46. The Landing of the Pilgrim Fathers. Hemans....... 72 109. Othello's Address to the Senate.. Shakspeare.....171 112. Speech of Marino Faliero...... Byron.........175 161. Ode to Napoleon Bonaparte.....Byron. 162. Description of a Finical Courtier. Shakespeare.... .255 59. Sir Christopher and Quiz......HALL.......... 90 .155 113. Butler, Vellum, and Sir George.. Addison......176 187 128. Hardcastle and Servants Goldsmith .....199 142. The Tent Scene between Brutus and Cassius...... 160. Vellum and Butler............. Addison .......251 Shakespeare.....225 Page. 165. Williams, Splash, and Etymology. WATTERSTON...261 168. Orlando, Oliver, &c... Shakspeare.....267 169. Aufidius and Coriolanus.........Ibid..........270 178. Sir Philip Blandford and Ashfield.. Morton........285 INDEX OF AUTHORS. The names of American authors are in Italic. Addison, 31, 176, 187, 251 | Emmet, 88 No. 75 should be 74, and No. 77 should be 76. There are, therefore, two extracts less than the highest number would indicate. THE NATIONAL ORATOR. I.--THE IMPORTANCE OF THE UNION OF THE STATES.* Extract from Edmund Randolph's Speech, on the expediency of adopt. ing the Federal Constitution, delivered in the Convention of Virginia, June 6th, 1788. AFTER having heretofore attempted, Mr. Chairman, to ow, by a course of argument, the excellency of the prosed constitution; how its adoption is intimately connect. I with the continuance of the union; and how important ill be the vote of our own state to this end; I will now include with a few observations, which come from my Dart. I have labored for the continuance of the unione rock of our salvation. I believe that, as sure as there a God in heaven, our safety, our political happiness and * After the close of the revolutionary war, when there was no foreign e to unite the states together, by one grand, all-absorbing interest, it as perceived and deeply felt, by the wisest and best men throughout e land, that the old articles of confederation were weak and ineffient; unable either to preserve harmony within, or even to unite us ain in case of another attack from without. It was proposed, there. re, that each state should send delegates to Philadelphia, either to vise the old articles of confederation, or to plan and mature a new nstitution. Accordingly, in May, 1787, the delegates, chosen by their pective states, met in convention at Philadelphia, and the result of ir deliberations was our present constitution. After its adoption by convention, it was sent to the different states for ratification, and s not to be valid unless nine states should adopt it. In some of the |