that he will not be trilled with by angels or men, in their national or individual capacities. A general dissoluteness of national manners was the harbinger of our ruin ; beware therefore, of this prelude of our annihilation."

I do not wish to particularise the prevalent and popular crimes of this degenerate age, it would shock the ear of delicacy if I did; it would cause the philanthropist to weep and tremble by turns.

I do not, I dare not estimate the terpitude of our national delinquency, or fix the mode, the manner, or the magnitude of the punishment due to it. But may I not deplore the infatuation observable in all ranks and grades in society. Though clouds and darkness rest upon our prospects, though our political atmosphere is impregnated with impending storms, yet no salutary dread of the Almighty prevails. But gaiety, sensuality, infidelity, tyranny, and obscenity of female fashions, are the order of the day.

May the good God deliver us from this paralizing insensibility to all nioral obligation. Indeed, it requires no spirit of divination to foresee, that without repentance and reformation, we must participate the punishment, as we do the ingratitude of the favourite people of God; I mean the Jews. Some of the iniquitous nations of Europe have fell, while others are nodding to their fall. Let us forego our national crimes, particularly the one which exhibits us to the view of angels and men, as a nation of legal impostors, and political hypocrites jr I mean SLAVERY!! and we need not fear either men or devils.. But if we will not do this, we may reasonably expect, that we shall participate the judgments which are now inflicting upon the people of Europe. In short, the modern Alexander the Great,* with a second Roman army at his

heels, in conjunction with our exasperated slaves, will spread desolation over our fertile territories, render our cities, heaps of ruins, like unto Babylon, impoverish our merchants, beggar our farmers, spread undistinguished carnage, and promiscuous lust, wherever they go; and as they will find the most determined opposition, no doubt, they would be like what shall I compare them to ? language fails me :-like some grim lion that has been kept without food for several days by an eastern despot, that he might devour with more ferocity, a valiant, but captive king, the martyr of his conqueror's capricious cruelty. The lion

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vage tormentors and oppressors of a million of his rational creatures. Some foolishly say, Bonaparte will not trouble America, even if Europe is conquered by him : Such persons certainly do not consider the nature of ambition and military pride. Witness the case of Haman, who could enjoy no peace while Mordecai, setting at the palace gate, refused to bow down and reverence him. Esther, chap. v. verse 13.

views his victim with fiery eyes and eager looks, he lashes his sides with his long tail, he grinds his teeth, he rears his mane, and the moment his cage is opened, he runs, he flies with open mouth, and in a moment slays and devours his naked and mangled prey. Methinks I hear the reader say, My very soul recoils with horror at the dreadful intel. lectual picture you have drawn ! Columbia, subjugated by the French in her maturity! that exhibited acts of prodigious valour in her minority, which astonished an admiring world, and overwhelmed the most potent foes; the very, anticipation is humiliating! There is a latent spark glowing somewhere in my composition, that says, it shall not be 50. America, though vanquished by numbers, never, never shall be slaves, or held in intellectual bondage. My heart says, let us, before we are metamorphosed to the subjugated vassals of an imperial despot, let us retreat, with our trembling wives and weeping infants, to the interior of our country,

and cultivate new lands, erect new cities, and re-organize our happy form of government. But

your premature fears are only the offspring of a heated imagination, and the prospect you have here depictured is a mere faree. Let us, then I will

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for the sake of illustration, trace briefly, the unparalleled successes of our invidious foe, who " hides fraud in smiles, while death is harboured there :". View the signal victories he has gained, the conquests he has already obtained, which human wisdom, in conjunction with human valour, could not withstand, this alone proves the authenticity of ny hypothesis. See him marching with his eagles perched; fortune leading the van, while his myrmidons bring up the rear; see him wasting his veterans over every sea, and to the most distant shores; see them marching, as it were, on dry land, over the Danube, the Rhine, the Po, and penetrating the lofty Alps, and the everlasting snows of the Pyrinees. Like as the