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THE POPULAR EDUCATOR. 



Note and Exception. " Words and phrases of address." 



Listen, Americans, to the lesson which seems borne to us on the 

 very air we breathe, while we perform these dutiful rights. Ye winds, 

 that wafted the pilgrims to the laud of promise, fan, in their children's 

 hearts, the love of freedom ! Blood which our fathers shed, cry from 

 the ground ; echoing arches of this renewed hall, whisper back the 

 voices of other days ; glorious Washington ! break the long silence of 

 that votive canvas ; speak, speak, marble lips : teach us THE LOVE OF 



LIBERTY PROTECTED BY LAW ! 



Rule 3. Note. " Poetic series." 



Power, will, sensation, memory, failed in turn. 

 Oh ! the dread mingling, iu that awful hour, 

 Of all terrific sounds ! the savage tone 

 Of the wild horn, the cannon's peal, the shower 

 Of hissing darts, the crash of walls o'erthrown, 

 The deep, dull, tambour's beat ! 



All the while, 



A ceaseless murmur from the populous town, 

 Swells o'er these solitudes ; a mingled sound 

 Of jarring wheels, and iron hoofs that clash 

 Upon the stony ways, and hammer clang, 

 And creak of engines lifting ponderous bulks, 

 And calls and cries,* and tread of eager feet 

 Innumerable, hurrying to and fro. 



Onward still the remote Pawnee and Mandan will beckon, whither 

 tho deer are flying, and the wild horse roams, where the buffalo ranges, 

 and the condor soars, far towards the waves where the stars plunge 

 at midnight, and amid which bloom those ideal scenes for the perse- 

 cuted savage, where white men will murder no more for gold,* nor 

 startle the game upon the sunshine hills. 



Rule 4. " Questions which may be answered by Yes or No." 



Has not the patronage of peers increased ? Is not the patronage 

 of India now vested in the crown ? Are all these innovations to be 

 made to increase the influence of the executive power; and is nothing 

 to be done in favour of tho popular part of the constitution, to act as 

 a counterpoise ? 



Your steps were hasty ; did you speed for nothing? 

 Your breath is scanty ; was it spent for nothing ? 

 Your looks imply concern; concern for nothing ? 



Exception. " Emphasis." 



Tell me not of the honour of belonging to a free country, I ask, 

 does our liberty bear generous fruits t 



Was there a village or a hamlet on Massachusetts Bay, which did 

 not gather its hardy seamen to man the gun-decks of your ships of 

 war ? Did they not rally to the battle, as men flock to a feast ? 



Is there a man among you, so lost to his dignity and his duty, as 

 to withhold his aid at a moment like this? 



Rule 5. "Penultimate Inflection." 



All is doubt, distrust,* and disgrace ; and, in this instance, rely on 

 it, that the certain and fatal result will be to make Ireland hate the 

 connection, contemn the councils of England and despise her power. 



I am at a loss to reconcile the conduct of men, who, at this 

 moment, rise up as champions of the East India Company's charter ; 

 although the incompetence of that company to an adequate discharge 

 of the trust deposited in them, are themes of ridicule and contempt to 

 all the world ; and although, in consequence of their mismanagement, 

 connivance, and imbecility, combined with the wickedness of their 

 servants, the very name of an Englishman is detested, even to a pro- 

 verb, through all A'sia; and the national character is become disgraced 

 and dishonoured. 



It will be the duty of the historian and the sage, in all ages, to 

 omit no occasion of commemorating that illustrious man ; and, till 

 time shall be no more, will a test of the progress which our race made 

 in wisdom and in virtue, be derived from the veneration paid to the 

 immortal name of Washington. 



Exception. " Emphasis." 



Let us bless and hallow our dwellings as the homes of freedom. 

 Let us make them, too, the homes of a nobler freedom, of freedom 



* The penultimate inflection of a concluding series, or of a clause 

 that forms perfect sense, is the same in kind with that which precedes 

 a period, except in verse and poetic prose, which, in long passages of 

 great beauty, retain the suspensive slide. 



from vice, from evil passion, from every corrupting bondage of the 

 soul! 



