will require to be amended to suit the growing intelligence of the people, and improvement of society. Such differences, when confined to discussions, or even to sharp collisions of party, will do good, by quickening the spirit of inquiry, and diffusing a knowledge of political science.

The recent able articles in the Nacional, published at Buenos Ayres, going into a full examination of the principles of a new constitution proposed for the government, cannot fail to exercise an important influence in preparing the minds of the people for a salutary change. The freedom, and even warmth, with which all kinds of political topicks have been discussed in the papers of Bogotá and Caracas, has no doubt contributed very much to the successful establishment of the constitution and laws of Colombia. Who knows how much we are indebted to the essays of the Federalist, and the newspaper wars of that day, for our own Union and the adoption of the constitution? The light elicited by these contests of intellect and opinion, enabled the people gradually to distinguish sound principles from false, and prepared them to incline to the better side. We look for the same results, although by a slower process, in the rising states of South America.

LESSON LXXXVII.

The Raising of Jairus's Daughter.-N. A. REVIEW.

THEY have watched her last and quivering breath,
And the maiden's soul has flown;

They have wrapt her in the robes of death,

And laid her, dark and lone.

But the mother casts a look behind,
Upon that fallen flow'r,-

Nay, start not-'twas the gathering wind,
Those limbs have lost their pow'r.

And tremble not at that cheek of snow,
Over which the faint light plays,
'Tis only the crimson curtain's glow,
Which thus deceives thy gaze.

Didst thou not close that expiring eye?

And feel the soft pulse decay? And did not thy lips receive the sigh, Which bore her soul away?

She lies on her couch, all pale and hushed,
And heeds not thy gentle tread,

And is still as the spring-flow'r by traveller crush'd,
Which dies on its snowy bed.

The mother has flown from that lonely room,
And the maid is mute and pale--

Her ivory hand is cold as the tomb,
And dark is her stiffen'd nail.

Her mother strays with folded arms,
And her head is bent in woe,

She shuts her thoughts to joy or charms,
No tear attempts to flow.

But listen! what name salutes her ear?
It comes to a heart of stone;
"Jesus," she cries, "has no power here,
My daughter's life has flown."

He leads the way to that cold white couch,
And bends o'er the senseless form,
Can his be less than a heavenly touch?
The maiden's hand is warm!

And the fresh blood comes with roseate hue,
While death's dark terrours fly,

Her form is rais'd, and her step is true,
And life beams bright in her eye.

LESSON LXXXVIII.

The Power of Musick.-PIERpont.

WHILE thus the enthusiast roams along the stream,

Balanc'd between a revery and a dream,

Backward he springs; and, through his bounding heart,

The cold and curdling poison seems to dart.
For, in the leaves, beneath a quivering brake,
Spinning his death-note, lies a coiling snake,
Just in the act, with greenly venom'd fangs,
To strike the foot, that heedless o'er him hangs.

Bloated with rage, on spiral folds he rides;
His rough scales shiver on his spreading sides;
Dusky and dim his glossy neck becomes,
And freezing poisons thicken on his gums;
His parch'd and hissing throat breathes hot and dry;
A spark of hell lies burning on his eye;
While like a vapour, o'er his writhing rings,
Whirls his light tail, that threatens while it sings.

Soon as dumb Fear removes her icy fingers
From off the heart, where gazing wonder lingers,
The pilgrim, shrinking from a doubtful fight,
Aware of danger, too, in such a flight,
From his soft flute throws musick's air around,
And meets his foe, upon enchanted ground.

See! as the plaintive melody is flung,

The lightning flash fades on the serpent's tongue;
The uncoiling reptile o'er each shining fold
Throws changeful clouds of azure, green and gold;
A softer lustre twinkles in his eye;

His neck is burnished with a glassier dye;
His slippery scales grow smoother to the sight,
And his relaxing circles roll in light.-
Slowly the charm retires;-with waving sides
Along its track the graceful listener glides;
While musick throws her silver cloud around,
And bears her votary off, in magick folds of sound.

