Excerpt from An Address: Delivered at North-Yarmouth, April 28, 1830, Before the Cumberland Co. Temperance Society

Ova country has often been represented as movin on without impediment to unparalleled greatness and g ory. Nature has spread before her population an inviting and quickly occupied field for enterprize. Every thirty yea is doubling our population, and our cultivated territory. Our rowing navy rides in triumph on the ocean, our merc ant ships traverse every sea, and spread the banner of stripes and stars in every port of the world. Our forms' of government have furnished a model for a whole conti nent, our power is feared, and our character known and respected, every where. We are the cradle of liberty, arts and science. The world looks on with interest, le gitimate governments are jealous of our influence, they court our favor, and quail before the swelling tide of our prosperity.

Such, and more, has been the language of those, who have based our durability and greatness as a nation on the slippery foundations alone of wealth, and rapid in crease, and successful military achievements. Imagina tion has thrown a broad stream of strong light far along the pathway of our destinies, and left no 8 te for shade. Fancy, in painting the future, loves to com ine in the pic ture the beautiful and the grand. But the occasion to night calls na to a difl'erent task. It is not safe to be so dazzled with the splendid circumstances of our condition, as to be blind to its dangers. And who can be so blind as not to see, that those elements of national greatness, which have commanded so much admiration, if not con trolled and directed by virtuous principle, are the mate rials, not of our preservation, but of our destruction? Our theory indeed on this sub'eet has always been oor reot. The maxim in on every hody's tongue, that know].

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