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 VAREE'h'Y.

ELOQ LENT EXTRACT
 From AIr. Mercer's Speech in the Virgin

 Ia Convention on the basis of represen-

 fatien.

 The eqality of man is written on his aeagt and stamped upon his visage, by sshe Author of his heinz after whose ssexpress image he was made" While other animals look to earth,

 0s hemini sublime dedit ad sidera tollere

 yultus.

 lis rights spring from his wants, and these from God, the author Of bis nature. He cannot exist out of society, because society is essential to his existence. His first relations are those of husband and father. That period, which in other animals is short of dependence on parents care, is in man protraeted for pnrpo-es the most beniiceht. The in- iaat gathers his first instructions from his mothers lap. His best virtues he imbibes from d fathers care, and a-nother's tenderness. When age over takes the parent, the son repays with kindness the kindness he has received. If the crutch drops from the feeble grasp of his sire, he picks it up and re- stores it to its trembling hand. patr- 3 otism is but filial love enlarged. When we think of our country, we dwell on tho memory of our early years, on the forms of those who gave us our being and watched over its imbecility. When slley are gone, we revisit their remains. and from the unconscious urn inbibe anew the inspiration of their virtues.-- Does not the savage cherish these affec- tions? The Tartar wanders over the interminable plains of Asia, from cline to cline, acconanied by his tloclys and herds; the Indian of America roanls through forests yet more wild, but they revisit the ton1bs of their progenitoTs, and recount to their children the story of their deeds.

 Are not these natural affections at the. foundation of all the moral rights and : duties of man: Sympathy, is il not as natural to man as to the gregarious ani- n1als which he gathers around hima- Out of these feelings spring the ele- snents soE Society. Is there no proper ty known to the savage life? Even the bird defends her nest, as the lion does his den; the former with less vigor, but with equal zeal. ne hunter decorates his cave with the tcr of the animal he aas.kiiied; and stores away in time of plenty the provisions which season of want may require. lie has his own bow and arrows for the mountain deer; and when lie approaches the water side, his canoe and spear for the fnny tribe. En contempt of danger armed with rude instruments, he traycrses the land and the water under the influence of the same feelings which prompts the civil ized man to build permanent hahita- lions, to till the land, and to lay np the fruits of autumn for the necessities o. winter. How can labor and property : be separated? Property is at once the fruit and the spring of labor. The an- fhor of the Essay on the Human Under standing, in the treatise on civil govern nent, tells us emphatically that he means 5y property to denote the life, lib- erty, and all the possessions of man.