try is their monument. Its independence is their epitaph.

3. But not to their country is their praise limited. The whole earth is the monument of illustrious men. Wherevel an agonizing people shall perish, in a generous convulsion, for want of a valiant arm and a fearless heart, they will cry, in the last accents of despair, Oh, for a Washington, an Adams, a Jefferson! Wherever a regenerated nation, starting up in its might, shall burst the links of steel that enchain it, the praise of our fathers shall be the prelude of their triumphal song.

4. The contemporary and successive generations of men will disappear. In the long lapse of ages, the tribes of America, like those of Greece and Rome, may pass away. The fabric of American freedom, like all things human, however firm and fair, may crumble into dust. But the cause in which these our fathers shone is immortal. They did that, to which no age, no people of reasoning men, can be indifferent.

5. Their eulogy will be uttered in other languages, when those we speak, like us who speak them, shall all be forgotten. And when the great account of humanity shall be closed at the throne of God, in the bright list of his children, who best adorned and served it, shall be found the names of our Adams and our Jefferson.

DUTIES OF AMERICAN CITIZENS.

Webster.

FELLOW CITIZENS :-Let us not retire from this occa sion, without a deep and solemn conviction of the duties which have devolved upon us. This lovely land, this

glorious liberty, these benign institutions, the deur purchase of our fathers, are ours; ours to enjoy, ours to preserve, ours to transmit. Generations past, and generations to come, hold us responsible for this sacred trust. Our fathers from behind admonish us with their anxious, paternal voices; posterity calls out to us from the bosom of the future; the world turns hither its solicitous eyes; all, all conjure us to act wisely, and faithfully, in the relation which we sustain. We can never, indeed, pay the debt which is upon us; but, by virtue, by morality, by religion, by the cultivation of every good principle, and every good habit, we may hope to enjoy the blessing, through our day, and leave it, unimpaired, to our children.

2. Let us feel deeply how much of what we are, and what we possess, we owe to this liberty, and to these institutions of government. Nature has, indeed, given us a soil, which yields bounteously to the hands of industry; the mighty and fruitful ocean is before us, and the skies. over our heads shed health and vigor. But what are lands, and seas, and skies, to civilized man, without society, without knowledge, without morals, without religious culture; and how can these be enjoyed in all their extent, and all their excellence, but under the protection of wise institutions and a free government? Fellow-citizens, there is not one of us here present, who does not at this moment, and at every moment, experience in his own condition, and in the condition of those most near and dear to him, the influence and the benefits of this liberty, and these institutions. Let us, then, acknowedge the blessing; let us feel it deeply and powerfully;

let us cherish a strong affection for it, and resolve to maintain and perpetuate it. The blood of our fathers, let it not have been shed in vain; the great hope of pos terity, let it not be blasted.

3. The striking attitude, too, in which we stand to the world around us, cannot be altogether omitted here. Neither individuals nor nations can perform their part well, until they understand and feel its importance, and comprehend and justly appreciate all the duties belonging to it. It is not to inflate national vanity, nor to swell a light and empty feeling of self-importance; but it is, that we may judge justly of our situation and of our duties, that I earnestly urge this consideration of our position, and our character among the nations of the earth.

4. It cannot be denied, but by those who would dispute against the sun, that with America, and in America, a new era commences in human affairs. This era is distinguished by free representative governments, by entire religious liberty, by improved systems of national inter course, by a newly awakened and an unquenchable spirit of free inquiry, and by a diffusion of knowledge through the community, such as has been before altogether un known and unheard of. America, America, our coun try, fellow-citizens, our own dear and native land, is in separably connected, fast bound up, in fortune and by fate, with these great interests. If they fall, we fall with them; if they stand, it will be because we have upholden them.

5. Let us contemplate, then, this connection which binds the posterity of others to our own; and let us manfully

discharge all the duties it imposes. If we cherish tne virtues and the principles of our fathers, Heaven will assist us to carry on the work of human liberty and human happiness. Auspicious omens cheer us. Great exam ples are before us. Our firmament, now shines brightly upon our path. Washington is in the clear, upper sky. Adams, Jefferson, and other stars have joined the American constellation; they circle round their center, and the heavens beam with new light. Beneath this illumination let us walk the course of life; and, at its close, devoutly commend our beloved country, the common parent of us all, to the divine benignity.

THE CHURCH AND CESAR.-Lacordaire.

The Church reaches two orders, the one internal, the other external. By the first, the interior order, she is in contact with that which is higher than man; she de rives her strength from grace. By the second, the ex terior order, she is in contact with that which is human, she derives her strength from freedom of action. And thus, when we are asked by what right the Church has taken away a part of the power of the Cæsars, it is as if we were asked by what right Christian liberty is established. For the Church has not taken from the Cæsars the internal and divine power of grace-they did not possess it; her only quarrels with them have been about the external power, which is that of liberty. Consequently, between Cæsar and the Church the ques tion is reduced to this: "By what right is Christian liberty established?”

2. I answer, first, by divine right. It is not, in fact, by a grant of princes that it has been given to us to teach the world. It was not the Cæsars, but Jesus Christ, who said to us, "Go, and teach all nations." It was not the Cæsars, but Jesus Christ, who said to us, "Remit sins; whatever ye shall bind on earth shall be bound in heaven." It was not the Cæsars, but Jesus Christ, who said to us, “Crucify your flesh, with its affections and lusts." It was not the Cæsars, but Jesus Christ, who said to us, "Receive the Holy Ghost." Consequently, we do not derive our liberty from the Cæsars, we derive it from God, and we shall keep it because it comes from Him. Princes might combine together to combat the prerogatives of the Church, call them by opprobrious names in order to make them odious, say that it is an exorbitant power, which ruins states; we shall let them do so, and we shall continue to preach truth, to remit sins, to combat vice, to communicate the spirit of God. If they drive us into exile, we shall do so in exile; if they cast us into prisons, we shall do so in prisons; if they enchain us in mines, we shall do so there; if they drive us from one kingdom, we shall pass into another. It was said to us that, even to the day when each will be called to give an account of his deeds, we shall not exhaust the kingdoms of the earth. But if we are pursued on all sides, if the power of Antichrist should spread itself over the whole surface of the world, then, as at the commencement of the Church, we shall fly into tombs and catacombs. And if at last we are pursued even there, if they make us mount their scaffolds, in every noble heart of man