CHARACTER OF TRUE ELOQUENCE. WHEN public bodies are to be addressed on momentous occasions, when great interests are at stake, and strong passions excited, nothing is valuable, in speech, farther, than it is connected with high intellectual and moral endowments. Clearness, force, and earnestness, are the qualities which produce conviction. True eloquence, indeed, does not consist in speech. It cannot be brought from far. Labor and learning may toil for it, but they will toil in vain. Words and phrases may be marshaled in every way, but they cannot compass it. It must exist in the man, in the subject, and in the occasion. Affected passion, intense expression, the pomp of declamation, all may aspire after it - they cannot reach it. It comes, if it come at all, like the outbreaking of a fountain from the earth, or the bursting forth of volcanic fires, with spontaneous, original, native force. The graces taught in the schools, the costly ornaments, and studied contrivances of speech, shock and disgust men, when their own lives, and the fate of their wives, their children, and their country, hang on the decision of the hour. Then, words have lost their thetoric is vain, and all elaborate oratory con temptible. Even genius itself then feels rebuked subdued, as in the presence of higher qualities. T patriotism is eloquent; then, self-devotion is eloqu The clear conception, outrunning the deductions logic, the high purpose, the firm resolve, the daunt spirit, speaking on the tongue, beaming from the e informing every feature, and urging the whole man ward, right onward to his object-this, this is quence; or rather, it is something greater and hig than all eloquence, it is action, noble, sublime, g like action. [Webst PHILLIPS ON THE POLICY OF ENGLAND. BUT what has England done for Europe? what she achieved for man? Have morals been ameliorate Has liberty been strengthened? Has any one improv ment in politics or philosophy been produced? Let see how. You have restored to Portugal a prince whom we know nothing, except that, when his domi ions were invaded, his people distracted, his crown danger, and all that could interest the highest energi of man at issue, he left his cause to be combated foreign bayonets, and fled with a dastard precipitati to the shameful security of a distant hemisphere! Yo have restored to Spain a wretch of even worse than pr verbial princely ingratitude; who filled his dungeon and fed his rack with the heroic remnant that brave war, and famine, and massacre beneath his banners who rewarded patriotism with the prison, fidelity wit the torture, heroism with the scaffold, and piety with th Inquisition; whose royalty was published by the signa ture of his death-warrants, and whose religion evapor ed and Then, quent. as of ntless eye, n on elogher god ster. has ed? us of n En es Y n AMERICA-HER EXAMPLE. AMERICANS! you have a country vast in extent, and embracing all the varieties of the most salubrious climes; held not by charters wrested from unwilling kings, but the bountiful gift of the Author of nature. The exuberance of your population is daily divesting the gloomy wilderness of its rude attire, and splendid cities rise to cheer the dreary desert. You have a government deservedly celebrated "as giving the sanctions of law to the precepts of reason;" presenting, instead of the rank luxuriance of natural licentiousness, the corrected sweets of civil liberty. You have fought the battles of freedom, and enkindled that sacred flame which now glows with vivid fervor through the greatest We indulge the sanguine hope, that t her equal laws and virtuous conduct will hereaf afford examples of imitation to all surrounding nation that the blissful period will soon arrive when man sh be elevated to his primitive character; when illum ated reason and regulated liberty shall once more hibit him in the image of his Maker; when all inhabitants of the globe shall be freemen and fello citizens, and patriotism itself be lost in universal phila thropy. Then shall volumes of incense incessant roll from altars inscribed to liberty. Then shall t innumerable varieties of the human race united "worship in her sacred temple, whose pillars shall re on the remotest corners of the earth, and whose ar will be the vault of heaven." [Phillips IRELAND, with her imperial crown, now stands befor you. You have taken her Parliament from her, an she appears in her own person, at your bar. Will yo dismiss a kingdom without a hearing? Is this you answer to her zeal, to her faith, to the blood that has s profusely graced your march to victory,-to the treasure that have decked your strength in peace? nothing, her fate indifferent? are her contributions in significant,-her six millions revenue,-her ten millions tråde, her two millions absentee,-her four milli loan? Is such a country not worth a heari you, can you dismiss her abruptly from can not do it, the instinct We may be outnumber lating the ame Is her nam |