nothing will deter either the Government or the people of the United States from exercising, at their own discretion, the rights belonging to them as an independent nation, and of forming and expressing their own opinions, freely and at all times, upon the great political events which may transpire among the civilized nations of the earth. Their own institutions stand upon the broadest principles of civil liberty; and believing those principles and the fundamental laws in which they are embodied to be eminently favorable to the prosperity of States-to be, in fact, the only principles of government which meet the demands of the present enlightened age—the President has perceived, with great satisfaction, that, in the Constitution recently introduced. into the Austrian Empire, many of these great principles are recognized and applied, and he cherishes a sincere wish that they may produce the same happy effects throughout his Austrian Majesty's exten sive dominions that they have done in the United States. The undersigned has the honor to repeat to Mr. Hülse mann th ́ assurance of his high consideration.

DANIEL WEBSTER.

Loud and sudden there was heard,

All around them and below,

The sound of hammers, blow on blow,

Knocking away the shores and sours.
And see! she stirs !

She starts--she moves-she seems to feel

The thrill of life along her keel,

And, spurning with her foot the ground,

With one exulting, joyous bound,

She leaps into the ocean's arms!

And, lo! from the assembled crowd
There rose a shout, prolonged and loud,

That to the ocean seemed to say,

"Take her, O bridegroom, old and grey, Take her to thy protecting arms,

With all her youth and all her charms !"

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How beautiful she is! How fair
She lies within those arms, that
Her form with many a soft caress
Of tenderness and watchful care!
Sail forth into the sea, O ship!
Through wind and wave, right onward steer!
The moistened eye, the trembling lip,

Are not the signs of doubt or fear.

Thou, too, sail on, O ship of State,
Sail on, O UNION, strong and great!
Humanity, with all its fears,
With all the hopes of future years,
Is hanging breathless on thy fate!
We know what master laid thy keel,
What workmen wrought thy ribs of steel,
Who made each mast, and sail, and rope,
What anvils rang, what hammers beat,
In what a forge and what a heat
Were shaped the anchors of thy hope!

Fear not each sudden sound and shock,
'Tis of the wave, and not the rock;
"Tis but the flapping of the sail,
And not a rent made by the gale!
In spite of rock and tempest's roar,
In spite of false lights on the shore,
Sail on, nor fear to breast the sea!

Our hearts, our hopes, are all with thee.

Our hearts, our hopes, our prayers, our tears,
Our faith triumphant o'er our fears,

Are all with thee-are all with thee!

WIDE-AWAKE.

WIDE-AWAKE! Wide-awake! fogy and sleeper,
Dream not the battle of life: ;

Wide-awake! wide-awake! laggard and creeper,
Lagging is losing the strife;

Wide-awake! wide-awake! office and honor

Fly from the dreamer away;

Wide-awake! wide-awake! keep your eye on her—
Fortune is fickle as gay;

Wide-awake! wide-awake! up and be doing :
All that's worth having is won but by wooing.

Wide-awake! wide-awake! while the game's going, Try it, and have a hand in;

Wide-awake! wide-awake! while the wind's blowing,

Look to your helm, and you win;

Wide-awake! wide-awake! priest and law-maker,

Up! or be left in the rear;

Wide-awake! wide-awake! people the breaker

Is always ahead that's to fear.

ROMANIS M.

BY H. FULLER.

We don't believe in Romanism. We regard the Pope as an imposter; and the Mother Church as the mother of abominations. We don't believe in the close shaven, white-cravated, black-coated priesthood, who profess to "mortify the flesh,” by eschewing matrimony and violating nature. We don't believe in the mummeries of prayers in unknown tongues; nor in the impious assumption of the power to forgive sins to send the soul of a murderer to heaven, or to curse the soul of a good man down to the other place. We don't believe in Nunneries, where beauty that was made to bloom and beam on the world is immured and immolated, not to say prostituted. We don't believe in "John, Archbishop of New York," any more than we believe in ten thousand other Johns who make no pretensions to extra piety, and who do not arrogate to themselves any of the awful prerogatives of Divine Power.

And what reasons have we to offer for these daring negations. In the first place, we find nothing in the preaching or practice of the meek and lowly Christ to sanction the assumptions, the pomposities, and the absurdities of Romanism. He mumbled no prayers which the multitude could not understand; but taught them simply to say "OUR FATHER."