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Show 444 Servicec; at Concord. 'Vho hath his life from rumors frerd, 'Vhose conscience is his strong retreat, 'Vhose state can neither flatterers feed, Nor ruin make oppressors great ; - 1Vho envies none whom chance doth raise, Or vice; who never under stood How deepest wounds nrc given with prqise; Nor rules of state, but rules of good ; - This man is freed from 5ervile bnnds Of hope to rise or fear to fall ; Lord of himself, though not of lands, And having nothing, yet hath all. TACITUS.* You, Agricola, arc fortunate, not only because your life was glorious, but because your death wns timely. As they tell us who heard your last words, unchanged and willing you accepted your fate ; as if, as far as in your power, you would make the emperor appear innocent. Dut, besides the bitterness of having lost n pnreJlt, it adds to our grief, that it was not permitted us to minister to your health, . . . to gaze on your countenance, and receive your last embrace ; surely, we might have caught some words and commands which we could have treasured in the inmost part of our souls. This is our pain, this our wound. . . • You were buried with the fewer tears, and in your la t earthly light, your eyes looked around for something which they did not sec. If there is any abode for the spirits of the pious ; if, as wise men suppose, great souls arc not extinguished with the body, may you r est placidly, and call your family from weak r czretl'l, and womanly laments, to the contemplation of your virtues, which must not be lamented, either silently or aloud. Let us honor you by our admiration, rather than by short-lived prai cs, and, if nature aid us, by our emulation of you. That is true honor, that the piety of whoever is most akin to you. This also I would teach your family, so to Yencrate your memory, as to call to mind all your actions and ·words, and C'mbrace your character and the form of your soul, rather than of your body i not because I think that statues which are made of marble or brass are to be C('nrlcmned, but ns the features of men, so images of the features, nrc frail and perishable. The form of the soul is eternal; • Translated by Mr. Thoreau. Services at Concord.· 44S nncl this we cnn ·~ctain and exprcsl'l, not by n foreign material nnd nrt, but by our own hvcs. ' Vhatrver of Agricola we hnve loved, " ·hnten•r we have admired, remain , and will remain, in the minds of men, and the records of history, through the ctrrnity of ages. For oblivion will overtake many of the ancient~, as if thry were inglorious and iO'noble : Agrh:ola, described and tran~mittcd to posterity, will survive. 0 Mn. CHARLES DOWERS followed l\fr. Thoreau, and rend the celebrated protest of Thomas tldferson, author of the Declamtion of Indepcndenc<:>, tl1inl Pres i<l1•nt of the Unit •d States, a Virginian, a historian of Virginia, and the predecessor of Governor 'Vise in the gubernatorial chai r of that State; in which, it will Le seen, he seem. to have anticipat<:d something like what has lately occurred : PROTEST OF JEFli'ERSON. The whole commerce between master nncl slave is a perpetual exercise of the most boisterous passions, the mo~t unremitting drspotism on the one part, and degrading submis. ion on the other. . .. Tho man must be a prodigy who can r etain his manners and morals undepraved by such circumstance . And with what execration :;hould the statesman be loaded, who, permitting one half the ritizcns thus to trample on the rights of the other, transforms tho c into dC'. pots an.d these into enemies -destroys the morals of the one part, and the amor patrice of the other ! And can the liberties of n nation be deemed secure, when we have removed their only firm basi·- a conviction in the minrls of the people that these liber ties arc the gift of God ? that they nrc not to be violated but with his wrath? Indeed, I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just- that his justice cannot slerp forever; that, considC'ring numbers, nature nncl natural means only, a revolution of the wheel of fortunr, an exchangr of situation, is among pos ible events i that it may becomr probnble by supernatural interference ! The Almighty has no attribute that can take side with us in such a con!est. lioN. JonN S. l{EYES ~aid: In or1ler to g-ive lhis assembly a picture of the eV<·nt now taking plare in Virginia, I propose to rcau to you an aceounr of a scene in some r<:>specl' similar, which occurred in Edinburgh some two hundred years ago: 38 • |