life agreeable, and the sciences which elevate the mind! See education spreading the lights of religion, humanity, and general information, into every cottage in this wide extent of our Territories and States! Behold it as the asylum where the wretched and the oppressed find a refuge and support!

3. Look on this picture of happiness and honor, and say WE, Too, are CITIZENS OF AMERICA ! Carolina is one of these proud States. Her arms have defended, her best blood has cemented, this happy Union! And then add, if you can without horror and remorse, This happy Union we will dissolve-this picture of peace and prosperity, we will deface this free intercourse, we will interrupt these fertile fields, we will deluge with blood-the protection of that glorious flag, we renounce-the very name of Americans, we discard!

4. There is yet time to show that the descendants of the Pinckneys, the Sumpters, the Rutledges, and of the thousand other names which adorn the pages on your revolutionary history, will not abandon that Union, to support which, so many of them fought, and bled, and died.

5. I adjure you, as you honor their memory-as you love the cause of freedom, to which they dedicated their lives as you prize the peace of your country, the lives of its best citizens, and your own fair fame, to retrace your steps.

6. Snatch from the archives of your State, the disorganizing edict of its convention-bid its members to reassemble and promulgate the decided expressions of your will, to remain in the path which alone can conduct you to safety, prosperity, and honor-tell them that, compared to disunion, all other evils are light, because that brings with it an accumulation of all-declare that you will never take the field, unless the star-spangled banner of your country shall float over you that you will not be stigmatized when dead, and dishonored and scorned while you live, as the authors of the first attack on the constitution of your country!-its destroyers you cannot be.

7. Fellow-citizens, the momentous case is before you. On your undivided support of your government, depends the decision of the great question it involves, whether your.

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sacred Union will be preserved, and the blessings it secures to us as one people, shall be perpetuated. No one doubt that the unanimity with which that decision will be expressed, will be such as to inspire new confidence in republican institutions; and that the prudence, the wisdom, and the courage which it will bring to their defence, will transmit them unimpaired and invigorated to our children. 8. May the Great Ruler of nations grant that the sig. nal blessings with which he has favored ours, may not, by the madness of party or personal ambition, be disregarded and lost; and may His wise Providence bring those who have produced this crisis, to see their folly, before they feel the misery of civil strife; and inspire a returning veneration for that Union which, if we may dare to penetrate His designs, He has chosen as the only means of attaining the high destinies to which we may reasonably aspire.

In the year 1832, a State Convention was held in South Carolina, and passed an ordinance, declaring laws of the United States, for imposing duties and imposts on the importation of foreign commodities, null and void! On the 10th of December of the same year, Gen. Jackson, who, at that time, was President of the United States, made a proclamation, from which the above extract is taken.

EXTRACT FROM M'DUFFIE'S SPEECH IN CON. GRESS, APRIL 3, 1834.

1. Sir, according to the system of the mythology of the Greeks and Romans, the different portions of the universe, and the various departments of human affairs, were assigned to different divinities, each acting in his appropriate sphere, and upon his separate responsibilty to the decrees of fate, which constituted the fundamental law of the system.

2. Jupiter reigned in Olympus; Neptune, over the ocean; Pluto, in the regions below; Apollo presided over the arts; Mars, over the affairs of war; and Minerva, over those of council.

3. But, Sir, the Jupiter of this new system of political idolatry, not satisfied with holding the exclusive dominion

of Olympus, darts from his empyrean height, like a baleful comet dashing wildly through the heavenly spheres,—invades the provinces and usurps the powers from all the other gods-snatches from Apollo, his arrows; from Neptune, his trident; from Mars, his lance; from Minerva, her impenetrable ægis; from Pluto, his consuming fires: from the Furies, their scourge; and from the Fates, their shears, and thus, holding in his hands the issues of life and death, and, brandishing the armor of the whole pantheon, he proudly challenges what none dare refuse, the passive obedience and trembling homage of all the minor divinities,

"Shakes his ambrosial curls, and gives the nod, The stamp of fate, the sanction of a god!"

