right utterance, taking care to apply the Principles and General Directions.

Fourth Stanza.

Who are meant by "hero-gods"? Meaning of "sway"? Meaning of the expression, would fain have chained the waves"? Is it possible actually to chain the waves? What is it to "flesh one's blade"? What is meant by" tiger zeal " "? Show clearly the meaning of the third line. Why is it said that they "waded on "-why not "walked on"? Give clearly the meaning of the fourth line.

Give the etymology and meaning of hero, sway, fain, tiger, fiercely, waded, glory.

In what part of this stanza is the main thought? What inflection is required at the close of each of the first three lines? Why?

Fifth Stanza.

With what, if "not with love of strife," did Washington fight? To" defend" what did he "strike"? Give the meaning of the second line? Meaning of the word "turned here? What "people" is meant here? Who were guilty of "fell injustice"? What is the meaning of the last line? To what event does it refer? How long did the war here referred to continue? Between what years?

Give the etymology and meaning of defend, people, strife, country, reason, gentle, injustice, challenge.

Determine the emphasis and inflections as before.

Sixth Stanza.

Why should it be said in the first line that he "stood "? What is a "patriot"? A "sage"? Do men usually "show a deep, avenging hate "? What kind of rage is "despot rage"? Whom did he "lead on"? Was Washington famous for daring exploits? In what sense may it be said that he "daringly led on "?

Give the etymology and meaning of patriot, sage, aveng ing, despot, rage, liberty, victory. Mention some other words from the same root as sage.

Determine the emphasis and inflections as before.

Seventh Stanza.

What is a car of triumph"? What custom of what people is referred to in the first and second lines? What is implied as the cause of the "grief" named in the first line? Were the captives accustomed to "proclaim the victor chief "? What is meant by the captives being "at the wheels"? Of what "slavery" did Washington "break the gyves"? What is the meaning of the last line? Show clearly the precise thing intended, and the propriety of the comparison.

Give the etymology and meaning of triumph, city, car, captives, proclaimed, victor, chief, gyves, slavery, disdain, scepter.

It will be an interesting and valuable exercise for the teacher to frame questions upon the remaining stanzas, as well as upon other selections.

XVIII.-SYMPATHY FOR GREECE.

HENRY CLAY.

1. But we may not only adopt this measure; we may go further; we may recognize the government in the Morea, if actually independent, and it will be neither war, nor any violation of our neutrality. Beside, sir, what is Greece to the allies? A part of the dominions of any of them? By no means. Suppose the people in one of the Philippine Isles, or any other spot still more insulated and remote,- in Asia or Africa,—were to resist their former rulers, and set up and establish a new government, are we not to recognize them, in dread of the holy allies? If they are going to interfere, from the danger of the contagion of the example, here is the spot, our own favored land, where they must strike. This government, you, Mr. Chairman, and the body over which you preside, are the living and cutting reproach to allied despotism. If we are to offend them, it is not by

passing this resolution. We are daily and hourly giving them cause of war.

2. It is here, and in our free institutions, that they will assail us. They will attack us because you sit beneath that canopy, and we are freely debating and deliberating upon the great interests of freemen, and dispensing the blessings of free government. They will strike because we pass one of those bills on your table. The passage of the least of them, by our free authority, is more galling to despotic powers than would be the adoption of this so much dreaded resolution. Pass it, and what do you do? You exercise an indisputable attribute of sovereignty, for which you are responsible to none of them. You do the same when you perform any other legislative function; no less. If the allies object to this measure, let them forbid us to take a vote in the House; let them strip us of every attribute of independent government; let them disperse us.

3. Will gentlemen attempt to maintain that, on the principles of the law of nations, those allies would have cause of war? If there be any principle which has been settled for ages, any which is founded in the very nature of things, it is, that every independent state has the clear right to judge of the fact of the existence of. other sovereign powers. I admit that there may be a state of inchoate initiative sovereignty in which a new government, just struggling into being, can not be said yet perfectly to exist. But the premature recognition of such new government can give offense justly to no other than its ancient sovereign. The right of recognition comprehends the right to be informed; and the means of information must, of necessity, depend upon the sound discretion of the party seeking it. You may send out a commission of inquiry, and charge it with a provident attention to your own people and your own interests. Such will be

the character of the proposed agency. It will not necessarily follow that any public functionary will be appointed by the President. You merely grant the means by which the executive may act when he thinks proper.

4. What does he tell you in his message? That Greece is contending for her independence; that all sympathize with her; and that no power has declared against her. Pass this resolution, and what is the reply which it conveys to him? "You have sent us grateful intelligence; we feel warmly for Greece, and we grant you money, that, when you shall think it proper, when the interests of this nation shall not be jeoparded, you may depute a commissioner or public agent to Greece." The whole responsibility is then left where the constitution puts it. A member, in his place, may make a speech or proposition, the House may even pass a vote, in respect to our foreign affairs, which the President, with the whole field lying full before him, would not deem it expedient to effectuate.

5. But, sir, it is not for Greece alone that I desire to see this measure adopted. It will give to her but little support, and that purely of a moral kind. It is principally for America, for the credit and character of our common country, for our unsullied name, that I hope to see it pass. Mr. Chairman, what appearance on the page of history would a record like this exhibit? "In the month of January, in the year of our Lord and Savior, 1824, while all European Christendom beheld, with cold and unfeeling indifference, the unexampled wrongs and inexpressible misery of Christian Greece, a proposition was made in the Congress of the United States, almost the sole, the last, the greatest depository of human hope and human freedom, the representatives of a gallant nation, containing a million of freemen ready to fly to arms,

while the people of that nation were spontaneously expressing its deep-toned feeling, and the whole continent, by one simultaneous emotion, was rising, and solemnly and anxiously supplicating and invoking high Heaven to spare and succor Greece, and to invigorate her arms in her glorious cause, while temples and senate houses were alike resounding with one burst of generous and holy sympathy; in that year of our Lord and Savior, the Savior of Greece and of us, a proposition was offered in the American Congress to send a messenger to Greece, to inquire into her state and condition, with a kind expression of our good wishes and our sympathies -and it was rejected!"

6. Go home, if you can, go home, if you dare, to your constituents, and tell them that you voted it down; meet, if you can, the appalling countenances of those who sent you here, and tell them that you shrank from the declaration of your own sentiments; that you cannot tell how, but that some unknown dread, some indescribable apprehension, some indefinable danger, drove you from your purpose; that the specters of cimeters and crowns and crescents gleamed before you and alarmed you; and that you suppressed all the noble feelings prompted by religion, by liberty, by national independence, and by humanity. I cannot bring myself to believe that such will be the feeling of a majority of the committee. But, for myself, though every friend of the cause should desert it, and I be left to stand alone with the gentleman from Massachusetts, I will give to his resolution the poor sanction of my unqualified approbation.

Questions.

What is the "Morea"? Who were the "allies"? Under what government were the Philippine Islands? Was there any especial reason why educated Americans should be interested in this struggle? Why should the fact that Greece is Christian, be so frequently referred to?-are not all the European nations Christian?