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,murder will out1 ,daniel ,webster1 #gd ,strive for the ,best1 #ge ,early ,rising1 ,john ,g4 ,saxe1 #gf ,deeds of ,kindness1 #gg ,gates of ,sleep1 ,dr4 ,john ,henry1 #gh ,the ,bugle1 ,tennyson1 #gi ,a ,hoodish ,gem1 #hj ,purity of the ,american ,struggle1 ,hon4 ,h4 ,wilson1 #ahei1 #hj ,old ,age1 ,theodore ,parker1 #ha ,beautiful1 and as true as ,beautiful1 #hc ,the ,deluge1 #hd ,the ,worm of the ,still1 #he ,man's ,connection with the ,infinite1 #hg ,the ,language of the ,eagle1 #hh ,washington1 ,s4 ,s4 ,cox1 #ij ,america vs4 ,england1 ,david ,dudley ,field1 #ia ,if we ,knew1 ,ruth ,benton1 #id ,,introduction4 ,it is with real pleasure that this second number of the ,dime ,speaker is given to the public4 ,the issue of the first number has been followed with such a demand as to render this additional volume quite necessary to meet the calls of teachers1 students1 and others4 ,the experiment of giving a dollar book for ten cents1 which should embrace more new and adaptable pieces for reading and rehearsal--in prose and poetry1 serious and humorous--than any single work yet offered1 has1 it is needless to say1 proven a success in every respect2 and this second number of our ,,dime ,,speaker is given to teachers and scholars in the full assurance of its meeting with their approbation in all respects4 ,it will be found to include some unusually valuable and beautiful pieces for the school-stage1 both in prose and verse--most of the matter being from speeches and contributions lately given to the world by the best of our living orators and writers4 ,the effort has been to give as great variety as possible--to suit all tastes and capacities1 from the child to the man4 ,it is the purpose of the publishers to continue the series in yearly issues1 thus to place in the hands of the youth of our land1 at the smallest possible price1 books which can not fail to expand their tastes for what is best in style and sentiment1 while they shall also offer instruction and amusement1 as well to the home circle as to the school-room and exhibition4 ,,beadle',s ,,dime ,,speaker1 ,no4 #b4 ,,the ,,union ,,and ,,its ,,results4--,edward ,everett1 ,july #dth1 #ahfj4 ,merely to fill up the wilderness with a population provided with the ordinary institutions and carrying on the customary pursuits of civilized life--though surely no mean achievement--was1 by no means1 the whole of the work allotted to the ,united ,states1 and thus far performed with signal activity1 intelligence1 and success4 ,the founders of ,america and their descendants have accomplished more and better things4 ,on the basis of a rapid geographical extension1 and with the force of teeming numbers1 they have1 in the very infancy of their political existence1 successfully aimed at higher progress in a generous civilization4 ,the mechanical arts have been cultivated with unusual aptitude4 ,agriculture1 manufactures1 commerce1 navigation1 whether by sails or by steam1 and the art of printing in all its forms1 have been pursued with surprising skill4 ,great improvements have been made in all those branches of industry1 and in the machinery pertaining to them1 which have been eagerly adopted in ,europe4 ,a more adequate provision has been made for popular education than in almost any other country4 ,there are more seminaries in the ,united ,states1 where a respectable academical education may be obtained--more1 ,i still mean1 in proportion to the population--than in any other country except ,germany4 ,the fine arts have reached a high degree of excellence4 ,the taste for music is rapidly spreading in town and country2 and every year witnesses productions from the pencil and the chisel of ,american sculptors and painters1 which would adorn any gallery in the world4 ,our ,astronomers1 ,mathematicians1 ,naturalists1 ,chemists1 ,engineers1 ,jurists1 ,publicists1 ,historians1 ,poets1 ,novelists1 and ,lexicographers1 have placed themselves on a level with those of the elder world4 ,the best dictionaries of the ,english language since ,johnson1 are those published in ,america4 ,our constitutions1 whether of the ,united ,states or of the separate ,states1 exclude all public provision for the maintenance of religion1 but in no part of ,christendom is it more generously supported4 ,sacred science is pursued as diligently and the pulpit commands as high a degree of respect in the ,united ,states1 as in those countries where the ,church is publicly endowed2 while the ,american ,missionary operations have won the admiration of the civilized world4 ,nowhere1 ,i am persuaded1 are there more liberal contributions to public-spirited and charitable objects4 ,in a word1 there is no branch of the mechanical or fine arts1 no department of science1 exact or applied1 no form of polite literature1 no description of social improvement1 in which1 due allowance being made for the means and resources at command1 the progress of the ,united ,states has not been satisfactory1 and in some respects astonishing4 ,at this moment the rivers and seas of the globe are navigated with that marvelous application of steam as a propelling power1 which was first effected by ,fulton4 ,the harvests of the civilized world are gathered by ,american reapers2 the newspapers which lead the journalism of ,europe are printed on ,american presses2 there are railroads in ,europe constructed by ,american engineers and traveled by ,american locomotives2 troops armed with ,american weapons1 and ships of war built in ,american dockyards4 ,in the factories of ,europe there is machinery of ,american invention or improvement2 in their observatories telescopes of ,american construction1 and apparatus of ,american invention for recording the celestial phenomena4 ,america contests with ,europe the introduction into actual use of the electric telegraph1 and her mode of operating it is adopted throughout the ,french empire4 ,american authors in almost every department are found on the shelves of ,european libraries4 ,it is true no ,american ,homer1 ,virgil1 ,dante1 ,copernicus1 ,shakspeare1 ,bacon1 ,milton1 ,newton1 has risen on the world4 ,these mighty geniuses seem to be exceptions in the history of the human mind4 ,favorable circumstances do not produce them1 nor does the absence of favorable circumstances prevent their appearance4 ,homer rose in the dawn of ,grecian culture2 ,virgil flourished in the court of ,augustus2 ,dante ushered in the birth of the new ,european civilization2 ,copernicus was reared in a ,polish cloister2 ,shakspeare was trained in the green-room of the theater2 ,milton was formed while the elements of ,english thought and life were fermenting toward a great political and moral revolution2 ,newton under the profligacy of the ,restoration4 ,ages may elapse before any country will produce a man like these1 as two centuries have passed since the last-mentioned of them was born4 ,but if it is really a matter of reproach to the ,united ,states that1 in the comparatively short period of their existence as a people1 they have not added another name to this illustrious list 7which is equally true of all the other nations of the earth71 they may proudly boast of one example of life and character1 one career of disinterested service1 one model1 of public virtue1 one type of human excellence1 of which all the countries and all the ages may be searched in vain for the parallel4 ,i need not--on this day ,i need not--speak the peerless name4 ,it is stamped on your hearts1 it glistens in your eyes1 it is written on every page of your history1 on the battle-fields of the ,revolution1 on the monuments of your fathers1 on the portals of your capitols4 ,it is heard in every breeze that whispers over the fields of ,independent ,america4 ,and he was all our own4 ,he grew up on the soil of ,america2 he was nurtured at her bosom4 ,she loved and trusted him in his youth2 she honored and revered him in his age2 and1 though she did not wait for death to canonize his name1 his precious memory1 with each succeeding year1 has sunk more deeply into the hearts of his countrymen4 ,,our ,,country',s ,,future4--,edward ,everett's ,oration at the ,webster ,statue ,inauguration1 #ahfj4 ,what else is there1 in the material system of the world1 so wonderful as this concealment of the ,western ,hemisphere for ages behind the mighty vail of waters8 ,how could such a secret be kept from the foundation of the world till the end of the fifteenth century8 ,what so astonishing as the concurrence1 within less than a century1 of the invention of printing1 the demonstration of the true system of the heavens1 and this great world-discovery8 ,what so mysterious as the dissociation of the native tribes of this continent from the civilized and civilizable races of man8 ,what so remarkable1 in political history1 as the operation of the influences1 now in conflict1 now in harmony1 under which the various nations of the old world sent their children to occupy the new2 great populations silently stealing into existence2 the wilderness of one century swarming in the next with millions2 ascending the streams1 crossing the mountains1 struggling with a wild hard nature1 with savage foes1 with rival settlements of foreign powers1 but ever onward1 onward8 ,what so propitious as this long colonial training in the school of chartered government8 and then1 when the fullness of time had come1 what so majestic1 amidst all its vicissitudes and all its trials1 as the ,grand ,separation--mutually beneficial in its final results to both parties--the dread appeal to arms1 that venerable ,continental ,congress1 the august ,declaration1 the strange alliance of the oldest monarchy of ,europe with the ,infant ,republic8 ,and1 lastly1 what so worthy the admiration of men and angels as the appearance of him the expected--him the ,hero--raised up to conduct the momentous conflict to its auspicious issue in the ,confederation1 the ,union1 the ,constitution8 ,is this a theme not unworthy of the pen and the mind of ,webster8 ,then consider the growth of the country1 thus politically ushered into existence and organized under that ,constitution1 as delineated in his address on the laying the corner-stone of the extension of the ,capitol--the thirteen colonies that accomplished the ,revolution multiplied to thirty-two independent ,states1 a single one of them exceeding in population the old thirteen2 the narrow border of settlement along the coast1 fenced in by ,france and the native tribes1 expanded to the dimensions of the continent2 ,louisiana1 ,florida1 ,texas1 ,new ,mexico1 ,california1 ,oregon--territories equal to the great monarchies of ,europe--added to the ,union2 and the two millions of population which fired the imagination of ,burke1 swelled to twenty-four millions1 during the lifetime of ,mr4 ,webster1 and in seven short years1 which have since elapsed1 increased to thirty6 ,with these stupendous results in his own time as the unit of calculation2 beholding under ,providence with each decade of years1 a new people1 millions strong1 emigrants in part from the ,old ,world1 but mainly bone of our bone1 and flesh of our flesh1 the children of the soil1 growing up to inhabit the waste places of the continent1 to inherit and transmit the rights and blessings which we have received from our fathers2 recognizing in the ,constitution and in the ,union established by it the creative influence which1 as far as human agencies go1 has wrought these miracles of growth and progress1 and which wraps up in sacred reserve the expansive energy with which the work is to be carried on and perfected1 he looked forward with patriotic aspiration to the time1 when1 beneath its gis1 the whole wealth of our civilization would be poured out1 not only to fill up the broad interstices of settlement1 if ,i may so express myself1 in the old thirteen and their young and thriving sister ,states1 already organized in the ,west1 but1 in the lapse of time1 to found a hundred new republics in the valley of the ,missouri and beyond the ,rocky ,mountains1 till our letters and our arts1 our schools and our churches1 our laws and our liberties1 shall be carried from the arctic circle to the tropics1 from the rising of the sun to the going down thereof4 ,,the ,,statesman',s ,,labors4--,ibid4 ,this prophetic glance1 not merely at the impending1 but the distant future1 this reliance on the fulfillment of the great design of ,providence1 illustrated through our whole history1 to lavish upon the people of this country the accumulated blessings of all former stages of human progress1 made ,webster more tolerant of the tardy and irregular advances and temporary wanderings from the path of what he deemed a wise and sound policy1 than those fervid spirits1 who dwell exclusively in the present1 and make less allowance for the gradual operation of moral influences4 ,this was the case in reference to the great sectional controversy1 which now so sharply divides and so violently agitates the country4 ,he not only confidently anticipated1 what the lapse of seven years since his decease has witnessed and is witnessing1 that the newly acquired and the newly organized territories of the ,union would grow up into free ,states2 but in common with all or nearly all the statesmen of the last generation1 he believed that free labor would ultimately prevail throughout the country4 ,he thought he saw that1 in the operation of the same causes which have produced this result in the ,middle and ,eastern ,states1 it was visibly taking place in the ,states north of the cotton-growing region2 and he inclined to the opinion that there also1 under the influence of physical and economical causes1 free labor would eventually be found more productive1 and would therefore be ultimately established4 ,for these reasons1 bearing in mind1 what all admit1 that the complete solution of the mighty problem1 which now so greatly tasks the prudence and patriotism of the wisest and best in the land1 is beyond the delegated powers of the general government2 that it depends1 as far as the ,states are concerned1 on their independent legislation1 and that it is of all others a subject1 in reference to which public opinion and public sentiment will most powerfully influence the law2 that much in the lapse of time1 without law1 is likely to be brought about by degrees1 and gradually done and permitted1 as in ,missouri1 at the present day1 while nothing is to be hoped from external interference1 whether of exhortation or rebuke2 that in all human affairs controlled by self-governing communities extreme opinions and extreme courses1 on the one hand1 generally lead to extreme opinions and extreme courses on the other2 and that nothing will more contribute to the earliest practicable relief of the country from this most prolific source of conflict and estrangement1 than to prevent its being introduced into our party organizations1 he deprecated its being allowed to find a place among the political issues of the day1 north or south1 and seeking a platform on which honest and patriotic men might meet and stand1 he thought he had found it1 where our fathers did1 in the ,constitution4 ,it is true that1 in interpreting the fundamental law on this subject1 a diversity of opinion between the two sections of the ,union presents itself4 ,this has ever been the case1 first or last1 in relation to every great question which has divided the country4 ,it is the unfailing incident of constitutions1 written or unwritten2 an evil to be dealt with in good faith1 by prudent and enlightened men1 in both sections of the ,union1 seeking1 as ,washington sought1 the public good1 and giving expression to the patriotic common-sense of the people4 ,such1 ,i have reason to believe1 were the principles entertained by ,mr4 ,webster2 not certainly those best calculated to win a temporary popularity in any part of the ,union1 in times of passionate sectional agitation which1 between the extremes of opinion1 leaves no middle ground for moderate counsels4 ,if any one could have found and could have trodden such ground with success1 he would seem to have been qualified to do it1 by his transcendent talent1 his mature experience1 his approved temper and calmness1 and his tried patriotism4 ,if he failed of finding such a path for himself or the country--while we thoughtfully await what time and an all-wise ,providence has in store for ourselves and our children--let us remember that his attempt was the highest and the purest which can engage the thoughts of a ,statesman and a ,patriot3 peace on earth1 good-will toward men1 harmony and brotherly love among the children of our common country4 ,,true ,,immortality4--,ibid4 ,it has been the custom1 from the remotest antiquity1 to preserve and to hand down to posterity1 in bronze and in marble1 the counterfeit presentment of illustrious men4 99 99 99 99 99 ,your long rows of quarried granite may crumble to the dust2 the cornfields in yonder villages1 ripening to the sickle1 may1 like the plains of