CHAP LAIN, one who performs chapel service; a minister. 11. BOOM' ING, roaring like waves. 12. BAT TER IES, a breast wall or parapet to protect from an enemy's shot. 13. DEC LA RA' TION, assertion. 14. AG GRESSION, assault; attack. 15. AN' NALS, history in order of years. 16. RE BELL' ION, open resistance to lawful authority. 17. UN PAR AL LEL ED, unequaled. 18. EM BOD' I MENT, the act of putting in form. 1 OLYMPUS, (see Note, p. 217.) BUNKER HILL MONUMENT. LOUIS KOSSUTH. 1. My voice shrinks from the task to mingle with the awful pathos of that majestic orator, (pointing to the Monument,)-silent like the grave, and yet melodious like the song of immortality upon the lips of Cherubim, a senseless, cold granite, and yet warm with inspiration like a Patriot's heart,-immovable like the past and yet stirring like the future, which never stops. It looks like a prophet, and speaks like an oracle. 2. And thus it speaks: "The day I commemorate, is the rod with which the hand of the Lord has opened the well of Liberty. Its waters will flow; every new drop of martyr-blood will increase the tide; despots may dam its flood, but never stop it. The higher the dam, the higher the tide; it will overflow or will break through-bow, adore, and hope." Such are the words that come to my ears, and I bow, I adore, I hope. 3. In bowing, my eyes meet the soil of Bunker Hill, that awful opening scenery of the eventful drama to which Lexington and Concord had been the preface. The spirits of the past rise before my eyes. I see Richard Gridley hastily plowing the intrenchments. I hear the blunt sound of the pickaxe and spade in the hands of the patriot band. I hear the patriot's lay that "All is well." 4. I see Knowlton raising his line of soil fence upon which soon the guns will rest, that the bullets may prove to their message true. I see the tall command· ing form of Prescott, marching leisurely around the parapet, inflaming the tired patriots with the classical words, that those who have had the merit of the labor, should have the honor of the victors. I see Asa Pol lard fall the first victim of that immortal day. I see the chaplain praying over him. 5. And now the booming of cannon from ships and from batteries, and the blaze of the burning town, and the thrice-renewed storm and the perseverant defense, till powder was gone and but stones remained. And I see Warren telling Elbridge Gerry that it is sweet to die for the fatherland; I see him lingering in his retreat, and struck in the forehead, fall to the ground, and Pomeroy, with his shattered musket in his brave hand, complaining that he remained unhurt, when a Warren had to die. And I see all the brave who fell unnamed, unnoticed, and unknown, the nameless corner stones of American Independence. 6. All the spirits of that most eventful victory under the name of defeat,-I see them all; the eyes of my soul are familiar with the spirits of Martyrs of Liberty. But those I see around me have no sad, ghastly look; they have no gushing wounds crying for revenge to the Almighty God; the smile of eternal bliss is playing around their lips, and though dwellers of Heaven, they like to revisit the place where their blood was spilled. It was not spilled in vain; their fatherland is free, and there is a joy in that thought, adding ever new charms even to the happiness of blessed souls. As the fabulous divinities of ancient Greece liked to rest from the charms of Heaven on Mount 'Olympus, so may the spirit of Warren like to rest on the top of this monument. 7. Martyrs of my country! how long will it yet be till a like joy will thrill through your departed souls? When will that smile of joy play around your lips? How long will yet the gush of your wounds cry for revenge Your fatherland still bleeding, down-trodden, oppressed; there is a sorrow in that thought, casting the gloom of sadness even over the bliss of Paradise. 8. Almighty Father of Mankind! let the day of thy mercy not be too far. Excuse my emotion, gen. tlemen. The associations of my ideas are natural. Your Bunker Hill and our Kapolna are twins. Both called defeats, and both eventful victories, both resulting in the declaration of an independence. But yours acknowledged before it was delivered, and supported by foreign aid,-ours not acknowledged, even when achieved, and meeting foreign aggression instead of aid. 9. Gentlemen, a great crisis is approaching in the condition of the world; but the world is prepared for that crisis. There is a great change in the spirit of time. Now-a-days principles weigh more than a success formerly, and therefore principles will meet success. I remember well, when your fathers were about to fight the battle of Bunker Hill, there was a period ical paper at Boston,-"Tory Massachusetts" was its name, which dared to say that the annals of the world had not yet been deformed with a single instance of so unnatural, careless, wanton, and wicked a rebellion. So it styled the sacred cause which the Adamses, the Hancocks advocated, Washington led, and for which women bled. 10. And now that cause fills the brightest page in the annals of humanity; but it was success and its unparelleled results, which cast the luster of that glory around it. Unsuccessful, its memory might have been blasted with the name of an ill-advised rebellion. Now-a-days, it is not mere success which makes the merit of a cause, but its principle. The results of the day of Bunker Hill have changed the basis of future history, because it gave birth to a nation, whose very existence is the embodiment of a principle, true as truth itself, and lasting as eternity. QUESTIONS.-1. Why does the orator's voice shrink from the task before him? 2. What does he represent the monument as saying? 3. What spirits of the past does he call up in imagination? 4. How does he represent them as acting? 5. What appeal doee he make to the martyrs of his own country? 6. What place does he compare with Bunker Hill? 7. What paper does he refer to as being once published at Boston? 8. What now-a-days determines the merit of a cause? LESSON CLXI. 1. MAR' A THON is the name of a village in Ancient Greece, bout 15 miles north-east of Athens, celebrated by the victory there gained over the Persians, in the year B. C. 490. 2. AN' A KIM, the children of Anak; a wandering nation of Southern Canaan. Being formidable in stature and appearance, they received the name of giants. Hence the word is here used by the poet to designate any powerful foes. SPEAK BOLDLY. W. OLAND BOURNE 1. Speak boldly, Freeman! while to-day 2. Speak boldly, Hero! while the foe 3. Speak boldly, Prophet! Let the fire Of Heaven come down on altars cursed, To pay their bloody homage first; 4. Speak boldly, Poet! Let thy pen Be nerved with fire that may not die; Be true, O Poet! Let thy name Be true to Man! Be true to God! 5. Speak boldly, Brothers! Wake, and come! In Freedom's strife be never dumb! QUESTIONS.-1. What appeal is made to the FREEMAN 2. What, to the Hero! 3. What, to the Prophet? 4. What, to the Poet! 5. What are all, as brethren, exhorted to do? LESSON CLXII. SPELL AND DEFINE.-1. SUP' PLI ANCE, supplication; entreaty. 2. TRO PHIES, memorials of victory. 3. SIG NET, seal. 4. SEN TRIES, sentinels; soldiers on guard. 5. COM RADES, companions. 6. BRI'DAL, nuptial; connubial. 7. KNELL, funeral tolling. 8. PALL, COVering for the dead. 9. STO RI ED, told or related in history. 1. MAR' Co Boz ZA' RIS, often styled the Epaminondas of Modern Greece, was killed in an attack upon the Turks, August 20th, 1823. His last words were: "To die for liberty is a pleasure, and not a pain." 2. Mos' LEM, a Mussulman; a true Mohammedan. MARCO BOZZARIS. FITZ-GREENE HALLECK, 1. (84) At midnight in his guarded tent, The Turk was dreaming of the hour, In dreams, through camp and court, he bore |