6. Go, then, triumphant! sweep along 1 CAN ONS. Laws of the church; also, BANŞ. Curses; execrates. 6 MEED. Reward; merit; desert. 7 BÔÔTS. Profits. 8 CŌPE. A kind of cloak worn by the clergy during church services. 9 STOLE. A narrow band worn across the shoulders by bishops and priests. 4 DE-VÕTED. Doomed; consigned to 10 RE'QUI-EM. A musical composition evil. SCUTCH'EON. A shield on which the coat of arms of a family is represented; escutcheon. performed in honor of some deceased person. 11 SHRIFT. Confession made to a priest. 12 BE-HEST'. Command; injunction. CIV.-LINES ON A SKELETON. 1. BEHOLD this ruin! 'Tis a skull, This narrow cell was Life's retreat; 2. Beneath this mouldering canopy When stars and suns have lost their light. 3. Here, in this silent cavern, hung And where it could not praise, was chained;- Yet gentle concord never broke; That tuneful tongue shall plead for thee 4. Say, did these fingers delve' the mine? 5. Avails it whether bare or shod These feet the paths of Duty trod? 1 DĚLVE. Dig; use the spade. | 2 VIE. Strive for supremacy; contend. [The following extract is from the closing portion of an address before the Union Club, delivered at Boston, April 9, 1863.] 1. WAR is justly regarded as one of the greatest evils that can befall a nation, though it is not the greatest; and of this great evil, civil war is the most deplorable form. I want words to express the sorrow with which, from the first, I have contemplated', and unceasingly contemplate, the necessity laid upon us, to wage this war for the integrity of the nation. 2. Not without deep solicitude I saw the angry clouds gathering in the horizon, North and South; and I devoted the declining years of my life, with a kind of religious consecration, to the attempt to freshen the sacred memories that cluster around that dear and venerated name,* which I need not repeat, memories which had survived the multiplying causes of alienation, and were so well calculated to strengthen the cords of the Union. To these humble efforts, and the time and labor expended upon them, truly a labor of love,-I would, as Heaven is my witness, have cheerfully added the sacrifice of my life, if by so doing I could have averted the catastrophe. For that cause, I should have thought a few care-worn and weary years cheaply laid on the altar of my country. But it could not be. 3. A righteous Providence, in its wisdom, has laid upon us—even upon us-the performance of this great and solemn duty. It is now plain, to the dullest perception, that the hour of trial could not be much longer delayed. The leaders of the rebellion tell us themselves that they * Referring to the author's Oration on Washington, delivered in aid of the Mount Vernon Association. had plotted and planned it for an entire generation. It might have been postponed for four years, or for eight years, but it was sure, in no long time, to come; and if, by base compliance, we could have turned the blow from. ourselves, it would have fallen, with redoubled violence, on our children. 4. Let us, then, meet it like men. It must needs be that offences shall come, but woe unto that man by whom the offence cometh. Let us show ourselves equal to the duty imposed upon us, and faithful to the trust to which we are called. The cause in which we are engaged is the cause of the constitution and the law, of civilization and freedom, of man and of God. Let us engage in it with a steadiness and fortitude, a courage and a zeal, a patience and a resolution, a hope and a cheer, worthy of the fathers from whom we are descended, of the country we defend, and of the privileges we inherit. 5 5. There is a call and a duty, a work and a place, for all; -for man and for woman, for rich and for poor, for old and for young, for the stout-hearted and strong-handed, for all who enjoy, and all who deserve to enjoy, the priceless blessings at stake. Let the venerable forms of the Pilgrim fathers, the majestic images of our revolutionary sires, and of the sages that gave us this glorious Union; let the anxious expectation of the friends of liberty abroad; let the hardships and perils of our brethren in the field, and the fresh-made graves of the dear ones who have fallen; let every memory of past, and every hope of the future; every thought and every feeling, that can nerve the arm, or fire the heart, or elevate and purify the soul of a patriot,rouse, and guide, and cheer, and inspire us to do, and, if need be, to die, for our country! I CON-TEM'PLAT-ED. Attentively con- 3 COM-PLIANCE. Yielding. sidered; thought upon. 2 CON-SE-CRA'TION. Dedication; a setting apart as sacred. 4 PRIV'I-LEGE. Private or peculiar right, peculiar advantage. 6 SA'YES. Wise men. CVI. SUPPOSED SPEECH OF REGULUS TO THE CARTHAGINIANS. E. KELLOGG. [Regulus was a Roman general, who, in the first Punic war, was taken prisoner by the Carthaginians, and after a captivity of several years, was sent by them to Rome, with an embassy to solicit peace, or, at least, an exchange of prisoners. But Regulus earnestly dissuaded his countrymen from both, and, resisting all the persuasions of his friends to remain in Rome, he returned to Carthage, where he is said to have been put to death, with the most cruel tortures.] 2 1. THE beams of the rising sun had gilded the lofty domes of Carthage, and given, with its rich and mellow light, a tinge of beauty even to the frowning ramparts' of the outer harbor. Sheltered by the verdant shores, an hundred triremes were riding proudly at their anchors, their brazen beaks3 glittering in the sun, their streamers dancing in the morning breeze, while many a shattered plank and timber gave evidence of desperate conflict with the fleets of Rome. 6 2. No murmur of business or of revelry arose from the city. The artisan had forsaken his shop, the judge his tribunal, the priest the sanctuary, and even the stern stoic had come forth from his retirement to mingle with the crowd that, anxious and agitated, were rushing toward the senate-house, startled by the report that Regulus had returned to Carthage. 3. Onward, still onward, trampling each other under foot, they rushed, furious with anger and eager for revenge. Fathers were there, whose sons were groaning in fetters; maidens, whose lovers, weak and wounded, were dying in the dungeons of Rome, and gray-haired men and matrons, whom the Roman sword had left childless. 4. But when the stern features of Regulus were seen, and his colossal' form towering above the ambassadors who had returned with him from Rome; when the news |