stricken ,lombardy1 a short time ago1 be kneaded into bloody clods1 by the maddening wheels of artillery2 this populous city1 like the old cities of ,etruria and the ,campagna ,romana1 may be desolated by the pestilence which walketh in darkness1 may decay with the lapse of time1 and the busy mart1 which now rings with the joyous din of trade1 become as lonely and still as ,carthage or ,tyre1 as ,babylon and ,nineveh1 but the names of the great and good shall survive the desolation and the ruin2 the memory of the wise1 the brave1 the patriotic1 shall never perish4 ,yes1 ,sparta is a wheat field2 a ,bavarian prince holds court at the foot of the ,acropolis2 the traveling virtuoso digs for marbles in the ,roman ,forum and beneath the ruins of the ,temple of ,jupiter ,capitolinus2 but ,lycurgus and ,leonidas1 and ,miltiades and ,demosthenes1 and ,cato and ,tully still live2 and ,webster still lives1 and all the great and good shall live in the heart of ages1 while marble and bronze shall endure2 and when marble and bronze have perished1 they shall still live in memory so long as men shall reverence ,law1 and honor ,patriotism1 and love ,liberty6 ,that solemn event1 which terminates the material existence1 becomes by the sober revisions of contemporary judgment1 aided by offices of respectful and affectionate commemoration1 the commencement of a nobler life on earth4 ,the wakeful eyes are closed1 the feverish pulse is still1 the tired and trembling limbs are relieved from their labors1 and the aching head is laid to rest on the lap of its mother earth1 like a play-worn child at the close of a summer's day2 but all that we honored and loved in the living man begins to live again in a new and higher being of influence and fame4 ,it was given but to a limited number to listen to the living voice of ,daniel ,webster1 and they can never listen to it again2 but the wise teachings1 the grave admonitions1 the patriotic exhortations which fell from his tongue will be gathered together and garnered up in the memory of millions4 ,the cares1 the toils1 the sorrows2 the conflicts with others1 the conflicts of the fervent spirit with itself2 the sad accidents of humanity1 the fears of the brave1 the follies of the wise1 the errors of the learned2 all that dashed the cup of enjoyment with bitter drops and strewed sorrowful ashes over the beauty of expectation and promise2 the treacherous friend1 the ungenerous rival1 the mean and malignant foe2 the uncharitable prejudice which withheld the just tribute of praise1 the human frailty which wove sharp thorns into the wreath of solid merit--all these in ordinary cases are buried in the grave of the illustrious dead2 while their brilliant talents1 their deeds of benevolence and public spirit1 their wise and eloquent words1 their healing counsels1 their generous affections1 the whole man1 in short1 whom we revered and loved and would fain imitate1 especially when his image is impressed upon our recollections by the pencil or the chisel1 goes forth to the admiration of the latest posterity4 ,extinctus amabitur idem4 ,,let ,,the ,,childless ,,weep4--,metta ,victoria ,victor4 ,the news is flying along the streets3 ,it leaves a smile with each face it meets4 ,the heart of ,london is all on fire-- ,its throbbing veins beat faster and higher-- ,with eager triumph they beat so fast-- ,the ,malakoff--,malakoff falls at last6 ,hark to the murmur1 the shout1 the yell-- ,the ,malakoff's fallen6--well1 'tis well6 ,but let the childless weep4 ,i am faint and stunn'd by the crowd2 ,my head aches with the tumult loud4 ,on this step ,i will sit me down1 ,where the city palaces o'er me frown4 ,i would these happy people could see ,sights which are never absent from me2 ,the sound of their joy to sobs might swell1 ,they would swallow tears--well--it is well6 ,but let the childless weep4 ,if they could see my two young sons ,shatter'd and torn by ,russian guns1-- ,the only children ,god gave me--dead6 ,with the rough earth for a dying bed4 ,side by side1 in the trenches deep-- ,perchance they would weep as ,i must weep4 ,no sons of theirs on that red hill fell1 ,and so they smile and say1 'tis well6 ,but let the childless weep4 ,i know where in the cottages low ,women's faces grow white with woe2 ,where throats are choked with tears unshed ,when widows' children ask for bread4 ,i think of one whose heart has grown ,as cold and heavy as this stone4 ,but cabinets never think so low ,as a mother's anguish1 and so--and so ,why let the childless weep4 ,o ,queen6 your children around you sleep2 ,their rest at night is sweet and deep4 ,do you ever think of the mothers many ,whose sons you required1 and left not any8 ,do you think of young limbs bruised and crush'd ,and laughing voices forever hush'd8 ,my soul with a fierce rage might swell1 ,but grief hath all the place--'tis well6 ,let the childless weep4 ,could ,god have seen with prophet eye1 ,when ,he piled the ,malakoff hill so high1 ,that it was to be soaked through and through ,with streams and streams of blood-red dew1 ,and covered over with anguish8--no6 ,or ,he would have leveled it small and low4 ,it is man who is haughty1 fierce1 and cruel-- ,who heaps on his altar the living fuel6 ,let the childless weep4 ,england6 ,england6 haughty and bold6 ,you still covet what you behold2 ,to have your own proud will and way ,you will make widows1 thousands a day4 ,you buy your power with human life1 ,and the sobbing child and hopeless wife ,give up their dearest at your call-- ,but hearts must break and towers must fall ,let the childless weep4 ,weep8 ,i can not weep while around ,swells the victory's awful sound4 ,the ,malakoff fell1--but ,england's way ,o'er the bosoms that loved her deepest lay4 ,victoria's children laugh in glee6-- ,does she remember mine1 or me8 ,oh1 footman1 leave me this cold stone-- ,my sons are dead and ,i am alone-- ,the childless can not weep4 ,,our ,,country',s ,,greatest ,,glory4--,bishop ,whipple1 of ,minnesota1 #ahfj4 ,the true glory of a nation is in an intelligent1 honest1 industrious ,christian people4 ,the civilization of a nation depends on their individual character2 a constitution which is not the outgrowth of this is not worth the parchment on which it is written4 ,you look in vain in the past for a single instance where the people have preserved their liberties after their individual character was lost4 ,the ruler represents the people1 and laws and institutions are the simple outgrowth of domestic character4 ,it is not in the magnificence of the home of the ruler1 not in the beautiful creations of art lavished on public edifices1 not in costly cabinets of pictures or public libraries1 not in proud monuments of achievements in battle1 not in the number or wealth of its cities1 that we find pledges of national glory4 ,the ruler may gather around his palace the treasures of the world1 amid a brutalized people2 the senate chamber may retain its faultless proportions long after the voice of patriotism is hushed within its walls2 the marble may commemorate a glory which has forever departed4 ,art and letters may bring no lesson to a people whose heart is dead2 the only glory of a nation is in the living temple of a loyal1 industrious1 and upright people4 ,the busy click of machinery1 the merry ring of the anvil1 the lowing of peaceful herds1 and the song of the harvest home1 are sweeter music than pans of departed glory or songs of triumph in war4 ,the vine-clad cottage of the hill-side1 the cabin of the woodsman1 and the rural home of the farmer are the true citadels of any country4 ,there is a dignity in honest toil which belongs not to the display of wealth or the luxury of fashion4 ,the man who drives the plow1 or swings his ax in the forest1 or with cunning fingers plies the tools of his craft1 is as truly the servant of his country1 as the statesman in the senate or the soldier in battle4 ,the safety of a nation depends not on the wisdom of its statesmen or the bravery of its generals2 the tongue of eloquence never saved a nation tottering to its fall2 the sword of a warrior never stayed its destruction4 ,there is a surer defense in every ,christian home4 ,i say ,christian home1 for ,i know of no glory to manhood which comes not from the cross4 ,i know of no rights wrung from tyranny1 no truth rescued from darkness and bigotry1 which has not waited on a ,christian civilization4 ,would you see the image of true glory1 ,i would show you villages where the crown and glory of the people was in purity of character1 where the children were gathered in ,christian schools1 where the voice of prayer goes heavenward1 where the people have that most priceless gift--faith in ,god4 ,with this as the basis1 and leavened as it will be with brotherly love1 there will be no danger in grappling with any evils which exist in our midst2 we shall feel that we may work and bide our time1 and die knowing that ,god will bring the victory4 ,,the ,,union ,a ,,household4--,ibid4 ,the great object which the statesmen of the ,revolution sought1 was the defense1 protection1 and good government of the whole1 without injustice to any portion of the people4 ,experience had taught them that it was impossible for a great republic to grow up where its every act of public policy was liable to be thwarted by the vote of the individual ,states2 therefore they framed an organic law at the foundation of our common government1 which gave the men of ,carolina and ,massachusetts a name dearer than any sectional name--the name of an ,american citizen6 ,in that conflict of opinions1 by a temper of conciliation and brotherly love1 by an earnest loyalty to freedom and profoundest reverence for law1 they framed that constitution which has been the admiration of the world4 ,i yield to no man in my admiration for those noble men whose names are our household words2 but in this history ,i see the hand of ,god and acknowledge that our nationality was his gift and not the fruits of our fathers' wisdom4 ,ours is not the only nation who have sought to be free4 ,strong arms and stout hearts have often failed--the world is filled with the lamentations of the patriots and dirges for the dead4 ,god always gives to a nation its birthright and its name4 ,a nation is not a mere aggregate of households1 or villages1 or ,states--national life is something beyond the fact that individual men have banded together for mutual defense4 ,this belonged to the savage tribes who once roamed over this goodly land4 ,they may be strong1 daring1 freedom-loving men1 without national life4 ,there never was a nobler race than the people who dwelt in the fastnesses of ,scotland1 but their tie was only one of kindred2 the family became a clan1 separate clans warred with each other in murderous strife1 and ,scotland was a field of blood4 ,until the cross was firmly planted in ,britain1 ,england had no nationality--it was a land of faction until the law and providence of ,god became the people's guide1 and then the nobler name of ,saxon became a ,christian name to tell of all that is manly and true4 ,our national life is the gift of ,god4 ,no other hand could gather out of other lands millions of people of different tongues and kindred1 and mold these into one mighty nation that shall receive into itself the men of every clime1 and stamp on them its own mark of individuality1 teaching them its language1 making them its kin1 and binding them as one household under its own constitution and laws4 ,,independence ,,bell4--,july #dth1 #aggf4 ,when it was certain that the ,declaration would be adopted and confirmed by the signatures of the delegates in ,congress1 it was determined to announce the event by ringing the old ,state-,house bell which bore the inscription1 ,proclaim liberty to the land3 to all the inhabitants thereof6 and the old bellman posted his little boy at the door of the hall to await the instruction of the doorkeeper when to ring4 ,at the word1 the little patriot-scion rushed out1 and1 flinging up his hands1 shouted ,ring6 ,,ring6 ,,ring6 ,there was tumult in the city1 ,in the quaint old ,quaker's town1 ,and the streets were rife with people ,pacing restless up and down2 ,people gathering at corners1 ,where they whisper'd each to each1 ,and the sweat stood on their temples1 ,with the earnestness of speech4 ,as the bleak ,atlantic currents ,lash the wild ,newfoundland shore1 ,so they beat against the ,state-,house1 ,so they surged against the door2 ,and the mingling of their voices ,made a harmony profound1 ',till the quiet street of chestnuts ,was all turbulent with sound4 ,will they do it8 ,dare they do it8 ,who is speaking8 ,what's the news8 ,what of ,adams8 ,what of ,sherman8 ,oh1 ,god grant they won't refuse6 ,make some way there6 ,let me nearer6 ,i am stifling6 ,stifle1 then6 ,when a nation's life's at hazard1 ,we've no time to think of men6 ,so they beat against the portal1 ,man and woman1 maid and child2 ,and the ,july sun in heaven ,on the scene look'd down and smiled1 ,the same sun that saw the ,spartan ,shed his patriot-blood in vain1 ,now beheld the soul of freedom ,all unconquer'd rise again4 ,see6 ,see6 ,the dense crowd quivers ,through all its lengthy line1 ,as the boy beside the portal ,looks forth to give the sign6 ,with his small hands upward lifted1 ,breezes dallying with his hair1 ,hark6 with deep1 clear intonation1 ,breaks his young voice on the air4 ,hush'd the people's swelling murmur1 ,list the boy's strong joyous cry6 ,ring6 he shouts1 ,,ring6 ,grandpa ,ring6 ,oh1 ,,ring for ,liberty6 ,and straightway1 at the signal1 ,the old bellman lifts his hand1 ,and sends the good news1 making ,iron-music through the land4 ,how they shouted6 ,what rejoicing6 ,how the old bell shook the air1 ,till the clang of freedom ruffled ,the calm gliding ,delaware6 ,how the bonfires and the torches ,illumed the night's repose1 ,and from the flames1 like ,phoenix1 ,fair ,liberty arose6 ,that old bell now is silent1 ,and hush'd its iron tongue1 ,but the spirit it awaken'd ,still lives1--forever young4 ,and while we greet the sunlight1 ,on the fourth of each ,july1 ,we'll ne'er forget the bellman1 ,who1 twixt the earth and sky1 ,rung out ,,our ,,independence2 ,which1 please ,god1 shall never die6 ,,the ,,scholar',s ,,dignity4--,hon4 ,george ,e4 ,pugh ,july #eth1 #ahei4 ,the purpose of all genuine effort1 beyond the satisfaction of physical wants1 should be to enlarge the compass of human sympathy and desire1 to purify1 elevate1 ennoble the intellectual constitution of our race4 ,god has so created us that these results can be attained by simple and even direct agencies4 ,man is a sympathetic being2 and the full discharge of his obligation toward his own family1 his friends1 his neighbors1 is the method by which he can best discharge his duty in other relations2 toward ,god and his country1 toward the millions of his fellow-beings now alive1 and the millions who will inherit the earth in a course of ages4 ,hence arise man's real pleasures1 and 7not less7 his noblest responsibilities and actions4 ,but1 as our nature is composed of appetites and passions which rightly adjusted1 each with another1 lift us almost to the dignity of the ,godhead1 but when disorganized1 show us to be meaner than the brutes2 so civil society1 or the association of mankind pursuant to the ,divine order1 while capable1 in its normal state1 of the utmost happiness for all its members1 is now disorganized and demoralized1 its sweet bells of sympathy turned to discord1 even its charities stained by selfishness and base pretension2 its capacities for good entirely perverted to the oppression1 to the cruel debasements of the multitude1 and to the unjust advantage of a few4 ,here is the field of chivalry for him--scholar and squire who would be something more--conscious of his earnest duty1 of the vast rewards which must crown success1 and alive to the inspiration of all the past1 the present1 and the future2 here is a field on which he may win the gilded spurs of knighthood1 and where1 with his own arm1 he can truly redress the innocent1 rescue the unfortunate1 and reclaim even the oppressor to a recognition of the rights of the oppressed4 ,or1 if he would choose a holier part1 although less conspicuous1 it may be1 let him join that valiant array of pioneers which is marching now 7as1 in time past1 it ever has marched7 at the head of the generation2 hewing down primeval forests of ignorance2 bridging the torrents of crime2 leveling mountains of doubt and difficulty2 filling up quagmires of sorrow2 that so1 in age after age1 the hosts of pilgrims from the cradle to the grave shall traverse their distance without harm1 and measurably anticipate1 if not realize1 the beatitude of toil forever accomplished4 ,in a true sense1 the scholar is a king of the noblest power4 ,not his that dominion which exercises itself over the bodies of men1 subduing alike their happiness and their will1 making of his fellow-creatures a mere sport or convenience1 but that dominion which exists by the full consent of the governed1 