COME AND TAKE ME. Dcviyier. VOL. 1. CLEARFIELD, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 1855. NO. 32. RAFTSMAN'S JOURNAL. Css. Joxr.s, Publisher. Per. annum, (payable in advance.) $1 50 - If pxid within tho year, 2 eO No paper discontinue! until all arrearages are paid. A failure to notify a discontinuance at the expi ration of the term subscribed for, wi!l be coii.siier ed it new en?n jginent. ' (Drigimil 3Hornl nle. WF.1TTEN FOR TTIF. JOUIISAI..! THE -:o:- COI'YKIOnT S E C V E E D . CHAPTER XV. "Guesa I do always did ; and what's more always will," said he, at the same time, im pressing a kiss on her check. ''And you'll never be offended at me, nor angrj- with nie V "Unless yon turn Christian," s.dd Valdlnus, as they seated themselves in the arbor. "Well, dear brother, I must tc-il you the truth, I am a Christian," said Vertitia, at the same time throwing her arms around hisneclr. Valdinui, tore himself from her arms, and sprung to his feet, and looking angrily in her face, said; "Fou a Christiau! you a Christian, too!" Yes, brother, ly the grace of God, I am" said Vertitia, miluiy, and looking up with grat itude, beaming in hereyes. "You a Christian !" he again exclaimed, as if amazed beyond measure. .'Yes; and I hope to see my j.oor dear broth er on too!' said Vertitia, the tears streaming from her eyes. "Guess you'll hope a while for that, not such a fool as yon think; curse them all;" sa;t he in a rage, and turning round, hastily walked (If, leaving Vertitia alone in the arbor. Poi.r Vertitia! she sat fur some time, and wept sore. After a while, however, she dried Tip her te:rs, and hastened to her little cham ber, and throwing herself npon hei knees at the side of her couch, poured forth her over flowing heart in earnest, importunate pra-er for her brother for the one fcke loved above t.W others on earth. - That night, without a farewell, or intimating i j ?.ny cue his intention, Yaldinr.s left left father and mctlier, and poor, dear sister f . r the toils and privations of the camp, and the hard, perilous life of a common soldier. The family was now reduced to three mem ber. excepting little Yare. Fiducia had gone tj heaven, to walk in white, and sing angel's s: : cj; Valdiiins, to some distant land, they kn not where; and Yalens. with his wife and d - i'.' liter, were left to sorrow and stiller alone. Hut in the midst of all their trials they were happy happy tisany human beings could pos ti:!y be in their circumstances. The father and mother were overjoyed at the conversion of their daughter. Though one star had sunk away from their view, yet another, even more bastrous it possible, had been sent to bhine in its itCiid. and throw around them its brilliant light. And as for their only son, they had ex perienced already enough of the etlicacy of the prayer f faith, to encourage and strength en their hearts. And as to Vertitia, her hours glided away happily, in administering to the comfort of her parents and in contemplation of the coming glor)-. It must be confessed, however, that Yalens himself did not feel entirely at ease. How could he ? Ho had good reason for bcleiving himself and family were suspected, if not, in fact, belrayed. For this reason, they uow sel dom ventured abroad the doors were kept continually closed, and, to all appearances, the house looked as if deserted. Even the faith ful old dog, which had stood guard for years at the main door or entrance, was unchained, und provided for elsewhere. Another thing which added totheir distress, and began to stare them frightfully in the face, was icant. Their little stock of provisions was getting low, and in fact could hardly be replenished at any price, or from any source. They economized, however, what little they had, and cast themselves on that providence which feedeth the young ravens. "Ccme, my daughter,"' said Yalens, one evening, just as the. stars were , hurriedly ta king their night-watch station, "ecmoJ, IS take a stroll in the'grounds, jfg so delight ful, cut-doors,' Yalens said this, just as they had finished a hymn in the hall, and while Valencia, in her bed-ehanii-.r ba4 Leen si ( mtie yarc t ie"- . . In a few moments, they were out in the grounds, arm in arm, pacing along the flowery -walks, end engaged in alow, earnest conver sation. It was dark enough to conceal their forms -irora any eyes ou the adjacent streets, and then the rank vines that grew in clusters all around the rude stone-walls seemed to afford a suffi cient shelter, and thej felt and talked quite at sase. "And do you really think, father; the soul so soon passes into glory, at death;" said Ver titia, in reply to a remark which her father had jnst made. "I do, pehaps Jn the twinkling of an eye, it is there." . 