OUR COUNTRY.
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rTbe following is the concluding portion of an Essay
delivered by d. C. MoREHEAD, Esq, OF the city oi
New York. on the first celebrahon OF the ofa'oicai
Society, April %, 845l-Organ.


But are we not great! Look back-look
back upon our history, read it on the lettered
mage, and feel it in your gushing blood /; see II
in the sparkling eye, and know it in the daunt-
less form. Look back-how bright the scene!
how glorious the actors! Trace them from
Boston Harbor, to the plains of Yorktown, to
the swamps OF Carolina, to the field OF New
Orleans, and to the waters Of Lake Erie. What
cause so holy-what victory SO snblime-what
inheritance so sacred as our own! Look at 1t
now. Prosperity smiles, and Plenty laughs
aloud; the grain waves golden in the ripening
sun, the fruits hang mellow on the loaded
branches; Trade presses onward healthful and
secure, Commerce rides triumphant, whitening
every sea, Peace reigns, Education fiourishes,
Science advances, Religion exalts, and Happi.
ness ahounds Freedom invites an asylum to
the oppressed of other less favored lands. Our
Eagle hovers over them, and our flag protects
them We offer to all the boon of honest labor,
and industry never fails of its reward. Poverty
need be but known in name, and native pauper
would be natural curiosity! Are we not then
great great in true greatness! honest IN pur-
pose free in action, sincere in patriotism Let
us cherish these with watchful vigilance, Tor
we have our part to play, our duties to accom-
pish. Let us nurse and cherish them till our
country shall become


ssThe pride and pattern of the earth;


Till younger CommOnwealths tor AID
Shall cling around her ample robe;


And from her frown shall shrink afraid
The crowned oppressors Of the globe.


But in our freedom and our greatness, let US
never forget what the one has cost, and the
price Of the other; that to preserve them pure,
we must practice moderation and eternal vigi-
lance. The way is clear, the path is plain. the
issue certain. If we but follow the dictates Of
experience, the precepts of exalted worth; If
we can but forget party for principle, cherish
virtue, reward only the deserving, trusting
always in Him who rules the destiny Of Nations,
and whose bounty has been so liberal TO us,
there is no fear for the result and we shall 60
on, prospering and to prosper-be President
who may, and be our name "Alleghania," or
anything else. ef