the whole theatre of human nature does not exhibit a more august spectacle than a number of freemen in dependence upon Heaven, mutually binding themselves to encounter every difficulty and danger in support of their native and constitutional rights, and for transmitting them holy and unviolated to their posterity.

It was this principle that inspired the heroes of ancient times; that raised their names to the summit of renown, and filled all succeeding ages with their unspotted praise. It is this principle too that must animate your conduct, if you wish your names to reach future generations, conspicuous in the roll of glory; and so far as this principle leads you, be prepared to follow, whether to life or to death.

While you profess yourselves contending for liberty, let it be with the temper and dignity of freemen, undaunted and firm, but without wrath or vengeance, so far as grace may be obtained to assist the weakness of nature. Consider it as a happy circumstance, if such a struggle must have happened, that God hath been pleased to postpone it to a period when our country is adorned with men of enlightened zeal; when the arts and sciences are planted among us to secure a succession of such men-when our morals are not far tainted by luxury, profusion or dissipation— when the principles that withstood oppression in the brightest era of the English history, are ours as it were by peculiar inheritance; and when we stand upon our own ground, with all that is dear around us. animating us to every patriotic exertion. Under such circumstances and upon such principles, what wonders, what achievements of true glory, have not been performed?

For my part, I have long been possessed with a strong and even enthusiastic persuasion, that Heaven has great and gracious purposes toward this continent, which no human power or human device shall be able finally to frustrate. Illiberal or mistaken plans of policy may distress us for a while, and perhaps sorely check our growth; but if we maintain our own virtue; if we cultivate the spirit of liberty among our children; if we guard against the snares of luxury, venality and corruption, the genius of America will still rise triumphant, and that with a power at last too mighty for opposition. This country will be free-nay, for ages to come a chosen seat of freedom, arts, and heavenly knowledge, which are now either drooping or dead in most countries of the old world.

To conclude, since the strength of all public bodies, under God, consists in their union; bear with each other's infirmities, and even varieties of sentiments, in things not essential to the main point. The tempers of men are cast in various moulds. Some are quick and feelingly alive in all their mental operations, especially those which relate to their country's weal, and are therefore ready to burst forth into flame upon every alarm. Others again, with intentions alike pure, and a clear unquenchable love of their country, too steadfast to be damped by the mists of prejudice, or, worked into conflagration by the rude blasts of passion, think it their duty to weigh consequences, and to deliberate fully upon the probable means of obtaining public ends. Both these kinds of men should bear with each other; for both are friends to their country.

One thing further let me add, that without order and just subordination there can be no union in public

bodies; however much you may be equals on other occasions, yet all this must cease in an united and associated capacity; and every individual is bound to keep the place and duty assigned him by ties far more powerful over a man of virtue and honor, than all the other ties which human policy can contrive. It had been better never to have lifted a voice in your country's cause, than to betray it by want of union; or to leave worthy men, who have embarked their all for the common good, to suffer or to stand unassisted.

Lastly, by every method in your power, and in every possible case, support the laws of your country. In a contest for liberty, think what a crime it would be to suffer a freeman to be insulted or wantonly injured in his liberty, so far as by your means it may be prevented.

Thus animated and thus acting, we may then sing with the prophet: "Fear not, O land! be glad and rejoice, for the Lord will do great things. Be not afraid, ye beasts of the field, for the pastures of the wilderness do spring. The tree beareth her fruit, the fig-tree and the vine yield their fruit."

Thus animated and thus acting, we may likewise pray with the prophet: "O Lord, be gracious unto us, we have waited for thee. Be thou our arm every morning, our salvation also in time of trouble. Some trust in chariots and some in horses, but we will remember the name of the Lord our God. O thou hope of Israel, the Saviour thereof in time of need; thou art in the midst of us, and we are called by thy name. Leave us not. Give us one heart and one way, that we may fear thee forever, for the good of ourselves and our children after us. We looked for peace, but

no good came; and for a time of health, but behold we are in trouble. Yet will we trust in the Lord forever; for in the Lord Jehovah is everlasting strength. He will yet bind up the broken-hearted, and comfort those that mourn;" even so, O our God, do thou comfort and relieve them, that so the bones which thou hast broken may yet rejoice. Inspire us with a high and commanding sense of the value of our constitutional rights; may a spirit of wisdom and virtue be poured down upon us all; and may our representatives, those who are delegated to devise and appointed to execute public measures, be directed to such as thou in thy sovereign goodness shall be pleased to render effectual for the salvation of a great empire, and reuniting all its members in one sacred bond of harmony and public happiness! Grant this, O Father, for thy son Jesus Christ's sake; to whom, with thee and the Holy Spirit, one God, be glory, honor and power, now and forever! Amen.

JOHN JOACHIM ZUBLY.

THIS distinguished man was born at Saltzburg, in Switzerland. He arrived in America in 1760, and became the first minister of the Presbyterian church in Savannah, where he preached to an English and German congregation, in their respective languages, and sometimes to another congregation in French. He possessed a vigorous mind, and was a man of erudition and piety. At the commencement of the revolution he took an active part with the sons of liberty, and in 1775 became a member of the first Provincial Congress of Georgia. In this position he exercised a marked influence. He strongly advo

cated colonial liberty, and as strongly discountenanced the independence of the colonies. He was appointed a member of the Continental Congress, but differing with most of that body upon the subject of a separation from the crown, he suddenly left Philadelphia, and became an earnest advocate of the English ministry. He was accused of treasonable correspondence with Sir James Wright, and, on his return to Savannah, to avoid the indignation of the people, he was for some time concealed in the cellar of a whig lady friend.

In the ministry, Doctor Zubly labored with the