and without which1 in reality1 their happiness and peace can not be secured4 ,nam1 uti genus hominum compositum ex anima et corpore1 ita res cunct1 studiaque omnia nostra1 corporis alia1 alia animi naturam sequuntur4 ,igitur1 prclara facies1 magn diviti1 ad hoc vis corporis1 alia hujuscemodi1 omnia brevi dilabuntur2 at ingenii egregia facinora1 sicuti anima1 immortalia sunt4 ,postremo1 corporis et fortun bonorum1 ut initium1 finis est3 omnia orta occidunt1 et aucta senescunt3 animus incorruptus1 ternus1 ,,rector ,,humani ,,generis1 agit atque habet cuncta1 neque ipse habetur4 ,the liberty of men does not stand in rebellion against the truth1 nor against the truly-anointed genius of the age3 ,unjustly thou depravest it with the name ,of servitude1 to serve whom ,god ordains1 ,or ,nature2 ,god and ,nature bid the same1 ,when he who rules is worthiest1 and excels ,them whom he governs4 ,this is servitude1 ,to serve th' unwise1 or him who hath rebell'd ,against his worthier4 ,,the ,,cycles ,,of ,,progress4--,ibid4 ,the world moves in a grand cycle of days1 and weeks1 and months1 and years1 susceptible of approximation1 but not of exact ascertainment4 ,there are cycles1 also1 of the human understanding2 or1 at least1 of opinions with regard to the faculties and organism of the human intellect4 ,locke was thought to have demonstrated1 by unanswerable argument1 our entire lack of innate ideas2 thus demolishing the foundation upon which others had erected so many and such various theories4 ,but now ,kant has proven1 by a logic far more subtle1 and altogether more conclusive1 that the mind acts only in certain processes1 or by means of certain categories1 which are the laws of its organization1 and whence result conceptions or ideas not derived from experience1 or observation1 or confidence in others4 ,plato arrived at the same conclusion two thousand years ago1 although he supposed these conceptions or ideas to be the reminiscences of a former and superior state of intellectual existence4 ,what has ,kant accomplished1 in all his philosophy1 except our remission to the speculations of ,plato1 as enforced and illustrated by the wisdom of revealed religion8 ,and so1 in the world of moral sentiment1 there must be cycles of repetition and restoration1 but of restoration with new auspices1 and informed by principles of higher and pure significance4 ,the ,age of ,chivalry was an age of moral improvement1 an age of sympathy and generous enterprise1 after centuries of darkness1 antagonism1 and oppression4 ,when scholars1 therefore1 shall have become true to themselves1 true to the mission of their faith and labors1 as against the overwhelming allurement of our time2 shall have become the actual prophets1 and priests1 and rulers1 which once they were1 another ,age of ,chivalry will arise and dawn upon earth4 ,it will restore us a ,government paternal in character1 and yet stripped of the usurpations by which government is now rendered oppressive2 it will restore us a ,church of pristine authority and influence1 but authority and influence derived from purity in practice as well as in precept4 ,and with these two elements so long extinct or lost--leaving mankind to all the terrors of tyranny and all the wiles of imposture--with a ,church and a ,government reflecting the ,divine conception of men's duties toward their ,creator and toward each other1 will ,human ,society attain1 at last1 the summit of human perfection4 ,then will the original brotherhood and equality of our race be forever acknowledged2 then will there be work for all1 and wages for work1 instead of the injustice1 the crime1 the misery1 the wasteful disorder which fill our hearts with so much despondency and woe4 ,this ,chivalry is of magnificent design2 since to the faith1 to the hope1 to the steadfastness of our fathers1 to their moral excellence and solid greatness1 will thus be united the wondrous material achievements for which we have been so distinguished--a ,chivalry of splendors enhanced as well as rekindled1 or splendors essentially bright1 and joyous1 and immortal4 ,history tells us of republics full of promise and full of glory like our own4 ,such were those which clustered upon the shores of the ,mediterranean1 in almost the same latitude with us1 and accomplished1 centuries ago1 their rise1 their zenith1 and their fall4 ,such were those free states and cities which braved the bleakness and inclemency of the ,baltic and ,german coasts2 and which likewise had their increase1 and fullness1 and extinction4 ,these were all the children of ,commerce1 and followed her along the borders of the sea4 ,their ships explored the very ends of the world2 laid the ,indies under tribute2 and on this remote continent1 also1 planted colonies and outposts of civilization4 ,alas6 those republics and free states and cities have gone to their decay2 the armed legions of ,despotism tread upon their tombs1 and scatter even their sacred ashes to the winds4 ,but may our ,new ,world1 which inherits their enterprise as well as their liberty1 rejuvenate the nations grown old in oppression and despair1 and plant upon the ,eastern ,continent the germs of a ,civilization nobler than has yet been recognized--nobler than was ever sung by the poets1 or foretold by oracles--a ,civilization which shall raise up ,,labor from its fallen estate1 heal its infirmities1 cover its nakedness1 and enthrone it with honor2 as the rescued maniac1 by ,divine compassion1 was seated near the feet of our ,saviour1 clothed1 and in his right mind6 ,a ,,christmas ,,chant4--,alfred ,domett4 ,it was the calm and silent night6 ,seven hundred years and fifty-three ,had ,rome been growing up to might1 ,and now was queen of land and sea6 ,no sound was heard of clashing wars1 ,peace brooded o'er the hush'd domain2 ,apollo1 ,pallas1 ,jove1 and ,mars1 ,held undisturb'd their ancient reign1 ,in the solemn midnight1 ,centuries ago6 ',twas in the calm and silent night6 ,the senator of haughty ,rome ,impatient urged his chariot's flight1 ,from lordly revel rolling home4 ,triumphal arches1 gleaming1 swell ,his breast with thoughts of boundless sway2 ,what reck'd the ,roman what befell ,a paltry province far away1 ,in the solemn midnight1 ,centuries ago8 ,within that province far away ,went plodding home a weary boor2 ,a streak of light before him lay1 ,fallen through a half-shut stable-door ,across his path4 ,he paused1 for naught ,told what was going on within2 ,how keen the stars1 his only thought2 ,the air1 how calm1 and cold1 and thin1 ,in the solemn midnight1 ,centuries ago6 ,oh1 strange indifference6 low and high ,drowsed over common joys and cares2 ,the earth was still1 but knew not why2 ,the world was listening--unawares6 ,how calm a moment may precede ,one that shall thrill the world forever6 ,to that still moment1 none would heed1 ,man's doom was link'd1 no more to sever1 ,in the solemn midnight1 ,centuries ago6 ,it is the calm and silent night6 ,a thousand bells ring out1 and throw ,their joyous peals abroad1 and smite ,the darkness1 charm'd and holy now2 ,the night that erst no shame had worn1 ,to it a happy name is given2 ,for in that stable lay1 new-born1 ,the peaceful ,prince of ,earth and ,heaven1 ,in the solemn midnight1 ,centuries ago6 ,,stability ,,of ,,christianity4--,rev4 ,t4 ,h4 ,stockton1 ,house of ,representatives1 ,march #aith1 #ahfj4 ,i contemplate the heaven and earth of the old world3 the overrulings of ,providence and changes of society there4 ,i think of the passing away of the whole circle of ancient ,mediterranean civilization4 ,i think of the dark ages of ,europe4 ,i think of the morning of the ,reformation1 and the fore-gleamings of the latter-day glory4 ,i think of ,art1 and her printing-press2 of ,commerce1 and her compass2 of ,science1 and her globe2 of ,religion1 and her ,bible4 ,i contemplate the opening of the heaven and earth of the ,new ,world3 the overrulings of ,providence and changes of society here4 ,i think of the passing away of savage simplicities1 and of the rude semblances of civilization in ,mexico and ,peru1 and of earlier and later declensions4 ,i think of the gracious reservation of our own inheritance for present and nobler occupancy4 ,i think of our ,revolution1 and its result of ,independence4 ,i think of our first ,union1 first ,congress1 first prayer in ,congress1 and first ,congressional order for the ,bible2 and of our wonderful enlargement1 development1 and enrichment since4 ,and1 in view of all--of the whole heaven and whole earth of the whole world2 and of all changes1 social and natural1 past1 present1 and future2 profoundly and unalterably assured1 as ,i trust we all are1 that the truth as it is in ,jesus is the only stability in the universe--,i feel justified1 in invoking1 this day1 your renewal of our common and constant confession--that3 ,heaven and earth shall pass away1 but the words of ,christ shall never pass away4 ,and1 standing where we do1 on the central summit of this great ,confederacy1 unequalled in all history for all manner of blessings1--if we did not so confess ,christ2 if we did not cherish the simple confidence of ,his primitive disciples1 and hail the coming of our ,lord with hosannas2 if we could ignobly hold our peace1--the very statues of the ,capitol would immediately cry out2 the marble lips of ,columbus1 ,penn1 and ,washington1 of ,war and ,peace1 of the ,pioneer1 and of ,freedom1 would part to praise ,his name2 and the stones of the foundation and walls1 of the arcades and corridors1 of the rotunda and halls1 would respond to their glad and grand acclaim4 ,from ,maine to ,florida1 from ,florida to ,texas1 from ,texas to ,california1 from ,california to ,oregon1 and from ,oregon back to ,maine2 our lake ,states1 gulf ,states1 and ocean ,states2 our river ,states1 prairie ,states1 and mountain ,states1 all unite in confessing and blessing ,his name1 beholding ,his glory1 surrounding ,his throne1 high and lifted up1 and ever crying1 like the six-winged seraphim1 one to another1 far and near1 from the ,north and the ,south1 from the ,east and the ,west3 ,holy1 holy1 holy is the ,lord of hosts1 the whole earth is full of ,his glory6 ,,the ,,true ,,higher ,,law4--,ibid4 ,we hear much of the higher law2 and the application of the phrase to civil affairs has excited great prejudice and given great offense4 ,but1 what is the higher law8 ,it is said to be something higher than the ,constitution of the ,united ,states4 ,can there be a law1 within these ,united higher than the ,constitution of the ,united ,states8 ,if there can be and is such a law--what is it8 ,i need not and will not recite inferior1 questionable1 and inappropriate answers here4 ,but1 is there not one unquestionable answer8 ,suppose it be said1 that1 in relation to all subjects to which it was designed to apply1 and properly does apply1 the ,bible is a higher ,law than the ,constitution of the ,united ,states8 ,will any man1 unless an utter infidel1 deny this8 ,surely not4 ,waiving its practical operations1 certainly1 as an abstract proposition1 this must be admitted as true4 ,it may be extended1 so as to include all our ,state constitutions1 and all our ,church constitutions1 and all our more ,social constitutions4 ,put them all together1 magnify and boast of them as we may1 not only is the ,bible a higher law1 but it is an infinitely higher law4 ,for thus saith the ,lord3 ,as the heavens are higher than the earth1 so are my ways higher than your ways1 and my thoughts than your thoughts4 ,therefore1 also1 the universal and perpetual prophetic challenge3 ,oh1 earth1 earth1 earth1 hear the word of the ,lord6 ,all human constitutions1 social1 ecclesiastical1 and civil1 are changeable1 and contain provisions for change2 but1 the ,bible is unchangeable4 ,instead of any provision for change1 it is guarded1 at all points1 against change4 ,the writer of its first five books declares in the last of the five3 ,ye shall not add unto the word which ,i command you1 neither shall ye diminish from it1 that ye may keep the commandments of the ,lord your ,god1 which ,i command you4 ,and1 in like manner1 the author of its last five books1 declares in the last of the five3 ,if any man shall add unto these things1 ,god shall add unto him the plagues that are written in this book3 and if any man shall take away from the words of the book of this prophecy1 ,god shall take away his part out of the book of life1 and out of the holy city1 and from the things which are written in this book4 ,and so ,isaiah1 standing midway between ,moses and ,john1 exclaims3 ,lift up your eyes to the heavens1 and look upon the earth beneath2 for the heavens shall vanish away like smoke1 and the earth shall wax old like a garment1 and they that dwell therein shall die in like manner2 but ,my salvation shall be forever1 and ,my righteousness shall not be abolished4 ,therefore1 it is only in accordance with the testimony of all ,his witnesses1 that ,christ ,himself avers3 ,think not that ,i am come to destroy the law1 or the prophets3 ,i am not come to destroy1 but to fulfill4 ,for verily ,i say unto you1 ,till heaven and earth pass1 one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law1 till all be fulfilled4 ,heaven and earth shall pass away1 but ,my words shall not pass away4 ,,the ,,one ,,great ,,need4--,ibid4 ,tell me1 oh1 tell me1 what is it we need8 ,do we need health1 or genius1 or learning1 or eloquence1 or pleasure1 or fame1 or power8 ,do we need wealth1 or rank1 or office8 ,does any one of us need to be chaplain1 or clerk1 or representative1 or senator1 or speaker1 or vice-president8 an officer of the army or navy8 a member or head of any department8 a foreign minister8 a cabinet officer8 or even a successor in the line of presidents of the ,united ,states8 ,is such our need8 ,ah1 no6 we need salvation4 ,what did ,i say in the beginning8 ,did ,i not say we need elevation8 as men1 ,americans1 and ,christians1 we need elevation3 in our persons and families1 states and churches1 we need elevation4 ,certainly ,i did thus speak1 and meant all ,i said4 ,oh1 my ,friends6 ,all the distinctions alluded to such as we know them here1 are comparatively little things4 ,greater things are in prospect2 but these things1 though they seem great1 are really little4 ,pause1 think1 recall what life has taught you--what observation and experience have combined to impress most deeply upon your consciousness--and begin your review with the sad words1 after all6 ,after all1 health is a little thing1 and genius is a little thing1 and learning1 and eloquence1 and pleasure1 and fame1 and power1 and wealth1 and rank1 and office1 all earthly things are little things4 ,how little satisfaction they yield while they last1 and how soon they pass away6 ,,the ,,ship ,,and ,,the ,,bird4--,owen ,meredith4 ,hear a song that was born in the land of my birth6 ,the anchors are lifted1 the fair ship is free1 ,and the shout of the mariners floats in its mirth ',twixt the light in the sky and the light on the sea4 ,and this ship is a world4 ,she is freighted with souls1 ,she is freighted with merchandise2 proudly she sails ,with the ,labor that stores1 and the ,will that controls ,the gold in the ingots1 the silk in the bales4 ,from the gardens of ,pleasure1 where reddens the rose1 ,and the scent of the cedar is faint on the air1 ,past the harbors of ,traffic1 sublimely she goes1 ,man's hopes o'er the world of the waters to bear6 ,where the cheer from the harbors of ,traffic is heard1 ,where the gardens of ,pleasure fade fast on the sight1 ,o'er the rose1 o'er the cedar1 there passes a bird2 ',tis the ,paradise ,bird1 never known to alight4 ,and that bird1 bright and bold as a poet's desire1 ,roams her own native heavens1 the realms of her birth1 ,there she soars like a seraph1 she shines like a fire1 ,and her plumage hath never been sullied by earth4 ,and the mariners greet her2 there's song on each lip1 ,for the bird of good omen1 and joy in each eye1 ,and the ship and the bird1 and the bird and the ship1 ,together go forth over ocean and sky4 ,fast1 fast fades the land6 far the rose-gardens flee1 ,and far fleet the harbors4 ,in regions unknown ,the ship is alone on a desert of sea1 ,and the bird in a desert of sky is alone4 ,in those regions unknown1 o'er that desert of air1 ,down that desert of waters--tremendous in wrath-- ,the storm-wind ,euroclydon leaps from his lair1 ,and cleaves through the waves of the ocean1 his path4 ,and the bird in the cloud1 and the ship on the wave4 ,overtaken1 are beaten about by wild gales1 ,and the mariners all rush their cargo to save1 ,of the gold in the ingots1 the silk in the bales4 ,lo6 a wonder which never before hath been heard ,for it never before hath been given to sight2 ,on the ship hath descended the ,paradise ,bird1 ,the ,paradise ,bird never known to alight6 ,the bird which the mariners bless'd1 when each lip ,had a song for the omen which gladden'd each eye1 ,the bright bird for shelter hath flown to the ship ,from the wrath on the sea and the wrath in the sky4 ,but