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"WE GO WHERE DEMOCBATIC PEIXCIPLES POINT THE WAY ; WHEN THEY CEASE TO LEAD, WE CEASE TO FOLLOW."
lOLUE IX.
EBENSlilJRG, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 16, 1852.
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FKAGMEXT.
His eye was steru and wild ; his cheeki
V.'ns pale, and cold as clay ;
Upon his tightened lip a smile
Of fearful meaning lay.
He mused awhile, bilt not in doubt.
No trace of doubt was there;
It was the steady, solemn pause
Of resolute despair!
Once more he looked upon the scroll,
Once more its words he read ;
Then, calmly, with unflinching hand,
Its folds before him spread.
J rnw him bare his throat, and seize
The blue, cold gleaming steel,
ind grimly try the tempered edge
He was so soon to feel.
A sickness crept upon tnj heart,
And dizzy swam my head;
I could nut stir, I could not cry,-
I Mt benumbed and dead t
lihcf., icy horror struck me dumb,
A'.i'A froze my senses o'er;
I closed my eyes in utter fear,
And strove to think no more !
Again I looked a fearful change
Across his face had passed ;
He seemed to gasp on check and lip
A flaky foam was cast.
lie raised on high the glittering blade
Then first I found a tongue:
Hold ! madman ! stay the frantic deed '."
I cried, and forth I pprung.
He heard me, but he heeded not,
One glance around he gave,
And ere I could arrest his hand,
He had begin to shave !
PETEH CRAT.
I ll tell you of a nice young man,
Whose name was Peter Gray;
The state where l'eter Gray was born
Was Pennsylva-ni-a.
Thi Peter he did fall in love
All with a nice yound girl.
The name of her I'm positive
Was Lizzyanny Quirl.
When they were going to be wed,
Her father he said "No !"
And brutally be sent her off
reyond the O-hi-o.
When Fcter heard his love was lost
He knew not what to say,
He'd half a mind to jump into
The Susquehan-ni-a.
But he went trading to the west.
In furs and other skins,
And there was caught, killed and drest
By the bloody In-gi-ans.
When Lizzyanny heard the news
She straightway went to bed,
And never did get up again
Until she di-i-ed.
Ye fathers all a warning take,
Each one as has a girl,
And think upon poor l'eter Gray
And Lizzyanny Quirl.
Fall of Rocks at Niagara.
Last week, an immense mas3 of solid rockfell
into the river below, weighing about 200 tons.
H projected out from the perpendicular ledge,
ith seemingly no support under it, but held
enly by the earth and roots, on top, connecting
it with the main bank. On removing this earth
& seam was discovered, and the rocks began to
Manifest sings of uneasiness, feeling as much
83 a rock could feel, evident agitation at the
piospect before it! The scam gradually opened,
little patches of earth disengaged tbemselves
and word 6oon spread that the big rock was
about to take a leap into the foaming cauldron
below. The trees which stood upon it began to
od good bye; the seam rent, and the rock fell,
"the fall therof being great." Away it went,
jumping, crashing, and tearing everything be
fore it, 200 feet below. The tall trees in its course
tapped like pipe-stems. But when it reached
&e river a most magnificent spectacle was pre
ented. There rose, like a great water giant, a
iute column of spray and mist a hundred feet
hincreditable as it may seem, those who
Witnessed it will attest that it rose to one-third
the height of the chasm and spread round in
falling a distance of from two to three hundred
feet, and, the rays of the sun striking it, form.
U pei feet rainbow. It -was certainly the
Pwdeet eight of the kind ever witnessed.
WASHINGTON.
There seems to be something in the very name
of this illustrious individual, that every Amer
ican seems instinctively,- as it were, taught to
venerate, inasmuch as every incident of his life
is becoming more and raore interesting as time
is gradually gaining space, from his life time to
the present moment.
