NAPOLEON'S TOMB. _Written by_ HON. ROBERT J. WALKER (_then a student_) _in 1821, on hearing of the death of Napoleon_. See where amid the Ocean's surging tide A little island lifts its desert side, Where storms on storms in ceaseless torrents pour, And howling billows lash its rocky shore-- There lies Napoleon in his island tomb: Nations combined to antedate his doom. Mars nursed the infant in a thundercloud, France gave him empire, Britain wrought his shroud. Danger and glory claimed him as their own, And Fortune marked him as her favorite son; Science seemed dozing in eternal sleep, And superstition brooded o'er the deep; Black was the midnight of the human soul, Such Gothic darkness shrouds the icy pole: Napoleon bade his conquering legions pour The blaze of battle on from shore to shore: Though blood and havoc marked the victor's way, Blest Science shed her genial ray. Betrayed, not conquered, round the hero's sleep The Arts shall mourn, and Genius vigil keep. THE DESTINY OF THE AFRICAN RACE IN THE UNITED STATES. Many persons may be disposed to receive with a large share of scepticism the affirmation that there is an aspect of the 'negro question,' which has not, within the last thirty years of ceaseless agitation, undergone a thorough discussion. Yet such an assertion would be perfectly true. There is one side of that question, at which, during all the fierce excitements of the time, we have scarcely looked; and which many, even those who have taken an active and leading part in the controversy, have not carefully studied. The morality of our system of slavery has been fully and thoroughly discussed, and may be considered as finally and forever settled, in the judgment of all right-minded and impartial men throughout Christendom. It may henceforth be taken as the _consensus omnium gentium_, that men and women, with their children and their children's children forever, cannot rightfully be made, by human laws, chattels personal and articles of merchandise. The economy of slavery has been discussed. Its relations to wealth, to industry, to commerce, manufactures, and the arts, as well as to education, public intelligence, and public morals, are so well understood, that it is not probable that the efforts even of Jefferson Davis, or the whole 'Southern confederacy,' with the aid of such transatlantic allies as the London _Times_, will be able, in respect to such matters as these, to change or even to unsettle the judgment of mankind.