blood, and unprovoked, murdered all the relations of Logan, not even sparing my women and children. There runs not a drop of my blood in the veins of any living creature. This called on me for revenge. I have sought it,-I have killed many,-I have fully glutted my vengeance. 3. For my country, I rejoice at the beams of peace; but do not harbor a thought, that mine is the joy of fear. Logan never felt fear. He will not turn on his heel to save his life. Who is there to mourn for Logan? Not one. History informs us, substantially, that in the spring of 1774, two Indians of the Shawanese tribe, murdered one of the inhabitants of Virginia. The infamous Colonel Cresap, accompanied by several other white men, proceeded down the Kanhawa, and destroyed every member of the innocent family of Logan. They concealed themselves on the bank of the river, and his women and children, who were seen coming in a canoe, from the opposite shore, unapprehensive of danger, and unarmed, were all killed at one fire. Logan had long been recognized as the white man's friend. This atrocious outrage and ungrateful return, provoked him to take up arms, and he signalized himself in the battle which was fought in the autumn of the same year, at the mouth of the Great Kanhawa, between the Shawanese, Mingoes, and Delawares, and a detachment of the Virginia militia. The Indians were defeated, and made a treaty for peace. Logan disdained to be seen among the suppliants; but fearing his absence would operate injuriously, he sent the above speech to be delivered to Lord Dunmore, a speech of which Thomas Jefferson says: "I may challenge the whole orations of Demosthenes and of Cicero, and of any more eminent orator, if Europe has furnished more eminent, to produce a single passage superior to it." 80. LADY RANDOLPH'S SOLILOQUY.-Rev. John Home, 1. Ye woods and wilds, whose melancholy gloom 2. Oh! Douglass, Douglass! if departed ghosts My lamentation; hear'st thy wretched wife 3. To thee I lift my voice, to thee address Buried, my Douglass, in thy bloody grave. This "Soliloquy of Lady Randolph," in which she mourns the loss of her husband, her child, and her brother, requires a low key, very slow time, and long quantity. It is very pathetic, and therefore should be given in a plaintive manner. It is taken from the excellent tragedy of "Douglass," written by Rev. John Home, who was born in Roxburyshire, în 1724, and died near Edinburgh, in 1808. 81. BYRON'S FARE VELL TO HIS WIFE. 1. Fare thee well! and if for ever, 2. Would that breast were bared before thee, 3. Would that breast, by thee glanced over, 1 4. Though the world for this commend thee- Even its praises must offend thee, 5. Though my many faults defaced me, 6. Yet, O yet, thyself deceive not; 7. Still thine own its life retaineth Still must mine, though bleeding, beat, And the undying thought which paineth, Is that we no more may meet. 8. These are words of deeper sorrow 9. And when thou would'st solace gather, 10. When her little hands shall press thee, Think of him whose prayer shall bless thee, 11. Should her lineaments resemble 12. All my faults, perchance thou knowest, 13. Every feeling hath been shaken; Pride, which not a world could bow, Bows to thee-by thee forsaken, 14. But 'tis done-all words are idle- 15. Fare thee well!--thus disunited, Sear'd in heart, and lone, and blighted, Lord Byron was unhappy in his domestic relations. Being rejected by Miss Chaworth, for whom he had contracted an ardent attachment, he formed an ill-starred union, at the age of twenty-seven, with Miss Millbank, which terminated in a final separation, after the birth of a daughter, of whom he affectionately speaks in the 9th, 10th and 11th verses. His "Farewell to his wife," being the language of tender emotion and grief, requires a plaintive elocution. 82. SONG OF THE GERMAN SOLDIERS AFTER VICTORY.-Mrs. Felicia D. Hemans. SINGLE VOICE. 1. It is the Rhine! our mountain vineyards laving; Sing on the march with every banner waving, CHORUS. 2. The Rhine, the Rhine! our own Imperial river! Be glory on thy track! We left thy shores, to die or to deliver; We bear thee freedom back. SINGLE VOICE. 3. Hail! hail! my childhood knew thy rush of water, That sound went past me on the field of slaughter, CHORUS. 4. Roll boldly on! brave blood is with thee sweeping, When sword and spirit forth in joy were leaping SINGLE VOICE. 5. Home! home! thy glad wave hath a tone of greeting,Thy path is by my home; Even now, my children count the hours, till meeting, CHORUS. 6. Go, tell the seas that chain shall bind thee never; Sing through the hills, that thou art free forever; The German soldiers were two days passing over the river, at the first gleam of which, they all burst forth into the national chant, Am Rhein! Am Rhein! and the rocks and the castle were ringing to the song the whole time; for, while crossing, each band renewed it; and the Cossacks, with the clash, and the clang, and the roll of their stormy war-music, catching the enthusiasm of the scene, swelled forth the chorus, Am Rhein ! Am Rhein! This song is admirably adapted to the purposes of simultaneous reading or recitation, both for ladies and gentlemen. The poetical writings of Mrs. Hemans are distinguished alike for beauty, tenderness, and piety. In married life, she was not happy. Soon after her death, which occurred in Dublin, May 30, 1835, the following apostrophe appeared in public journals: "We would not win thee back; thy lyre e'en here, Its tone is not of earth, too sweetly clear "Then joy for thee, crowned one! forever wearing Bard of eternity! in triumph bearing A lofty part in heaven's sweet hymn, even now. 83. DEFENCE OF SOCRATES BEFORE HIS JUDGES. 1. I chiefly marvel, O ye judges! that Melitus should have asserted that I, diligently applying myself to the contempla |