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Among the fine passages that occur in
the able and eloquent address, recently
delivered by Henry d. Gilpin, Esq, be-
fore the Philomathean Society Of The Uni
versity of Pennsylvania, the following
will be read with pleasure:


ssDo we not love our country as child
that clings to the bosom of its parent?--i
Has she not for us charms greater than POI
cts have bestowed on the tairest portions
Of the globep. With them she can boast
her abundant hrrvests and prolific herds:
the seasons which give their lasting fa-
YOURS to her climate and her soil. With
her, ,ias with them, no monsters haunt the
caverns, no pestilence breathes upon the
gales. Bright cities liter through her
vast extent; the ocean bears to her shores
the treasures OF the world, and her rivers
widely flowing bind her together with
silver chain, the works of man are seen
upon her loftiest mountains, and in her
deepest valleys, guarding her lengthening
coasts, and adding to the benefits of natures;
her bosom teens with the richests metals,
her children are hardy. hborious and
bold; and her annals are adorned with names
mighty in war and beneficent III peace.og
0cThese indeed are the blessings which
she can Justly claim, and which have been
given, in common with her, to countries
deemed most favored in the history of
mankind. But has she not beyond all these,
what never was bestowed before; has she
not that internal happiness, tranquility and
plenty, which blesses with abundant and
easy support all classes of her children?-


She has every where diffused the light 5ol


education and knowledge, offering them


spontaneously to alp Has she not insti-
tutions where every citizen is the equal in


every political right with those around


and which are not made to depend on the


accidents Of fortune or of birth? Has she
not become the model to which the eyes o.


patriots turn; has she not that proud ant
confident bearing yielded to her among


nations in this her early youth, that 9TH
ers have been centuries in acquiring? 81
. blest, it is ours--calmly maintaining ou1


institutions with devoted patriotism, bear.


ing with partial, or local, or temporar,
ills; recollecting for what trust we have
to answer to all future times-it is our.
MOTTO thwart, TO distrust; or to d,spair q
the struggles Of those who aim at the
same objects, but to cheer them on through
good and evil report, until they presen
themselves new and perfect votaries a
the shrine Of political truth"