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will enhance their value. They shall remain the annual 

 theme of the Orator ; the Statesman's study and sublim- 

 est displays. And when peace and plenty, wealth and 

 happiness, shall have saturated every region of this vast 

 community, and placed every man in tranquillity under 

 his " own vine and his own fig-tree," then shall some 

 new Phoenix of a modern Mantua arise to celebrate, in 

 splendid verse, that golden age. No modern Augustus 

 shall be the object of the Poet's homage. No ! The an- 

 nals of the land shall never be marked by such degenera- 

 cy. But he shall inscribe his lays to the immortal Chiejsy 

 Sages and Patriots, who have guided the destinies of this 

 free and glorious nation. He shall recount their virtues, 

 their toils and their sacrifices. He shall consecrate his 

 verse to erect an imperishable monument to the Bene- 

 factors OF THE Country. And in recounting the 

 distinguished names that shall have given splendor to his- 

 tory and hapi:>iness to man, the votaries of " the God of 

 the Harvests" shall receive a full tribute of grateful hom- 

 age and of elevated renown in the Temple of Fame. 



