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One Of James Madison's last acts.
shortly before he died, Says the Dem
ocratic Review } was to pen the follow
ing patriotic aspiration. Let it be lis.
tened to as voice. from the tomb and
be treasured up as an invaluable leg
acy:


ADVICE TO MY CouNTRY.-As this ad-
vice, if it ever see the light, will not dc
it till ! am no more, it may be consid
cred as issuing from the tomb, where
truth alone can be respected, and the
happiness of man consulted. 1t will
be entitled, therefore, to whatever
weight can be derived from good intcn-
tions, and from the experience of one
who has served his country in various
stations through period of forty years,
who cspoused in his youth, and adhcr-
cd through life to the cause Of its liber-
ty, and who has borne part in most
of the good transactions which will con
stitute epochs Of its destiny.


"The advice nearest to my heart
and deepest in my conviction is, that
the Union of the States be cherished
and perpctuated. Let the avowcd enc
my TO it be regarded as a Pandora with
her box opened, and the disguised one
as the serpent creeping with deadly
wiles into Paradise"