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 cipline, when the whole edifice is threatened with total destruction. O, remember, my brethren, that the last and worst evil which God brought upon the people whom he had once chosen—the last and worst punishment of their blindness and hardness of heart was the bloody dissensions which rent asunder their city, even when the enemy were thundering at its gates."

Some of the audience testified their feeling of this exhortation by loud exclamations of applause; others by hooting, and exclaiming,—"To your tents, O Israel!"

Morton, who beheld the columns of the enemy already beginning to appear on the right bank, and directing their march upon the bridge, raised his voice to its utmost pitch, and, pointing at the same time with his hand, exclaimed,—"Silence your senseless clamours, yander is the enemy! On maintaining the bridge against him depend our lives, as well as our hope to recaim our laws and liberties.—There shall at least one Scottishman die in their de-