LESSON LXXXIX.

Ohio.-FLINT.

THIS great State, which was, within my memory, an unbroken wilderness, is now at farthest, only the fourth State in the Union in point of numbers. There are not, probably,

on the earth, seven hundred thousand human beings, who, in the mass, are more comfortably fed, and clothed, than the population of this State. I looked upon this fresh and flourishing city [Cincinnati], outstretched under my eye, and compared in thought, its progress with that of the imperial Petersburg, where a great and intelligent despot said, "Let there be a city," and a city arose upon a Golgotha, upon piles of human bones and skulls, that gave consistency to a

morass.

The awe of a numberless soldiery, the concentered resources of thirty millions of slaves, the will of the sovereign, who made the same use of men, that the mason does of bricks and mortar, must all conspire to form a city in that place. Droves of peasants are transplanted from the extremities of Asia to people it. Imperial treasures are lavished to furnish inducements to entice the noblesse to build and reside there. A despotick court displays there Asiatick magnificence, and squanders the means of ministering to its caprices and its pleasures. The result of all these concurring causes, is the erection of one splendid city, in the midst of a desert; and more human beings, probably, perished in this unnatural forcing of a city, than inhabit it at this day.

How different are the fostering efforts of liberty. Sixteen hundred miles from the sea, in half an age, this flourishing and beautiful town has emerged from the woods, and when as old as Petersburg now is, will probably, in wealth and population, emulate the imperial city. No troops are stationed, no publick money lavished here. It is not even the State metropolis. The people build and multiply imperceptibly and in silence. Nothing is forced. This magnificent result, is only the development of our free and noble institutions, upon a fertile soil. Nor is this place the solitary point, where the genius of our institutions is working this result. Numerous cities and towns, over an extent of two thousands of miles, are emulating the growth of this place.

The banks of the Ohio, are destined shortly, to become almost a continued village. Eleven years have produced an astonishing change in this respect; for, at that distance of time, by far the greater proportion of the course of the Ohio was through a forest. When you saw this city, apparently lifting its head from surrounding woods, you found yourself at a loss to imagine whence so many people could be furnished with supplies. In the fine weather, at the commencement of winter, it is only necessary to go to

the market of this town, and see its exuberant supplies of every article of consumption, in the finest order, and of the best quality; to see the lines of wagons, and the astonishing quantities of every kind of produce, to realize, at once, all that you have read about the growth of Ohio.

LESSON XC.

The retirement of General Putnam.-FLINT.

GENERAL PUTNAM was a veteran of the revolution, an inhabitant of Marietta, one of the first purchasers and settlers in the country. He had moved here when it was one compact and boundless forest, vocal only with the cry of owls, the growl of bears, and the death song of the savages. He had seen that forest fall under the axe,--had seen commodious, and after that, splendid dwellings, rise around him. He had seen the settlement sustain an inundation, which wafted away the dwellings, and in some instances the inhabitants in them. The cattle and all the improvements of cultivation were swept away. He had seen the country suffer all the accumulated horrours of an Indian war. He had seen its exhaustless fertility and its natural advantages triumph over all. He had seen Marietta make advances towards acquainting itself with the gulf of Mexico, by floating off from its banks a number of sea vessels built there. He had seen the prodigious invention of steam-boats experimented on the Ohio, and heard their first thunder, as they swept by his dwelling. He had survived to see them become so common, as to be no more objects of curiosity. He had witnessed a hundred boats, laden for New Orleans, pass by in the compass of a few hours. He had surrounded his modest, but commodious dwelling with fruittrees of his own planting; and finer, or more loaded orchards than his, no country could offer. In the midst of rural plenty, and endeared friends, who had grown up around him, far from the display of wealth, the bustle of ambition and intrigue, the father of the colony, hospitable and kind without ostentation and without effort, he displayed in these remote regions, the grandeur, real and intrinsick, of those immortal men, who achieved our revolution. Of these great men, most of whom, and General Putnam among the rest, have