I shed the warm tear still for thee, Friend of boyhood infancy; And memory delights to view The sunny haunts our childhood knew. Thy form in midnight's hallow'd sleep Comes back, its promis'd vow to keep; But ah! too soon the visions end That image thee! my boyhood friend. Long I've wept for thee in sorrow! Long I've vainly striv'd to borrow The thought that life doth still remain To bring thee back to me again. And years have fled away with me, Since thou wert shrouded in the sea; Since thou wert laid beneath the foam You lov'd to call your only home. And thou art now beneath its breast, In the deep coral grave of rest; And long the wave will kiss the shore That thou wilt visit—never more! But when from the deep, rocky bed The sea gives up its mighty dead, We'll meet where ocean cannot part The feeling and the faithful heart. Till then, sleep on in thy ocean grave, And long I'll love the murm'ring wave Because it comes from the distant sea, To whisper something still of thee! _Alabama, Oct. 1836_. RIGHT OF INSTRUCTION. Hulc legi nec abrogari fas est, neque derogari ex hac aliquid licet, neque tota abrogari potest: nec vero aut per senatum aut per populum solui hac lege possumus: neque est quaerendus explanator aut interpres eius alias; nec erit alia lex Romae, alia Athenis; alia nunc, alia posthac; sed et omnes gentes (nostri Reipublicæ) et omni tempore una lex et sempiterna et immutabilis continebit. _De Republica_. Si a jure decedus, vagus eris, et erunt omnia omnibus incerta. _Coke_. Rerum ordo confunditur si unicuique jurisdictio non servetur. _Id: Proem 4th Institute_. A disposition to conclude my side of this subject in a single essay, caused me to obtrude myself at an unreasonable length upon the readers of the Messenger, in the last number. Nothing could have induced me to trespass again, but the introduction of new matter by JUDGE HOPKINSON, which requires consideration even more imperiously than his first letter, both from its intrinsic importance, and the respect due to his more deliberate investigation; and the belief that, though but the ghost of a champion against an accomplished knight, my previous occupancy may keep more worthy combatants from the field. The Judge reiterates again and again his singular idea of the _novelty_ of our doctrines. He says “politicians of a later date are its authors. It was unknown to those who made the Constitution—as well as to those writers and speakers who afterwards attacked and defended it.” To support this idea, he refers freely to _the secret proceedings and debates of the Convention_ by CHIEF JUSTICE YATES, and LUTHER MARTIN'S communication to the Maryland Legislature.