the mariners heed not the bird any more1 ,they are felling the masts--they are furling the sails1 ,some are working1 some weeping1 and some wrangling o'er ,their gold in the ingots1 their silk in the bales4 ,souls of men are on board2 wealth of man in the hold2 ,and the storm-wind ,euroclydon sweeps to his prey2 ,and who heeds the bird8 ,save the silk and the gold6 ,and the bird from her shelter the gust sweeps away6 ,poor ,paradise ,bird6 on her lone flight once more ,back again in the wake of the wind she is driven-- ,to be whelm'd in the storm1 or above it to soar1 ,and1 if rescued from ocean1 to vanish in heaven6 ,and the ship rides the waters1 and weathers the gales3 ,from the haven she nears the rejoicing is heard4 ,all hands are at work on the ingots1 the bales1 ,save a child1 sitting lonely1 who misses--the ,bird6 ,,tecumseh',s ,,speech ,,to ,,the ,,creek ,,warriors--,clairborn's ,life of ,gen4 ,dale4 ,in defiance of the white warriors of ,ohio and ,kentucky1 ,i have traveled through their settlements1 once our favorite hunting-grounds4 ,no war-whoop was sounded1 but there is blood on our knives4 ,the pale faces felt the blow1 but knew not whence it came4 ,accursed be the race that has seized on our country and made women of our warriors4 ,our fathers1 from their tombs1 reproach us as slaves and cowards4 ,i hear them now in the wailing winds4 ,the ,muscogee was once a mighty people4 ,the ,georgians trembled at our war-whoop1 and the maidens of my tribe1 in the distant lakes1 sung the prowess of your warriors1 and sighed for their embraces4 ,now1 your very blood is white1 your tomahawks have no edge1 your bows and arrows were buried with your fathers4 ,o ,muscogees6 brethren of my mother1 brush from your eyelids the sleep of slavery2 once more strike for vengeance--once more for your country6 ,the spirits of the mighty dead complain4 ,the tears drop from the weeping skies4 ,let the white race perish6 ,they seize your land2 they corrupt your women2 they trample on the ashes of your dead6 ,back whence they came1 upon a trail of blood1 they must be driven4 ,back6 back1 ay1 into the great water whose accursed waves brought them to our shore6 ,burn their dwellings6 ,destroy their stock6 ,slay their wives and children6 ,the red man owns the country1 and the pale face must never enjoy it6 ,war now6 ,war forever6 ,war upon the living6 ,war upon the dead6 ,dig their very corpses from the grave4 ,our country must give no rest to a white man's bones4 ,all the tribes of the ,north are dancing the war dance4 ,two mighty warriors across the seas will send us arms4 ,tecumseh will soon return to his country4 ,my prophets shall tarry with you4 ,they will stand between you and the bullets of your enemies4 ,when the white man approaches you1 the yawning earth shall swallow him up4 ,soon shall you see my arm of fire stretched athwart the sky4 ,i will stamp my foot at ,tippecanoe1 and the very earth shall shake4 ,,territorial ,,expansion4--,hon4 ,s4 ,s4 ,cox1 ,house of ,representatives1 ,march #aith1 #ahfj4 ,is there any ,american who wishes to consult ,european ,powers as to the propriety or policy of our territorial expansion8 ,is there any one who fears a fatal blow from these ,powers8 ,we do not exist by the sufferance of ,europe1 but by its insufferance4 ,we did not grow to our present greatness by its fostering care1 but by its neglect1 and in spite of its malevolence4 ,we do not ask its pardon for being born1 nor need we apologize to it for growing4 ,it has endeavored to prevent even the legitimate extension of our commerce1 and to confine us to our own continent4 ,but if we can buy ,cuba of ,spain1 it is our business with ,spain4 ,if we have to take it1 it is our business with ,providence4 ,if we must save ,mexico1 and make its weakness our strength1 we have no account to render unto ,europe or its dynasties4 ,if ,european ,powers choose to expand their empire and energize their people1 we have no protests1 no arms to prevent them4 ,england may push from ,india through the ,himalayas to sell her calicoes to the numberless people of ,asia1 and divide with ,france the empires of ,india1 ,burmah1 and ,china4 ,civilization does not lose by their expansion4 ,russia may push her diplomacy upon ,pekin1 and her armies through the ,caucasus1 and upon ,persia and ,tartary2 she may even plant her ,greek cross again on the mosque of ,st4 ,sophia1 and take the ,grecian ,levant into her keeping as the head of its church and civilization4 ,france may plant her forts and arts upon the shores of the ,red ,sea2 complete the canalization of ,suez2 erect another ,carthage on the shores of the ,mediterranean2 bind her natural limits from ,mont ,blanc1 in ,savoy1 to ,nice1 upon the sea4 ,sardinia may become the nucleus of the ,peninsula1 and give to ,italy a name and a nationality4 ,even ,spain1 proud and poor1 may fight over again in ,africa the romantic wars with the ,morescoes1 by which she educated that chivalry and adventure1 which three centuries ago made her the mistress of the ,new ,world4 ,she may demand territory of ,morocco1 as she has1 as indemnity for the war4 ,america has no inquiry to make1 no protocol to sign4 ,these are the movements of an active age4 ,they indicate health1 not disease--growth1 not decay4 ,they are links in the endless chain of ,providence4 ,they prove the mutability of the most imperial of human institutions2 but1 to the philosophic observer1 they move by a law as fixed as that which makes the decay of autumn the herald of spring4 ,they obey the same law by which the constellations change their places in the sky4 ,astronomers tell us that the southern cross1 which guarded the adventurer upon the ,spanish main four centuries ago1 and which now can be seen1 the most beautiful emblem of our salvation1 shining down through a ,cuban and ,mexican night1--just before the ,christian era1 glittered in our northern heavens6 ,the same ,,great ,,will1 which knows no ,north and no ,south1 and which is sending again1 by an irreversible law1 the southern cross to our northern skies1 on its everlasting cycle of emigration--does it not control the revolutions of nations1 and the vicissitudes of empires8 ,the very stars in their courses are ,knights of the ,golden ,circle1 and illustrate the record of human advancement4 ,they are the type of that territorial expansion from which this ,american continent can not be exempted without annihilation4 ,the finger of ,providence points to our nation as the guiding star of this progress4 ,let him who would either dusk its radiancy1 or make it the meteor of a moment1 cast again with nicer heed our nation's horoscope4 ,,martha ,,hopkins4--,phoebe ,cary4 ,from the kitchen1 ,martha ,hopkins1 as she stood there making pies1 ,southward looks along the turnpike1 with her hand above her eyes2 ,where along the distant hill-side1 her yearning heifer feeds1 ,and a little grass is growing in a mighty sight of weeds4 ,all the air is full of noises for there isn't any school1 ,and boys1 with turned-up pantaloons1 are wading in the pool2 ,blithely frisk unnumber'd chickens1 cackling1 for they can not laugh1 ,where the airy summits brighten1 nimbly leaps a little calf4 ,gentle eyes of ,martha ,hopkins6 tell me wherefore do ye gaze1 ,on the ground that's being furrow'd for the planting of the maize8 ,tell me wherefore down the valley1 ye have traced the turnpike's way ,far beyond the cattle-pasture1 and the brick-yard with its clay8 ,ah6 the dog-wood tree may blossom1 and the door-yard grass may shine1 ,with the tears of amber dropping from the washing on the line1 ,and the morning's breath of balsam1 lightly brush her faded cheek-- ,little recketh ,martha ,hopkins of the tales of spring they speak4 ,when the summer's burning solstice on the scanty harvest glow'd1 ,she had watch'd a man on horseback riding down the turnpike road2 ,many times she saw him turning1 looking backward quite forlorn1 ,till amid her tears she lost him in the shadow of the barn4 ,ere the supper-time was over1 he had pass'd the kiln of brick1 ,cross'd the rushing ,yellow ,river1 and forded quite a creek1 ,and his flat-boat load was taken1 at the time for pork and beans1 ,with the traders of the ,wabash1 to the wharf at ,new ,orleans4 ,therefore watches ,martha ,hopkins--holding in her hand the pans1 ,when the sound of distant footsteps seems exactly like a man's3 ,not a wind the stove-pipe rattles1 not a door behind her jars1 ,but she seems to hear the rattle of his letting down the bars4 ,often sees she men on horseback coming down the turnpike rough1 ,but they came not as ,john ,jackson1 she can see it well enough2 ,well she knows the sober trotting of the sorrel horse he keeps1 ,as he jogs along at leisure1 with head down like a sheep's4 ,she would know him 'mid a thousand1 by his home-made coat and vest1 ,by his socks1 which were blue woolen1 such as farmers wear out ,west2 ,by the color of his trowsers1 and his saddle which was spread1 ,by a blanket which was taken for that purpose from the bed4 ,none like he the yoke of hickory1 on the unbroken ox can throw ,none amid his father's cornfields use like him the spade and hoe2 ,and at all the apple-cuttings1 few1 indeed1 the men are seen1 ,that can dance with him the polka1 touch with him the violin4 ,he has said to ,martha ,hopkins1 and she thinks she hears him now2 ,for she knows as well as can be1 that he meant to keep his vow2 ,when the buck-eye tree has blossom'd1 and your uncle plants his corn1 ,shall the bells of ,indiana usher in the wedding-morn4 ,he has invited his relations1 bought a ,sunday hat and gown1 ,and he thinks he'll get a carriage1 and they'll spend a day in town2 ,that their love will newly kindle1 and what comfort it will give1 ,to sit down to the first breakfast in the cabin where they'll live4 ,tender eyes of ,martha ,hopkins6 what has got you in such scrape1 ',tis a tear that falls to glitter on the ruffle of her cape2 ,ah6 the eye of love may brighten1 to be certain what it sees1 ,one man looks like another1 when half-hidden by the trees4 ,but her eager eyes rekindle1 she forgets the pies and bread1 ,as she sees a man on horseback1 round the corner of the shed1 ,now tie on another apron1 get the comb and smooth your hair1 ',tis the sorrel horse that gallops1 'tis ,john ,jackson's self that's there4 ,,the ,,bashful ,,man',s ,,story4--,charles ,matthews4 ,among the various good and bad qualities incident to our nature1 ,i am unfortunately that being overstocked with the one called bashfulness2 for you most know1 ,i inherit such an extreme susceptibility of shame1 that on the smallest subject of confusion1 my blood rushes into my cheeks1 and ,i appear a perfect full-blown rose2 in short1 ,i am commonly known by the appellation of ,the ,bashful ,man4 ,the consciousness of this unhappy failing1 made me formerly avoid that social company1 ,i should otherwise have been ambitious to appear in3 till at length becoming possessed of an ample fortune1 by the death of a rich old uncle1 and vainly supposing that money makes the man1 ,i was now determined to shake off my natural timidity1 and join in the gay throng3 with this view ,i accepted of an invitation to dine with one1 whose open easy manner left me no room to doubt of a cordial welcome4 ,sir ,thomas ,friendly1 an intimate friend of my late uncle's1 with two sons and five daughters1 all grown up1 and living with their mother and a maiden sister of ,sir ,thomas's4 ,conscious of my unpolished gait1 ,i for some time took private lessons of a professor1 who teaches grown gentlemen to dance4 ,having by this means acquired the art of walking without tottering1 and learning to make a bow1 ,i boldly ventured to obey the baronet's invitation to a family dinner1 not doubting but my new acquirements would enable me to see the ladies with tolerable intrepidity but1 alas6 how vain are all the hopes of theory1 when unsupported by habitual practice4 ,as ,i approached the house1 a dinner-bell alarmed my fears1 lest ,i had spoiled the dinner by want of punctuality2 impressed with this idea1 ,i blushed the deepest crimson1 as my name was repeatedly announced by the several livery-servants1 who ushered me into the library1 hardly knowing what or whom ,i saw4 ,at my first entrance1 ,i summoned all my fortitude1 and made my new-learnt bow to ,lady ,friendly2 but1 unfortunately1 in bringing my left foot to the third position1 ,i trod upon the gouty toe of poor ,sir ,thomas1 who had followed close to my heels1 to be the nomenclator of the family4 ,the confusion this occasioned in me is hardly to be conceived1 since none but bashful men can judge of my distress2 and of that description1 the number1 ,i believe1 is very small4 ,the baronet's politeness1 by degrees1 dissipated my concern1 and ,i was astonished to see how far good breeding could enable him to support his feelings1 and to appear with perfect ease1 after so painful an accident4 ,the cheerfulness of her ladyship1 and the familiar chat of the young ladies1 insensibly led me to throw off my reserve and sheepishness1 till1 at length1 ,i ventured to join in conversation1 and even to start fresh subjects4 ,the library being richly furnished with books in elegant bindings1 and observing an edition of ,xenophon1 in sixteen volumes1 which 7as ,i had never before heard of7 greatly excited my curiosity4 ,i rose up to examine what it could be2 ,sir ,thomas saw what ,i was about1 and1 as ,i suppose1 willing to save me the trouble1 rose to take down the book1 which made me more eager to prevent him2 and hastily laying my hand on the first volume1 ,i pulled it forcibly2 but1 lo6 instead of books1 a board1 which by leather and gilding had been made to look like sixteen volumes1 came tumbling down1 and unluckily pitched upon a ,wedgewood inkstand on the table1 under it4 ,in vain did ,sir ,thomas assure me1 there was no harm2 ,i saw the ink streaming from an inlaid table on the ,turkey carpet1 and1 scarce knowing what ,i did1 ,i attempted to stop its progress with my cambric handkerchief4 ,in the height of this confusion1 we were informed that dinner was served up1 and ,i with joy perceived that the bell1 which at first had so alarmed my fears1 was only the half-hour dinner-bell4 ,in walking through the hall and suite of apartments to the dining-room1 ,i had time to collect my scattered senses1 and was desired to take my seat between ,lady ,friendly and her eldest daughter1 at the table4 ,since the fall of the wooden ,xenophon1 my face had been continually burning1 like a firebrand2 and ,i was just beginning to recover myself1 and to feel comfortably cool1 when an unlooked-for accident rekindled all my heat and blushes4 ,having set my plate of soup too near the edge of the table1 in bowing to ,miss ,dinah1 who politely complimented the pattern of my waistcoat1 ,i tumbled the whole scalding contents into my lap4 ,in spite of an immediate supply of napkins to wipe the surface of my clothes1 my black silk breeches were not stout enough to save me from the painful effects of this sudden fomentation1 and for some minutes my legs and thighs seemed stewing in a boiling caldron2 but recollecting how ,sir ,thomas had disguised his torture1 when ,i trod upon his toe1 ,i firmly bore my pain in silence1 and sat with my lower extremities parboiled1 amidst the stifled giggling of the ladies and servants4 ,i will not relate the several blunders which ,i made during the first course1 or the distress occasioned by my being desired to carve a fowl1 or help to various dishes that stood near me1 spilling a sauce-boat1 and knocking down a salt-cellar2 rather let me hasten to the second course1 where fresh disasters overwhelmed me quite4 ,i had a piece of rich sweet pudding on my fork1 when ,miss ,louisa ,friendly begged to trouble me for a pigeon that stood near me4 ,in my haste1 scarcely knowing what ,i did1 ,i whipped the pudding into my mouth1 hot as a burning coal2 it was impossible to conceal my agony--my eyes were starting from their sockets4 ,at last1 in spite of shame and resolution1 ,i was obliged to drop the cause of my torment on my plate4 ,sir ,thomas and the ladies all compassionated my misfortune1 and each advised a different application2 one recommended oil1 another water1 but all agreed that wine was the best for drawing out fire1 and a glass of sherry was brought me from the side-board1 which ,i snatched up with eagerness3 but1 oh6 how shall ,i tell the sequel8 whether the butler by accident mistook1 or purposely designed to drive me mad1 he gave me the strongest brandy1 with which ,i filled my mouth1 already flayed and blistered4 ,totally unused to ardent spirits1 with my tongue1 throat1 and palate as raw as beef1 what could ,i do8 ,i could not swallow2 but clapping my hands upon my mouth1 the cursed liquor squirted through my nose and fingers like a fountain1 over all the dishes2 and ,i1 crushed by bursts of laughter from all quarters4 ,in vain did ,sir ,thomas reprimand the servants1 and ,lady ,friendly chide her daughters2 for the measure of my shame and