as it is 10 our national independence and civil liberties, to our prosperity, happiness, and improvement. If, indeed, we desire

 to behOld a Literature like that, which has sculptured, with such energy of expression,

 which has painted so faithfully and vivid- ly, the crimes, the vices, the follics of an-

 cient and modern Europe: if we desire 1 that our Iatid should furnish for the orator and ihc novelist, for the painter and the

 poet, age afer age, the wild and romantic scenery If war; she g!ittering march of ar

 mics and the reyelry of the camp; the shrieks and .blasphemies and all the hor- TOTS of the battlefield; :; the dcsolation of { the harvest, and the burning cottage; the l storm, the sack, and the ruin of cities Ii we desire to unchain the furious passions of jealousy aiid selfishness, of hatred, revenge and ambition, those lions, that now sleep \ hacnlless in their den. If we desire, that

 the lake, the river, the ocean, should blush

 with the blood of brothers that the winds should wait from the land to the sea, from

 the sea to the land, the roar and the smoke

 of battle 1; that the very nlonntairl-tots

 should become altars for the sacrifice Of { brothers; if we desire that these, and such

 as theSeA-ihe clements to an incredible

 extent, of the Literature of the old woyld-. should be the elements of our Literature, then, hut then only, let us llurl from its pedestal the ma jes,ic statue of our union, and scatter its fragments over all the land. But, if we cnvet for our country the noe blcst, purcst, loveliest Literature, the world has ever seen, such Literature as shall honor God, and bless Mankind; Litem- ture, whose smiles migb. play upon an An- gels face, whose tears would not stain an Angels check ; then let us cling to the union of these States, with patriots love, with scholars enthusiasm, with chris- tian's hope. In her heavenly character, as holocaust self-sacrifce to God; at the height of her glory, as the ornament of free. educated, peaceful, christian people, American Literature wiU find that thc in- tetlt ct"al spirit is her very tree of tife, and that union, her garden cf paradise