If guilty, let us calmly abide the results, and peaceably submit to 

 our sentence; but if we are traduced, and really be innocent, tell 

 ministers the truth tell them they are tyrants; and strain every 

 effort to averb their oppression. 



Heaven has imprinted in the mother's face something beyond this 

 world, something which claims kindred with the skies, the angelic 

 smile, the tender look, the waking-, watchful eye, which keeps its fond 

 vigil over her slumbering babe. In the heart of man lies this lovely 

 picture ; it lives in his sympathies ; it reigns in his affections ; his eye 

 looks round, in vain, for such another object on earth. 



Falling Inflection. 

 Rule 1. "Intensive downward slide." 



Up ! all ye who loVe me ! BLOW on BLOW ! 

 And lay the outlawed felons Low ! 



" MACGREGOB ! MACGRfiGOR ! " he bitterly cried. 



ON ! countrymen, ON ! for the day, 

 The proud day of glory, is come ! 



To ARMS ! gallant Frenchmen, to ARMS ! 



Oh ! SHAME on us, countrymen, shame on us ALL ! 

 If we cringe to so dastard a race ! 



TREMBLE, ye traitors ! whose schemes 



Are alike by all parties abhorred, 

 TREMBLE ! for, roused from your parricide dreams, 



Ye shall soon meet your fitting reward ! 



Rule 2. "Full" falling inflection, in the cadence of a sen- 

 tence. 



The changes of the year impart a colour and character to our 

 thoughts and feelings. 



To a lover of nature and of wisdom, the vicissitude of seasons con- 

 veys a proof and exhibition of the wise and benevolent contrivance of 

 the Author of all things. 



He who can approach the cradle of sleeping innocence without 

 thinking that " of such is the kingdom of heaven," or see the fond 

 parent hang over its beauties, and half retain her breath, lest she 

 should break its slumbers, without a veneration beyond all common 

 feeling,- is to be avoided in every intercourse of life, and is fit only for 

 the shadow of darkness, and the solitude of the desert. 



Exception. " Modified cadence." 



This monument is a plain shaft. It bears no inscription, fronting 

 the rising sun, from which the future antiquarian shall wipe the dust. 

 Nor does the rising sun cause tones of music to issue from its summit. 

 But at the rising of the sun, and at the setting of the sun, in the blaze 

 of noon-day, and beneath the milder effulgence of lunar light, it speaks, 

 it acts, to the full comprehension of every British mind, and the 

 awakening of glowing enthusiasm in every British heart. 



I speak not to you, sir, of your own outcast condition. You 

 perhaps delight in the perils of martyrdom. I speak not to those 

 around me, who, in their persons, their substance, and their families, 

 have endured the torture, poverty, and irremedial dishonour. They 

 may be meek and hallowed men, willing to endure. 



The foundation on which you have built your hopes, may seem to 

 you deep and firm. But the swelling flood, and the howling blast, and 

 the beating rain, will prove it to be but treacherous sand. 



Rule 3. " Moderate " falling inflection, of complete sense. 



Joy is too brilliant a thing to be confined within our own bosoms : 

 it burnishes all nature, and, with its vivid colouring, gives a kind of 

 factitious life to objects without sense or motion. 



When men are wanting, we address the animal creation; and, rather 

 than have none to partake our feelings, we find sentiment iu the music 

 of birds, the hum of insects, and the lowing of kine ; nay, we call 

 on rocks and streams and forests to witness and share our emotions. 



I have done my duty : I stand acquitted to my conscience and 

 my country : I have opposed this measure throughout ; and I now 

 protest against it, as harsh, oppressive, uncalled for, unjust, as esta- 

 blishing an infamous precedent, by retaliating crime against crime,-- 

 as tyrannous, cruelty and vindictively tyrannous. 



Exception. " Plaintive expression." 



I see the cloud and the tempest near, 

 The voice of the troubled tide I hear; 

 The torrent of sorrow, the sea of grief, 

 The rushing waves of a wretched life. 



No deep-mouthed hound the hunter's haunt betrayed, 

 No lights upon the shore or waters played ; 



