themselves profusely with the elms, and ashes, and druidical oaks of England.

5. America has made contributions far more vast. Who can estimate the amount, or the value, of the augmentation of the commerce of the world, that has resulted from America? Who can imagine to himself what would be the shock to the Eastern Continent, if the Atlantic were no longer traversable, or there were no longer American productions or American markets?

6. But America exercises influences, or holds out examples for the consideration of the Old World, of a much higher, because they are of a moral and political character. America has furnished to Europe, proof of the fact, that popular institutions, founded on equality and the principle of representation, are capable of maintaining governments; able to secure the rights of persons, property, and reputation.

7. America has proved that it is practicable to elevate the mass of mankind; that portion which, in Europe, is called the laboring or lower class; to raise them to self respect, to make them competent to act a part in the great right and great duty of self government; and this, she has proved, may be done by the diffusion of knowledge. She holds out an example a thousand times more enchanting, than ever was presented before, to those nine tenths of the human race, who are born without hereditary fortune or hereditary rank.

8. America has furnished to the world the character of Washington. And if our American institutions had done nothing else, that alone would have entitled them to the respect of mankind. Washington! "First in war, first in peace, and first in the hearts of his countrymen!" Washington is all our own!

9. The enthusiastic veneration and regard in which the people of the United States hold him, prove them to be worthy of such a countryman; while his reputation abroad reflects the highest honor on his country and its institutions. I would cheerfully put the question to any of the intelligence of Europe and the world, what character of the century, upon the whole, stands out on the relief of history, most pure, most respectable, most sublime; and I doubt not that, by a suffrage approaching to unanimity, the answer would be-Washington!

10. This structure by its uprightness, its solidity, its durability, is no unfit emblem of his character. His public virtue and public principles were as firm as the earth on which it stands; his personal motives as pure as the serene heaven in which its summit is lost. But, indeed, though a fit, it is an

*Bunker Hill Monument.

inadequate emblem. Towering high above the column which our hands have builded, beheld not by the inhabitants of a single ity, or a single state, ascends the colossal grandeur of his character, and his life. In all the constituents of the one, in all the acts of the other, in all its titles to immortal love, admiration, and renown, it is an American production.

11. It is the embodiment and vindication of our trans-Atlantic liberty. Born upon our soil, of parents also born upon it; never, for a moment, having had a sight of the old world; instructed, according to the modes of his time, only in the spare, but wholesome elementary knowledge which our institutions provide for the children of the people; growing up beneath, and penetrated by, the genuine influence of American society; growing up amid our expanding, but not luxurious civilization; partaking in our great destiny of labor, our long contest with unreclaimed nature and uncivilized man; our agony of glory, the war of independence, our great victory of peace, the formation of the Union, and the establishment of the constitution; he is all, all our own! That crowded and glorious life,

"Where multitudes of virtues passed along,
Each pressing foremost in the mighty throng,
Contending to be seen, then making room
For greater multitudes that were to come;"

that life was the life of an American citizen.

12. I claim him for America. In all the perils, in every darkened moment of the state, in the midst of the reproaches of enemies, and the misgivings of friends, I turn to that transcendent name for courage, and for consolation. To him who denies, or doubts, whether our fervid liberty can be combined with law, with order, with the security of property, with the pursuits and advancement of happiness; to him who denies that our institutions are capable of producing exaltation of soul and the passion of true glory; to him who denies that we have contributed any to the stock of great lessons and great examples; to all these I reply, by pointing to Washington!

WEBSTER..

QUESTIONS. — Where is Bunker hill? What event of importance occurred there in the war of the revolution? How long since? For what things is America indebted to Europe? For what, is Europe indebted to America? In what respect is the monument a fit emblem of Washington's charac ter? Explain how it may be considered that the character of Washington is purely an American production.

- In-vi-ting, not

PRONUNCIATION AND ARTICULATION. in-vi-t'n phil-o-soph-ic-al, not phil' soph'c'l: in-flu-ence, not in-flu-unce: re

spect, not re-spec: de-scend-ants, not de-scend-unce: cult-ure, not cult-er, nor cul-tshure: mints, not mince: pop-u-lar, not pop-py-lar: kind, not kine: his-to-ry, not his-t'ry.

