Tell him, we play unequal game, 3. Two sisters by the goal are set, Transformed, when won, to drossy mould; SCOT LX. MISCELLANEOUS EXTRACTS FROM WASHINGTON'S WRITINGS. 1. BORN in a land of liberty; having early learned its value; having engaged in the perilous conflict to defend it; having, in a word, devoted the best years of my life to secure its permanent establishment in my own country; my anxious recollections, my sympathetic feelings, and my best wishes, are irresistibly attracted, whensoever in any country I see an oppressed nation unfurl the banners of freedom. 2. . . The name of American, which belongs to you in your national capacity, must always exalt the just pride of pātriot ism, more than any appellation derived from local discrimina tions, With slight shades of difference, you have the same religion, manners, habits, and political principles. You have, in a common cause, fought and triumphed together. The independence and liberty you possess are the work of joint counsels and joint efforts, of common dangers, sufferings, and successes. 3. . . This government, this offspring of our choice, uninfluenced and unawed, adopted upon full investigation and mature delib eration, completely free in its principles, in the distribution of its powers uniting security with energy, and containing within itself a provision for its own amendment, has a just claim to your confidence and your support. Respect for its authority, compliance with its laws, acquiescence in its measures, are duties enjoined by the fundamental maxims of liberty. 4... My policy, in our foreign transactions, has been to cultivate peace with all the world; to observe the treaties with pure and absolute faith; to check every deviation from the line of impartiality; to explain what may have been misapprehended, and correct what may have been injurious to any nation; and, having thus acquired the right, to lose no time in acquiring the ability to insist upon justice being done to ourselves. 5... A slender acquaintance with the world must convince every man that actions, not words, are the true criterion of the attachment of friends; and that the most liberal professions of good-will are very far from being the surest marks of it. I should be happy if my own experience had afforded fewer exam ples of the little dependence to be placed upon them. 6. . . There is no truth more thoroughly established than that there exists, in the economy and course of nature, an indis ́soluble union between virtue and happiness, between duty and advantage, between the genuine maxims of an honest and magnanimous policy and the solid rewards of public prosperity and felicity. 7... Let us unite in imploring the Supreme Ruler of nations to spread his holy protection over the United States; to turn the machinations of the wicked to the confirming of our constitution; to enable us, at all times, to root out internal sedition, and put invasion to flight; to perpetuate to our country that prosperity which His goodness has already conferred, and to verify the anticipations of this government being a safeguard of human rights. 8. . . In looking forward to that awful moment when I must bid adieu to sublunary things, I anticipate the consolation of leaving our country in a prosperous condition. And while the curtain of separation shall be drawing, my last breath will, I trust, expire in a prayer for the temporal and eternal felicity of those who have not only endeavored to gild the evening of my days with unclouded serenity, but extended their desires to my happiness hereafter, in a brighter world. 9... Observe good faith and justice towards all nations; cultivate peace and harmony with all. Religion and morality enjoin this conduct; and can it be that good policy does not equally enjoin it? Can it be that Providence has not connected the permanent felicity of a nation with its virtue? The experi. ment, at least, is recommended by every sentiment which ennobles human nature. 10... Conscious integrity has been my unceasing support; and, while it gave me confidence in the measures 1 pursued, the belief of it, by acquiring to me the confidence of my fellow-citizens, insured the success which those measures have had. This consciousness will accompany me in my retirement. Without it public applause could be viewed only as a proof of public error and felt as the upbraiding of personal demerit. LXI. THE BITTER GOURD. 1. LOKMAN THE WISE (therefore the good for wise Is but sage good, seeing with final eyes) 2. With simplest reverence, and no surprise, 3 Vexed and confounded, and disposed to find Some ground of scorn on which to ease his mind, How can a slave himself become so tame? Or could not brains like thine have saved thee this? 1. Calmly stood Lokman still, as Duty stands, LXII. EI HUNT. ΕΙ JAFFAR: AN EASTERN TRADITION. 2. All but the brave Mondeer. He, proud to show On all they owed to the divine Jaffar'. 3. "Bring me the man!" the caliph cried. - The man Was brought, was gazed upon. The mutes began From wants, from shames, from loveless household fears Made a man's eyes friends with delicious tears; 4. Haroun, who felt that on a soul like this The mightiest vengeance could but fall amiss, And said: "Let worth grow frenzied, if it will; Go; and, since gifts thus move thee, take this gem, And hold the giver as thou deemest fit." 5. "Gifts!" cried the friend. He took; and, holding it High toward the heaven, as though to meet his star, Exclaimed, “This, too, I owe to thee, Jaffar'!" HUNT A BOAT RACE, AND WRECK OF A BOAT. 1. ONE gusty day, now stormy and now still, 2. Strong was the gale! in hurry now there came Men from the town, their thoughts, their fears, the same And women, too! affrighted maids and wives, All deeply feeling for their sailors' lives. The strife continued: in a glass we saw |