were becoming, like them, hypocrites and talkers, and no workers. We looked up to Spirit. We went to our Father, at Washin were encouraged. His great council ga words and big promises; but we obtained tion. Things were growing worse. Ther deer in the forest. The opossum and be fled; the springs were drying up, and o were without victuals, to keep them from st

6. We called a great council, and made a The spirit of our fathers arose, and spoke avenge our wrongs or die. We all spoke council-fire. It was warm and pleasant. W the war-whoop, and dug up the tomahawk; were ready, and the heart of Black Hawk sw in his bosom when he led his warriors to ba is satisfied. He will go to the world of sp tented. His father will meet him there, and him. Black Hawk has done his duty.

7. He is a true Indian, and disdains to woman. He feels for his wife, his children friends. But he does not care for himself. for his people. They will suffer. He lame fate. The white men do not scalp heads; bu worse, they poison hearts. His country not be scalped, but they will, in a few years like the white men, so that you can not tru and there must be, as in the white settlement as many officers as men, to take care of th keep them in order.

8. Farewell, my nation! Black Hawk tried you, and avenge your wrongs. He spilt the some of the whites. He has been taken priso his plans are stopped. He can do no more near his end. His sun is setting, and he will

Do not say rejine for re-join' ; fust for first. In for'ti-tude, lux'u-ry, vir'tue, ab'solute, con-spic'u-ous, &c., give the long or y sound to the u. In open the e is not sounded.

1. Ar length, Romans, we are rid of Catiline! We have driven him forth, drunk with fury, fulminating mischief, threatening to revisit us with fire and sword. He has gone; he has fled; he has escaped; he has broken away. No longer, within the very walls of the city, shall he plot her ruin.

2. We have forced him from secret schemes into open rebellion. The bad citizen is now the avowed traitor. His flight is the confession of his treason. Would that his attendants had not been so few! Be speedy, ye companions of his dissolute pleasures, be speedy, and you may overtake him, before night, on the Aurelian road.

army, I

say;

3. Let him not languish, deprived of your society. Haste to rejoin the congenial crew that compose his army; his for who can doubt that the army under Manlius expect Catiline for their leader? And such an army! Outcasts from honor, and fugitives from debt; gamblers and felons; miscreants, whose dreams are of rapine, murder, and conflagration!

4. Against these desperate troops of your adver. sary, prepare, O! Romans, your garrisons and armies. And first, to that maimed and battered gladiator oppose your consuls and generals. Next, against that

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miserable outcast hōrde lead forth the strength and flower of all Italy!

5. On the one side chastity contends; on the other, wantonness; here purity, there pollution; here integ rity, there treachery; here piety, there profanity; here constancy, there rage; here honesty, there baseness; here continence, there lust.

6. In short, equity, temperance, fortitude, prudence, struggle with iniquity, luxury, cowardice, rashness; every virtue with every vice! And, lastly, the contest lies between well-grounded hope and absolute despair. In such a conflict, were every human aid to fail, would not Providence empower such conspicuous virtue to triumph over such complicated vice?

CICERO.*

In out, now,

Pronounce er in therefore like er in her; sword, sōrd; England, îngʻland; clothes, klothz. In en-sue', du'el, tu'tor, give the long or y sound to the u. coun'te-nance, &c., give the pure sound of ou. Do not say instid for in-stead; diffikilty for dif'fi-cul-ty; presunt for pres'ent; drownded for drowned.

1. Ir two boys, who disagreed about a game of marbles or a penny tart, should, therefore, walk out by the river side, quietly take off their clothes, and, when they had got into the water, each try to keep the other's head down until one of them was drowned, we should, doubtless, think that these two boys were mad.

2. If, when the survivor returned to his schoolfellows, they were to pat him on the shoulder, tell

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81 him he was a spirited fellow, and that if he had not tried the feat in the water they would never have played at marbles or any other game with him again, we should, doubtless, think that these boys were infected with a most revolting and disgusting depravity and ferociousness.

3. And yet society does both tolerate and encourage such depravity every day. Change the penny tart for some other trifle; instead of boys put men, and, instead of a river, a pistol, and we encourage it all. We virtually pat the survivor's shoulder, tell him he is a man of honor, and that we would never have dined with him again if he had not shot at his acquaintance.

4. For what trivial causes have men gone out to kill each other! A gentleman accidentally runs against another, in the street, or treads on his toe, in a crowd. Harsh words ensue; a challenge is given; and two human beings, who, perhaps, never met each other before, go out to see which can succeed in taking the other's life.

5. As civilization advances, and Christian principles prevail, dueling must be more and more discounte nanced. The present law of England makes no distinction between the killing of a man in a duel and any other species of murder; and the seconds of both parties are also guilty of murder.

now.

6. A ludicrous story is told of an affair which oc curred in Paris, when duels were more frequent than Two Englishmen stepped into a coffee-house, and took their seats at a table. Near them, at another table, sat a tall, grave-looking man, who appeared to be deeply absorbed in studying a book.

7. Soon after the two Englishmen entered, one of them told the other that a celebrated dwarf had arrived in Paris. At this the tall man with the serious coun

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tenance opened his mouth and spake. "I arrive,” said he, "thou arrivest, he arrives; we arrive, ye or you arrive, they arrive."

8. The Englishman, whose remark seemed to have suggested this mysterious outbreak, stepped up to the stranger, and inquired, "Did you speak to me, sir?”. "I speak," replied the stranger, "thou speakest, ho speaks; we speak, ye or you speak, they speak.”

9. "How is this, sir?" exclaimed the Englishman who now began to be seriously indignant. "You have the appearance of a gentleman. Do you mean to insult me?" To which the tall man responded, "1 insult, thou insultest, he insults; we insult ye or you insult, they insult."

10. "This is too much!" said the Englishman. ") must have satisfaction. If you have any spirit to back your rudeness, come along with me." To this defiance the imperturbable stranger, putting his book in his pocket, replied, "I come, thou comest, he comes; we come, ye or you come, they come." And thereupon he rose, with great coolness, and followed his challenger.

11. In those days, when every gentleman wore a sword, duels were speedily dispatched. The hostile parties, on this occasion, went into a neighboring fencing saloon, and the Englishman, unsheathing his weapon, said to his antagonist, "Now, sir, you must fight me.""I fight," replied the other, "thou fightest, he fights; we fight," -- here he made a thrust, "ye or you fight, they fight;" and here he disarmed his oppo'nent.

12. "Well," said the Englishman, "you have the best of it, and I hope you are satisfied." "I am sat isfied," replied the victor, "thou art satisfied, he is satisfied; we are satisfied, ye or you are satisfied, they are satisfied." "I am glad every body is satisfied,"