SPELL AND DEFINE. -2. Culture: 4. luxuries, transplantations. 5. traversable: 7. hereditary: 9. suffrage: 10. durability.

LESSON CIV.

AMERICA.-NATIONAL HYMN.

1. My country! 'tis of thee,
Sweet land of liberty,
Of thee I sing;

Land where my fathers died,
Land of the pilgrims' pride;
From every mountain side,
Let freedom ring.

2. My native country! thee,
Land of the noble free,
Thy name I love:

I love thy rocks and rills,
Thy woods and templed hills;
My heart with rapture thrills,
Like that above.

3. Let music swell the breeze,
And ring from all the trees,
Sweet freedom's song;
Let mortal tongues awake,
Let all that breathe partake,
Let rocks their silence break,
The sound prolong.

4. Our fathers' God! to thee,
Author of liberty!

To thee we sing;
Long may our land be bright
With freedom's holy light;
Protect us by thy might,

Great God, our King!

S. F. SMITH

LESSON CV.

COMFORT YE MY PEOPLE.

COMFORT ye, comfort ye my people!

Saith your God.

Speak ye comfortably to Jerusalem, and cry unto her,
That her warfare is accomplished,

5. That her iniquity is pardoned:

10.

15.

For she hath received of the Lord's hand

Double for all her sins.

The voice of him that crieth in the wilderness,
Prepare ye the way of the Lord;

Make straight in the desert a highway for our God!
Every valley shall be exalted;

And every mountain and hill shall be made low;
And the crooked shall be made straight;

And the rough places plain:

And the glory of the Lord shall be revealed,
And all flesh shall see it together:

For the mouth of the Lord hath spoken it.

The voice said, Cry! And he said, What shall I cry?
All flesh is grass,

20. And all the goodliness thereof is as the flower of the field : The grass withereth, the flower fadeth :

25.

30.

35.

Because the spirit of the Lord bloweth upon it:
Surely the people is grass.

The grass withereth, the flower fadeth :

But the word of our God shall stand for ever.

O Zion, that bringest good tidings! get thee up into the high mountain;

O Jerusalem, that bringest good tidings!

Lift up thy voice with strength;

Lift it up, be not afraid;

Say unto the cities of Judah, Behold your God!

Behold! the Lord your God will come with strong hand,

And his arm shall rule for him:

Behold! his reward is with him,
And his work before him.

He shall feed his flock like a shepherd:
He shall gather the lambs with his arm,

And carry them in his bosom,

And shall gently lead those that are with young.

Who hath measured the waters in the hollow of his hand, 40. And meted out heaven with the span,

And comprehended the dust of the earth in a measure,
And weighed the mountains in scales,

And the hills in a balance ?

Who hath directed the spirit of the Lord, 45. Or, being his counselor, hath taught him?

With whom took he counsel, and who instructed him,
And taught him in the path of judgment,
And taught him knowledge,

And showed to him the way of understanding? 50. Behold! the nations are as a drop of a bucket,

And are counted as the small dust of the balance:
Behold! he taketh up the isles as a very little thing.
And Lebanon is not sufficient to burn,

Nor the beasts thereof sufficient for a burnt offering. 55. All nations before him are as nothing;

And they are counted to him less than nothing, and vanity.
To whom then will ye liken Me,

Or shall I be equal? saith the Holy One.
Lift up your eyes on high, and behold!

60. Who hath created these things?

That bringeth out their host by number?

He calleth them all by names: by the greatness of his might, (For that he is strong in power,)

Not one faileth.

Why sayest thou, O Jacob! and speakest, O Israel! 65. My way is hid from the Lord,

And my judgment is passed over from my God?
Hast thou not known? hast thou not heard,

That the everlasting God, the Lord,

The Creator of the ends of the earth,

70. Fainteth not, neither is weary?

There is no searching of his understanding.

He giveth power to the faint;

And to them that have no might be increaseth strength.

Even the youths shall faint and be weary,

75. And the young men shall utterly fall:

But they that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength;
They shall mount up with wings as eagles;

They shall run and not be weary;

And they shall walk, and not faint.

BIBLE.