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innocent indulgence, which is reserved alone for the " sitter under 

 his own vine, and his own fig-tree." 



What public advantages may be derived from the admission of the 

 Jew into the full rights of the Constitution must be decided by the 

 future. But some good must result from turning into the various and 

 nobler channels of the Commonwealth the powers which have been 

 hitherto so rigorously and successfully exercised in the most unpopular 

 one. That for a long period the chief pursuit of the Jew will be 

 trade, and chiefly that branch of trade in which his foreign connexions 

 and personal knowledge give him such peculiar advantages, we cannot 

 doubt. But we can as little doubt, that by degrees the passion for mere 

 accumulation will be superseded by the more generous enjoyments of 

 wealth ; that the Jew, feeling himself a citizen, will feel a growing gra- 

 tification in contributing to the good and honour of his country ; and 

 that, among the rising generation, there will be found individuals not 

 insensible to the noble stimulants of public and patriotic life. Genius is 

 impartially distributed among the sons of men, and probably many a 

 powerful mind may have been buried in the routine of the counting- 

 house, or many a " fine spirit, finely touched," may have wanted only 

 the ft occasions clear" for the spreading of a wing which was fettered 

 and unplumed by the consciousness of exclusion. But let the results be 

 what they may, the true question with us is one of Duty ! To give the 

 Jew every freedom from personal or public injury is the dictate of our 

 Faith. We rejoice to see that the measure is about to be brought for- 

 ward in a substantial shape in the Legislature. We can anticipate no 

 rational objection to it in politics ; we unhesitatingly disavow all re- 

 sistance to it on the ground of religion. In its success we shall congratu- 

 late the Jew on the acquisition of a just claim ; we shall still more 

 congratulate the Christian on the triumph of the unsullied principles of 

 Christianity ! 



THE MARCH OE INTELLECT, 



HAIL ! thou March of Intellect ! 

 Dear to every vagrant sect ; 

 Dear to all the New Light School- 

 Compound rich of knave and fool ! 

 Dear to all " feelosophers" 

 Asses of supremest ears ! 

 Dear to every rambling scribe, 

 Roving Southward for his bribe ! 

 Dear to all the race of Macs, 

 (With their fortunes on their backs) ! 

 Dear to all the Irish O's, 

 Bursting out their patriot prose ! 

 Scot unbreeched, unshod Milesian, 

 Coming, like the old Ephesian, 

 By the dagger or the flame, 

 Seeking a short cut to fame. 



Hail ! thou March of Intellect ! 

 Brougham will ne'er thy praise neglect, 

 While he lords it o'er the geese, 

 (Sage at sixpences a piece), 



