SELECTIONS IN POETRY. ....... Campbell.... 50 68 Page. 7. Warren's Address to the American Soldiers, before the Battle of 11. The Spanish Patriot's Song ...... Anonymous. 15. Paraphrase of the Nineteenth 17. Queen Margaret's Address to the 29. The Inhumanity of Slavery........ Cowper..... 34. Speech of the Duke of Buckingham. Shakspeare.... 58 37. Stanzas Addressed to the Greeks. . Anonymous.... 62 39, Home dear to the African..... .J. Montgomery. 64 42. The Love of Country and of Home. . Ibid.... 46. The Landing of the Pilgrim Fathers. Hemans. 72 48. The Earl of Richmond's Address.. Shakspeare. 75 51. Burial of Sir John Moore.... Wolfe..... 57. Comparison between Burke and the Battle of Agincourt. .... Shakspeare ..... 131 85. King Henry's Speech before Har- fleur.... .Ibid.. 136 90. The Exile at Rest.. .PIERPONT.... ..145 95. Bruce's Address to Troops... Burns ... .151 98. The Battle of Hohenlinden. ... Campbell...... 154 100. Ball at Brussels before the Battle 103. Characters of Richard Third and 109. Othello's Address to the Senate. . Shakspeare.....171 112. Speech of Marino Faliero..... . Byron.... . 175 116. The Greek Emigrant's Song. PERCIVAL 123. Apostrophe to the Ocean... .Byron.. ..194 127. Great Britain Abjuring the Slave 132. Speech of Cassius to Brutus. Shakspeare.. .205 143. The Isles of Greece... .. Byron.... 152. Marcellus to the Roman Populace. Shakspeare. ..243 158. Speech of Cataline to the Roman Senate, in Reply to Cicero.... Croly... .249 159. Speech of Cataline, on his hearing 161. Ode to Napoleon Bonaparte.....Byron... .Ibid........ DIALOGUES. . 59, Sir Christopher and Quiz. ..... Hall... ......... 90 Kotzebue. .155 · Shakspeare. ... .225 • Addison .....199 ..251 Page. .270 .Ibid.... 1 Addison, 31, 176, 187, 251 ) Emmet, 88 69 174 287 || Foster, 263 199 36 290 90 126 15, 16 Harper, 32, 35 29 80 Hayne, 59, 111, 115 72 19, 20 196, 197 245 85 155 193 245 244 208 235, Montgomery, R.. 96 || Smith, J., Morris, G., 43, 265 | Sprague, C., 55, 56, 163 285 Sprague, P., 179, 181, 214 Percival, 82, 183, 278 Story, 81, 159, 161, 165, Quincy, 272 261 276 108, 113, 118, 119, 246 122, 124, 133, 134, 284 135, 233, 242, 273, 58, 75, 131, 136, 297 Wirt, 153, 231 79 ERRATA. damages read danger. 104, 1st line in pote, for explots read exploits. 110, line 18 from bottom, for there read then. 269, lat line in note, for asservation read asseveration. No. 75 should be 74, and No. 77 should be 76. There are, therefore, two extracts less than THE NATIONAL ORATOR I.--THE IMPORTANCE OF THE UNION OF THE STATES, * Extract from Edmund Randolph's Speech, on the expediency of adopt. ing the Federal Constitution, delivered in the Convention of Virginia, June 6th, 1788. AFTER having 'heretofore attempted, Mr. Chairman, to ow, by a course of argument, the excellency of the proised constitution ; how its adoption is intimately connect. d with the continuance of the union ; and how important ill be the vote of our own state to this end ; I will now include with a few observations, which come from my art. I have labored for the continuance of the union e rock of our salvation. I believe that, as sure as there a God in heaven, our safety, our political happiness and * After the close of the revolutionary war, when there was no foreign le to unite the states together, by one grand, all-absorbing interest, it as perceived and deeply felt, by the wisest and best men throughout e land, that the old articles of confederation were weak and ineffi. ent; unable either to preserve harmony within, or even to unite us ain in case of another attack from without. It was proposed, there. re, that each state should send delegates to Philadelphia, either to vise the old articles of confederation, or to plan and mature a new nstitution. Accordingly, in May, 1787, the delegates, chosen by their pective states, met in convention at Philadelphia, and the result of ir deliberations was our present constitution. After its adoption by convention, it was sent to the different states for ratification, and s not to be valid unless nine states should adopt it. In some of the |