'How. strange! with what speed It must y! I can't think of it," wid Vertitia, sudden 1- stopping, and casting her eves a moment up toward the clear starry skies. "No, my (laughter; it's a thought onr finite minds canuot grasp. The movements of mat- ter are tardy, lor several reasons; but who can tell with what nowcr of motion a snirit mav he endowed, and how the soul, released from iiio body, may overcome, just with a single leap or bound, any distance, however gre.it." "Then poor, dear sister was there just at ouce, even while her boJv was yet in the flames, her soul was in glory! wasn't it fath er." "Yes;" said Yalens, thoughtfully, "I've lit- tie doubt of ii. The martvr Stephen, of whom the beloved Paul told us, while his murderers were in the act of stoning him to death, look ed up, and saw heaven opened, and Jesus sit ting at the right hand of God." 'How strange that was, father. It seems he could see there, and hence the distance can't be very great, after all. Perhaps, father, heaven comes down, and catches up, as it were, the soul." "Possibly; but more than likely it was a vision. "O! father. I dont like every thing to be visions; I like to think these things, to bc- leive them, they delight me so." "Well, well, my daughter, the time may not be distant when the heavens shall open for us; at least, let us have ourselves ia readiness." 'It'll be a glorious sight! O! wont it; to see Jesus, too, seated at God's right hand," said Vertitia, in an extacy, and drawing her father more closely to her side. "Yes: and no longer the poor, despised man of sorrows, but the crowned conquering Prince, with adoring throngs at his feet," said Yalens, with emotions of joy spread over his features. They walked on in the shady darkness, while the bright, star-lit skies, spread cut over them in unsurpassed loveliness, revealed faint ly many a modest, blushing flower as they pas sed along. The w?.1k they were now on, led toward the north corner of the grounds, where the wall had partly crumbled down, and where several clusters of vines grew in the richest luxuriance. These, at a- distance, looked like great, black piles or masses, with queer, fan tastic outlines; and, an imagination, less ac tive than Vertitia's, might have very easily converted them into any sort of hideous mon sters. And as they approached them, once or twice she had suddenly clasped her father's arm more tightly, and shrunk in close, to his side. 'But they walked oil slowly, still con versing freely as before. "What a change! so sudden, too; in a moment in the twinkling of an eye ! I was Must thinking about it father." " What, my daughter ?" "Why, the sudden change; one moment, on eart'.i the next, in heaven!" "Yes; it is very great; very glorious, too," "Yes that's it; that'3 what I was trying to think about trying to realize, father." "It's a blessed thought, my daughter; one moment on earth, and perhaps in the greatest bodily anguish and suffering, the next, in heaven, in unspeakable happiness! How ama- zing! what a change!" said Yalens, as if half choaked with the unutterable thought. "O, father! father! I don't see how I could eudure it; I think I should frighten at it: still I'd like to see it." Scarcely had these words fallen from the lir s of Vertitia. when two mr,nsffr-bn-ino- men, sprung from behind a thick, black clus ter of vines, at their side, and seized them. Poor Vertitia! she uttered a shriek, and threw herself full into her father's arms, but from which, at the sajue instant, she was rude ly torn. Yalens gave a sudden, convulsive shudder, and, throwing up his hands, said in a faint whisper; "O ! my poor, dear wife ! my dearest Va lencia!" But the hands, of strong, cruel, unfeeling men were upon them, and they were hurried over the low, crumbling wall, outside of which two others were standing, and who instantly joined their companions. They wove dragged along the dark, tortu- ous streets at a rapid rate. Yalens himself was rotishlv, and even insolontlv trp.ited . CTiI i ia, however, ?een:cd to receive some little sympathy. Two of the men, one on each side, with their arms around her slender waist, supported or rather carried her along. ' Her feet scarcely touched the earth at all, from me moment they started. Uer eyes were