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as it is better cultivated: you should spare it as long as you can, and not, by reducing them to despair, make their resistance more obstinate. For if we allow ourselves to be stung into premature action by the reproaches of our allies, and waste their country before we are ready, we shall only involve Peloponnesus in more and more difficulty and disgrace. Charges brought by cities or persons against one another can be satisfactorily arranged; but when a great confederacy, in order to satisfy private grudges, undertakes a war of which no man can foresee the issue, it is not easy to terminate it with honor.

"And let no one think that there is any want of courage in cities so numerous hesitating to attack a single one. The allies of the Athenians are not less numerous; they pay them tribute, too, and war is not an affair of arms, but of money, which gives to arms their use, and which is needed above all things when a continental is fighting against a maritime power: let us find money first, and then we may safely allow our minds to be excited by the speeches of our allies. We, on whom the future responsibility, whether for good or evil, will chiefly fall, should calmly reflect on the consequences which may follow.

"Do not be ashamed of the slowness and procrastination with which they are so fond of charging you; if you begin the war in haste, you will end it at your leisure because you took up arms without sufficient preparation. Remember that we have always been citizens of a free and most illustrious state, and that for us the policy which they condemn may well be the truest good sense and discretion. It is a policy which has saved us from growing insolent in prosperity or

giving way under adversity, like other men. We are not stimulated by the allurements of flattery into dangerous courses of which we disapprove, nor are we goaded by offensive charges into compliance with any man's wishes. Our habits of discipline make us both brave and wise-brave, because the spirit of loyalty quickens the sense of honor, and the sense of honor inspires courage; wise, because we are not so highly educated that we have learned to despise the laws and are too severely trained and of too loyal a spirit to disobey them. We have not acquired that useless over-intelligence which makes a man an excellent critic of an enemy's plans, but paralyzes him in the moment of action. We think that the wits of our enemies are as good as our own, and that the element of fortune cannot be forecast in words. Let us assume that they have common prudence, and let our preparations be, not words, but deeds. Our hopes ought not to rest on the probability of their making mistakes, but on our own caution and foresight. We should remember that one man is much the same as another, and that he is best who is trained in the severest school. These are principles which our fathers have handed down to us and we maintain to our lasting benefit: we must not lose sight of them; and when many lives and much wealth, many cities and a great name, are at stake, we must not be hasty or make up our minds in a few short hours: we must take time. We can afford to wait when others cannot, because we are strong.

"And now send to the Athenians and remonstrate with them both about Potidea and about the other wrongs of which your allies complain. They say that they are will

ing to have the matter tried, and against one | Archbishop Spaulding, on my return from who offers to submit to justice you must not Rome, I paid a visit to the bishop of Anproceed as against a criminal until his cause necy, in Savoy. I was struck by the splenhas been heard. In the mean time, prepare dor of his palace, and saw a sentinel at the for war. This decision will be the best for door, placed there by the French government yourselves and the most formidable to your as a guard of honor. But the venerable bishenemies." Translation of B. JOWETT, M. A. op soon disabused me of my favorable impressions. He told me that he was in a state of gilded slavery. "I cannot," said he, “build as much as a sacristy without obtaining permission of the government."

AMERICAN RELIGIOUS LIBERTY.

THANK GOD, we live in a country where liberty of conscience is respected, and where civil constitution holds over us the ægis of her protection, without intermeddling with ecclesiastical affairs. From my heart I say, "America, with all thy faults, I love thee still." And perhaps at this moment there is no nation on the face of the earth where the Church is less trammeled, and where she has more liberty to carry out her sublime destiny, than in these United States.

For my part, I much prefer the system which prevails in this country, where the temporal needs of the Church are supplied by voluntary contributions of the faithful, to the system which obtains in some Catholic countries of Europe, where the Church is supported by the government, thereby making feeble reparation for the gross injustice it has done to the Church by its former wholesale confiscation of ecclesiastical property. And the Church pays dearly for this indemnity, for she has to bear the perpetual attempts at interference and the vexatious enactments of the civil power, which aims at making her wholly dependent upon it

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I do not wish to see the day when the Church will invoke or receive any government aid to build our churches or to pay the salary of our clergy, for the government may then begin to dictate to us what doctrines we ought to preach. And in proportion as state patronage would increase, the sympathy and aid of the faithful would diminish.