their diversion was not yet complete4 ,to relieve me from the intolerable state of perspiration which this accident had caused1 without considering what ,i did1 ,i wiped my face with that ill-fated handkerchief1 which was still wet from the consequences of the fall of ,xenophon1 and covered all my features with streaks of ink in every direction4 ,the baronet himself could not support this shock1 but joined his lady in the general laugh2 while ,i sprung from the table in despair1 rushed out of the house1 and ran home in an agony of confusion and disgrace1 which the most poignant sense of guilt could have excited4 ,thus1 without having deviated from the path of moral rectitude1 ,i am suffering torments like a goblin damned4 ,the lower half of me has been almost boiled1 my tongue and mouth grilled1 and ,i bear the mark of ,cain upon my forehead2 yet these are but trifling considerations1 to the everlasting shame which ,i must feel1 whenever this adventure shall be mentioned4 ,perhaps1 by your assistance1 when my neighbors know how much ,i feel on the occasion1 they will spare a bashful man1 and1 as ,i am just informed my poultice is ready1 ,i trust you will excuse the haste in which ,i retire4 ,,the ,,matter-,,of-,,fact ,,man4--,anon4 ,i am what the old women call an ,odd ,fish4 ,i do nothing under heaven without a motive--never4 ,i attempt nothing1 unless ,i think there is a probability of my succeeding4 ,i ask no favors when ,i think they are not deserved2 and finally1 ,i don't wait upon the girls when ,i think my attentions would be disagreeable4 ,i am a matter-of-fact man1 ,i am4 ,i do every thing seriously4 ,i once offered to attend a young lady home2 ,i did it seriously2 that is1 ,i meant to wait on her home if she wanted me4 ,she accepted my offer2 ,i went home with her1 and it has ever since been an enigma with me whether she wanted me or not4 ,i bade her good night1 and she said not a word4 ,i met her next morning1 and ,i said not a word4 ,i met her again1 and she gave me two hours' talk4 ,it struck me as curious4 ,she feared ,i was offended1 she said1 and could not1 for the life of her1 conceive why4 ,she begged me to explain1 but would not give me a chance to do so4 ,she said she hoped ,i wouldn't be offended1 asked me to call1 and it has ever since been a mystery to me whether she wanted me or not4 ,once ,i saw a lady at her window4 ,i thought ,i would call4 ,i did4 ,i inquired for the lady1 and was told she was not at home4 ,i expected she was1 ,i went away thinking so4 ,i rather think so still4 ,i met her again--she was offended--said ,i had not been neighborly4 ,she reproached me for my negligence2 said she thought ,i had been unkind4 ,and ,i've ever since wondered whether she thought so or not4 ,a lady once said to me that she should like to be married if she could get a good1 congenial husband who would make her happy1 or at least try to4 ,she was not difficult to please1 she said4 ,i said ,i should like to get married1 too1 if ,i could find a wife that would try to make me happy4 ,she said ,umph1 and looked as if she meant what she said4 ,she did4 ,for when ,i asked her if she thought she could not be persuaded to marry me1 she said she would rather be excused4 ,i have often wondered why ,i excused her4 ,a good many things of this kind have happened to me1 that are doubtful1 wonderful1 mysterious4 ,what is it1 then1 that causes doubt and mystery to attend the ways of men8 ,it is the want of fact4 ,this is a matter-of-fact world1 and in order to act well in it1 we must deal in a matter-of-fact way4 ,,rich ,,and ,,poor4--,joseph ,barber4 ,men are born equal2 ,jefferson1 the ,sage1 ,upon our history's initial page1 ,inscribed that dictum2 ,but we who live in later times amend ,the declaration of our patriot friend ,with a postscriptum4 ,we deem1 like him1 swart ,labor's son and heir1 ,and wealth's soft bantling1 of one earthenware1 ,but mark the sequel3 ,one's meanly clothed in threadbare suit forlorn1 ,the other flaunts in velvet1 lace1 and lawn2 ,are they then equal8 ,five thousand children in ,new ,york1 each year1 ,gasp for bare life1 in cellars damp and drear1 ',neath the street level4 ,deprived of sunshine1 chill'd with vapor-blights1 ,say what are their inalienable rights1 ,social and civil8 ,the right to starve1 the right to beg1 to float ,among the city's scum--perchance to vote ,some day as freemen4 ,ah6 yes1 the polls their sovereignty declare1 ,not so--in sordid chains they're oft led there ,by ,faction's ,demon4 ,the rich and poor are equal1 says the ,state1 ,but the strong laws of destiny and fate1 ,o'erride its polity4 ,both have a right to seek for happiness2 ,but1 with such different chances of success1 ,where's the equality8 ,here wealth like a ,colossus doth bestride ,with legs of gold1 the sorrow-troubled tide ,of ,want and ,squallor4 ,nay1 more1 ,law1 ,justice1 oft becomes the tool ,of that bright tyrant1 callous1 calm1 and cool1 ,almighty ,dollar6 ,all men are equal1 where8 ,why1 in their dust1 ,your worm cares little for your upper crust6 7,what impropriety67 ,and heaven receives alike all spirits pure1 ,on equal terms1 and heaven is therefore sure ,of good society4 ,,seeing ,,the ,,eclipse4--,anon4 ,to be spoken without gesture1 as if the speaker were telling a friend his experience4 ,did you ever see an eclipse8 ,no8 ,well1 you did miss a sight1 got up for the especial benefit of darkies1 perhaps1 but every white man1 of good standing1 could enjoy it--if he was up4 ,i'll tell you my experience1 and you may judge what you have lost by not seeing the eclipse4 ,well1 ,i got up at three o'clock ,wednesday morning4 ,looked for the sun1 but couldn't find it4 ,concluded that ,i was up too early4 ,went to bed4 ,got up again at half-past five4 ,saw something they called the sun4 ,looked red4 ,went down town4 ,sun looked whiter and bright as a tin pan4 ,thought ,i would go home and get breakfast4 ,noticed the breakfast-room looked dark4 ,opened the blinds when it looked lighter4 ,seven o'clock4 ,went down town again4 ,sun shining very bright4 ,tried to look at it but couldn't4 ,thought ,i would take a glass4 ,took one4 ,smoked it4 ,thought that ,i could see better1 but wasn't satisfied4 ,didn't see any eclipse4 ,eight o'clock4 ,took another glass1 thinking it might be a better one4 ,smoked4 ,could see a patch on the sun's face4 ,grew bigger4 ,took another glass--smoked4 ,looked first-rate4 ,half-past eight4 ,things didn't look right1 but could see something4 ,thought the trouble might be in the last glass4 ,took another4 ,saw the biggest kind of an eclipse4 ,saw the sun and moon4 ,took another glass and looked again4 ,saw two suns4 ,smoked and took another glass4 ,saw two suns and two moons4 ,took another glass4 ,five or six suns and ten or fifteen moons all mixed up and seemed to be drunk4 ,nine o'clock4 ,couldn't see much of any thing4 ,concluded ,i must be sun-struck4 ,thought ,i would go home4 ,saw an omnibus1 and thought ,i would get in4 ,turned out to be one of ,swartz's what-d'ye-call-it4 ,tried another1 and got in4 ,went home in a coal cart4 ,think eclipses are humbugs1 besides making people have headaches4 ,,the ,,beauties ,,of ,,the ,,law4 ,recited in the character of ,counsellor ,quirk4 ,farmer ,a4 and ,farmer ,b4 were good neighbors4 ,farmer ,a4 was seized or possessed of a white bull2 ,farmer ,b4 was seized or possessed of1 or otherwise well entitled to1 a ferry-boat4 ,farmer ,b4 having made his boat fast to a post on shore1 by means of a piece of hay1 twisted rope-fashion1 or1 as we say1 vulgato vocto1 a hayband1 went up to town to get his dinner1 which was also very natural for a hungry man to do4 ,in the mean time ,farmer ,a4's white bull came down to the town to look for his dinner1 which was also very natural for a hungry bull to do2 the said white bull1 discovering1 seeing1 and spying out1 some turnips in the bottom of the ferry-boat1 the bull scrambled into the ferry-boat aforesaid1 eat up the turnips1 and1 to make an end of his meal1 fell to work upon the hay-band4 ,the ferry-boat being ate from its moorings1 floated down the river with the white bull in it3 it struck against a rock1 which beat a hole in the bottom of the boat1 and tossed the bull overboard2 whereupon1 the owner of the bull brought his action against the boat1 for running away with the bull4 ,the owner of the boat brought his action against the bull1 for running away with the boat2 and thus notice of the trial was given1 ,bullum versus ,boatum--,boatum versus ,bullum4 ,now the counsel for the bull began with saying3 ,your ,honor1 and you1 ,gentlemen of the ,jury1 we are counsel in this cause for the bull4 ,we are indicted for running away with the boat4 ,now1 your ,honor1 your ,honor may have heard of running horses1 but never of running bulls before4 ,now1 your ,honor1 ,i humbly submit to your ,honor1 the bull could no more have run away with the boat1 than a man in a coach may be said to run away with the horses2 therefore1 your ,honor1 how can an action be maintained against that which is not actionable8 ,how can we punish what is not punishable8 ,how can we eat what is not eatable8 ,or1 how can we drink what is not drinkable8 ,or1 as the law says1 how can we think on what is not thinkable8 ,therefore1 your ,honor1 as we are counsel in this cause for the bull1 if the jury should bring the bull in guilty1 the jury will be guilty of a bull4 ,the learned counsel for the boat1 in the cross-action of ,bullum versus ,boatum1 observed1 that the bull should be nonsuited1 because1 in his declaration1 he had omitted to state or specify what color he was2 for thus wisely and thus learnedly spoke the counsel3 ,my ,lord1 if the bull was of no color he must be of some color2 and if he was not of any color1 what color could the bull be8 ,i overruled this motion myself1 by observing the bull was a white bull1 and that white is no color3 besides1 as ,i told my brethren1 they should not trouble their heads to talk of color in the law1 for the law can color any thing4 ,the cause being afterwards left to a reference1 upon the award1 both bull and boat were acquitted1 it being proved that the tide of the river carried them both away2 upon which ,i gave it1 as my opinion1 that as the tide of the river carried both bull and boat away1 both bull and boat had a good action against the water-bailiff4 ,my opinion being taken1 an action was issued1 and1 upon the traverse1 this point of law arose3 how1 wherefore1 and whether1 why1 when1 and whatsoever1 whereas1 and whereby1 as the boat was not a compos mentis evidence1 how could an oath be administered8 ,that point was soon settled by ,boatum's attorney declaring1 that for his client he would swear any thing4 ,the water-bailiff's charter was then read1 taken out of the original law ,latin1 which set forth in their declaration1 that they were carried away either by the tide of flood1 or the tide of ebb1 the charter of the water-bailiff was as follows3 ,aqu bailiffi est magistratus in choisi1 sapor omnibus1 fishibus1 qui haberunt finnos et scalos1 claws1 shells1 et talos1 qui surmare in freshibus1 vel saltibus riveris1 lakos1 pondis1 canalibus et well boats1 sive oysteri1 shrimpini1 catinos1 sturgeoni1 shadini1 herringi1 crabi1 snaperini1 flatini1 sharkus2 that is1 not flat-fish alone1 but flats and sharps both together4 ,but now comes the nicety of the law1 the law is as nice as a new-laid egg1 and not to be understood by addle-headed people4 ,bullum and ,boatum mentioned both ebb and flood to avoid quibbling1 but it being proved that they were carried away1 neither by the flood1 nor by the tide of ebb1 but exactly upon the top of high water1 they were consequently nonsuited2 but such was the lenity and perfection of our laws1 that upon their paying all the costs1 they were allowed to begin again1 de novo4 ,,ge-,,lang6 ,,git ,,up6--,new ,orleans ,delta4 ,the drops of rain were falling fast1 ,when up through ,camp-street quickly pass'd1 ,an omnibus1 whose driver sung1 ,in accents of the ,celtic tongue-- ,ge-lang6 git up6 ,his mules were lank1 his whip was long2 ,he touch'd them with a biting thong1 ,and as they switch'd their threadbare tails1 ,this sound the listening ear assails-- ,ge-lang6 git up6 ,along the street1 on every side1 ,were damp ones waiting for a ride2 ,they call'd1 they yell'd1 they raised a fuss1 ,but cried the driver of the 'bus4 ,ge-lang6 git up6 ,hold on6 hold on6 an old man said1 ,and waved his hand above his head2 ,crack went the whip1 and all could hear ,a sharp sound echoing on the ear-- ,ge-lang6 git up6 ,stop1 driver1 stop6 a maiden call'd ,stop1 stop6 a dozen voices bawl'd ,the driver look'd on neither side1 ,but still in clarion voice replied-- ,ge-lang6 git up6 ,far up the street a sound was heard1 ,and through the distance came a word ,that fell on many a waiting soul ,like ,hope's lugubrious funeral toll-- ,ge-lang6 git up6 ,that night the driver went to bed2 ,all through his troubled sleep he said ,the same strange words which he had flung ,all day from his ,jehuic tongue-- ,ge-lang6 git up6 ,,the ,,rats ,,of ,,life4--,charles ,t4 ,congdon4 ,rats6 rats6 rats6 ,pen-and-ink rats in their holes on high1 ,writing libels for fools to buy2 ,squabbling ever--the same old tune-- ,the hinted lie1 or the broad lampoon6 ,rats whose virtue can never fail1 ,though each one carries his price on his tail2 ,some bite like scorpions--some like gnats2 ,know ye the names of the ,editor ,rats8 ,rats6 rats6 rats6 ,rats that the belfried churches nurse1 ,drearily drawling chapter and verse2 ,offering ever for human ills ,only the barren letter that kills2 ,gnawing the ,ark of the ,covenant through1 ,from velvet cushion to padded pew2 ,beating the dust to blind the flats6 ,know ye the names of the ,reverend ,rats8 ,rats6 rats6 rats6 ,rats in ermine holding moot1 ,with law in parcels at prices to suit2 ,shaping1 inventing to cover the case1 ,precedent musty or dictum base1 ,gad6 how they gibber to suitors below3 ,if so be it thus1 why then thus be it so6 ,leges non curant--verhum sat6 ,know ye the name of the ,legal ,rat8 ,rats6 rats6 rats6 ,rats in the ancient ,temple of ,mind-- ,mumbling maggots and munching rind6 ,scrubbing and patching1 splicing and jointing1 ,with particles ,greek and with ,hebrew pointing4 ,proving virtue itself a sin1 ,by a comma left out or a colon left in2 ,of guesses and glosses the autocrats3 ,know ye the names of the ,learned ,rats8 ,rats6 rats6 rats6 ,by beds where the dying pant for life6 ,how snug they stand with lancet and knife2 ,while the vampyre tugs at the fluttering heart1 ,how they jabber jargon of middle-aged art6 ,soothing pain when 'tis savage and strong ,by naming it something ,latin and long6 ,a grain of this and a scruple of that6-- ,know ye the name of the ,medical ,rat8 ,rats6 rats6 rats6 ,rats that run in the month of ,may ,rats of reform and right are they6 ,rats who believe the hottest of speeches ,soonest the shame and sorrow reaches2 ,generous rats whose chiefest delight ,is to set the order of ,providence right2 ,lean1 or hairy1 or greasy1 or fat1 ,know ye the name of the ,platform ,rat8 ,rats6 rats6 rats6 ,oh1 ,truth and ,justice1 and ,common-,sense ,when will you drive this rat-tribe hence8 ,bait 'em and beat 'em6 hurry 'em6 skurry 'em6 ,with satire and scorn and laughter flurry 'em6 ,in hole and corner and cranny to hide1 ,the ,flunkey ,rat1 and the ,rat of ,pride1 ,selfishness1 ,pedantry1 ,cant1 and all that1 ,till nobody hears of a single ,rat6 ,,the ,,creownin' ,,glory ,,of ,,the ,,united ,,states4--,knickerbocker ,magazine4 ,my ,hearers3--,my text ain't in ,worcester's ,pictorial1 nor ,webster's big quarto2 but it is in the columns of the ,bunkum ,flagstaff and ,independent ,echo--,edication is the ,creownin' ,glory of the ,united'n ,states'n4 ,thar ain't a feller in all this great and glorious ,republic but has studed readin'1 ritin'1 and 'rithmetic4 ,thar ain't a youngster so big that you couldn't drown him in a spit-box but what has read ,shakspeare's gogerphy1 and knows that all the world is a stage1 with two poles instead of one like a common stage2 and that it keeps goin' reound and reound on its own axis1 not axin' nothin' o' nobody2 for ,edication is the ,creownin' ,glory of the ,united'n ,states'n4 ,who was it that1 durin' the great and glorious ,revolution1 by his eloquence quenched the spirit of ,toryism8 ,an ,american citizen4 ,who was it that knocked thunder out of the clouds1 and took a streak o' greased lightnin' for a tail to his kite8 ,an ,american citizen4 ,who was it that invented the powder that will kill a cockroach1 if you put a little on its tail and then tread on it8 ,who was it that discovered the ,fat ,boy1 and captured the wild and ferocious ,what ,is ,it8 ,an ,american citizen6 ,oh1 it's a smashin' big thing to be an ,american citizen6 ,king ,david would have been an ,american citizen1 and the ,queen of ,sheba would have been naturalized1 if it could a bin did2 for ,edication is the ,creownin' ,glory of the ,united'n ,states'n4 ,when you and ,i shall be no