SELECTIONS IN POETRY. Page. 4. The Pilgrim Fathers.............PIERPONT...... 18 7. Warren's Address to the American Soldiers, before the Battle of Bunker's Hill................ IBID........... 11. The Spanish Patriot's Song ...... Anonymous..... 26 15. Paraphrase of the Nineteenth Psalm ....................... Addison...... 17. Queen Margaret's Address to the Lurds......................... Shakspeare..... 25. Song of the Greeks............. Campbell...... 29. The Inhumanity of Slavery........ Cowper........ 34. Speech of the Duke of Buckingham. Shakspeare.... 37. Stanzas Addressed to the Greeks. • Anonymous .... 39, Home dear to the African........J. Montgomery. 42. The Love of Country and of Home. . Ibid.......... 46. The Landing of the Pilgrim Fathers. Hemans ....... 48. The Earl of Richmond's Address.. Shakspeare... 51. Burial of Sir John Moore..........Wolfe........ 54. New-England .................... PERCIVAL.... 82 57. Comparison between Burke and Johnson ..................... Cumberland.... 86 60. Star Light on Marathon..........R. Montgomery. 96 65. Song of Marion's Men........... BRYANT.......104 78. Marco Bozzaris .................HALLECK......126 81. Speech of King Henry V. before the Battle of Agincourt........ Shakspeare ...... 131 85. King Henry's Speech before Har- ; fleur........... .........Ibid...........136 90. The Exile at Rest...............PIERPONT......145 100. Ball at Brussels before the Battle of Waterloo..................Byron .........158 103. 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......183 123. Apostrophe to the Ocean........Byron.........194 127. Great Britain Abjuring the Slave Trade................. ....J. Montgomery. . 198 132. Speech of Cassius to Brutus.... Shakspeare.....205 143. The Isles of Greece............ Byron..........229 152. Marcellus to the Roman Populace. Shakspeare......243 157. Ode to Greece................ Anonymous ......247 158. Speech of Cataline to the Roman Senate, in Reply to Cicero.... Croly..........249 159. Speech of Cataline, on his hearing his Banishment............... Ibid............250 161. Ode to Napoleon Bonaparte.....Byron ..........253 162. Description of a Finical Courtier. Shakspeare.... .255 164. Ode to France................Byron.........259 DIALOGUES. 59, Sir Christopher and Quiz. .....HALL.......... 90 and Cassius................. Shakspeare. ... .225 INDEX OF AUTHORS. 69 174 199 36 The names of American authors are in Italic. 88 Ames, 103, 137, 140, 142 Erskine, 27, 52, 53 Bayard, 237, 238, 239, 240 | Fitch, Brooks, 222 263 104 Goldsmith, 169, 184, 185, 186, Grattan, 290 90 Byron 158, 175, 194, 229, Hamilton, 15, 16 Harper, 32, 35 Chalmers, 80 Hayne, 59, 111, 115 72 19, 20 Curran, 47, 49, 76, 77,98, || Livingston, Davis, 210 | Mason, J. M., 244 208 Haven, 85 193 Pitt, 261 276 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, 235, 272 || Watterston, 108, 113, 118, 119, 246 122, 124, 133, 134, 284 135, 233, 242, 273, 58, 75, 131, 136, 297 153, 231 RECAPITULATION. Prose. 37 ERRATA. " 12 " " damages read danger. “ 104, 1st line in pote, for explots read exploits. " 110, line 18 from bottom, for there read then. * 269, lst 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. 1.--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. 1 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 sart. 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 spective 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 |