"Sam": or The history of mystery./ By C. W. Webber.

;22 "SAM:" OR, THE HISTORY OF MYSTERY.
unmoved, he would break out in the accents of mingled distress and despair,
Hard, hard is my fate! once I freedom enjoyed,
Was as happy as happy could be!
Oh! how hard is my fate, how galling these chains!'
I will not imagine the dreadful catastrophe to which he would
be driven by an abandonment of him to his oppressor. It
will not be, it cannot be that his country will refuse him
protection."
Having shown by documentary evidence that there was
nothing in the alleged repeal of the British orders in council
that could constitute a ground of pacification, Mr. Clay proceeded to the consideration of other points of attack from the
opposition. The focus of the fires that were poured in, he
sent back his scorching flames on the assailants of the administration. When they averred that those most interested in
impressment were most opposed to the war, he taunted this
lack of humanity, and pointed to the sympathy of the West, to
shame them for such an avowal. He could not believe they
would so libel themselves, or that they had done justice to their
constituents. Did not the latter sympathise with their western
brethren, exposed to the Indian tomahawk? No matter
whether an American citizen seeks subsistence amid the
dangers of the deep, or draws it from the bowels of the
earth, or from agriculture, or from the humblest occupations
of mechanic life-whatever be his vocation-the rights of
American freemen are sacred, and when assailed, all hearts
should unite, and every arm be braced, to vindicate his cause.
But the rights of seamen, who brave the hardships and perils
of the deep, in bold adventure for the common good as well
as for their own personal advantage, are especially sacred.
Continuing in this sarcastic vein, well provoked, Mr. Clay
said: "When the administration was striving, by the operation
of peaceful measures, to bring Great Britain back to a sense
of justice, they were for old-fashioned war. And now they have
got old-fashioned war, their sensibilities are cruelly shocked
and all their sympathies lavished upon the harmless inhabitants of the adjoining provinces. What does a state of war
present? The united energies of one people arrayed against