more2 when this glorious ,union shall have gone to etarnal smash2 when ,barnum shall have secured his last curiosity at a great expense2 then will the historian dip his pen in a georgious bottle of blue-black ink1 and write--,edication was the ,creownin' ,glory of the ,united'n ,states'n4 ,,three ,,fools4--,c4 ,h4 ,spurgeon4 ,i will show you three fools4 ,one is yonder soldier1 who has been wounded on the field of battle--grievously wounded1 well-nigh unto death4 ,the soldier asks him a question4 ,listen1 and judge of his folly6 ,what question does he ask8 ,does he raise his eyes with eager anxiety and inquire if the wound be mortal1 if the practitioner's skill can suggest the means of healing1 or if the remedies are within reach and the medicine at hand8 ,no1 nothing of the sort4 ,strange to tell1 he asks3 ,can you inform me with what sword ,i was wounded1 and by what ,russian ,i have been thus grievously mauled8 ,i want1 he adds1 to learn every minute particular respecting the origin of my wound4 ,the man is delirious1 his head is affected6 ,surely such questions at such a time are proof enough that he is bereft of his senses4 ,there is another fool4 ,the storm is raging1 the ship is flying impetuously before the gale1 the dark scud moves swiftly overhead1 masts are creaking1 the sails are rent to rags1 and still the gathering tempest grows more fierce4 ,where is the captain8 ,is he busily engaged on the deck1 is he manfully facing the danger1 and skillfully suggesting means to avert it8 ,no1 sir1 he has retired to his cabin2 and there1 with studious thoughts and crazy fancies1 he is speculating on the place where this storm took its rise4 ,it is mysterious1 this wind2 no one ever yet1 he says1 has been able to discover it4 ,and so1 reckless of the vessel1 the lives of the passengers1 and his own life1 he is careful only to solve his curious question4 ,the man is mad1 sir2 take the rudder from his hand2 he is clean gone mad6 ,the third fool ,i shall doubtless find among yourselves4 ,you are sick and wounded with sin1 you are in a storm and hurricane of ,almighty vengeance1 and yet the question which you would ask of me this morning would be3 ,sir1 what is the origin of evil8 ,you are mad1 sir1 spiritually mad2 that is not the question you would ask if you were in a sane and healthy state of mind4 ,your question would be3 ,how can ,i get rid of the evil8 ,not1 ,how did it come into the world8 but1 ,how am ,i to escape from it8 ,not1 ,how is it that fire descended from heaven upon ,sodom8 but1 ,how may ,i1 like ,lot1 escape out of the city to a ,zoar8 ,not1 ,how is it that ,i am sick8 but1 ,are there medicines that will heal me8 ,is there a physician to be found that can restore my soul to health8 ,ah6 you trifle with subtleties1 while you neglect certainties4 ,,washington4--,hon4 ,thomas ,s4 ,bocock1 ,feb4 #bb;d1 #ahfj4 ,as certain vegetable products are the natural growth of particular soils1 at particular times1 so some men spring almost necessarily out of certain forms of civilization1 and stand as the representatives of the times and countries in which they live4 ,pericles1 able1 accomplished1 magnificent1 was the representative man of ,athens in the time of her highest civilization and prosperity4 ,richard ,i4 was the representative man of ,england in the days of chivalry1 and ,charles ,,ii4 in the days of gallantry4 ,these men could scarcely have lived in any other age or clime4 ,so ,washington could scarcely have had his existence in any other time or country4 ,he could no more have been an ,italian of the middle ages1 than ,machiavelli could have been an ,american1 or ,csar ,borgia an ,englishman3 no more than the ,parthenon could have been a ,gothic cathedral1 or ,westminster ,abbey a ,grecian temple4 ,he was at once the offspring and the type of ,american civilization at his time4 ,he was our great forest-bred cavalier1 with all the high honor of his ancestral stock of ,de ,wessingtons1 with all the hardy firmness of a pioneer1 and with all the kindly courtesy of his native ,state4 ,among the ,adamses and ,hancocks1 the ,lees and ,henrys1 the ,sumpters and ,rutledges of that day1 he stood forth prominently as the representative man1 and as the exemplar of our ,revolution1 just as that triplex monstrosity of ,danton1 ,marat1 and ,robespierre1 was the exemplar of the ,french4 ,he was a man of firm adherence to principle4 ,we fought for principle in the revolutionary struggle4 ,he was a man of signal moderation4 ,such was the spirit of our contest4 ,he had great self-control4 ,unlike other revolutions1 ours advanced not one step beyond the point proposed4 ,having reached that1 it subsided as easily1 as gracefully1 and as quietly as though the voice of ,omnipotence itself had spoken to the great deep of our society1 saying3 ,peace1 be still4 ,could he have lived in ancient days1 the strains of immortal verse would have told his deeds1 and fond adherents would have numbered him among the gods4 ,those days are past2 but we have yet hearts to admire1 and pens to record1 and tongues to praise his private virtues and his public worth4 ,and when century after century shall have rolled by1 bearing its fruits into the bosom of the past2 even when men shall look back to this time1 through the haze and mist of a remote and far-off antiquity1 if this shall still be a land of freemen1 this day shall still be fondly cherished as the anniversary of the birth of ,washington2 increased reverence shall attend his character1 and thickening honors shall cluster around his name4 ,upon this representative and similitude of the great and honored dead1 which we this day put forth before the world1 the winds shall blow1 the rains shall fall1 and the storms shall beat1 but it shall stand unhurt amid them all4 ,so shall it be with the fame of him whose image it is4 ,the breath of unfriendly criticism may blow upon it2 the storms that betoken moral or social change may break upon it2 but it shall stand firmly fixed in the hearts and memories of every true and honest and liberty-loving man who inhabits our land or cherishes our institutions4 ,the inhabitants of this city1 as they behold this statue1 day after day1 will look upon it as the ,palladium of their privileges1 and the silent guardian of their prosperity4 ,and the thousands and tens of thousands1 that from every nation1 kingdom1 and tongue1 yearly go forth to gaze upon and admire the wonders of the earth1 when they shall come up to this ,mecca of the mind1 shall pause with reverential awe1 as they gaze upon this similitude of the mighty ,washington4 ,year after year shall that dumb image tell its eloquent story of patriotism1 devotion1 and self-sacrifice2 year after year shall it teach its holy lesson of duty and of faith2 with generation after generation shall it plead for institutions founded in wisdom1 and a country bought with blood4 ,to the clouds and storms that gather over and break upon it1 it will tell of the clouds and storms through which its great antitype did pass1 in his devoted course on earth2 and when the great luminary of the heavens1 descending with his golden shower of beams like imperial ,jove1 shall wrap it in its warm embrace1 it shall tell the sun that ,he who gave him his beams and bade him shine1 has decreed that one day the darkness of eternal night shall settle on his face2 but then the spirit of the mighty ,washington1 basking in an eternal sunlight above1 shall still ,a darkening universe defy1 ,to quench his immortality1 ,or shake his trust in ,god4 ,,the ,,same4 ,think1 then1 of the eminent statesmen whose talents have illustrated and qualities ennobled their age and country4 ,i will not attempt to name them2 but who is there among them all who1 having the wisdom always to perceive1 ,lad1 at the same time1 the sense of duty to carry out1 the best interests of the country8 ,consider1 if you please1 how ,richelieu lived1 and how ,wolsey died2 and tell me1 then1 if these were such as ,washington4 ,i will not equal him with the ,scripture patriarchs4 ,it would be wrong so to do4 ,what of mere mortality could equal the firmness of ,moses1 as he came down from ,sinai1 his face all glowing from the presence of his ,god8 ,what could equal the faith of ,abraham1 as he tracked his lonely pilgrimage through the plains of ,shinar1 seeking a land that he knew not of8 ,these pictures have a far-off1 haze-enveloped1 oriental background4 ,they are drawn with the pencil of inspiration1 and colored with the hues of heaven4 ,i could not say that they correctly represent ,washington in any phase of his character4 ,but ,i will say that1 in duty and in faith1 he approached them more nearly than any other hero-statesman of whom ,i have any knowledge4 ,i would not deal in any exaggeration1 but ,i desire to be just4 ,washington may have had ambition1 but it was not of that stamp that made the angels fall4 ,he loved popularity1 but not to gratify a vulgar vanity4 ,his ambition was for his country's good4 ,he took office to achieve a great end4 ,when that was accomplished1 he withdrew gladly to that retirement which was ever grateful to his heart1 and which1 in all circumstances and conditions in which he might be placed1 always stretched out before him1 in the future1 as the calm and peaceful haven of his hopes4 ,had he been less a good man1 he would not thus have desired retirement1 for none but a good man could so love the calm delights of privacy and the pure joys of the domestic circle and the family fireside4 ,had he been not so much a great one1 he would never have left his home4 ,strange decree of fate6 that in this ,western world1 but recently known to civilization1 and only partially reclaimed from the savages2 over which the dull oblivion of unnumbered centuries had not yet ceased to brood2 without literature1 without polite arts1 without settled social organization1 without position among nations--that in such a land1 almost unknown and utterly uncared for1 there should have arisen a man who was destined to equal1 in the estimation of the virtuous and the good1 all ancient glory and all modern fame4 ,the verdict of the ,french philosopher1 ,guizot1 pronounced in view of his whole record1 was1 that of all great men he was the most virtuous and the most fortunate--in this world ,god has no higher favors to bestow2 while the great ,english orator1 jurist1 and statesman1 ,lord ,brougham1 has declared that until time shall be no more1 will a test of the progress which our race has made in wisdom and virtue be derived from the veneration paid to the immortal name of ,washington4 ,,the ,,same4 ,had ,washington never lived1 what would have been the result of our revolutionary struggle8 ,had he died immediately after the close of the war1 what would have been the fate of our governmental experiment8 ,these are speculations which it will never be allowed us1 in this life1 to solve4 ,as1 in the one case1 we can not say that the struggle would not ultimately have ended triumphantly1 so1 in the other1 we do not know that our present form of government would not have been successfully established4 ,for myself1 ,i doubt the latter proposition fully as much as the former4 ,under another man1 as first ,president1 the fury of party strife would have been far greater1 and sectional discord much stronger4 ,insurrectionary movements would have been more numerous and difficult of suppression1 and foreign jealousy more bold and effective4 ,though the ship of state may have ultimately made the port1 it is certain that she would have encountered more adverse currents1 and been tossed upon more tempestuous seas4 ,the political tempest which was passing over the country at the time of his death1 gives some faint idea of what might have been expected1 without him1 in the earlier and more unsettled state of our institutions4 ,the immortal legacy which1 in his ,farewell ,address1 he gave to the country on his final retirement1 has already exhausted eulogy4 ,the patriot heart has often kindled over it in the past1 and will do so forever in the future4 ,it will go down to the remotest posterity which shall inhabit this land of liberty1 as an inestimable compend of whatever is true in wisdom1 holy in patriotism1 and far-seeing in statesmanship4 ,would that its doctrines were not only infused into every mind1 but engraved upon every heart6 ,would that its lesson of equal laws involving equal burdens and equal benefits1 equal duties and equal protection1 and of strict regard for constitutional limitation in all cases1 was made the basis of all our political action6 ,then1 indeed1 would party feuds and sectional animosities be allayed4 ,a spirit of mutual respect and fraternal concord would fill the land with the fruits of peace1 prosperity1 and happiness4 ,with all our fertile soil1 salubrious climate1 skillful industry1 and enriching trade1 this only is needed to usher in1 amid shouts of triumph and songs of rejoicing1 the political millennium of our land4 ,now1 though withdrawn from public position1 his controlling sense of duty made ,washington still anxious for his country1 and ready to render any service which might appear incumbent on him4 ,so1 when it seemed that a war with ,france was inevitable1 old man as he was1 enshrined as he was in the hearts of his countrymen1 with nothing more of fame to attain1 and nothing more of glory to covet1 from a pure sense of duty1 he agreed to take charge of the armies of the nation1 and to imperil life1 reputation1 every thing1 for his country's good4 ,the occasion for his services did not arise2 but the certainty that it would not was scarcely manifest1 when death came to summon him to the mansions of eternal rest4 ,it is allowed to few men to carry on a revolution1 and to see it successfully terminated in the independence of a nation4 ,fewer still1 perhaps1 are permitted to inaugurate a new government1 and witness its firm establishment in the freedom of the people4 ,washington had the singular good fortune to do both1 and to die at last at home and in the bosom of his family4 ,hero6 ,patriot6 ,sage6 ,if there be one title more pure1 more lofty1 more noble than all others1 by that title ,i would name him4 ,to whom shall we liken him1 or with whom shall he be compared8 ,there is the long list of military heroes1 in ancient and modern times4 ,let them pass in solemn procession across the stage1 each bearing the light of his past life1 like the solemn procession of torch-bearers in the sacred mysteries of ,eleusis4 ,gaze on them as they pass6 ,great1 illustrious1 resplendent6 ,there are ,alexander and ,hannibal1 ,scylla and ,csar1 ,charlemagne and ,marlborough1 ,bonaparte and ,wellington4 ,which one of them all that has not a record marked by some weakness1 or marred by some crime8 ,love of glory1 lust of dominion1 or greed of gain1 is written by the pen of history upon the escutcheon of all4 ,,our ,,great ,,inheritance4--,john ,j4 ,crittenden1 #ahfj4 ,we have the greatest country on the face of the earth4 ,let not our minds be so distracted by mere party strife and confusion that we shall see our government fall to pieces before our eyes1 and sacrifice our country to our party instead of being ready at all times to sacrifice our party to our country4 ,after we become the slave of party1 we dare not1 in the presence of any danger to the country1 turn our backs to our parties1 and say that we have a country that demands our services1 and to it will we give them4 ,are we now unable to do this8 ,have we lost this spirit8 has it gone from among us8 ,providence has given this great country to us4 ,our wise and valiant forefathers gave us liberty and established a government for us4 ,let us take care of it--take care of the ,constitution and the ,union4 ,that is all we require4 ,we have before us the prospect of a glory unknown to other nations--a prospect in which our land will become the glory of the earth4 ,neither ,rome nor any of the great empires of antiquity or of modern times can compare with what we shall be at no distant day4 ,we are now thirty millions strong1 yet we have been but eighty years in existence as a free nation4 ,from the year #aggf down to the present time1 ,god ,almighty has blessed us above all other people and all other nations4 ,where shall we be thirty years hence1 if such prosperity attend us8 ,a great nation of one hundred million souls1 with not enough then to develop all our resources4 ,every man free to think1 free to speak1 free to act1 free to work4 ,what must this mighty freedom produce with this mighty concurrence of hearts1 of heads1 of hands6 ,what navies1 what armies1 what cities6 ,let us lift ourselves to the contemplation of what our children will be4 ,shall we not leave them a legacy as great as that our fathers left us8 ,let the contemplation of the mighty destinies involved in our ,confederacy engage us until we absorb the genius of this ,republic and its ,constitution4 ,let it enter into all our motives of public action1 that we may no longer be the tools and slaves of parties1 of