I was seated the other afternoon, enjoying a
a cigar, at the Morpeth Hotel, when a plain,
well-dressed elderly man, drew a chair towards
me, and seeing me so much at leisure, evinced
a disposition to enter into a conversation with
me, when I observed
"Well, friend, it appears trom all accounts our
new president has left us."
Yes, sir, so it seems and on so short a no
tice," he replied.
"He was quite an aged man not so old as
myself, by several years. Was you in this coun
try during the revolution, sir ?"
"O, yes, sir, I was born in this country thank
God."
"Then, sir, you must have some recollection,
but I was to young to enter the service at that
time."
"And where were you, sir ?"
"In Westchester, sir."
"Oh ! then you had an opportunity of know
ing considerably about the great movements of
that day ; and do you recollect the features of
General Washington as perfectly as though it
was but yesterday ? and Lafay, too ? and Harry
Pinckuey ?"
"Yes," said he laughing heartily. "Crosby
and my father were neighbors."
So saying, I offered him a cigar, which he de
clined, and said
"If the laudlord has a pipe, I will prefer it.
I should like to tell you," he continued, "a little
circumstance w hich took place between General
Washington and myself."
I observed I should be delighted to hear it,
and he related the following history of a day in
the General's employ.
"Well, one morning father told me to take the
black mare to Sing Sing, and get her shod, and
wait till old rum nose Ben, the blacksmith shod
her. So I stood at the door of old Ben's shop
and who should drive up to the tavern opposite,
but W ashington in his coach, and Lafayette with
him. They both got out, and I saw both pass
into the back room, and the landlord followed.
In a few seconds the landlord beckoned me from
the piazza. I felt frightened at first, and won
dered what it meant ; but, thinks I, they want
some grog and fresh wa'er. I was in my shirt
and truwstrs, without shoes, and on my head an
old cocked hat, and my feet and ankles you may
judge. I had been hoeing corn in the morning;
but in I went. As I approached the bar, I met
the landlord, who said :
"There are two gentlemen in the back room,
who wish to see you."
Unable to smother a laugh, I said
"My God! I can't go ; 6ee me," and I exhib
ited myeelf, and poinied to my feet.
"Come along, I'll go with you."
So in we went.
As I pulled off my hat, the stoutest man
8ay3
"Sit down young man."
"This boy," said the landlord "I am confident
will do any service you may trust him with to
your satisfaction," and withdrew from the room;
and the General began for it was Gen. Wash
ington himself :
"Young man, I wish to procure the newspa
per of to-day, from New Y'ork, can you procure
it for me ?"
I hesitated a moment, and replied
"I think I can, sir,'
"Well," says he to the Marquis, 'please in
quire of the landlord if he will furnish a good
horse."
"Xo, no," said I, "I don't want a horse."
"How will you go, then ?"
"In my canoe," I said.
The Marquis could not refrain from a down
right laugh, which brought the landlord to the
door.
"Le diable ! you'll be drowned !" says the
Frenchman
"There's not water enough in the North river
to drown this child, I know," said I.
The Marquis and the landlord enjoyed the re
tort by hearty laugh, but the other turned to the
window, looked on the river a few seconds and
observed
"The tide serves, and I wish to see you off.
What time will you probably return ?"
"Between seven and eight this afternoon," I
replied.
He handed me a gold piece.
"I don't want half so much ; I only want suf
ficient to buy some fowls and eggs with, for I am
going to market."
The General turned to the landlord, and said
to him
"Give him as much change as he wishes."
On which he handed me about twelve shillings,
while I observed
"Now I'll run home and get some clothes on
in a few minutes."
"I wish to speak a few words with you before
you start."
I shall not b here again till I come from :
New Y'ork, sir. In fifteen minutes I :hall start
from the little stone dock," and I pointed to it
out of the window.
"I desire you to be prudent and keep yonr
own counsel," said the General ; "and should
any mischief befal you, bo that you are detain
ed, do notfiil to let me know all the circumstan
ces immediately, so that I may relieve you."