wild ly set in her head, while the long wavy folds of her hair hang in confusion down over her palj face and shoulders. In half an hour, they were thrown together into a low, damp cell or prision about six feet square, with a sort of lighted lamp in it. The door being secured, the men immediately left. - Valens, after the fiirst shock was over, had soon became composed; and, as they passed along the street, had been able to realize ful ly their situation. He knew that a speedy death awaited them that there was no possi bility of escape. Vertitia, however, all the time, had. been in a state of unconsciousness, and knew not what had taken place; and, in this. 8tato, she was laid, or rattier thrown intn a corner of the cfll by v tors. rrne, brotaJ ai Cap- j .-.3IHlICA: .Ui-LTIMt. A large ana enthusiastic meeting oi me fneu.ls o! "America and Americanism,-' was ucK in the Lourt House at Llearlield on inurs- I day evening, the 22d of February, in com- memoration of the birth of Washington. riTILIP ANTES was called to the chair, and Geo. W. Mcri'ht, G. D. Goopfellow, Alf.x. Adams, ?I. A. Frank, J. II. Jones, and Wm. A. Bloom, Esqrs., wore elected Yicc Presi dents. E. S. Dundey and G. W.'Eheem, Secretaries. II. B. Swoope, Esq., having been requested to deliver a lecture, was then called upon, and addressed the meeting. He was followed by M. A. Frank, Esq., in a brief and pertinent address. On motion it was unanimously re solved that the Lecture of II. B. Swoon:, Esq., he published in the papers of the County. On motion adjourned. PHILIP ANTES, Pres. E. S. DcxDY, Esq., ( s . G. W. Rheem, Jr. S LECTURE. Fellow Citizens: In conformity with the venerable usage of every age, and in discharge of our grateful duty as a people, we have as sembled on this, the evening of the anniversa ry of that day that gave to our Country a de fender and a Father, to commemorate his glo rious achievments, and pay our humble tribute to his unrivalled fame. The leader of the ar my that achieved our Independence, the mo ving spirit ol the councils that laid the found ations of our government our historvisbut his biography, and our liberty the -unfading pic ture of his services and virtue. So many are t!ie great and good actions of his life so nu merous the sound and impressive maxims of policy delivered to posterity, that their simple recital would fiil a folio volume. For these the student cf history will Turn the archives of our Country, while it shall be our duty to discuss the nature of (he institutions of that Country, of which he has been justly termed th? Father, and lo consider the political diseases,if any there be, that are preying upon its national vitality. The settlement of New England, and the in stitutions of this countr-, are results of the Reformation. The act of supremacy in the reign of Henry YJII. which separated tho En glish nation from the Roman See, was a simple vindication of the sovereign franchise of that monarch against foreign influence, but contain ed no principle favorable to religious liberty. All the Roman Catholic doctrines were still as serted, and the Pope could praise the king for his orthodoxy, while he excommunicated him for his disobedience. The Catholic who deni ed the King's supremacy, and the Protestant who doubted his creed, were alike consigned to the fctake. But the accession of Edward VI. prepared the way for Protestantism. A new sjiirit of inquiry became active, and not a rite of the established worship, not a point in church government passed by without strict examination. Puritanism, zealous for inde pendence, admitted no voucher but the Bible, I t. i i n . i i , , - - ",cu 11 ",JUla lultm euner a ope, aving, nor Parliament to interpret. They soon trampled "Pon church and aristocracy, and hurried into -'x5!c to escape the vindictive grasp of bigotry arrl intolerance. A handful of these wander- inS- -missed protestants, imbued with tho Srcat principles of religious freedom, left the green shores of their own fair land and sought out a homo 5" thesB western wilds, thoughout whose whole extent Art had then reared no monument, and from whose impenetrable for- rcsts, civilization shrank back affrighted and apalled. In the midst ot winter, with no cov- crinS to shelter them from the bleak winds, they landed upon our rock-bound coast, having forsaken all that man holds most dear on earth, -home, country, kindred, and friends, for freedom to worship God! With the gigantic forest, inhabited only by the merciless savage and the