The Clerk read as follows: "I am comparatively a stranger among you. born in another.in a distant State; no parent or kindred of mine did. does or probably ever will dwell Within 'our borders. I have none of those strongcprds to ind meto your honor and your interest: yet.it there is anyone thing on earth which I ardeutly desire aboveall others it is to sea Pennsylvania stapding u in her intellectual, as she confessedly does in her physical resources.high above all her confederate rivals. How shameful, then, would it be for these her native sonsto feel lessso. when the dust of their ancestors is mingled with her seil. their friends and relatives enjoy her present prospenty, and their descendants, tor long agles tocome, willpartake of her happiness or misery, er glory or her infamy l" " In giving this law to posterity you act the part of the philanthropist. By bestowing upon the poor as well as the rich the greatest earthlg boon which they are capable of receiving; you act t a part of the philosopher by pointing, if you do not lead them. u p the bill of science; you act the part of the hero. if it be true. as you say. that popular vengeance follows closeupon your footsteps. lere. then. if you wish true popularity, is a theater on which you may acquire it." " Let all, therefore who would sustainthe character of the philosopher or philanthropist sustain this law. Those who would add thereto the glory of the here. can acquire it here; for. in the present state of fceling in Pennsylvania, I amwilling to admitthat but little less dangerous to the public man is the war club and battle ax of savage ignorancethan to the lion hearted Riehnrd wasthe keen scimeter of the Saracen. He who would oppose it, either through inability to comprehend the advantages of encral education or from unwillingness to bestow l icm on all his fellow witiaens mvea to the lowest and the poorest or from dread of populur vengeance.seems to me to want either the god of the philosopher, this?“ of the philanthropist or the nerve ot the