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have great bearing upon our future happiness or
misery as a nation. Sure we want not courage
to the task2 We have before measured swords
with our adversary and foiled her in the fieldl
The heights of Charlestown where the American
eagle rode triumphant over the bloody outset of
the revolution, and the plains of Princeton, where
it sat perched upon the British standard will ever
testify the yaloT of Americans. Never then let
the curse of cowardiee fallon our heads Never!
Let it be said our fathers bled and died for our
birth-rights, and we were too base to defend them
Never let it be said that In this land where free
dom found an asylum from the despots of Europe
we were wanting in virtue to protect it. No, new
er


"And Icould rehearse deeds of valor in this
present acar, that ought to inspire US with conf
dence. The achievements of our gallant little ma
wv have surpassed our most sanguine expectations
The skill and intrepidity of our tars in every en-
gagement have confounded their adversaries the
superiority of orr n1GnGwrring and the despatch
of the victory have forever broke the charm of her
naval invincibiliy, Hersproud pretensions have
been humbled, her selsibility wounded to the
quick In all the warfares she has ever been en-
gaged-ths she appears to dole over as the most
Fgrievous and lamentable; yeai she mourns and
grieves as mother over her lost child.S


"To be sure our prospects have been darkened
on land, but this is no cause to despair. To con-
tend Win an enemy veteran IN dlSclpllne anu eS-
perience, allied with savage people. sanguinary
in mode of warfare peculiar for its dreadful fea-
lures of atrocity and that conducted in manner
hardly attainable in the practice of civilized ma
tions; seated too in the nterninable wilds of our
northern frontiers, remote fiom assistance and sup
plos-required preparation we have too severe
Ily f5lt the want of, hence armies have met
with defeat; but such shall not long be the case
when time shall have given us experience and
pre- Paraton, we people fertile in resources and
vigorous in constitution, if united must meet with
success"