PAGE LXXII. Anniversary Oration, delivered March 5, 1781......Thomas Dawes. 119 LXXIII. Address from the Legislature of the State of New York to their LXXIV. An Englishman's Opinion of the American War..... William Pitt. 123 LXXV. The Attack on Fort Griswold.... LXXVII. Circular Letter from Congress to the States, December 17, 1781.... 126 LXXVIII. Return of British Fugitives Advocated.............Patrick Henry. 127 XC. Inaugural Address to both Houses of Congress, April 30, 1789, CIX. Against the Repeal of the Judiciary Act....... Gouverneur Morris. 175 CX. Necessity of Avoiding a War with France........ De Witt Clinton. 177 CXI. Necessity of Preparing for a War with France..Gouverneur Morris. 178 CXIII. Jefferson's Purchase of the Louisiana Territory.. Henry S. Randall. 181 CXIV. War Discountenanced...... CXV. Justice Demanded for the Soldiers of the Revolution..P. Sprague. 184 CXVI. Pensioners' Muster, Aug. 3, 1807........ CLXII. On the Admission of California into the Union... Wm. H. Seward. 250 CCIII. Second Inaugural Address of President Lincoln, March 4, 1865..... 305 CCIV. Restoration of the Flag to Fort Sumter, April 14, 1865, CCX. Nature and Destiny of our Government. CCXI. Dialogue-The Old Continental.. CCXII. Dialogue-The Yankee Marksman.... William Bentley Fowle. 321 CCXIII. Dialogue-Impressment of an American Seaman....Epes Sargent. 323 CCXIV. Dialogue-John Bull and Son........ William Bentley Fowle. 329 CCXV. Dialogue between Mr. Dole, Indian Commissioner, and Opothley- oholo and Lagarash, Indian Chiefs, 1862......Rebellion Record. 331 PATRIOTIC ELOQUENCE. EXERCISE I.-MINISTRY vs. THE PEOPLE. Speech delivered in the Assembly of Pennsylvania, May, 1764, on the Occasion of a Petition from that Body, praying the King for a Change of Government. JOHN DICKINSON. WE are not the subjects of ministers, and therefore it is not to be wondered at if they do not feel that tenderness for us that a good king will always feel for his people. Men are not born ministers. Their ambition raises them to authority; and when possessed of it, one established principle with them seems to be, "never to deviate from a precedent of power." Indeed, Sir, it is vain to expect that where the spirit of liberty is maintained among a people, public contests should not also be maintained. Those who govern and those who are governed, seldom think that they can gain too much on one another. Power is like the ocean, not easily admitting limits to be fixed to it. It must be in motion. Storms, indeed, are not desirable, but a long, dead calm is not to be looked for; perhaps not even to be wished for. Let us not, then, in expectation of smooth seas and an undisturbed course, too rashly venture our little vessel, that hath sailed round our own well-known shores, upon the midst of the un * Gov. Dickinson, at this time a member of the Pennsylvania Assembly, was several times afterward a member of the general Congress, and lost some popularity by opposing the Declaration of Independence, on the ground that we were not strong enough, as a people, to take such a hazardous step without more certain assurance of foreign assistance. He vindicated his patriotism, however, by being, as he himself said when attacked on the subject, the only member of Congress who marched, immediately after the Declaration, to meet the enemy! |