I DO not arise to spread before you the fame of a noted warrior, whose natural abilities shone like those of the great and mighty phillip of Greece, or of alex ander the Great, or like those of washington, whose virtues and patriotism are engraven on the hearts of my audience Neither do I approve of war as being the best method of bowing the haughty tyrant, man, and civilizing the world. No, far from me be such a thought. But it is to bring before you beings, made by the god of Nature, and in whose hearts and heads he has planted sympathies that shall live forever in the memory of the world, whose brilliant talents shone in the display of natural things, so that the most culti vated, whose powers shone with equal lustre, were not able to prepare mantles to cover the burning elements of an uncivilized world. What, then, shall we cease to mention the mighty of the earth, the noble work of (iron?