beast of prey, upon the one side, and the trackless waste of waters, over which they had been borne from tyranny and oppression, on tae otner, tue riignm X atiiers lounded uPon Plymouth Rock the institutions of Aiaer- ican libcrt' aml conseclated themselves and tbeir posterity forever to freedom ! As time rolled on these hardy pioneers grew strong in uumbers as they grew strong in noble leeds,uutil the American Colonies had swollen to three millions oi frjeuK-n, conscious that they owed no allegicnce save to the soil which they had consecrated to liberty, and to the God who made them. Their growing prosperity at length rendered them equally an object of am bition and of avarice to the countties that had driven them forth, and they resolved to force them back into the galling servitude of their ancestors. The mighty roar of England'slion, which had disturbed the tranquility of all the states and dynasties of Europe, re-echoed across the broad Atlantic, and like tho tur ing of the giant Enceladus beneath the heav ing ..'Etna, was felt to the utmust limits of the world. But the sons of the hardy pioneers, with "God asd Libebty," for their battle cry knew that they were invincible, and astonished Europe beheld a feeble people, without an or ganized government, destitute of arms, of ammunition and almost of clothing for her few rude soldiers, stand forth and defy the mighty giant to the combat! Deluded despotism soon relinnniBW -lfi fruities3 task of sUbin?ation. an d American independence was institutions, thus founded I upon Plymouth Rock by the protestant refu gees from tyranny and oppression, and defen ded with the blood of their sons upon the bat tle fields of the Revolution, with tho open Bi ble as their chief corner-stoue, have grown up and spread abroad, from where the Atlantic leaves our Eastern shore, to where the peace ful billows of the great Pacific, dash, and break, and die away. And the sun of heaven never shone upon a happier land. Here every man can seat himself beneath"his own vine and his own fig-tree' and looking around him may proudly exclaim, "all this is mine. Not a sov ereign or ruler on the face of God's earth can molest me in tho possession of a single article of property here." And when his little infant climbs upon his knee, and he feels its breath sweeter than the odor of roses upon his cheek, how proud must hi the reflection, that it, too, will grow up with unshackled limbs, aud that a day may come when that infant prattler will sway the destinies of one of the mightiest na tions on the face of the globe! Who can look down the long vista of coming years and pre dict the power, the greatness, and the grandeur which this country will attain, and the happi ness future generations will enjoy, if we re main a free and a united people. But as disease may be preying upon the vi tals cf the strong brawncy man in the midst of ail the enjoyments of life,so too the grandeur, the power, and tho vigor of our nation cannot protect it from those political maladies that, quietly, but surely, destroy the germ from whence it draws the very essence of its being. These present themselves in two forms the one of ignorance and indiCl-ronce the other of direct and open hostility to the fundamental principles of the government. The cause of the first is to be found in the ceaseless tide of emigration pouring upon our shores-, and the almost immediate incorjora tion of these strangers and aliens into the pol itic. Thev come among us not only ignorant of our history, and unacquainted with our in stitutions, but imbued with the principles of monarchical and-lespoticgoverri:iients,imbibed in their early youth, and olten-times having no God, no Bible, and no Sabbath. Unable, then, tq comprehend the grc.nt principles that lie at tlie foundation of all our institutions, and ut terly iguorant of the causes that called them into being, they are wholly uprcpared and un fit to becomo American citizens. I Would not be understood as desiring to prevent the op pressed of other lands from finding an asylum and a home beneath the broad folds of the Ameri can flag. God forbid! But while I would freely open my doors and weleome the poverty strick en stranger to seat himself at my fireside and partake of the food provided for my children, so, also, would I desire to prevent his interfe rence in the domestic affairs of my household. Let them come. Let them enjoy all tho unal ienable blessings of life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness, but