part; that, me, I have please my [Shakspeare. RS. the very ecial ob- laying, d is, to he very ke the "TELL me, ye bloody butchers! ye villains high and low? ye wretches who contrived, as well as you who excuted, the inhuman deed! do you not feel the goads and stings of conscious guilt pierce through your savage bosoms? Though some of you may think yourselves exalted to a height that bids défiance to the arms of human justice, and others shroud yourselves beneath the mask of hypocrisy, and build your hopes of safety on the low arts of cunning, chicanery, and falsehood; yet do you not sometimes feel the gnawings of that worm which never dies? Do not the injured shades of Maverick, Gray, Caldwell, Attucks, and Carr, attend you in your solitary walks, arrest you even in the midst of your debaucheries, and fill even your dreams with terror? "Ye dark, designing knaves! ye murderers! parricides! how dare you tread upon the earth which has drank in the blood of slaughtered innocents, shed by your wicked hands? How dare you breathe that air which wafted to the ear of Heaven the groans of those who fell a sacrifice to your accursed ambition? But, if the laboring earth does not expand her jaws; if the eir von breathe is not commissioned to be the minister THE HIGH SCHOOL SPEAKER. of death; yet hear it, and tremble! the eye of Hea penetrates the darkest chambers of the soul; tra the leading clew through all the labyrinths which У industrious folly has devised; and you, however may have screened yourselves from human eyes, m be arraigned, must lift your hands, red with the bl of those whose deaths you have procured, at the mendous bar of God." HANNIBAL TO THE CARTHAGINIAN ARMY. ON what side soever I turn my eyes, I behold all of courage and strength. A veteran infantry; an gallant cavalry: you, my allies most faithful and iant; you Carthaginians, whom not only your count cause, but the justest anger impels to battle. The h the courage of assailants, is always greater than of th who act upon the defensive. With hostile banners played you are come down upon Italy: you bring war. Grief, injuries, indignities, fire your minds spur you forward to revenge. First, they deman me, that I, your general, should be delivered up to th next, of all you who had fought at the siege of Sag tum; and we were to be put to death by the extre tortures. Proud and cruel nation! Every thing n be yours, and at your disposal. You are to presc to us with whom we shall make war, with whom shall make peace. You are to set us bounds; to us up within hills and rivers; but you, you are no observe the limits which yourselves have fixed! not the Iberus." What next? "Touch not the Sag tines; Saguntum is upon the Iberus, move not a toward that city." Is it a small matter then, that ye of Heaven soul; traces s which your however you n eyes, must ith the blood at the tre[John Hancock. ARMY. hold all full al and val- to them; hom we e not to “Pass Sagun step ADVOCATING THE REVOLUTION. BE not deceived, my countrymen. Believe not these venal hirelings, when they would cajole you by their subtleties into submission, or frighten you by their vaporings into compliance. When they strive to flatter you by the terms "moderation and prudence," tell them that calmness and deliberation are to guide the judgment; courage and intrepidity command the action. When they endeavor to make us "perceive our inability to oppose our mother country," let us boldly answer;"In defense of our civil and religious rights, we dare oppose the world; with the God of armies on our side! even the God who fought our fathers' battles! we fear not the hour of trial, though the hosts of our enemies should cover the field like locusts. If this be enthusiasm, we will live and die enthusiasts." O, my countrymen! what will our children say, when they read the history of these times, should they THE HIGH SCHOOL SPEAKER. find that we tamely gave away without one noble gle, the most invaluable of earthly blessings? A drag the galling chain, will they not execrate us! have any respect for things sacred,―any regard dearest treasure on earth; if we have one tender ment for posterity; if we would not be despised 1 whole world,-let us, in the most open, solemn ma and with determined fortitude, swear-We will d we can not live freemen! While we have equity, justice, and God on our tyranny, spiritual or temporal, shall never ride triu ant in a land inhabited by Englishmen. ROLLA TO THE PERUVIANS. My brave associates-partners of my toil, my feel and my fame!-can Rolla's words add vigor to the tuous energies which inspire your hearts ?-No!have judged as I have, the foulness of the crafty by which these bold invaders would delude you.generous spirit has compared, as mine has, the mo which, in a war like this, can animate their minds They, by a strange frenzy driven, fight for plunder, and extended rule;-we, for our country, altars, and our homes. They follow an advent whom they fear, and obey a power which they hat we serve a monarch whom we love,-a God whom adore. Where'er they move in anger, desolation tr their progress! Where'er they pause in amity, a tion mourns their friendship. They boast they come but to improve our st enlarge our thoughts, and free us from the yoke error!-Yes:-they will give enlightened freedom to our minds, who are themselves the slaves of passion, avarice, and pride. They offer us their protection!— Yes, such protection as vultures give to lambs,-covering and devouring them! They call on us to barter all the good we have inherited and proved, for the desperate chance of something better, which they promise. Be our plain answer this:-The throne we honor is the people's choice, the laws we reverence are our brave fathers' legacy, the faith we follow teaches us to live in bonds of charity with all mankind, and die with hope of bliss beyond the grave. Tell your invaders this, and tell them, too, we seek no change; and least of all, such change as they would bring us. [Sheridan. SPEECH OF BELIAL, DISSUADING WAR. WHEREFORE cease ye then? Whatever doing, what can we suffer more, |