From the Ner England GALAXY.


MASONRY.
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This is emphatcally the season OF Orations. We
know not when the public have been favored--aye,
favored, with many rich and elegant and SEN
sible productions in the way of orations,-or poti-
cal and civil sermons, which are much the same
thing. Public dinners, on great and uncommon oc-
casons, have elected speeches, and the annual re-
turn OF certain festivals, elections, and merry meet
ings, have been the means of producing dscourses,
which, to speak mercanely, are of quality a
shade or two higher than those in the market last
year. TO continue our metaphor.-vile as it is


quote SpSgue's (Wm. b. Election Sermon,
Fro hingham's Artillery Election Discourse, Web
ser's Bunker Hill Address, and Charles Sprague's