let Americans govern thcirown country! We hold the doctrine that, other circumstances being equal, the native born ci tizen is fairly entitled to the preference, in the distribution of offices and honors in the land which gave him birth. In the language of the illustrious Washington, the anniversary of whose birth we are now commemorating, (in a letter to John Quiney Adams, then American Minister at Berlin,) "it is not the policy of this government to employ foreigners, when it can well be avoided, either in the civ il or military walks of life". There is a spe cies of self-importance in all foreign officers that cannot be gratified without doing injustice to meritorious characters among our own coun trymen, who conceive, and justly, where there is no great preponderance of experience and merit, that Jhey are eutitled to all the offices in the gift of their government." Our naturalization laws are most undoubted ly defective, and are fast making our country a mart for the discharge of European criminals aud paupers of every description. The felon convict, recking from a murder in the Old World, soon finds here the right of citizenship, and consequently the annals of crime have in creased in proportion as the prisons of Europe have discharged their promiscuous contents upon our shores. They come among us, and forgetting they are gnesfcs, demand that onr country shall yield up its nationality to them that the stream of its national lif j shall be di verted from its proper channel merely to grat ify their peculiar tastes, manners, customs, or habits. They even go so far as to assume the airs of natural born citizens, and take upon themselves the exclusive management of our affairs! We hold, then, that it is onr duty, in obedience to the injunctions, of Washington, to protect our republican institutions, by guarding against this vast influx of foreigners, which is utterly imcompatible with the main tenance of our American nationality. But another and more dangerous evilisfobe found in the fact,fhat We have among us a class of persons openly hostile to the fundamental principles of our government, who owe alle giance xCZ foreign power, and who are seek ing to destroy the gre corner-stone of our na tional structure, the bible, or tC ?ock UP in obedience to the decrees infallible of councils, the commands of a foreign potentae. I would be tho last to cherish hostlity to any or sect, on account of their reI$ion and that men, of every faith apd inspiration are here at liberty to erect their attars.aitf to pour Sparke' Washington Paper out their hearts before the in as the spirit with in dictates, is the pride, the glory, and the boast of every American freeman. But when a church or sect steps beyond its legitimate spher. wheu it relinquishes the altar for the arena of politics: when it rudely and lawlessly grasps the sceptre ol state-then, and not till t'itn.1 pro test aud wage war against it. The religion of the individual concerns only himself and his God, but the policy of a church, or any other organ ization, acknowledging allegiance to a foreign power, concerns every true lover of his country. The history of the Romish church for centu ries has been but a continued scries of plots, intrigues.conspiraciesagainstgovernnients.and aggressions upon the peace of the world. The Jesuits were deeply implicated in the assassi nation of Henry III. of France, they attempt ed the life of Elizabeth of England, concocted the gun-powder plot, planned the Spanish Ar mada: instigated the murder of Henry IV. of France, effected the revocation of the edict of Nantz, and the consequent persecution of the Protestants which followed it, one of the darkest, bloodiest, and most damnable pages in the world's history, aud were deeply en gaged in all the miseries and attrocities tLat lor two centuries desolated Europe. So long has Jesuitism thus convulsed the Old World, and of so much war aud bloodshed has it been the cause, that means have been taken in eve ry kingdom and principality to prcv.nt its fa tal influence. America is therefore the only country in which Rome can now work without impediment the great stage of papal action, where Irish Priests, German Monks, Italian Friars, and Roman Jesuits meet and mingle.to advance the interests of their 'holy father' the Pope, and to destroy our religious and civil libertj- to which, the policy of their church is, aud ever has been, irimical! This is their promised land where no con nexion of church and state