So, saying "good bye," I took my hat and
started, and by the time I 6tated I left the dock,
and saw the carriage drive off.
I soon reached the city, and went to Claus
Vandarats, in the Bowery, who use 1 to keep the
Sour Krotit Club House, as it was then called,
and where I had often been with my father, who
was an old friend of his. I told him my errand,
and the haste I was in, on account of the time
of tide.
"Well," said he, "Here's Huey Gaines, to
day's paper, and here is an tnglish paper which
came in the British packet last night take that
too, and the sooner you are off the better, it is
now dead low water."
I felt rejoiced at getting the other paper, a-d
had them between my sh ?rt and skin, in my bo
som very soon. I left my fowls and eggs with him,
and took the baskets back, but not till the good
old Dutchman had tossed into one a large roll of
gingerbread, and which I began to need very
much. As I approached the wharf, there were
three rfci coats looking towards a ship at anchor
in the river. As I stepped into my canoe, they
walked to the place, aud one asked
"Where are ycru going ?"
"To Weehawk," said I.
"To market, to sell some chickens and eggs,"
I answered.
They said no more, and I made the best of
my way to Siug Sing, with a fine tide, and soon
arrived there, jast before those I have mention
ed, and my heart felt good to see the carriage
drive to the tavern, and both of them looking
for me out of the window. I fastened my ca
noe, but left both baskets, for I knew that funny
Frenchman would make fun of the gingerbread.
As I entered the house, the landlord was in the
bar. I saw the back door open and the landlord
told me to go in, which I did, aud Lafayette sho
ved it slowly to.
Washington was on his feet, and before I could
doff my hat he observed
"Well my young friend, what success ?''
"All good, sir," I said, laughing, as I thrust
my hand into my bosom and pulled out both pa
pers and handed them to him.
"An English paper where did you get this
from ?" said he, as a look of approbation spread
over his noble face.
"Sourkrout Hall, sir."
He reached his hand and took mine, saying,
"I am greatly obliged to you."
"Sourkrout Hall ?" said the Frenchman look
ing at me very significantly.
"You've riot had your dinner?" said the Gen
eral. "Not to-day, sir."
"Marquis, please order some, and a dish of
tea."
No, sir, I must go home."
Washington took out his purse, and held five
guineas towards me. I drew back and said
"I am an American, sir, and father would
make me return it right away if he knew it."
"Well," said he, "if I can reward you no
other way, bear in mind this General Washing
ton thanks you : and give my respects to your
father, and tell him I congratulate him on hav
ing such a son ; and remember, if at any time
during this contest, or hereafter, if you get in
volved in any difficulty, let me hear from you,
and I will relieve you if in my power."
"As he said this, 1 thought I saw a tear star
ting in his eyes, and Lafayette's likewise, as
they both hurried into the carriage, when the
landlord followed to the steps. While the wait
er was closing the door Lafayette said
"My God ! what a country ! patriots from
the commander-in-chief down to the plough
man ! they deserve to be free."
"Yes," replied the other, as the coach drove
off, "and I trust in God they will be."
The Mean Ulan.
"I've known some very mean men in my time.
There was Deacon Overreach, now he was so
mean, he always carried a hen in his gig-box
when he travelled, to pick up the oats his horse
wasted in the manger, and lay an egg for his
breakfast in the morning. And then there was Hu
;o .1 jx .ie'. an, ,m ni ade his wife potatoes
to pay for the marriage license. "Lawyer," he
continued, addressing himself to Barclay, "I
must tell you that story of Hugo, for it's not a
bad one ; and good 6tories like potatoes, ain't as
plenty as they used to be when I was a boy.
Hugo is a neighbor of mine, though consid.r.i
ble older than I be, and a mean neighbor he is
too. Well, when he was going to get married to
Gretchen Kolp he goes down to Parson Rogcrs
at Digby, to get a license.
" 'Parson," says he "what's the price of a
license V
'Six dollars !" says he.
