and unawed, adopted upon full investigation and mature deliberation, 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. 1 should be happy if my own experience had afforded fewer examples 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 awful150 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, 1 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 experiment, 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 I 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 Who, piqued sometimes at the man's master mind, Gave him, one day, to see how he would treat So strange a grace, a bitter gourd to eat. 2. With simplest reverence, and no surprise, The sage received what stretched the dōnor's eyes: 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? 4. Calmly stood Lokman still, as Duty stands,- LXII. HUNT. JAFFAR:EI AN EASTERN TRADITION. ΕΙ 1. JAFFAR', the Bar'mec-ide, the good vizier," The poor man's hope, the friend without a peer, — 2. All but the brave Mondeer. He, proud to show On all they owed to the divine Jaffar'. - The man 3. "Bring me the man!" the caliph cried. Was brought, was gazed upon. The mutes began To bind his arms. "Welcome, brave cords!" cried he; "From bonds far worse Jaffar delivered me; 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. LXIII. A BOAT RACE, AND WRECK OF A BOAT. 1. ONE gusty day, now stormy and now still, 2. I stood apart upon the western hill, And saw a race at sea: a gun was heard, And two contending bōats at length appeared : 193 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 3. 4. 5. Then were there piercing shrieks a frantic flight All hurried-all in tumult and affright! A gathering crowd from different streets drew near; none attend, none hear! All ask, all answer To save the sinking. - Will her aid avail ? And who is she apart? She dares not come LXIV. LIFE AT SEA. Crabbe. 1. WE one day descried some shapeless object drifting at a distance. At sea, everything that breaks the monotony of the surrounding expanse attracts attention. It proved to be the mast of a ship that must have been completely wrecked; for there were the remains of handkerchiefs, by which some of the crew had fastened themselves to this spar, to prevent their being washed off by the waves. There was no trace by which the name of the ship could be ascertained. The wreck had evidently drifted about for many months; clusters of shell-fish had fastened about it, and long sea-weeds flaunted at its sides. 2. But where, thought I, is the crew? Their struggle has long been over; they have gone down amidst the roar of the tempest; their bōnes lie whitening among the caverns of the deep. Silence, oblivion, like the waves, have closed over them, and no one can tell the story of their end. What sighs have been wafted after that ship! what prayers offered up at the |