amendments to the Constitution, was secured, then that buried the beast that had on his heads the names of blasphemy, in the grave, from whence he will never know any resurrection. The dragon carried on his relentless war with the remnant of the woman's seed through the agency of this beast, by putting Protestants and Catholics to torturing and murdering each other; but as long as our glorious star-spangled banner floats in the breeze, he can never do that again. He will have to trample our national ensigns and our national honor into the dust, and blot American history out of existence and out of remembrance, before ever he can do that again; and it is not in the power of the devil and his angels to do it.
The War of 1812, in which the great battle of Lake Erie was fought, in all probability, brought the short time in which the devil was allowed to pour out his wrath upon the inhabiters of the sea, to an end. But you may say that there have been battles on the sea since the War of 1812, years for which we give the devil no credit; for tyranny and oppression have