" 'Six dollars ?" said Hugo ; "that's a dread
ful sight of money ! Couldn't you take no
less t"
'No," says he. "That's what they cost me
to the Secretary's office at Halifax."
"".Well how much do you ax for publishing- in
church, then ?"
" 'Nothing,' says parson.
'Why,' says Hugo, 'that's so cheap I can't
expect you to give no change brack. 1 think. I'll
be published. How long does, it take ?"
s 'Three Sundays.'
'Three Sundays !' says Hugo. 'Well that's
a long time too. But three Sundays only makes
a fornfght, after all ; two for the covers and one
for the inside like ; and six dollars is a great
sum of money for a poor man to throw away,
I must wait."
"So off he went a-jogging towards home, and
alooking about as mean as a new sheared sheep,
when all at once a bright thought came in his
head, and back he Went, as hard as his horse
could carry him.
" 'Parson,' says he, 'I've changed my mind.
Here's the six doUars. ITitie the knot to
night with my tongue, that I can't undo with
my teeth."
" 'Why, what in natur is the meaning of all
this ?" says parson.
" 'Why,' says Hugo, 'I've been ciphering it
out in my head, and it's cheaper than publishing
bans, after all. Y'du see 6ir, it's a potatoe dig
ging time ; if I wait to be called in church, her
father will have her work for nothing ; and as
bands are scarce and wages high, if I marry her
to-night, she can begin to dig our own to-morrow,
and that will pay for the license, and just
seven shillings over ; for there ain't a man in all
Clements that can dig and carry as many bush
sis in a day as Gretchen can. And besides,
fresh wives, like fresh servants, work like smoke
at first, but they get sarcy and lazy after a
while."
" 'Oh my,' said Miss Lucy, did you ever hear
the beat of that ? Well I never !' "'The Old
Judge.
Meagher's Lecture on Australia.
We copy below the Lecture of Thomas Francis
Meagher, on Australia, delivered at Metropoli
tan Hall, in New York, two woeks ago. The
audience was very large. There was fully 4,500
persons in the building. A large number went
away. Not only was every seat in every part
of the building occupied, but the stage, the pas
sage way.", and every available standing spot
Were densely crowded ; in fact, the people were
as densely wedged together as it was possible
for them to be. Mr. Meagher made his appear
ance on the stage exactly at eight o'clock, ac
companied by some friends, and was greeted
with prolonged and hearty cheers. He said:
The great clock of the Bastile ticks inaudible
in its inner court there, at its ease, hour after
hour, as if nothing special for it or the world
were passing." The secrets of those "eight
grim towers" are not yet disturbed. These two
cannon there, mounted with silver the ancient
gift of his Majesty of Siam to Louis XIV. are
not yet soiled by the touch of the people. Cam
mille Desmoulins has not yet stuck the green
leaf in his hat ; has not yet mounted his chair
in the Palais Boyalc ; hns not yet exclaimed.
"Friends I shall we die like hunted hares ? like
sheep-hounded i'uto their penfold bleating for
mercy?" Mirabeau has not yet exclaimed
looking at the poor king covered with his jewels
and his ribbands. "Behold the victim already
adorned for the sacrifice!" Marie Antoinette
may still sit beneath the canopy of purple velvet
sprinkled with golden lillies, iu the church of
Notre Dame. The nobles may still surround
her in their black coats, silk cloaks, lace cravats
and feathered hats ; or, trampling upon the na
tional cockade, pledge her their swords in deli
rious festivities at Versailles. Not for another
year will Madame de Montmorin, wife of the
Minister of Foreign Affairs, looking down from
the gallery in the hall at St. Louis', and checking
the daughter of Necker in her exultation, whis
per to her ; "You are wrong to rejoice ; this e
rcnt forebodes much misery to France and to
ourselves." The winds are still in their caves ;
but there are signs in the heavens, and strange
things have come to pass. The parliament of
Paris hal parsed a decree, for the second time,
against the httrcs de cachet, and for the recall of
all exiled persons. The Abbe de Sieycs had
written "The Tiers Etat are nothing. What
ought they to be ? everything !" La Kochefou.
