. The same influences, too, which have thus developed, with almost startling ra pidity, the various sjources of its physical power, have adorned it at the same time with cheering monuments of its active benevolence, its scientific ingenuity, and its improving taste. Its charities partake, at once, of the vigor of its enterprise and the -abundance df its means, and no worthy object ever yet appealed to it in vain. Shrewd and unyielding as it doubtless i in the concerns of trade, it is characterized by the warmest sympathy for human suf ferin', and the most generous disposition to give it adequate relief. If America has not yet equalled older nations by her advances in literature and art, she has at least laid a firm foundation for them; and bright examples of generous attainment and lofty intellect are not even now wanting her cultivated citi- zenr. Her statesmanship has been proved in the strictest school of diplomacy; and her public speaking, in the true eloquence,
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