party platforms1 and of party conventions4 ,,eulogium ,,on ,,henry ,,clay4--,lincoln1 #aheb4 ,on the #dth day of ,july1 #aggf1 the people of a few feeble and oppressed colonies of ,great ,britain1 inhabiting a portion of the ,atlantic coast of ,north ,america1 publicly declared their ,national ,independence1 and made their appeal to the justice of their cause1 and to the ,god of battles1 for the maintenance of that declaration4 ,that people were few in numbers1 and without resources1 save only their wise heads and stout hearts4 ,within the first year of that declared independence1 and while its maintenance was yet problematic--while the bloody struggle between those resolute rebels and their haughty would-be masters1 was still waging1 of undistinguished parents1 and in an obscure district of one of those colonies1 ,henry ,clay was born4 ,the infant nation and the infant child began the race together4 ,for three-quarters of a century they have traveled hand in hand4 ,they have been companions ever4 ,the nation has passed its peril1 and is free1 prosperous1 and powerful4 ,the child has reached his manhood1 his middle age1 his old age1 and is dead4 ,in all that has concerned the nation the man ever sympathized1 and now the nation mourns for the man4 ,but do we realize that ,henry ,clay is dead8 ,who can realize that never again that majestic form shall rise in the council-chamber of his country1 to beat back the storms of anarchy which may threaten1 or pour the oil of peace upon the troubled billows1 as they rage and menace around8 ,who can realize that the workings of that mighty mind have ceased--that the throbbings of that gallant heart are stilled--that the mighty sweep of that graceful arm will be felt no more1 and the magic of that eloquent tongue1 which spake as spake no other tongue besides1 is hushed--hushed forever8 ,who can realize that freedom's champion--the champion of a civilized world1 and of all tongues and kindred and people1 has indeed fallen8 ,alas6 in those dark hours of peril and dread which our land has experienced1 and which she may be called to experience again--to whom now may her people look up for that counsel and advice1 which only wisdom and experience and patriotism can give1 and which only the undoubting confidence of a nation will receive8 ,but ,henry ,clay is dead4 ,his long and eventful life is closed4 ,our country is prosperous and powerful2 but could it have been quite all it has been1 and is1 and is to be1 without ,henry ,clay8 ,such a man the times have demanded1 and such1 in the ,providence of ,god1 was given us4 ,but although his form is lifeless1 his name will live and be loved and venerated in both hemispheres4 ,for it is ,one of the few1 the immortal names1 ,that were not born to die4 ,,ohio4--,bancroft's ,oration at ,cleveland1 ,sept4 #ajth1 #ahfj4 ,ohio rises before the world as the majestic witness to beneficent reality of the democratic principle4 ,a commonwealth younger in years than he who addresses you1 not long ago having no visible existence but in the emigrant wagons1 now numbers almost as large a population as that of all ,england when it gave birth to ,raleigh1 and ,bacon1 and ,shakspeare1 and began1 its continuous attempts at colonizing ,america4 ,each one of her inhabitants gladdens in the fruit of his own toil4 ,she possesses wealth that must be computed by thousands of millions2 and her frugal1 industrious1 and benevolent people1 at once daring and prudent1 unfettered in the use of their faculties1 restless in enterprise1 do not squander the accumulations of their industry in vain show1 but ever go on to render the earth more productive1 more beautiful1 and more convenient to man2 mastering for mechanical purposes the unwasting forces of nature2 keeping exemplary good faith with their public creditors2 building in half a century more churches than all ,england has raised since this continent was discovered2 endowing and sustaining universities and other seminaries of learning4 ,conscious of the dynamic power of mind in action as the best of fortresses1 ,ohio keeps no standing army but that of her school-teachers1 of whom she pays more than #bj1jjj2 she provides a library for every school-district2 she counts among her citizens more than #cjj1jjj men who can bear arms1 and she has more than twice that number of children registered as students in her public schools4 ,here the purity of domestic morals is maintained by the virtue and dignity of woman4 ,in the heart of the temperate zone of this continent1 in the land of the corn1 of wheat1 and the vine1 the eldest daughter of the ,ordinance of #aghg1 already the young mother of other commonwealths1 that bid fair to vie with her in beauty1 rises in her loveliness and glory1 crowned with cities1 and challenges the admiration of the world4 ,hither should come the political skeptic1 who1 in his despair1 is ready to strand the ship of state2 for here he may learn how to guide it safely on the waters4 ,should some modern ,telemachus1 heir to an island empire1 touch these shores1 here he may observe the vitality and strength of the principle of popular power2 take from the book of experience the lesson that in public affairs great and happy results follow in proportion to faith in the efficacy of that principle1 and learn to rebuke ill-advised counselors who pronounce the most momentous and most certain of political truths a delusion and a failure4 ,,oliver ,,hazard ,,perry4--,ibid4 ,this anniversary of the great action of ,oliver ,hazard ,perry is set apart for inaugurating a monument to his fame4 ,who has not heard how gallantly1 forty-seven years ago1 the young hero1 still weak from a wasting fever1 led his squadron to battle8 ,as if shielded by a higher power1 he encountered death on his right hand1 and death on his left1 ever in advance1 almost alone for two hours fighting his ship1 till it became a wreck1 so that but one of its guns could be used any longer1 and more than four-fifths of his crew lay around him wounded or killed2 then unharmed1 standing as beseemed his spirit1 he passed in a boat to the uninjured ,niagara1 unfurled his flag1 bore down within pistol-shot of his enemy1 poured into them broadsides starboard and broadsides port1 and while the sun was still high above the horizon1 left no office to be done but that of mercy to the vanquished4 ,if the comparison does not seem fanciful1 ,i will call his conduct during those eventful hours a complete lyric poem1 perfect in all its parts4 ,though he was carried away and raised above himself by the power with which he was possessed1 the passion of his inspiration was tempered by the serene self-possession of his faultless courage2 his will had the winged rapidity of fiery thought1 and yet observed with deliberateness the combinations of harmony and the proportions of measured order4 ,nor may you omit due honors to the virtues of the unrecorded dead2 not as mourners who require consolation1 but with a clear perception of the glory of their end4 ,the debt of nature all must pay4 ,to die1 if need be1 in defense of the country is a common obligation2 it is granted to few to exchange life for a victory so full of benefits to their fellow-men4 ,these are the disinterested1 unnamed martyrs1 who1 without hope1 or fame1 or gain1 gave up their lives in testimony to the all pleading love of country1 and left to our statesmen the lesson to demand of others nothing but what is right1 and to submit to no wrong4 ,we have met the enemy1 were ,perry's words as he reported the result of the battle4 ,and who was that enemy8 ,a nation speaking another tongue8 ,a state abandoned to the caprices of despotism8 ,a people inimical to human freedom8 ,no6 they were the nation from whom most of us sprung1 using the same copious language1 cherishing after their fashion the love of liberty1 enjoying internally the freest government that the world had known before our own4 ,but the external policy of their government has been less controlled by regard for right than their domestic administration2 and a series of wanton aggression1 upon us1 useless to ,england1 condemned by her own statesmen and judges as violations of the law of nature and the law of nations1 forced into a conflict two peoples whose common sympathies should never have been disturbed4 ,and is this aggressive system forever to be adventured by her rulers8 ,how long is the overshadowing aristocratic element in her government to stand between the natural affections of kindred nations4 ,,our ,,domain4--,ibid4 ,even now a ,british minister1 whose past career gave hope of a greater fairness1 is renewing the old system of experiments on the possible contingency of the pusillanimity1 the indifference1 or the ignorance of some future ,american administration1 and disputes our boundary in the ,northwest1 though the words of the treaty are too plain to be perverted1 and though the ,united ,states claims no more than the ,british secretary of state1 who offered the treaty1 explained as its meaning before it was signed4 ,british soldiers are now encamped on part of our territory which bears the name of ,washington4 ,with a moderation that should have commanded respect1 the ,united ,states waived their better claim to ,vancouver1 and even to any part of it1 thinking it conducive to peace to avoid two jurisdictions on different parts of the same island2 and in return for this forbearance the ,british ,minister1 yielding perhaps to some selfish clamor of a trading company1 as much against ,british interests as against ,american rights1 reproduces on an ,american island the inconvenience of divided occupation1 which it was the very purpose of the treaty to avoid4 ,if the hum of the ,american seaboard is in part the echo of sentiments from abroad1 here the unmixed voice of ,america may be heard1 as it pronounces that it is too late to wrest territory from the ,united ,states by prevarication1 by menace1 or by force4 ,from the ,english dockyards it is a long voyage to ,san ,juan2 the only good land route across the continent lies south of ,lake ,superior2 in a few years there will be three ,ohios on the shores of the ,pacific4 ,it is ,england's interest as well as duty to give effect to the treaty as it was interpreted by her own minister to ours4 ,your voices on this memorable day give the instruction to our own ,government to abide by the treaty faithfully1 on the condition that ,britain will do the same2 but the treaty must bind neither party or both--must be executed in good faith or canceled4 ,the men who honor the memory of ,perry will always know how to defend the domain of their country4 ,has any ,european statesman been miscounting the strength of this nation1 by substituting a reminiscence of our feeble confederation for the present efficient and almost perfect organism of the body politic8 ,has any foreign ruler been so foolish as to listen with credulity to the tales of impending disunion8 ,every man of the people of ,ohio1 this great central highway of national travel1 will1 without one exception1 tell the calumniator or the unbeliever that the voices of discontent among us are but the evanescent vapor of men's breath2 that our little domestic strifes are no more than momentary disturbances on the surface1 easily settled among ourselves2 that the love of ,union has wound its cords indissolubly round the whole ,american people4 ,so1 then1 our last word shall be for the ,union4 ,the ,union will guard the fame of its defenders1 and ever more protect our entire territory2 it will keep alive for mankind1 the beacon lights of popular liberty and power2 it will dissuade nations in a state of unripeness from attempting to found republican governments before they spring up naturally by an inward law2 and its mighty heart will throb with delight at every true advance in any part of the world1 toward republican happiness and freedom4 ,,systems ,,of ,,belief4--,rev4 ,w4 ,h4 ,milburn1 #ahfj4 ,pleasure is right1 and right is pleasure2 and hence comes the system of ,epicurus4 ,epicurus fasted because it gave him an exquisite taste and enjoyment of his meal2 ,epicurus slept not unduly because with his waking he found his intellect balanced and his physique refreshed4 ,he awaked and remained awake1 in order that his slumber might bring him quiet and repose4 ,thus starting from his condition we come very naturally to the luxury of the ,sybarite1 where the crimson wine sparkles and obscenity riots1 and where the forms of vice and beastly debauchery flourish1 in the saloons1 the gambling-houses1 and drinking-shops of this city4 ,in all the forms of impurity and sensuality you have the practical life of this ,epicurean philosophy3 virtue is pleasure2 therefore1 pleasure is virtue1 and wherever there is wrong done to our nature1 by the gratification of our animal passions2 wherever ,god's law is degraded and man's nature reduced to the level of the brute--you have the practical exposition of the tenets of the system4 ,upon the other hand1 the system of ,zeno seems to stand in direct opposition1 in antipodal relations to that of ,epicurus4 ,virtue sufficeth1 says ,zeno4 ,virtue is the law of the universe2 the universe is law1 law and law only4 ,dead1 mechanical force1 iron necessity2 the sweep of fatalism in its terrific circle2 this1 and nothing more4 ,no pulse of pity2 no heart of tenderness2 no thought of ,god in all the sweep of imagination or circle of reason4 ,i1 man1 am a microcosm1 a synopsis of all the laws and facts of the universe2 ,i am not only part and parcel of it1 but an image and reflection of it2 virtue is resident in the mind1 and has nothing to do with pain or pleasure4 ,pain and pleasure are of the senses and are wholly alien to the understanding1 says ,zeno4 ,i am to be master of all suffering4 ,what care ,i for infirmity8 ,i stand here the noblest being in the whole creation2 may ,i not be master of that creation8 ,the brutes may writhe in their ecstasy of pain1 they may shriek in the fearful spasms of their suffering2 but ,i1 a man1 that seem to be a mirror of creation1 may ,i not be master of these agonies1 and stand1 with folded arms1 disdainful of every sort of sorrow1 of all pangs of pity1 or tenderness1 or affection8 of what is called friendship1 love8 ,these things are the whimpering sentimentalities of women and children1 and ,i have nothing to do with them4 ,the folded arms1 the clenched fist1 the tightly drawn lips1 be mine2 and if pain become too strong for suffering there is a portal which my own hand can open2 it swings apart obedient to my poignard1 and suicide is my resort2 therefore apathy is the perfection of human character2 a deadness of sentiment1 a hardihood of courage1 a noble daring1 a port of pride1 a disdainful mien--these are what become the intellect as the master of the earth4 ,therefore1 my brain is to be all crystal1 my heart of adamant4 ,such is the ,stoical system4 ,in both there was much of beauty and ingenuity1 of philosophical insight and depth1 largeness of conception1 fullness and admirableness of treatment4 ,but they both1 in common with all other systems1 aside and apart from our holy faith1 lacked one master-power2 the great power of the heart1 which appeals to the heart of the whole earth4 ,i might convince your understanding of the propriety of ,epicureanism1 of the grandeur and nobleness of ,stoicism2 ,i might warm you in this direction2 ,i might chill you in that2 but when ,i speak to that part of your nature which is deeper and nobler than the intellect2 when ,i come to ask the suffrage of a simple human nature1 ,i must be armed with a sublimer word than the language of either4 ,take ,christianity in comparison with them2 it teaches that there is consistency and coherency between virtue and pleasure1 but that ,i am to be loyal to virtue4 ,it unites the opposite systems of ,epicurus and ,zeno2 it takes their half-truths and solidifies and unites them in one complete full-orbed and rounded whole4 ,,the ,,indian ,,chief4 ,the following poem is founded on a traditionary story which is common on the borders of the great ,falls of ,niagara1 although differing in some unimportant particulars4 ,the rain fell in torrents1 the thunder roll'd deep1 ,and silenced the cataract's roar2 ,but neither the night1 nor the tempest could keep ,the warrior chieftain on shore4 ,the war-shout has sounded1 the stream must be cross'd ,why lingers the leader afar8 ',twere better his life than his glory be lost2 ,he never came late to the war4 ,he seized a canoe as he sprang from the rock1 ,but fast as the shore fled his reach1 ,the mountain wave seem'd all his efforts to mock1 ,and dash'd the canoe on the beach4 ,great ,spirit1 he cried shall the battle be given1 ,and all but their leader be there8 ,may this struggle land me with them or in heaven6 ,and he push'd with the strength of despair4 ,he has quitted the shore1 he has gained the deep2 ,his guide is the lightning alone6 ,but he felt not with fast1 irresistible sweep1 ,the rapids were bearing him down6 ,but the cataract's roar