exists to stay them in their onward j'rogress. Here under the tsanction of religious toleration, they hope to have full sway: and of all other enemies to a republic, a political institution, dressed in the garb of Christianity ,is the mos.t to be feared. They have already made rapid strides towards the ascendency, and in fanci-jd strength have boldly declared that, if dominant, they would revolutionize our governmer.t,an.l destroy re ligious freedom. They have oponiy sought to shut out the Bible the Ms.crna-Ciiarla of American Liberty, from our youth, and only await the p-oper time to arise and crush out that very liberty, uuder which they have been permitted to prosper. It is no idle charge that the policy of the Romish church is inimical to liberty of con science. In all the productions of her school men, in all the decrees of her infallible coun cils in all the bulls of her popes, in all that her doctors, cardinals, bishops and priests have said or written, she cl aiuisto be the uni versal dictator to the consciences of men, and denounces religious toleration, and free dom of the press. In the encyclical letter, or inaugural address, of Pope Gregory XVI, liberty of conscience is stigmatised as a "pes tilential error," and freedom of the press spo ken of, as "never sufliciently to be execrated and detested!" Now when we reflect that every wave that breaks upon our Atlantic coast bears upon its bosom, some of those who arc sworn to obey the mandates of the infalli ble head of that church who are trained from their earliest youth in the schools of persecu tion, and who are taught that "the union of Church and State is dreaded only by tho pro fane lovers of . liberty" and. that religious toleration is "a pestilential error," when we reflect that these hordes from the Fapal States of Europe are "seeking to engross the educa tion of the country," is there not some ground to apprehend danger to our republican insti tutions ? Is there nothing to fear from a band of cunning, sneaking, intriguciug and immor al Jcsuitcs, serving under the banner of a for eign potentate, and not under tho Stars and Stripes of the Union ? A band whose history is but a bloody catalogue of court intrigues, and bloody revolution?; of unholy schemes and midnight assassinations ! Nothing to fear when we behold th-a' bible, tha chief corner stone of our national structur?, shut out by the hand of authority from our youth, because it is not to be read without the interpretation when our Common Schools are publicly de nounced as "brothels," "pits of destruction,'?, "pest houses," and "felon manufacturics," by church dignitaries under an oath of allegiance to a foreign power ? And whence comes this opposition to our system of pupular educa tion ? Go mark the attempts of Jesuitism in Europe to "grasp the portfolio of popular in struction, so as to have all the educational es tablishments under papal control," and then tell me, if they could accomplish this design in our land, how long they would be in sub verting our institutions, by training up our youth to become opposers of the laws, ene mies ta religious freedom, and rebels 4o the State 7 It is with this object in view that they seek a division of the school fund. By it they would obtain sectarian legislation and open tip away for Roman Catholic recognition on our statute books they would extend their facilities for drawing ia Protestant chileren to obtain a Roman Catholic education, -their schools would be sustained by protestant tax ation, and fostered by government patronage ; they would increase among us their papal forces, and they would accomplish indirectly what they have so long sought in vaiu,thc ex clusion of the Bible from the school roomy and thus prevent a larger portion of our youth from obtaining that education essetti.il to a full understanding of our American institu tions. - Is there an American in this broad land would accede to such propositions ? If 1 thought so, I could never more hold up my head in pride of my native soil, but on my bended knees I would go down before the ge nius of Freedom, and pray him to strike the foul libel from our otherwise fair escutcheon, and swear by Him who called this bright land info being, that no traitor hand should ever write it there aain ! Did the sons of tho Pilgrim Fathers dare to grant such requests, old "Plymouth rock would speak, and the bat tle fields of the Revolution give back their blood!" ' .' ; During tho reign of Henry III, England was infested with Catholic prelates, alein by Lirth, alein by language, and alein by feeling, who sought to undermine the fundamental princi ples of her Constitution. . They wished to substitute the Cannon for tho Common law, and never hesitated to express their abhorrence of the laws of England, when thvy were quoted in opposition to their oppressions, saying "what did the laws of England signify to them, they minded them not."