, with their axes on their shoulders, have been literally ng the pioneers in this march of humanity; that, young he is, she has become the mother of populous states. That generous mind would sacrifice, to a selfish preservaof local preponderance, the delight of beholding civilI nations rising up in the desert; and the language, the iners, the institutions, to which he has been reared, car with his household gods to the foot of the Rocky untains! Who can forget that this extension of our terrial limits, is the extension of the empire of all we hold r; of our laws, of our character, of the memory of our estors, of the great achievements in our history! WhithDever the sons of the thirteen states shall wander, to thern or western climes, they will send back their hearts he rocky shores, the battle fields, and the intrepid counof the Atlantic coast. These are placed beyond the ch of vicissitude. They have become, already, matter of tory, of poetry, of eloquence. The love where death has set his seal, Nor age can chill, nor rival steal, Nor falsehood disavow. Divisions may spring up, ill blood arise, parties be formed, d interests may seem to clash; but the great bonds of the tion are linked to what is passed. The deeds of the great en, to whom this country owes its origin and growth, are a crimony, I know, of which its children will never deprive emselves. As long as the Mississippi and the Missouri all flow, those men and those deeds will be remembered on eir banks. The sceptre of government may go where it ; but that of patriotic feeling can never depart from dah. LESSON CXLIII. The God of Universal Nature.—Chalmers. To an eye which could spread itself over the whole uni se, the mansion which accommodates our species might all, as to lie wrapped in microscopical concealreference to the only Being who possesses this well might we say, "What is man, that thou him, or the son of man, that thou shouldest him?" all, though it be a mighty and difficult concepcan question it? What is seen may be nothing seen; for what is seen is limited by the range nents,—what is unseen has no limit. Though e eye of man can take in, or his fancy can re swept away, there might still remain as -, over which the Divinity may expatiate, and - have peopled with innumerable worlds. If the creation were to disappear, it would leave a ad it; but to the infinite Mind, that can take in tem of nature, this solitude might be nothing,occupied point in that immensity which sur1 which he may have filled with the wonders of ace. is earth were to be burned up, though the trumsolution were sounded, though yon sky were to sa scroll, and every visible glory, which the inity has inscribed on it, were to be put out forent so awful, to us and to every world in our which so many suns would be extinguished, and ed scenes of life and of population, would rush ness,-what is it in the high scale of the Alkmanship? A mere shred, which, though scatothing, would leave the universe of God one of greatness and of majesty. Though this earth, avens, were to disappear, there are other worlds ar; the light of other suns shines upon them; which mantles them, is garnished with other ere felt and admired by intelligent worshippers? And mat is this world, in the immensity which teems with them? d what are they who occupy it? The universe at large would suffer as little, in its splendor d variety, by the destruction of our planet, as the verdure d sublime magnitude of a forest, would suffer by the fall of single leaf. The leaf quivers on the branch which suprts it. It lies at the mercy of the slightest accident. A eath of wind tears it from its stem, and it lights on the eam of water which passes underneath. In a moment, e life, which, we know by the microscope, it teems with, extinguished; and an occurrence so insignificant in the e of man, and on the scale of his observation, carries it, to the myriads which people this little leaf, an event as rrible and as decisive as the destruction of a world. Now, on the grand scale of the universe, we, the occupis of this ball-which performs its little round, among the ins and the systems that astronomy has unfolded—we may el the same littleness and the same insecurity. We difr from the leaf only in this circumstance, that it would quire the operation of greater elements to destroy us. But ese elements exist; and, if let loose upon us by the hand of e Almighty, they would spread solitude, and silence, and eath, over the dominions of the world. Now, it is this littleness, and this insecurity, which make e protection of the Almighty so dear to us, and bring, with ■ch emphasis, to every pious bosom, the holy lessons of umility and gratitude. The God who sits above, and resides in high authority over all worlds, is mindful of man; d though at this moment his energy is felt in the reLoest provinces of creation, we may feel the same security his providence, as if we were the objects of his undivided are. It is not for us to bring our minds up to this mysterious gency. But such is the incomprehensible fact, that the me Being, whose eye is abroad over the whole universe, ives vegetation to every blade of grass, and motion to every article of blood which circulates through the veins of the inutest animal; that, though his mind takes into its com rehensive grasp, immensity and all its wonders, I am as to him as if I were the single object of his at he marks all my thoughts; that he gives birth ng and every movement within me; and that, cise of power which I can neither describe not the same God, who sits in the highest heaven, ver the glories of the firmament, is at my right : me every breath which I draw, and every comenjoy. LESSON CXLIV. Rome.-BYRON. my country! city of the soul ! phans of the heart must turn to thee, her of dead empires, and control r shut breasts their petty misery. ire our woes and sufferance? Come and see ess, hear the owl, and plod your way eps of broken thrones and temples; ye, gonies are evils of a day at our feet as fragile as our clay. be of nations! there she stands, ir heroic dwellers. Dost thou flow, hy yellow waves, and mantle her distress! , the Christian, Time, War, Flood and Fire, lealt upon the seven-hilled city's pride; her glories, star by star, expire, p the steep barbarian monarchs ride, : Where the car climbed the capitol; far and wide, say, "Here was, or is "where all is doubly night? las! the lofty city! and alas! The trebly hundred triumphs! and the day as! for earth, for never shall we see t brightness in her eye, she bore when Rome was free! LESSON CXLV. Dialogue:-Rienzi and Angelo.-MISS MITFORD. ne not here to talk. Ye know too well bright sun rises to his course, and lights ig in some hundred spearmen-only great at strange spell, a name. Each hour, dark fraud, pen rapine, or protected murder, out against them. But this very day, onest man, my neighbor,-there he stands,struck-struck like a dog-by one who wore |