Large was his bounty, and his soul, sincere- He gain'd from Heav'n | (''t was all he wish'd) | 2a friend. I No farther seek his merits to disclose', Or draw his frailties from their dread abode', | (There they alike in trembling hope repose') | "The bosom of his Father, and his God. DOUGLAS'S ACCOUNT OF HIMSELF. My name is Norval; (HOME.) on the Grampian hills | My father feeds his flocks; a frugal swain | To follow to the field some warlike lord; | This moon, which rose last night, round as my shield, | The road he took: | then hasted to my friends' | We fought, and conquer'd. | Ere a sword was drawn, | The shepherd's slothful life; and, having heard | That our good king had summon'd his bold peers | THE GRAVE OF FRANKLIN. (MISS C. H. WATERMAN.) No chisell'd urn is rear'd to thee; | Where rests the patriot, and the sage.] A corner holds thy sacred clay; | And hidden oft by winter's snow- -- Whose dust it is that sleeps below,.* | That name's enough that honour'd name'| No aid from eulogy requires, :| 'Tis blended with thy country's fame, | And flashes round her lightning spires. | *The body of Franklin lies in Christ-Church burying-ground, corner of Mulberry and Fifth street, Philadelphia. The inscription upon his tomb-stone is as follows: When, in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people | to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth the separate and equal station to which the laws of nature and of nature's God entitle them, | a decent respect to the opinions of mankind | requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation. I We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights; that among these are life', lib'erty, and the pursuit of happiness; | that to secure these rights, governments are insti The Declaration of Independence was publicly read from the steps of the State-House, July 4th, 1776. b a Tráths; not truтH2. In-àl'yên-â-bl. • Güv'ûrn-mênts. tuted among men, deriving their just powers | from the consent of the governed; that whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends, | it is the right of the people to alter or abolish it, and to institute new government, laying its foundation on such principles, and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their safety and happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that governments long established | should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shown that mankind are more disposed to suffer while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accus.tomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations | pursuing invariably the same object, evinces a design to reduce them under absolute despotism, it is their right, it is their duty to throw off such government, and to provide new guards for their future security. Such has been the patient sufferance of these colonies;d and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former systems of government. The history of the present king of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object | the establishment of an absolute tyranny over these states. I To prove this, | let facts be submitted to a candid world. I He has refused his assent to laws | the most wholesome and necessary for the public good. | He has forbidden his governors to pass laws of immediate and pressing importance, unless suspended in their operation till his assent should be obtained; | and, when so suspended, he has utterly neglected to attend to them. He has refused to pass other laws | for the accommodation of large districts of people, | unless those people | a Trân’shẻ-ẻnt. b C Yu-zur-pashủnh. Dẻ-sin. d Kōl'o-něž. would relinquish the right of representation in the legislature," a right inestimable to them, and formidable to tyrants only. ] He has called together legislative bodies at places unusual, uncomfortable, and distant from the depository of their public records, for the sole purpose | of fatiguing them into compliance with his measures. ] He has dissolved representative houses repeatedly | for opposing with manly firmness | his invasions on the rights of the people. | с He has refused for a long time after such dissolutions to cause others to be elected, whereby the legislative powers, incapable of annihilation, have returned to the people at large for their exercise, the state remaining, in the mean time, exposed to all the dangers of invasion from without and convulsions within. He has endeavoured to prevent the population of these states; for that purpose obstructing the laws for naturalization of foreigners, refusing to pass others | to encourage their migrations hither, and raising the conditions of new appropriations of lands. I He has obstructed the administration of justice | by refusing his assent to laws | for establishing judiciary powers. He has made judges dependent on his will alone' | for the tenuref of their offices, and the amount, and payment of their salaries. | He has erected a multitude of new offices, and sent hither swarms of new of ficers to harass our people and eat out their substance. [ He has kept among us in times of peace' standing armies without the consent of our legislatures. He has affected to render the military independent of, and superior to the civil power. | a He has combined with others to subject us to a b Lèdž'is-là-tshůr. Dè-pòz'è-tur-ẻ. tshů-râl-e-za'shûn. • Dzu-dish'â-rè. |