ca t had interrupted the Archbishop of Aix, who
had said that tithes were the spontaneous offer
ings of christian piety, exclaiming, "the spon
taneous offering of Christian piety on which
there are now forty thousand law-suits in this
realm !" The courtiers were heard to applaud
in private the Declaration of Rights drawn up
by Jefferson. The English had evacuated the
city of New Y'ork. The officers who served un
der Lafayette at Brandywine and Monmouth
had returned home had been everywhere recei
ved with honor were equally caressed by the
philosophers and the ladies. Necker had been
recaUed from exile, and instructed to repair
the finances of the kingdom- There was an en
ormous deficit in the treasury so enormous
that it was caUed "the abyss." Something was
at hand. The clouds were moving up.
The tops of the mountains were already hid.
Yes, even the bronze figure of the king on that
tall monument was growing dim in the thicken
ing mist. "Far down in their vaults in the
huge prison which had only another year to
stand, andthe great clock of which ticked in
sensibly at its'ease, hour after hour, fts if noth
ing special for it or the world were passing tar
down in their vaults, the prisoners hear the
mufiled din as of an earthquake." In another
quarter of the earth away in the blue solitudes
tf the ocean another event is takirg place.
Through a narrow gateway, in a black (wall cf
rock, six hundred feet in height, a ship i disap
pearing. One by one, the white wing vanish,"
and as the wall closes in a red riband, fluttering
in the air tells you the name of the king of
which she is the messcDger. The stranger has
disappeared. There is nothing to be seen but
the black wall before you, stretching to the
north and south for miles and miles. There is
nothing to be heard but the dull sound of the
slow waves, as they roll in against the vast ram
part, and muttering for a moment, roll back a
gain to the solitudes of the ocean. Spring upon
that rock there grasp that tough root above
you steady your footing rest a moment!
There look up the wall has grown higher
since you leaped. As you gaze upon it, it grows
higher you see it growing ! There is life in
the black mass. It moves lifts itself up
touches that solitary star ! Steady rest a mo
ment longer. Tighten your hold upon the root.
Take heart, the hunter of the Tyrol speeds along
a more fatal path, and 6tarts the chamois from
a crag nearer the sun ! On then ; spring to that
other rock. Grasp the long grass, to your left.
Do you see that ledge there ?
It shelves too suddenly your foot gives way
down upon your knees lock your hand in the i
crevice straight before you. Now, the
Ciller
m
hand up up ! Then you come to a slab of
sandstone : cross it, and you reach the trees !
The wall still towers many feet above the clim
ber, and there is a weary and a dangerous path
still before him. But, between Lim and the
wave which wets the rock upon which he first
sprung there is a precipice. lie has reached
the trees. He grasps the first, swings himselt
to the second, then to the third. He has gone,
The moving speck is lost in the darkness of
those Alps. Is that a cry ? The waves utter
no cries the rocks are dumb the trees moan
only when the storm is coming on. Another
moving speck moving towards the cloud mo
ving towards the sun, no bigger than this hand,
yet more distinct than cloud or sun moving si
lently, fur up there in the asure sky. Hurrah !
the climber has topped the wall, has startled an
eagle from his throne, and now looks down up
on, and far and wide into the laud, they call
Australia. Below him, in the shadow of a cir
cling forest, lies a noble lake mirroring the
green islands which sleep in flowers upon its
breast, the black swans that sail across it, ut
tering cries so mourful and musical, and the tall
emu that speeds along the sands more fleetly
than the wild dog ana mat snip wuu us wuue i in tam anJ Jn quic.k (luccesgjUt tLe ppV) tLe
wings furled, and the red crest drooping from , swinjier, the perjurer, the assassin t'e foe cf
the peak which disappeared through the gate- ! innocence, the blight of beauty, the bane of ge
wav in the rock. It is the "Sirius," from Lon- i gold has become a fountain of life, and
way in im. roc.. i, i , j0y, aud freedomthe serpent has been trans-
don one year and twelve days out in charge ormed int0 a blossomed wandLucifer has be
of Captain Philip, with six hundred pris- come the morning star !
