these consecrated portals to admit the lengthened train, which has come to discharge the last public offices of respect to his name. You have hung these venerable arches, for the second time since their erection, with the sable badges of sorrow. You have thus associated the memory of Lafayette in those distinguished honors, which but a few years since you paid to your Adams and Jefferson; and could your wishes and mine have prevailed, my lips would this day have been mute, and the same illustrious voice which gave utterance to your filial emotions over their honored graves, would have spoken also, for you, over him who shared their earthly labors,-enjoyed their friendship, and has now gone to share their last repose, and their imperishable remembrance.

There is not, throughout the world, a friend of liberty, who has not dropped his head, when he has heard that Lafayette is no more. Poland, Italy, Greece, Spain, Ireland, the South American Republics,-every country where man is struggling to recover his birthright, has lost a benefactor, a patron, in Lafayette. But you, young men, at whose command I speak, for you a bright and particular lodestar is henceforward fixed in the front of heaven. What young man that reflects on the history of Lafayette, that sees him in the morning of his days the associate of sages,-the friend of Washington, but will start with new vigor on the path of duty and renown?

And what was it, fellow-citizens, which gave to our Lafayette his spotless fame? The love of liberty. What has consecrated his memory in hearts of good men? The love of liberty. What nerved his youthful arm with strength, and inspired him in the morning of his days, with sagacity and counsel? The living love of liberty. To what did he sacrifice power, and rank, and country, and freedom itself? To the horror of licentiousness;-to the sanctity of plighted faith ;—to the love of liberty protected by law. Thus the great principle of your revolutionary

fathers, of your pilgrim sires, the great principle of the age, was the rule of his life: The love of liberty protected by law.

You have now assembled within these celebrated walls, to perform the last duties of respect and love, on the birth day of your benefactor, beneath that roof which has resounded of old with the master voices of American renown. The spirit of the departed is in high communion with that spirit of the place; the temple worthy of the new name which we now behold inscribed on its walls. Listen, Americans, to the lessons which seem borne to us on the very air we breathe, while we perform these dutiful rites! Ye winds, that wafted the Pilgrims to the land of promise, fan, in their children's hearts, the love of freedom;-Blood, which our father's shed, cry from the ground;-Echoing arches of this renowned hall, whisper back the voices of other days ;—Glorious Washington, break the long silence of that votive canvass;-Speak, speak, marble lips, teach us THE LOVE OF

LIBERTY PROTECTED BY LAW!

EXTRACT FROM A DISCOURSE,

DELIVERED ON THE AUTHOR'S BEING INAUGURATED PRESIDENT OF AMHERST COLLEGE.

BY HEMAN HUMPHREY, D. D.

CONVENED as we are this day, in the portals of science and literature, and with their arduous heights and profound depths and Elysian fields before us, education offers itself as the inspiring theme of our present meditations. This in a free, enlightened, and christian state, is confessedly a subject of the highest moment. How can the diamond reveal its lustre from beneath incumbent rocks and earthly strata? How can the marble speak, or stand forth in all the divine 'symmetry of the human form, till it is taken from the quarry and fashioned by the hand of the artist? And how can man be intelligent, happy, or useful, without the culture and discipline of education? It is this that smooths and polishes the roughnesses of his nature. It is this, that unlocks the prison house of his mind and brings out the captive. It is the transforming hand of education, which is now, in so many heathen lands, moulding savageness and ignorance, pagan fanaticism and brutal stupidity, revenge and treachery and lust-and in short, all the warring elements of our lapsed nature, into the various forms of exterior decency, of mental symmetry, and of christian loveliness. It is educa. tion that pours light into the understanding, lays up its golden treasures in the memory, softens the asperities of the temper, checks the waywardness of passion and appe

tite, and trains to habits of industry, temperance, and benevolence. It is this which qualifies men for the pulpit, the senate, the bar, the art of healing, and the bench of justice. It is to education, to its domestic agents, its schools and colleges, its universities and literary societies, that the world is indebted for a thousand comforts and elegancies of civilized life, for almost every useful art, discovery, and invention.

In a word, education, regarding man as a rational, accountable and immortal being, elevates, expands, and enriches his mind; cultivates the best affections of his heart; pours a thousand sweet and gladdening streams around the dwellings of the poor as well as the mansions of the rich, and while it greatly multiplies and enhances the enjoyments of time, helps to train up the soul for the bliss of eternity.

How extremely important, then, is every inquiry which relates to the philosophy of the human mind-to the early discipline and cultivation of its noble powers-to the comparative merits and defects of classical books and prevailing systems of instruction-to the advantages accruing from mathematical and other abstruse studies-to the means of educating the children of the poor in our public seminaries -to the present state of science and literature in our country; and to the animating prospects which are opening before us. All these topics and many more, present themselves to the enlightened and philanthropic mind, as it looks abroad from some commanding eminence, or ranges at leisure over the wide and busy fields of human improvement. It must be obvious, however, upon a moment's reflection, that it would take many a long day to traverse a space so ample; to drink at every Castalian fountain by the way; to take the altitudes of Parnassus; to measure the steeps of science; and to see what is going forward in a thousand splendid literary halls and wonder-working laboratories. How little, then, can be done within the brief hour, which is allotted to the present exercises. Upon many very interesting objects

and enclosures we can scarcely bestow a passing glance, and can linger for a few moments only, where most we might love to dwell, or at least to sit down at our leisure and enjoy the goodly prospect.

In treating of education, we may advantageously divide the subject, into the three great branches of physical, intellectual, and moral improvement. Under these topics, we shall include all that is requisite to form a sound and healthy body, a vigorous and well stored mind, and a good heart. If the first of these, or what I choose to call the physical part of education, has not been fully overlooked, (as it certainly has not,) in our most popular systems, still it may well be questioned, whether it has yet received that degree of attention, which its immense importance demands.

Such, in our present condition, is the mysterious connexion between body and mind, that the one cannot act, except on a very limited scale, without the assistance of the other. The immortal agent must have an 'earthly house' to dwell in ; and it is essential to vigorous and healthful mental action, that this house should be well built, and that it should be kept in good repair. Now, it is the province of physical education, to erect the building, and in carrying it up to have special reference to its firmness and durability; so that the unseen tenant, who is sent down to occupy it, may enjoy every convenience, and be enabled to work to the very best advan tage.

That is undoubtedly the wisest and best regimen, which takes the infant from the cradle, and conducts him along through childhood and youth, up to high maturity, in such a manner, as to give strength to his arm, swiftness to his feet, solidity and amplitude to his muscles, symmetry to his frame, and expansion to all his vital energies. It is obvi ous, that this branch of education, comprehends not only food and clothing; but air, exercise, lodging, early rising, and whatever else may contribute to the full developement of the physical constitution.