Poem of Remembrance for a Girl or a Boy.

YOU just maturing youth! You male or female! Remember the organic compact of These States, Remember the pledge of the Old Thirteen thenceforward to the rights, life, liberty, equality of man, Remember what was promulged by the founders, ratified by The States, signed in black and white by the Commissioners, and read by Washington at the head of the army, Remember the purposes of the founders,—Remember Washington; Remember the copious humanity streaming from every direction toward America; Remember the hospitality that belongs to nations and men; (Cursed be nation, woman, man, without hospitality!)…