State affairs have for several years monopolized the attention of Mr. M'Duffie. He is a bold looking man. His general appearance is abstracted and gloomy. He delived the above extract with great power, and so should the individual who may recite or declaim it.

THE UNION.

1. While the Union lasts, we have high, exciting, gratifying prospects spread out before us, for us and our children. Beyond that, I seek not to penetrate the veil. God grant, that, in my day, at least, that curtain may not rise. God grant, that, on my vision, never may be opened what lies

behind.

2. When my eyes shall be turned to behold, for the last time, the sun in the heavens, may I not see him shining on the broken and dishonored fragments of a once glorious Union on States dissevered, discordant, belligerent; on a land rent with civil feuds, or drenched, it may be, in fraternal blood!

3. Let their last feeble and lingering glance rather behold the gorgeous ensign of the republic, now known and honored throughout the world, its arms and trophies streaming in their oginal lustre, not a stripe erased or polluted, nor a single star obscured-bearing for its motto, no such miserable interrogatory as What is all this worth? nor those other words of delusion and folly, "Liberty first,

and Union afterwards;" but every where, spread all over in characters of living light, blazing on all its ample folds, as they float over the sea and over the land, and in every wind under the whole heavens, that other sentiment, dear to every true American heart-" Liberty and Union, now and forever, one and inseparable.” -Webster.

The above is the conclusion of Mr. Webster's speech in 1830, on Foote's land resolution, in reply to Mr. Hayne of South Carolina.

MARCO BOZZARIS.

1. At midnight, in his guarded tent,
The Turk was dreaming of the hour
When Greece, her knee in suppliance bent,
Should tremble at his power:

In dreams through camp and court, he bore,
The trophies of a conqueorr;

In dreams, his song of triumph heard :
Then wore his monarch's signet ring;
Then pressed that monarch's throne, a king;
As wild his thoughts, and gay of wing,

As Eden's garden bird.

2. At midnight, in the forest shades,
Bozzaris ranged his Suliote band,
True as the steel of their tried blades,
Heroes in heart and hand.

There had the Persian's thousands stood,
There had the glad earth drunk their blood
On old Plate's day,

And now,
there breathed that haunted air
The sons of sires who conquered there,
With arm to strike, and soul to dare,

As quick, as far as they.

3. An hour passed on-the Turk awoke ;

That bright dream was his last;

He woke to hear his sentries shriek,

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To arms! they come! the Greek! the Greek!"

He woke to die midst flame, and smoke,

And shout, and groan, and sabre stroke,
And death shots falling thick and fast
As lightnings from the mountain cloud;
And heard, with voice as trumpet loud,
Bozzaris cheer his band:

"Strike-till the last arm'd foe expires;
Strike-for your altars and your fires ;
Strike-for the green graves of

your sires; God-and your native land!"

4. They fought-like brave men, long and well; They piled that ground with Moslem slain; They conquered-but Bozzaris fell,

Bleeding at every vein.

His few surviving comrades saw

His smile, when rang their proud huzza,
And the red field was won ;

Then saw in death his eyelids close
Calmly, as to a night's repose,

Like flowers at set of sun.

5. Come to the bridal chamber, Death!
Come to the mother, when she feels,
For the first time, her first-born's breath;
Come when the blessed seals
That close the pestilence are broke,
And crowded cities wail its stroke ;
Come in consumption's ghastly form,
The earthquake's shock, the ocean's storm;
Come when the heart beats high and warm,
With banquet-song, and dance, and wine;
And thou art terrible!-The tear,
The groan, the knell, the pall, the bier ;
And all we know, or dream, or fear
Of agony, are thine.

6. But to the hero, when his sword
Has won the battle for the free,
Thy voice sounds like a prophet's word;
And in its hollow tones are heard

The thanks or millions yet to be.