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WAR INEVITABLE.

SIR, we shall not fight our battles alone. There is a just God who presides over the destinies of nations, and who will raise up friends to fight our battles for us. The battle, sir, is not to the strong alone; it is to the vigilant, the active, the brave.

Besides, sir, we have no election. If we were base enough to desire it, it is now too late to retire from the contest. There is no retreat, but in submission and slavery! Our chains are forged! Their clanking may be heard on the plains of Boston! The war is inevitable; and let it come! I repeat it, sir, let it come!

Gentlemen

It is in vain, sir, to extenuate the matter. may cry, Peace, peace; but there is no peace. The war is actually begun! The next gale that sweeps from the north will bring to our ears the clash of resounding arms!

Our brethren are already in the field! Why stand we here idle? What is it that gentlemen wish? What would they have? Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Heaven! I know not what course others may take; but, as for me, give me liberty, or give me death!

PATRICK HENRY.

THE SENSES.

SAY, what is it, Eyes, ye see?
"Shade and sunshine, flower and tree;
Running waters swift and clear,

And the harvests of the year.
These we see, and for the sight
Bless the Giver infinite."

Tell me, Ears, what have ye heard?
"Many and many a singing bird;
Winds within the tree-tops blowing;
Rapid rivers strongly flowing;
Awful thunder; ocean strong;
And the kindly human tongue.
These and more an entrance find
To the chambers of the mind.”

Tell me, busy Hands, I pray,
What ye're doing through the day? —
"Ever working, never still,

We are servants to the will."
Busy Hands, whate'er ye do,

Still keep peace and love in view.

WASHINGTON TO THE AMERICAN SOLDIERS,

BEFORE THE BATTLE OF LONG ISLAND.

SOLDIERS, the eyes of all our countrymen are now upon us; and we shall have their blessings and praises, if happily we are the instruments of saving them from the tyranny meditated against them. Let us, therefore, animate and encourage each other, and show the whole world that a freeman contending for liberty on his own ground is superior to any slavish mercenary on earth.

Liberty, property, life, and honor, are all at stake. Upon your courage and conduct rest the hopes of our bleeding and insulted country. Our wives, children, and parents, expect safety from us only; and they have every reason to believe that Heaven will crown with success so just a cause. The enemy will endeavor to intimidate by show and appearance; but remember they have been repulsed on various occasions

by a few brave Americans. Their cause is bad; their men are conscious of it; and, if opposed with firmness and coolness on their first onset, with our advantage of works, and knowledge of the ground, the victory is most assuredly ours. Every good soldier will be silent and attentive, wait for orders, and reserve his fire until he is sure of doing execution.

THE PAPER KITE. - A FABLE.

ONCE on a time, a paper kite
Was mounted to a wondrous height,
Where, giddy with its elevation,
It thus expressed self-admiration:
"See how yon crowds of gazing people
Admire my flight above the steeple:
How would they wonder if they knew
All that a kite like me can do!
Were I but free, I'd take a flight,
And pierce the clouds beyond their sight;
But, ah! like a poor prisoner bound,
My string confines me near the ground:
I'd brave the eagle's towering wing,
Might I but fly without my string."
It tugged and pulled, while thus it spoke,
To break the string; at last it broke:
Deprived at once of all its stay,

In vain it tried to soar away;
Unable its own weight to bear,
It fluttered downward through the air;
Unable its own course to guide,
The winds soon plunged it in the tide :
Ah, foolish kite! thou hadst no wing;
How couldst thou fly without a string?

NEWTON.

AMERICA UNCONQUERABLE,

MY LORDS, you can not, I venture to say you can not, conquer America. Your armies in the last war effected every thing that could be effected, and what was it? My lords, you can not conquer America. What is your present situation there? We do not know the worst; but we know that in three campaigns we have done nothing, and suffered much.

As to conquest, therefore, my lords, I repeat, it is impossible. You may swell every expense and every effort still more extravagantly; pile and accumulate every assistance you can buy or borrow; traffic and barter with every little pitiful German prince, that sells and sends his subjects to the shambles of a foreign country: - your efforts are for ever im'potent and vain; doubly so from this mercenary aid on which you rely; for it irritates, to an incurable resentment, the minds of your enemies, to overrun them with the sordid

sons of rapine and of plunder, devoting them and their possessions to the rapacity of hireling cruelty.

If I were an American, as I am an Englishman, while a foreign troop was landed in my country, I never would lay down my arms, never never! never!

EARL OF CHATHAM.

In the Diagram at the head of this piece the figure on the left hand represents the attitude to be assumed at the passage "If I were an American,” &c.; the figure on the right hand represents the attitude for the closing "never the arm having been brought down with energy. The first e in were, also in therefore, has the sound it has in her.

THE LOBSTERS. —A FABLE.

As a young lobster roamed about,
Itself and mother being out,
Their eyes at the same moment fell
On a boiled lobster's scarlet shell.

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Look," said the younger; "is it true
That we might wear so bright a hue?
No coral, if I trust my eye,

Can with its startling brilliance vie;
While you and I must be content

A dingy aspect to present.'

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Proud, heedless fool!" the parent cried; "Know'st thou the penalty of pride?

The tawdry finery you wish

Has ruined this unhappy fish.

The hue so much by you desired
By his destruction was acquired!-
So be contented with your lot,

Nor seek to change by going to pot."

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PUNCH.

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