the servants of men!] to be the last words of our expiring liberty.” The political works of this great man have been diligently suppressed, and his political fame traduced; while they, who could not deny him merit, have been busy before the world in lauding him as a poet, thinking thus to lead men off from a knowledge of that wherein consisted his true greatness. We question much whether the dullest mind could read these books now, without being roused and filled with enthusiasm for this apostle of liberty, and for his cause. In them he nobly vindicates the people and their rights. “The Good Old Cause,” as he calls it, warms him up, and he writes with an exulting energy that would make your blood gush with delight. His opinions were not the distempered thoughts of a factionist. He never allowed his feelings to be warped by a selfish regard for party advancement. He knew no party, but generously devoted his whole soul to the cause of his country, and in defense of the rights of mankind. In his old age his greatest glory was, that he had always written and spoken openly in defense of liberty and against slavery. The truths which he wrote in his matured years, as applying to the condition of his unfortunate country, were but repetitions of the faith of his youth, as he had powerfully expressed it in his Comus. “Impostor, do not charge most innocent Nature, As if she would her children should be riotous With her abundance; she, good cateress, Means her provision only to the good, That live according to her sober laws, And holy dictates of spare temperance: If every just man, that now pines with want, Had but a moderate and beseeming share Of that which lewdly pampered luxury Now heaps upon some few with vast excess, Nature’s full blessings would be well dispens’d, In unsuperfluous even proportion, And she no whit encumbered with her store: And then the giver would be better thanked, His praise due paid; for swinish gluttony Ne’er looks to heaven amidst his gorgeous feast But with besotted, base ingratitude, Crams and blasphemes his feeder.”