Mr. Mann contends that the exigency of self governinent, requires an universal education, at least more diacipline and Instruction than the people of this country at present possess. But we wish to present our readers with an extract from his oration, that they hmay have his words and sentiments, as data to judge j him upon and matter for serivus ineditation, with a vicw to thei own Interests ond duucs. | In this exigency, { ofirm that we need far more of wisdom und rectitude than we possets, Pre para ions lor owt present condition have been so long neglected that we have now adoutle duly to perlorm. We have uot only to propitiate to our aid a host of good apiri a, but we have to exoscine abost ofevil ones, Every as pect of our affairs, public aud private, demon-trajes that we need, lor their succeasful niansgement, a Vavt | accession to (he coumon stock of intelligence and vil: tue. Butintelligence aud virtue are the product of cullivation and tisimng. They do not spring up spon- laneausly, We need, therelore, unixampled alactity and energy in the appleaticn of all those influences. and means which promise the surest aud readiest re-' turns of wi-dom and probity, both public and private. This is my subject on the present occusions a do- monstrauon that our oxisting means for the promotion of intelligence and virtue ara wholly inadc quate to the support of a Republican government, Iftthe.facts I. lhave to offer shou d abate something from our national ‘vain-glory and presumption, E hope they may add as| ; Much to national prudence and forethought ! : * * * * * * | i Itisimpietp towards the memory of our fathers to | | Sppose that they contended merely for the trans er ot the source of misgovernwent from one ride of {he At- Jantic tv the other, If we were to be gov. rned fur vs er by ignorance and proflizacy, it mattered little wheth- er Ignorance and profhgecy should reside in King Geoige orin King Numbers—only as the latter King, being much stronger than the former, and subject to the ferocity wi hout the imbecilty of madness, ia ca- pable of committing far wider havoc upon human wel- fare than the former. A voter may go to the polls with as] ght a Jeeling of ri sponsibility to God and man, or with passiong ay vindictive, ag ever actuated the Bri- tl-h minis ry when they passed the Stenip-wet, or de- nounced Adams und Huncark 28 traitors, and zloated, in imagination, over their quartered badies, No! Our fathers pave their pledge of “yortune, life and sacred honors,” and reveemed it to the letter, that here, on thi bioad theatre of ¢ continent which spe ad around them and with time betore them, their descendants might work out that glorious destiny tor mankind—~that re- generation, that deliverance from the fetiers of iron which had bound the body, aud from the fetters of er- rrthat had bound the soul—which the prophets and apostles of Irberiy, In all ages, liad dosired to see, but | had nol seen, * ” * * * With the heroes and sages and martyrs of those days [ beheve in the capability of ian ior self-government ~-my whole soul thereto most jayously con-enting.— ' Nay, if thera be any heresy among inen, or blasphemy against God, at which the philosopher might be allow- ied to forget his equanimity, and the christien his char- ity—ltis the heresy ond the blasphemy of believing and avowing, that the infinitely good and all wise Au- _thor of the universe persists in creating and sustaining arace at heings, who, by a law of nature, are foreyer doomed to euffir all ihe atrocities end agonies of mis government, either from the hands of oliera, or from their own. Thedoctrine of the inherent and necessa- ty draability of mankind for self government should be regarded, not simply with denial, but with abhorrence ; not with dieproof only, but with execration, To sweep 80 foul a creed from the precinets of truth, and ulter- ly to consume it, rhetoric should become a whirlwind, and logicfire. Indeed, I have never known atnan who desired the establishmentof monarehial and atiatocrati- ca) institutions amongst us, who had not a mental te- servation, that, in such case, he and his fumily should belong to the priviliged orders, Bull, asked the broad question, whether man zs ce pable of sclf-government, | must answer it condition- ally. Ib by anan, in the tnguiry, is meant the Fejee Ielinders; or the convicts of Botany Bay, or the peo ple of Mexico, and some of the South American Ree publica, (so called;) or those a8 a class in our own coun ry, whuecon nellher read nor write 3 or those who can rad and write, and who possess talents ent! an e'ucation by force of which thes gut treasury, or post offire, or hank appointments, aid then abseon | with a)] the money they op ste«l—Lanswerunhesitatingly that man, or rithir such men, vre not ht fur gelt-govern- ment, Fatuity and guilt are no move certain to ruin an individual, or a fasuly over which they preside, thoy they are to destroy a Kovernment, into whose rule they enter, Politics have been heautilul defined tu be the art of mahiig a people kappy, Such men have no such art; bul, with power in thor hands, they would draw down personal, and diepense universal misery. Gar if, on the other hand, the inquiry be, whether; mankind are not endowed with those perms of intelli gence and thace susceptibilities of goodness, by which, un lei a perfec ly practicable syatem of cubivation «nd training, ihey are able ta avord the evils of despotis « and anarchy; ond also, of those frequent changes in tational policy which are but one remove tramenirehy, —and to hold stesdmstly on their way in an endless careerof improvement,—the, in the full rapture of that joy and terumph which eprung froma behefin the good.SSPE IP aera cea IE APNE I IEA IP TE, Reams atc et IAL SIT a TE neea of God and the progressive happiness of man, I answer, they are able, But men are not borg tn the fall possession of suchan ability. They do not necessarily develope any such ability, 68 they giow up from infancy to manhood.— Competency to fill so high asphere can be acquired only by the cultivation of netural endowments, and the subs jugation of inordinate propevsities, We Isugh to scorn the idea of a man’s being borne raler or a lawgivers— whether King or Peer;—but men are born capable of making laws of being rulers, just as much in the Old Worldasinithe New. With us, every voter isa ruler aud a lawemeker, and therefore it is no less absurd to say, here, that nm man Is fit to bea voter by right of na- tivity or naturalization, than itis, in the language of the British constitution, to say, that & man shall be So- vereign, or Lord, by hereditary descent, Qualification, in both cases, is something superadded to birth or citi- zevship? and hence, unless we take adequate meana aupply this quali fication {o our yolers, the Bishop of Lon- don or jhe Duke of Wellington may sneer at us for, be- liaving in the hereditary right to vote, wilh as good 6 grace at we can ot them, fur believing Inthe hereditary right fa rule. —Boston Cour.