The person of Joseph Hewes was elegant, his countenance open and intelligent, his manners pleasing and polished, his whole course honorable and just. He would have been a good man had there been no Heaven to gain or misery to shun. He practised virtue for its intrinsic worth--not to gain the applause of men. It was not a cloak for him--it emanated from the inmost recesses of his pure heart. With such men to guide our ship of state our UNION is safe. THOMAS HEYWARD. Man, to understand and correctly estimate the magnitude and design, of his creation, must become familiar with the thousand springs of the undying spirit within him. The labyrinthian mazes of the immortal mind must be explored and traced from earth to native heaven. The depths of human nature must be sounded and its channels clearly marked. Upon the axis of reason revolving thought performs its endless circuit with mathematical precision guided by the centripetal force of sound discretion--or it is projected from its legitimate orbit by the centrifugal power of random folly into the regions of senseless vacuity or visionary sophistry. Its ceaseless motion is as perpetual as the purple stream of our arteries--its momentum is inconceivable--its tenure--ETERNITY. It travels through space with more celerity than lightning--its earthly career can be arrested only by death. To reflect, investigate, reason, analyze--is the province of our intellectual powers. To comprehend the grand and harmonious organic structure of nature--the wisdom of the great Architect of universal worlds--the relation man bears to his God and his fellow man--is to learn that human beings are endowed by their Creator with equal and inalienable rights and that they are in duty bound to maintain them. Justice marks out the golden path, reason leads the way--patriotism impels to action. The man whose mind is cast in the mould of wisdom by the almighty hand of the great Jehovah--if he brings into proper exercise the combined powers of intellectual and physical force, can never be made a pliant slave. As his soul is expanded by the genial rays of intelligence he duly appreciates his native dignity, becomes enraptured with the blessings of LIBERTY--resolves to be free. If he is groaning under the oppressions of tyranny and wears the galling chains of servility--as light shines upon him he will be roused to a mighty effort to burst the ignominious thongs that bind him--assert his inherent rights--assume his proper sphere.