?. Their insidcous and frequent attempts to accomplish their design, at length drew from the Parliament atMerton that memorible response, which has come down to us through a period of nearly six cen turies .V::tsa leges .Inglia viuiare' s WILL NT CHANGE THE LAWS OF ENGLAND. The time ha3 come lr the Legislators of America not to say "'we will not change tho laws," but to ''change" them, m such a man ner as to prevent the meddlesome-interference of these strangers and alcins in the affairs of our government, and to protect our republican institutions. And the time has come for American freeman to resolve that their liber ties shall not be jeopardized, and their institu tions endangered by those acknowledging al legiance to a foreign power, and obeying tho commands of a foreign pontiff. The open and undisguised attacks that have been made upon our republican system, aud the facility with which the Roman Catholic vote has always been wheeled into line by that old political party which paid the highest price, or bv.'st subserved its anti-republican de signs, have already called iuto existence a powerful organization, for the To'ectioi of our American institutions, and- the preserva tion of our religious freedom. .We have no sympathy for secret political action,. believing it under ordinary circumstances, Lighly inju dicious and dangerous in its tendencies; but when we reflect that all the open opposition of which Protestantism has beon cspable for centuries, has failed to stay the onward march of Jesuitism, that it works in secret, thus easily learning the desigDs of its adversaries, and a3 easily counteracting them, we- are ir resistably led to the conclusion that, to battle successfully, we must r.se its own weapons. . Embodying great principles, pregnant with the future destiny of our country this Amer ican Organization has grown up and spread aoroa 1 with almost fabulous rapidity, having already administered a severe- rebuke to the alien enemies of our Country, and. is still marching on from victory to victory. Nor is it simply a meteor, destined to flash for a moment in the political sky, and then to sink beneath the horizon, in eternal darkness, leav ing no trace of its visit. It . is more than a mere thought more than a simple abstraction. It is the living, breathing, energized action of those, who are lookiug alone to the pcrmenan cy, the grandeur, and the welfare of America, disconnected with factions at home, or phantoms abroad. Those who desire to carry "their own hod, their own mortar, , aud their own marble for the grand temple they are rearing," while they invite the suffering and the oppressed f every clime, kindred and tongue, to pass beneath, its wide arches, and repose in its shade. Under their influence the prospect already brightens, aud wc have reason to believe that the God of our fathers, who guided the frail May Flower to this distant shore, and who said unto the winds 'cease,' and to the waves 'be still' yet looks dowu upon our land with an eye that uever slumbers, and protects it with an arm that is uever weary. And now, my friends, in conclusion, it be comes us to remember that, though our eagle's eyrie is high, there are darts which can reach it, aye, and hands too that will not fail to 6end them : that opposition to priestly inteleranca and oppression was the ruling passion of our Pilgrim sires, who framed this government, and transmitted to us the fair inheritence, not simply for present enjoyment, but as a sacred hcir-lcom, to be handed down unimpared to succeeding generations, "'til the hast sylable of recorded time." Let us then to night, over . the common sepulchre ol Washington, the true American's model, renew onr vows of al legiance to the Union and the Constitution let us heed his oft repeated injunction to "Be it ab.e of fokeing inflcence," and, "placing none but Americans on guard,'.' we will ever hear, from the sentinel on the watch-tower of freedom, the cheering response bt aiz' well!" ' ' . " '; Hume Vol 11, Ch . XTt J " These American
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