kings resort. I ask gentlemen, sir, what means this martial array, if its purpose be not to force us to submission? Can gentlemen assign any other possible motive for it? Has Great Britain any enemy in this quarter of the world, to call for all this accumulation of navies and armies? No, sir, she has none. They are meant for us; they can be meant for no other. They are sent over to bind and rivet upon us those chains which the British ministry have been so long forging. And what have we to oppose to them? Shall we try argument? Sir, we have been trying that for the last ten years.

Shall we resort to entreaty and humble supplication? What terms shall we find which have not already been exhausted? Let us not, I beseech you, sir, deceive ourselves longer. Sir, we have done everything that could be done, to avert the storm which is now coming on. We have petitioned, we have remonstrated, we have supplicated, we have prostrated ourselves before the Throne, and have implored its interposition to arrest the tyrannical hands of the Ministry and Parliament. Our petitions have been slighted, our remonstrances have produced additional violence and insult, our supplications have been disregarded, and we have been spurned, with contempt, from the foot of the Throne.

In vain, after these things, may we indulge the fond hope of peace and reconciliation. If we wish to be free,—if we mean to preserve inviolate those inestimable privileges for which we have been so long contending,—if we mean not basely to abandon the noble struggle in which we have been so long engaged, and which we have pledged ourselves never to abandon until the glorious object of our contest shall be obtained, we must fight; I repeat it, sir, we must fight! An appeal to arms, and to the God of Hosts, is all that is left us!

10. THE WAR INEVITABLE, MARCH, 1775.-Patrick Henry.

They tell us, sir, that we are weak, — unable to cope with so formidable an adversary. But when shall we be stronger? Will it be the next week, or the next year? Will it be when we are totally disármed, and when a British guard shall be stationed in every house? Shall we gather strength by irresolution and ináction? Shall we acquire the means of effectual | resistance by lying supínely on our w tr C Ft to

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11. THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE.- Supposed Speech of John Adams, in the Continental Congress, July, 1776.-Daniel Webster.

Sink or swim, live or diè, survíve or pèrish, I give my hand and my heart to this vote! It is true, indeed, that, in the beginning, we aimed not at independence. But there is a Divinity which shapes our ends. The injustice of England has driven us to arms; and, blinded to her own interest for our good, she has obstinately

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them | see it who saw their brothers and their sons fall on the field

of Bunker Hill, and in the streets of Lexington and Concord,—and

the very walls will cry out in its support!

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côuntry,— or, at least, the hope of a country, and that a free country. But, whatever may be our fate, be assured that this declaration will stand. It may cost treasure, and it may cost blood; but it will slowly lift stand, and it will richly compensate for both. Through the thick |

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12. NORTHERN LABORERS.-C. Naylor.

(0) The gentleman has misconceived the spirit and tendency of northern | institutions. He is ignorant of northern | character. He has forgotten the history | of his country. Preach | insurrection

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blacksmith,—the gallant General Grèene,—(AO) who left his hammer

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