But for most of you, my friends and neighbors, long and many years of futurity are yet in store.

May they be years of freedom--years of prosperity--years of happiness, ripening for immortality! But, were the breath which now gives utterance to my feelings the last vital air I should draw, my expiring words to you and your children should be, Independence and Union forever!" A few weeks subsequent to the death of ex-President Monroe, Mr.Adams delivered an interesting and able eulogy on his life and character, before the public authorities of the city of Boston, in Faneuil Hall.

In drawing to a conclusion, he used the following language:-- "Our country, by the bountiful dispensations of a gracious Heaven, is, and for a series of years has been, blessed with profound peace.

But when the first father of our race had exhibited before him, by the archangel sent to announce his doom, and to console him in his fall, the fortunes and misfortunes of his descendants, he saw that the deepest of their miseries would befall them while favored with all the blessings of peace; and in the bitterness of his anguish he exclaimed:-- 'Now I see Peace to corrupt, no less than war to waste.' "It is the very fervor of the noonday sun, in the cloudless atmosphere, of a summer sky, which breeds 'the sweeping whirlwind's sway, That, hushed in grim repose, expects his evening prey.' "You have insured the gallant ship which ploughs the waves, freighted with your lives and your children's fortunes, from the fury of the tempest above, and from the treachery of the wave beneath.

Beware of the danger against which you can alone insure your-selves--the latent defect of the gallant ship itself.