THE

PRISONER OF STATE.

BY D. A. MAHONY.

'It is important that the habits of thinking in a free coun-
try should inspire caution in those entrusted with its ad-
ministration, to confine themselves within their respective
spheres, avoiding, in the exercise of the powers of one
department to encroach upon another. The spirit of en-
croachment tends to consolidate the powers of all the depart-
ments in one, and thus to create, whatever be the form of
Government, a real Despotism."-WASHINGTON.

"Cling to the Constitution, as the shipwrecked mariner
clings to the last plank, when night and the tempest close
around him."DANIEL WEBSTER.