"fired the shot heard round the world." A little monument covers the bones of such as before had pledged their fortune and their sacred honor to the Freedom of America, and that day gave it also their lives. I was born in that little town, and bred up amid the memories of that day. When a boy my mother lifted me up, one Sunday, in her religious, patriotic arms, and held me while I read the first monumental line I ever saw:-- "SACRED TO LIBERTY AND THE RIGHTS OF MANKIND." Since then I have studied the memorial marbles of Greece and Rome in many an ancient town; nay, on Egyptian Obelisks have read what was written before the Eternal roused up Moses to lead Israel out of Egypt, but no chiselled stone has ever stirred me to such emotions as those rustic names of men who fell "IN THE SACRED CAUSE OF GOD AND THEIR COUNTRY." Gentlemen, the Spirit of Liberty, the Love of Justice, was early fanned into a flame in my boyish heart. That monument covers the bones of my own kinsfolk; it was their blood which reddened the long, green grass at Lexington. It is my own name which stands chiselled on that stone; the tall Captain who marshalled his fellow farmers and mechanics into stern array and spoke such brave and dangerous words as opened the War of American Independence,--the last to leave the field,--was my father's father. I learned to read out of his Bible, and with a musket he that day captured from the foe, I learned also another religious lesson, that "REBELLION TO TYRANTS IS OBEDIENCE TO GOD." I keep them both, "Sacred to Liberty and the Rights of Mankind," to use them both "In the Sacred Cause of God and my Country." Gentlemen of the Jury, and you my fellow-countrymen of the North, I leave the matter with you. Say "Guilty!" You cannot do it. "Not Guilty." I know you will, for you remember there is another Court, not of fugitive slave bill law, where we shall all be tried by the Justice of the Infinite God. Hearken to the last verdict, "INASMUCH AS YE HAVE DONE IT UNTO ONE OF THE LEAST OF THESE MY BRETHREN, YE HAVE DONE IT UNTO ME." END. ERRATA. Page 19, line 16 from top, instead of _rest_, read _government_. " 23 " 10 " " " " 1618, read 1215. " 76 " 2 " " " " _Aoncilia_, read _Ancilia_. " 78 " 3 " bottom, " " _not_, read _or_. " 84 " 11 " " " " _promoting_, read _perverting_. " 89 " 18 " " omit _his_, before _vengeance_. OTHER WORKS BY THE SAME AUTHOR. A DISCOURSE OF MATTERS PERTAINING TO RELIGION. 1 Vol. 12mo. New Edition will appear in December. $1.25 AN INTRODUCTION TO THE OLD TESTAMENT. From the German of De Wette. 2d edition. 2 Vols. 8vo. 3.75 CRITICAL AND MISCELLANEOUS WRITINGS. 1 Vol. 12mo. New Edition will soon appear. 1.25