oners on board and a guard of marines, two bun- To you, the citizens of America, it must be
dred and fifty strong. On the 2bth of January, pleasing, indeed, to behold a uew republic rising
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r n (1,. Tr.rri;ci
1,88, the Captain landed, ran up the English-
ensign, and read the proclamation constituting
the colony of New South Wales. Eighteen
years before, Captain Cook, casting anchor iu a
bay a few miles farther to the South, had taken
possession of the whole of the eastern const, in
the name of George the Third, King of Great
Britain, Defender of the Faith.
Mr. Mengher then proceeded to give a graph
ic sketch of the rise and progress of the colony
up to the present day, which displayed the most ;
minute research." He expose d the tyranny prac
tised in the early history of the colony, until its
power and resources have become gradually de
veloped and it has outgrown oppression, and is
in the attitude of asserting its independence.
Mr. Meagher then gave a glowing description
of the gold discovery. He proceeded as fol
lows: Through that gateway in the rock, morning
steals fragrant w ith the flowers of the coral isles
through which he tripped along the waters of
the Pacific the wild birds are on the w ing the
native dog slinks away in the cold-night to his
hiding place among the dead trees. The 6leeper
awakes awakes and the climes that is softer
than the wooded regions of Arcadia, more fruit
ful than the sunny island from whose fields the
daughter of Vesta wove her fairest garland ; but
his brow is flushed, his eyes inflamed, his pulse
beat3 anxiety, impatience, bewilderment, a
world of care and wonder is written in his look.
He has dreamt of gold. Along that road over
the blue mountains, where a few years since a
little band of brave adventurers went in search
of pasture for their sheep, a multitude, denser
and more motley than that which treads the
sands to Mecca, moves on. And down that riv
er, where the seamen of the Calcutta frigate a
few years since had picked up the glittering at
oms, but threw them away, thinking it was mi
ca, ships straining with richer burdens than the
Venetian argosies ever bore are passing out to
sea. With respect to this discovery, all the cre
dit of it is due to Mr. Hargraves, a colonist of
3cw South Wales, who, on his return from Ca!-
iforuia at the end of 1850, being greatly struck
with the analogy that appeared to exist 'injth
geological struct aie of the two countries was in
duced to enter upon the inquiry that led to the
discovery. The value of the expotts from the
port of Melbourne alone, from the gold discovery
in November, 1851, amounted to 1,235,320,
exceeding in value all the gold imported inti
Europe from Mexico and South America in 183G.
In 1812 the colony contained only 10,454
souls, 21,000 acres in cultivation and 74,000 un
der pasture. Now it has 2,000,000 of the free
people, an export of 2,899,000, an import of
2,078,300; has 7,000,000, some say 12,000,000
sheep, and for the discharge of her debts and li
abilities, bars upon bars of yellow metal piled
in her mountains. Tet with all this, she is not
at rest. The wrinkled hand of England is upon
her. Years they have petitioned and protested.
over and over again, against the perpetuation of
this terrible and incalculable wrong. In vain ;
the curse continues, the pestilence becomes in
tolerable. In 1851, the five colonies New
South Wales, Tort Philip, South Australia.
New Zealand, and Van Dienian's Land, enter in
to a solemn league and covenant, binding them
selves, one to the other, to resist, by every just
means within their power, the transportation of
criminals to their shores. They adopt a flag.
The convict officers and their supporters the
pollutiouists, as they are called denounce it as
a seditious rag. It does look, indeed, as if it
was copied from the bunting of the Chesapeake.
Honor and victory to that flag. It is lifted in a
holy cause It is the type and war crett of a na
tion full of youth and glorious promise. One of
these days it will traverse the world, with the
five stars, in undisputed possession of the field.
