ELEGANT EXTRACT,
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The following fine passage is extracted from a
speech of Judge Story, in the late convention OF
Massachusetts. We have rarely met with any
thing more beautiful: and the eulogy is as just
Jas the language is chasie and elegant.


"In our country, the highest man is not above
the people; the humbestis not below the people.
lIf the rich may be said to have additional pro-
Iteclion they have not additional power. Nor
docs wealth here form permanent distinction of
families. Those who are wealthy to-day, pass to
the tomb, and their children divide their estates
Property thus is divided quite as fast as it accu-
mua,es. No family can, without its own exer,
tions, stand erect for a long time under oar sta.
tute Of descent and distributions, and only true
and legitimate law. 1t silently and quietly dis
solves the mass heaped by the toll and diligence
of long life of ente erprise and industry Property
lis continually changing like waves of the sea-
one wave rises and is soon swallowed up in the
vast abyss, and is seen no more. Another arises
land having reached its destined limits falls gen
lily away. and is succeeded by yet another, which
lin its turn, breaks and dies gently on the shore


The richest man among u,, may be brought dowr
to the humblest level; and the child, with scarce


ly clothes to cover his nakcdness, may rise to the
highest office in our government; and the pool
man, while he rocks his infant on his knees, ma,


iustly indulge the consolation, that if he possesse
talents and virtue, there is no office beyond tb
,Ireach of his honorable ambition"