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 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! THE COMMON DOOM: ICTORIOUS men of earth, | In your beauty's pale declension 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 Devouring Famine, Plague and War, When your bloom and hopes were high. Ah! but what if I discover That Fate hath locked for ever Love's gol- There's a wrong beyond redressing, May come an hour too late. eyes, In raptures I beheld her Should I be called where cannons roar, 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, The next time I go o'er the moor 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. The brightness of her glance had fled As stars flee from the day; The rose that decked her crimson cheek The dews of death sat sternly cold Shone like the meteor's blaze The dark hair o'er her forehead fell So beauteous once, and blest, Wrapped in eternal rest. The fleshless hands were clasped across The last faint smile she gave, O'er higher flock than this, and my esteem. 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 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, |