I cannot, even now, persuade myself to relinquish it, without expressing once more, my deep conviction, that since it respects nothing less than the union of the states, it is of most vital and essential importance to the public happiness. I profess, sir in my career hitherto, to have kept steadily in view the prosperity and honor of the whole country, and the preservation of our Federal Union. It is to that Union we owe our safety at home, and our consideration and dignity abroad. It is to that Union we are chiefly indebted for whatever makes us most proud of our country. That Union we reached only by the discipline of our virtues in the severe school of adversity. It had its origin in the necessites of disordered finance, prostrate commerce, and ruined credit. Under its benign influences, these great interests immediately awoke, as from the dead, and sprang forth with newness of life. Every year of its duration has teemed with fresh proofs of its utility and its blessings; and although our territory has stretched out wider and wider, and our population spread farther and farther, they have not outrun its protection or its benefits. It has been to us all a copious fountain of national, social, personal happiness. I have not allowed myself, sir, to look beyond the Union, to see what might lie hidden in the dark recess behind. I have not coolly weighed the chances of preserving liberty, when the bonds that unite us together shall be broken asunder. I have not accustomed myself to hang over the precipice of disunion, to see whether, with my short sight, I can fathom the depth of the abyss below; nor could I regard him as a safe counsellor in the affairs of this government, whose thoughts should be mainly bent on considering, not how the Union should be best preserved, but how tolerable might be the condition of the people when it shall be broken up and destroyed. While the Union lasts, we have high, exciting, gratifying prospects spread out before us, for us and our children. Beyond that I seek not to penetrate the veil. God grant that in my day at least, that curtain may not rise. God grant that on my vision never may be opened what lies behind. When my eyes shall be turned to behold, for the last time, the sun in heaven, may I not see him shining on the broken and dishonored fragments of a once-glorious Union; on states dissevered, discordant, belligerent; on a land rent with civil feuds, or drenched, it may be, in fraternal blood! Let their last feeble and lingering glance, rather, behold the gorgeous ensign of the republic, now known and honored throughout the earth, still full high advanced, its arms and trophies streaming in their original lustre, not a stripe erased or polluted, nor a single star obscured bearing for its motto no such miserable interrogatory as, What is all this worth? nor those other words of delusion and folly, Liberty first, and Union afterwards; but every where, spread all over in characters of living light, blazing on all its ample folds, as they float over the sea and over the land, and in every wind under the whole heavens, that other sentiment, dear to every true American heart-Liberty and Union, now and forever, one and inseparable!

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ADLER.-A NEW DICTIONARY OF THE GERMAN AND ENGLISH LANGUAGES. Indicating the Accentuation of every German Word, containing several hundred German Synonymes; together with a Classification and Alphabetical List of the Irregular Verbs, and a Dictionary of German Abbreviations. Compiled from the works of Hilpert, Flugel, Grieb, Heyse, and others. In two parts. I. German and English; II. English and German. By G. J. ADLER, A. M., Professor of the German Language in the New-York City University. One elegant volume, of 1400 pages, large 8vo. $5.

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ADLER.-AN ABRIDGED GERMAN AND ENGLISH DICTIONARY. In Two Parts:-I. German and English. II. English and German. One volume, 12mo., of 844 pp. $1 75.

"The larger work of Adler, of which this is an abridgment, has become an authority on the German language. It is now well known and in extensive use among German scholars. In making this abridgment, the author has gone over the entire ground of the larger work again; revising, condensing, or adding, as the case might require. All provincialisms, synonymes, and strictly scientific terms, have been excluded from these pages, and every thing that might prove unnecessary, or embarrassing to beginners, or to travellers and others, for whom a smaller volume is better adapted. Some other changes have also been made, which were deemed important to render the work still more acceptable for educational purposes. It can hardly fail to become as universally approved in the sphere for which it is designed, as the larger work has been by more advanced German scholars." Courier & Enquirer.

ADLER.-A PROGRESSIVE GERMAN READER.

Prepared with reference to Ollendorff's German Grammar; with copious Notes and a Vocabulary. By G. J. ADLER. 12mo. $1.

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AGNEL.-THE BOOK OF CHESS;

Containing the Rudiments of the Game, and Elementary Analysis of the most Popular Openings, exemplified in Games actually played by the great Masters; including Staunton's Analyses of the Kings and Queens, Gammits, Numerous Positions, and Problems on Diagrams, &c. By H. R. AGNEL. With Illustrations by R. W. WEIR. 12mo. $1 25. "This will be an acceptable assistant to all beginners in the noble game which it is intended to elucidate. The preliminary instructions are well calculated for the foundation of a correct insight into its elementary principles by the novice, while the games, situations and problems will afford a profitable study to the more advanced amateur. Mr. Agnel has done the chess-playing world good service in the compilation of the work."-N. Y. Commercial Advertiser.

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AGUILAR.—THE DAYS OF BRUCE;

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AIKIN. THE WORKS OF THE BRITISH POETS,

From Chaucer to the present time. Selected and Chronologically arranged; with Biographical and Critical Notices. By Dr. AIKIN and others. 3 large vols., 8vo., with 30 fine Steel Engravings. Extra cloth, new style, $7 50; sheep, $7 50.

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AMELIA'S POEMS.-See WELBY.