That destiny was pre-ordained was pre-arrap-
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jay in tue neeces oi ner iiocks, uuu no sauua
sparkled through the streams at which they
drank. Inevitable always, it is now immediate.
The gold discovery shortened the road to it
shortens it by a thousand miles disperses ma
ny superfluous words many circumlocutory
chapters in her history has saved her, perhaps
inauy a discomfiture many a staggering blow
many an exhausting wound. Gold, which has
caused many a brain to ache, has blistered many
a hand, has broken many a noble heart, has
j vounjej many a soaring soul, and, clinging to
it, has brought it to the dust; gold, which has
bought the integrity of the f-tatouian, and led
his wisdom captive; gold, which haspilenced the
tongue of the orator and bought the lucious flat
teries of the poet; gold, for which, in the gny
saloons of fashiou, many a fair and noble girl
has plighted the vow which consigned her ife
to Littoruess and locked upon her radicnt neck
the snake which swells her veins with venom ;
gold, which lias stolen into the councils of the
struggling nation, has bred disseution among
her chiefs, has broken the seal of her most sa
cred secrets, has forced the gates of her strong
est citadels, has bought the evidence which hur
ried her apostles to the scaffold, has bought the
votes which made over her inheritance toothers,
and her glory to a strange people gold, which
has led the traitor to the garden, mid with a kiss
betrayed the Redeemer of the world, gold which
iu so many shapes has stepped with a ttealthy
tread or rioted amongst men which has been
the fever, the madness, the despair has been
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Word fcball be humbled, and in the light of which
humanity shall grow strong. Already as if
you had a 6ecrt-t intimatiou of it you havegf-ne
down to the golden shores of the Pacific, and
there, arrayed as a bridesmaid in her jewels,
your youngest daughter has waited the coming
of the bridegroom. The new-comer traces his
descent from an ancestry which hac given to
you the tongue you speak, and the sounder por
tions of the laws you reverence. The new-comer
has had trials similar to those which taxed
the patience aud roused the courage of your fath
ers. The new-comer has wealth, an enterprise
aud growing interests alt the sympathies all
the facilities all the faculties which qualify to
enter with you into relations of statesmanship
and commerce. In these new communities, hu
manity restores itself. One fair morning tow
ards the close of last summer, I stood in afield
that overlooked the Hudson. I was struck with
the ripeness of the fruit which waved arouud
me, and broke into an expression of delight.
It seemed to me that the most glorious I had
seen in any clime ; the most glorious which the
earth could bring forth. "That seed," said one
who stood by, "came from Egypt." It had been
buried in the tombs of the kings ; had lain with
the dead for two thousand years."
But, though wrapped in the shroud, and lock
ed within the pyramid, it die3 not. It lived in
the silence lived in the darkness lived under
the mighty mass of 6toue lived with death it
self -and now that the dust of the kings has
been disturbed now that they have been called
and they stir not now that the bandages have
been removed, and they see not behold, seed
cives forth life, and the fields rejoice in its glo-
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ry. Ana uhis ii is ui me -uergies, me in
stincts, the taitli, ail tue "vitalities which have
been crushed elsewhere, have been entombed
elsewhere, n these virgin soils revive, and that
which seemed mortal becomes imperishable.
And thus it is, the seed will multiply, and borne
back to the ancient land, will make the wilder
ness rejoice. Children of the Old World, be of
good cheer. IFhilst in the homes, by the Rhine,
the Seine, the Danube and the Arno in the
homes you have left, the wicked seem to prosper
and epurious senates provides of the offspring
of the tyrant, even to the third and fourth gen
eration. Freedom strengthens herself in these
new lands, and, in the mid of countless hosts,
consecrates, the power by which the captiva
shll be redeemed and the evil lord destroyed.
Mr. Meagher concluded amidst most tremen
dous cheering, and waving of hats and hand
kerchiefs, which lasted for setertl xoiaate.
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