I heartily pray that religious intolerance may never take root in our favored land. May the only king to force our conscience be the King of kings, may the only prison erected among us for the sin of unbelief or misbelief be the prison of a troubled conscience, and may our only motive for embracing truth be, not the fear of man, but the love of truth and of God!

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THE COMMON DOOM:

ICTORIOUS men of earth, | In your beauty's pale declension
You would grace with condescension.
Proclaim how wide your The love that touched you never

no more

empires are;

Though you bind in every

And your triumphs reach as far

As night or day, Yet you, proud monarchs, must obey,

And mingle with forgotten ashes, when
Death calls ye to the crowd of common men.

Devouring Famine, Plague and War,
Each able to undo mankind,
Death's servile emissaries are;
Nor to these alone confined:

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When your bloom and hopes were high.

Ah! but what if I discover
That too long in antique fashion
I have nursed a fruitless passion,
Whose rage and reign-thank Heaven!-
Are passed at length and over-

That Fate hath locked for ever Love's gol-
den Eden gate?

There's a wrong beyond redressing,
There's a prize not worth possessing,
And a lady's condescension

May come an hour too late.

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eyes,

In raptures I beheld her
Which could but ill deny me.

Should I be called where cannons roar,
Where mortal steel may wound me,
Or cast upon some foreign shore

Where dangers may surround me, Yet hopes again to see my love,

To feast on glowing kisses, Shall make my cares at distance move In prospect of such blisses.

In all soul there's not one place my

To let a rival enter;

Since she excels in every grace,
In her my love shall centre.
Sooner the seas shall cease to flow,
Their waves the Alps shall cover,
On Greenland ice shall roses grow,
Before I cease to love her.

The next time I go o'er the moor
She shall a lover find me,
And that my faith is firm and pure,
Though I left her behind me;
Then Hymen's sacred bonds shall chain
My heart to her fair bosom :
There, while my being does remain,
My love more fresh shall blossom.

ALLAN RAMSAY.

THE LIVING AND THE DEAD.

I SAW her when the flowers of life

Bloomed in hope's radiant dawn,

Fair as the rainbow in the sky

Ere its tints of heaven are gone. Her heart was pure; no withering blight Had crushed its dreams of youth, Nor weeds of sorrow rankled round Her soul of angel-truth.

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The brightness of her glance had fled As stars flee from the day;

The rose that decked her crimson cheek
Was blasted by decay.

The dews of death sat sternly cold
Upon her marble brow;
The snowy bosom heaved no more:
'Twas moist and clammy now;
The eye that once with fond delight

Shone like the meteor's blaze
Now sunk and lustreless was fixed,
A dead and sightless gaze.

The dark hair o'er her forehead fell
And veiled its icy chill;
Life's sparkling founts were frozen up,
The throbbing heart was still;
The shadowy frame of soulless clay,

So beauteous once, and blest,
Lay like a sculptured form of stone,

Wrapped in eternal rest.

The fleshless hands were clasped across
Her breast, as if her soul
'Mid worship's seraph-breathings flew
To reach heaven's blissful goal;
About her livid lips still played

The last faint smile she gave,

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O'er higher flock than this, and my esteem.
O'er men now makes thee judge supreme.'
Behold our shepherd, scales in hand,

Like moonlight's lingering farewell gleam Although a hermit and a wolf or two,

Upon a mouldering grave.

I stood beside the shrouded bier

And kissed the lifeless earth,

And wept to think that joys like hers

Should perish at their birth;

'Tis even so the greenest bud
In summer's glow will fade,
And hallowed hopes of years to come
Are oft the first decayed.

JAMES WITHERS.

Besides his flock and dogs, were all he knew. Well stocked with sense, all else upon

demand

Would come, of course, and did, we under

stand.

His neighbor hermit came to him to say, "Am I awake? Is this no dream, I pray? You favorite? You great? Beware of

kings!

Their favors are but slippery things,

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