'cold admirer of his virtues. If our country can furnish one fuch, is it too much to fay, that he is no lefs cold to the deareft interefts of humanity, virtue and religion? But the tokens of affection for his pure character, the proofs of gratitude for his fervices, and of reverence for his wisdom and pre-eminent virtues, exhibited by every defcription of perfons on this melancholy occa fion, will forever fhew how greatly he was beloved, esteemed and honoured by his country; and will serve to rescue our nation from the reproach of ingratitude, which has been caft on republics. He is now exalted above all earthly praife; we fhall fee his face no more. But the glory of his virtue will reach beyond the grave. When our rifing empire fhall have rifen and funk again into ruin, it will live and continue to animate remoteft ages.

To us it only remains, that we improve this afflicting difpenfation of Divine Providence in a fuitable manner; and this can only be done by a strict obfervance of his admonitions, and the imitation of his excellent example.

Age has its claims, and rank is not without its pretenfions to advife; but the counfels of our departed friend come recommended by additional claims to our regard. His laft address to his countrymen is the refult of much wisdom, collected from experience; it was dictated by the heart, and may be viewed as the dying words of a father to his children. Cultivate union and brotherly affection (it is thus he fpeaks to us) that the facred fire of liberty may be preserved, and the pre-eminence of the republican model of government exemplified, as that which fecures to the people the greatest portion of liberty, profperity and happiness. On this union, be affured, depends your peace abroad, your fafety at home.

Moderate the fury of party fpirit. It is this which disturbs your public councils, and enfeebles your ad. ministration. Banifh local prejudices as well as party

views. Cherifh public credit, and for that end contribute to the public revenues, and cheerfully bear the public burthens.

Obferve good faith and juftice to all nations. Cultivate peace and harmony with all. Prefent to the world the example, as magnanimous as it is rare, of a people always guided by an exalted juftice and benevolence.

Difmifs your inveterate hatred for fome nations, and your paffionate attachment for others. These paffions are alike deftructive to your peace and independence. It would be credulity to expect, and degrading to accept, favours from any nation.

Against the infidious wiles of foreign influence maintain a watchful and conftant jealoufy. It is the deadly foe of republican governments. Guard no less strenuoufly against the impoftures of pretended patriots at home, than against the mischiefs of foreign intrigue. It is eafy for the worft men to adopt the language of the virtuous, and for your greatest enemies to affume the appearance of the most difinterested zeal for your interefts, and the most ardent attachment for your perfons; while at the fame time they are but the tools of foreign intrigue, and feeking their own perfonal aggrandizement at your expenfe. The means they employ to accomplish their ends will ferve to point out to you the perfons of this defcription. Thefe means are no other, than the diffemination of fufpicions, jealoufies, and calumnies against the best and most virtuous of your citizens; and that because they poffefs, what they fo juftly deserve, your favour and confidence.

But, above all, cherish and promote the interests of knowledge, virtue and religion. They are indifpenfable to the fupport of any free government, and in a peculiar manner to those of the popular kind. Let it never be forgotten, that there can be no genuine freedom, where there is no morality, and no found morality, where there is no religion. Morality without religion will foon lofe its obligation, and religion without morality

will degenerate into fuperftition, which will corrupt instead of ameliorating the mass, into which it is infused. Let no man have your confidence, who is deftitute of either. Hefitate not a moment to believe, that the man who labours to deftroy these two great pillars of human happiness, these firmeft props of the duties of men and citizens, whatever may be his profeffions of patriotifm, is neither a good patriot nor a good man.

If these folemn and momentous truths ftood in any need of illuftration, let him that doubts be pleased to recollect, that the experiment is making, I may fay already made, of governing a nation without the aid of religion and without morality. Thofe, who are pleased with the refult of that experiment, are not to be convinced. To all others a volume could not fo ably prove the indifpenfable neceffity of religion and morality, to the profperity and happiness of a nation.

May it please the Supreme Ruler of the universe and Sovereign Arbiter of nations, to make our happy country as distinguished for the practice of piety and morality, as for the love of liberty and focial order; to spread his holy protection over these United States; to turn the machinations of the wicked to the confirming of our union and independence; to enable us to triumph over external fedition, and to put invafion to flight; to perpetuate to our country that prosperity, which his goodness has already conferred, and to verify the anticipations, that this government, inftituted under the aufpices of Heaven, fhall long continue the asylum of the oppreffed, and a fafeguard to human rights.

An Dration

ON THE DEATH OF

GENERAL GEORGE WASHINGTON.

Delivered at ALL SAINT's PARISH, (S. C.) on the 22d of February, 1800.

BY DOCTOR JOSEPH BLYTH.

FELLOW-CITIZENS,

SIXTY-EIGHT years are this day com

pleted fince the birth of GEORGE WASHINGTON, and this day we are affembled in the temple of GOD to pay the tribute of affection and refpe&t due to the memory of the excellent citizen, the friend, the father of his country.

Behold! this day, and at this moment, thoufands and thousands, in their numerous affemblies over this extended empire, are commemorating the exalted virtues, the heroic deeds of our deceased patriot; and pouring out their fouls to the ALMIGHTY, in the keennefs of forrow, for this irreparable lofs, this national calamity, this vifitation of the MOST HIGH.

America, covered with the mantle of grief, droops over the grave of her departed father, and the funeral pall of Columbia's pride, like a dark and ominous cloud, overfpreads our land.

Man goeth to his long home, and the mourners go about the streets. O! fleeting, tranfitory man, learn moderation and wisdom from a sense of thy fugitive ftate! Now, indeed, is a time to weep: to restrain the bursting emotion would be falfe fortitude. Let the heart feek its relief in free effufions of juft and natural forrow. WASHINGTON was our companion in all the viciffitudes of fortune; he was the folace of his coun

try; he shared in all her joys, and he participated in all her misfortunes.

By the appointment of the CREATOR of mankind, the conclufion of life is an awful object; to restrain that awe within due bounds, that it do not interrupt us in performing the duties of life properly, is the dif tinction between the brave man and the coward. To furmount that awe, fo that even the near approach of death fhall not deject our mind qr trouble our peace, is the preference which virtue enjoys above guilt. A profeffed object of philofophy and religion, in every age, has been to enable their votaries to conquer all flavish fear of death.

Although our WASHINGTON was attached to life by an ample store of earthly felicity, and by all the natural feelings of humanity, yet he was raifed above all weak and unmanly regret at parting with it. When Prov idence gave the fignal for his removal, with compofed resolution and an undisturbed mind, he bade adieu to the world what Heaven had made neceffary, WASHINGTON Complied with cheerfully. Although he was interrupted in the midst of his fettled defigns; although he was broken off in the midst of the wife plans he had formed of being useful to his country; all these he left with refignation and tranquillity in the hands of the Father of mercies, to whom he had ever been accuftomed to look up that divine goodness which had watched over him in all the perils of life; that all-wise Being, who had governed the world graciously and wifely before he existed, and who he knew would continue to govern it with equal benignity and wisdom, when he should be in it no more.

The time of his departure was not of our choice, nor his own; but it was the time appointed by Him who cannot err. Honourable age is not that which ftandeth in length of time; but wisdom is grey hairs to a man, and an unfpotted life is old age. He who is unwilling to fubmit to death, when Heaven decrees it, deferves not to have lived. When our WASHING