with the thunder now vied2 ,oh1 what is the meaning of this8 ,he spoke1 and just turn'd to the cataract's side1 ,as the lightning flash'd down the abyss4 ,all the might of his arm to one effort was given1 ,at self-preservation's command2 ,but the treacherous oar with the effort was riven1 ,and the fragment remain'd in his hand4 ,be it so1 cried the warrior1 taking his seat1 ,and folding his bow to his breast2 ,let the cataract shroud my pale corpse with its sheet1 ,and its roar lull my spirit to rest4 ,the prospect of death with the brave ,i have borne1 ,i shrink not to bear it alone2 ,i have often faced death when the hope was forlorn1 ,but ,i shrink not to face him with none4 ,the thunder was hush'd1 and the battle-field stain'd1 ,when the sun met the war-wearied eye1 ,but no trace of the boat1 or the chieftain remain'd1 ,though his bow was still seen in the sky4 ,,the ,,independent ,,farmer4--,w4 ,w4 ,fosdick4 ,let sailors sing the windy deep1 ,let soldiers praise their armor4 ,but in my heart this toast ,i'll keep1 ,the ,independent ,farmer3 ,when first the rose1 in robe of green1 ,unfolds its crimson lining1 ,and round his cottage porch is seen ,the honeysuckle twining2 ,when banks of bloom their sweetness yield1 ,to bees that gather honey1 ,he drives his team across the field1 ,where skies are soft and sunny4 ,the blackbird clucks behind his plow1 ,the quail pipes loud and clearly2 ,yon orchard hides behind its bough ,the home he loves so dearly2 ,the gray1 old barn1 whose doors enfold ,his ample store in measure1 ,more rich than heaps of hoarded gold1 ,a precious1 blessed treasure2 ,but yonder in the porch there stands ,his wife1 the lovely charmer1 ,the sweetest rose on all his lands-- ,the ,independent ,farmer4 ,to him the spring comes dancing gay1 ,to him the summer blushes2 ,the autumn smiles with mellow ray1 ,his sleep old winter hushes4 ,he cares not how the world may move1 ,no doubts or fears confound him2 ,his little flock are link'd in love1 ,and household angels round him2 ,he trusts in ,god and loves his wife1 ,nor grief nor ill may harm her1 ,he's nature's noble man in life-- ,the ,independent ,farmer4 ,,mrs4 ,,grammar',s ,,ball4--,anon4 ,mrs4 ,grammar she gave a ball ,to the nine different parts of ,speech1-- ,to the big and the tall1 ,to the short and the small1 ,there were pies1 plums1 and puddings for each4 ,and first1 little ,articles came1 ,in a hurry to make themselves known-- ,fat ,a1 ,an1 and ,the1 ,but none of the three ,could stand for a minute alone4 ,then ,adjectives came to announce ,that their dear friends the ,nouns were at hand4 ,rough1 ,rougher1 and ,roughest1 ,tough1 ,tougher1 and ,toughest1 ,fat1 ,merry1 ,good-natured1 and ,grand4 ,the ,nouns were1 indeed1 on their way-- ,ten thousand and more1 ,i should think2 ,for each name that we utter-- ,shop1 ,shoulder1 and ,shutter-- ,is a ,noun3 ,lady1 ,lion1 and ,link4 ,the ,pronouns were following fast ,to push the ,nouns out of their places1-- ,i1 ,thou1 ,you1 and ,me1 ,we1 ,they1 ,he1 and ,she1 ,with their merry1 good-humor'd old faces4 ,some cried out--,make way for the ,verbs6 ,a great crowd is coming in view-- ,to ,bite and to ,smite1 ,and to ,light and to ,fight1 ,to ,be1 and to ,have1 and to ,do4 ,the ,adverbs attend on the ,verbs1 ,behind them as footmen they run2 ,as thus3--,to fight ,badly1 ,they run away ,gladly1 ,shows how fighting and running were done4 ,prepositions came--,in1 ,by1 and ,near1 ,with ,conjunctions1 a poor little band1 ,as--,either you ,or me1 ,but ,neither them ,nor he ,they held their great friends by the hand4 ,then1 with ,hip1 ,hip1 ,hurra6 ,hushed ,interjections uproarious-- ,oh1 dear6 ,well-a-day6 ,when they saw the display1 ,ha6 ha6 they all shouted out1 ,glorious6 ,but1 alas1 what misfortunes were nigh6 ,while the fun and the feastings pleased each1 ,there pounced in at once ,a monster--a ,dunce1 ,and confounded the ,nine parts of ,speech6 ,help1 friends6 to the rescue6 on you ,for aid ,noun and ,article call1-- ,oh1 give your protection ,to poor ,interjection1 ,verb1 ,adverb1 ,conjunction1 and all6 ,,how ,,the ,,money ,,comes4 ,queer ,john has sung1 how money goes1 ,but how it comes1 who knows8 ,who knows8 ,why every ,yankee mother's son ,can tell you how the thing is done4 ,it comes by honest toil and trade2 ,by wielding sledge and driving spade1 ,and building ships1 balloons1 and drums2 ,and that's the way the money comes4 ,how does it come8 ,why1 as it goes1 ,by spinning1 weaving1 knitting hose1 ,by stitching shirts and coats for ,jews1 ,erecting churches1 renting pews1 ,and manufacturing boots and shoes2 ,for thumps and twists1 and cuts and hues1 ,and heads and hearts1 tongues1 lungs1 and thumbs ,and that's the way the money comes4 ,how does it come8 ,the way is plain-- ,by raising cotton1 corn1 and cane2 ,by wind and steam1 lightning and rain2 ,by guiding ships across the main2 ,by building bridges1 roads1 and dams1 ,and sweeping streets1 and digging clams1 ,with whistles1 hi's6 ho's6 and hums6 ,and that's the way the money comes4 ,the money comes--how did ,i say8 ,not always in an honest way4 ,it comes by trick as well as toil1 ,but how is that8 why1 slick as oil1-- ,by putting peas in coffee-bags2 ,by swapping watches1 knives1 and nags1 ,and peddling wooden clocks and plums2 ,and that's the way the money comes4 ,how does it come8--wait1 let me see1 ,it very seldom comes to me2 ,it comes by rule ,i guess1 and seale1 ,sometimes by riding on a rail1 ,but oftener1 that's the way it goes ,from silly belles and fast young beaux2 ,it comes in big1 nay1 little sums1 ,ay6 that's the way the money comes4 ,,the ,,future ,,of ,,the ,,fashions4--,punch4 ,there was a time when girls wore hoops of steel1 ,and with gray powder used to drug their hair1 ,bedaub'd their cheeks with rouge2 white lead1 or meal1 ,added1 to stimulate complexions fair2 ,whereof by contrast to enhance the grace1 ,specks of court-plaster deck'd the female face4 ,that fashion pass'd away1 and then were worn ,dresses whose skirts came scarce below the knee1 ,with waists girt round the shoulder-blades1 and scorn1 ,now pointed at the prior finery1 ,when here and there some antiquated dame ,still wore it1 to afford her juniors game4 ,short waists departed2 ,taste awhile prevail'd ,till ugly ,folly's reign return'd once more1 ,and ladies then went draggle-tail'd2 ,and now they wear hoops also1 as before4 ,paint1 powder1 patches1 nasty and absurd1 ,they'd wear as well1 if ,france had spoke the word4 ,young bucks and beauties1 ye who now deride ,the reasonable dress of other days2 ,when time your forms shall have puffed out or dried1 ,then on your present portraits you will gaze1 ,and say what dowdies1 frights1 and guys you were1 ,with their more precious figures to compare4 ,think1 if you live till you are lean or fat1 ,your features blurred1 your eyes bedimm'd with age1 ,your limbs have stiffen'd2 feet grown broad and flat3 ,you may see other garments all the rage1 ,preposterous as even that attire ,which you in mirrors now so much admire4 ,,loyalty ,,to ,,liberty ,,our ,,only ,,hope4--,bishop ,whipple1 of ,minnesota4 ,the love of country is the gift of ,god--it can not dwell in homes of sin1 it has no abiding place in saloons of vice or dens of infamy1 it belongs not to infidel clubs or fanatical conventions1 they would tear down the sacred edifice which they have never loved2 they are impatient for change1 for in the seething caldron of rebellion they are brought to the surface4 ,with nothing to lose1 they have no fear of the days of terror2 their only dread is in the majesty of the law4 ,the love of country belongs to a ,god-fearing people2 it is seen in the purity of private life1 in the privacy of ,christian homes1 in the devotions of the closet1 in the manliness of ,christian character4 ,the church is its nursing mother4 ,loyalty to ,god and to ,his institutions is her first and last lesson2 it is the earnest cry of her loyal children that peace and happiness1 truth and justice1 religion and piety may be established among us for all generations4 ,the love of country belongs to loyal men4 ,the power of self-government depends upon a loyal people4 ,the protection of the nation depends not on the wisdom of its senators1 not on the vigilance of its police1 not on the strong arm of standing armies3 but the loyalty of a united people4 ,other nations have equaled us in all the arts of civilization1 in discoveries1 in science1 in skill1 and in invention2 they have kept even step with us and often surpassed us in philosophy and literature2 they have been brave in war and wise in council2 they have clustered around their homes all that art can lavish of beauty--but ripe scholarship1 cunning in art1 or skill in invention1 never gave to the people a constitution4 ,this is the outgrowth of a manly spirit of loyalty4 ,it teaches men duty--a right manly word for right manly men4 ,loyalty was ,god's gift to our fathers2 it was learned in the hard school of adversity1 and by self-denial and suffering inwrought into the nation's life2 it grew up in the sheltered valleys and on the rocky hillsides of ,new ,england1 it was cradled in ,virginia1 in ,new ,york1 in the ,carolinas1 among the patricians of ,virginia2 it gave to the world a ,washington1 and from the shop1 the store1 the farm1 and professional life there sprung up from the people many who shared his spirit to become the founders of the ,republic4 ,,our ,,country ,,first1 ,,last1 ,,and ,,always4--,ibid4 ,the first defense to any people is in the love of country4 ,the nation is one great family1 with one common interest1 welfare1 and destiny2 a nation dwelling together in love must be a happy people4 ,kindness begets kindness1 and love awakens love2 this is that magic touch which makes the world of kin4 ,a confederacy like ours can not be held together by the strong arm of a central government2 if the band of unity is gone1 such a union is no whit better than a rope of sand4 ,the danger which besets us is not in individual sins which fasten on the body politic--we may labor with forbearance and firmness for their removal4 ,our danger lies in that spirit of selfishness and self-will which forgets brotherhood and ,god4 ,in a nation like ours1 with its countless differing interests of rival productions1 its conflicts of trade and sectional rivalries of commerce1 we must differ on questions of public policy2 but it may be the manly difference of manly men4 ,never did men differ more widely than the fathers of the republic1 never did earnest hearts battle with more zeal for their rival interests1 nor contend more fiercely inch by inch in political struggles4 ,never did the rallying cry of parties take a deeper hold on its liege-men1 or braver shouts of triumph herald in its victory4 ,but there was a deeper love of country1 which made the brotherhood of a nation1 and a charity which more respected the opinions of those from whom they differ4 ,the ,christian patriot dare not close his eye to the evils which mar the nation2 for their removal he will work and pray1 but never with rash hand tear down the sacred edifice of the ,constitution1 because some stains deface its walls4 ,the query may well arise whether we are not fast reaching the time when the question is not of the right or wrong of this or that legislation1 the benefit of this or that public policy1 but whether this or that party shall divide the spoils of office among their political camp followers4 ,we hear of angry words and fierce invectives1 of rumors of corruption1 of bribery in public office2 they belong to no one party1 they are not ranked under any one leader2 these things came because the people have lost sight1 in the strifes of men for office1 of that great destiny which ,god offers to ,americans4 ,i believe the love of country dwells in the people's hearts4 ,the honest-hearted sons of toil will be true to the country and its constitution4 ,that love may have slumbered for a time1 but the great heart of the country will be true to itself4 ,its love can not be hedged in by the paling of any man's door-yard4 ,it will sweep away every barrier of strife1 and keep us one united people4 ,,british ,,influence4--,john ,randolph4 ,imputations of ,british influence have been uttered against the opponents of this war4 ,against whom are these charges brought8 ,against men who1 in the war of the ,revolution1 were in the ,councils of the ,nation1 or fighting the battles of your country6 ,and by whom are these charges made8 ,by runaways1 chiefly from the ,british dominions1 since the breaking out of the ,french troubles4 ,the great autocrat of all the ,russias receives the homage of our high consideration4 ,the ,dey of ,algiers and his divan of pirates are very civil1 good sort of people1 with whom we find no difficulty in maintaining the relations of peace and amity4 ,turks1 ,jews1 and ,infidels1--,melimelli or the ,little ,turtle1--barbarians and savages of every clime and color1 are welcome to our arms4 ,with chiefs of banditti1 negro or mulatto1 we can treat and can trade4 ,name1 however1 but ,england1 and all our antipathies are up in arms against her4 ,against whom8 ,against those whose blood runs in our veins2 in common with whom we claim ,shakspeare1 and ,newton1 and ,chatham1 for our countrymen2 whose form of government is the freest on earth1 our own only excepted2 from whom every valuable principle of our own institutions has been borrowed1--representation1 jury trial1 voting the supplies1 writ of habeas corpus1 our whole civil and criminal jurisprudence2--against our fellow-,protestants1 identified in blood1 in language1 in religion1 with ourselves4 ,in what school did the worthies of our land--the ,washingtons1 ,henrys1 ,hancocks1 ,franklins1 ,rutledges1 of ,america--learn those principles of civil liberty which were so nobly asserted by their wisdom and valor8 ,american resistance to ,british usurpation has not been more warmly cherished by these great men and their compatriots1--not more by ,washington1 ,hancock1 and ,henry1--than by ,chatham1 and his illustrious associates in the ,british ,parliament4 ,it ought to be remembered1 too1 that the heart of the ,english people was with us4 ,it was a selfish and corrupt ministry1 and their servile tools1 to whom we were not more opposed than they were4 ,i trust that none such may ever exist among us2 for tools will never be wanting to subserve the purposes1 however ruinous or wicked1 of kings and ministers of state4 ,i acknowledge the influence of a ,shakspeare and a ,milton upon my imagination2 of a ,locke1 upon my understanding2 of a ,sidney1 upon my political principles2 of a ,chatham1 upon qualities which would to ,god ,i possessed in common with that illustrious man6 of a ,tillotson1 a ,sherlock1 and a ,porteus1 upon my religion4 ,this is a ,british influence which ,i can never shake off4 ,,defense ,,of ,,thomas ,,jefferson4--,henry ,clay4 ,next to the notice which the opposition has found itself called upon to bestow upon the ,french emperor1 a distinguished citizen of ,virginia1 formerly ,president of the ,united ,states1 has never for a moment failed to receive their kindest and most respectful attention4 ,an honorable gentleman from ,massachusetts1 of whom ,i am sorry to say1 it becomes necessary for me1 in the course of my remarks1 to take some notice1 has alluded to him in a remarkable manner4 ,neither his retirement from public office1 his eminent services1 nor his advanced age1 can exempt this patriot from the coarse assaults of party malevolence4 ,no1 sir6 ,in #ahja1 he snatched from the rude hand of usurpation the violated ,constitution of his country1--and that is his crime4 ,he preserved that instrument1 in form1 and substance1 and spirit1 a precious inheritance for generations to come1--and for this he can never be forgiven4 ,how vain and impotent is party rage1 directed against such a man6 ,he is not more elevated by his lofty residence1 upon the summit of his own favorite mountain1 than he is lifted1 by the serenity of his mind and the consciousness of a well-spent life1 above the malignant passions and bitter feelings of the day4 ,no6 his own beloved ,monticello is not less moved by the storms that beat against its sides1 than is this illustrious man1 by the howlings of the whole ,british pack1 let loose from the ,essex kennel6 ,when the gentleman to whom ,i have been compelled to allude shall have mingled his dust with that of his abused ancestors1--when he shall have been consigned to oblivion1 or1 if he lives at all1 shall live only in the treasonable annals of a certain junto1--the name of ,jefferson will be hailed with gratitude1 his memory honored and cherished as the second founder of the liberties of the people1 and the period of his administration will be looked back to as one of the happiest and brightest epochs of ,american history6 ,,national ,,hatreds ,,are ,,barbarous4--,rufus ,choate4 ,that there exists in this country an intense sentiment of nationality2 a cherished energetic feeling and consciousness of our independent and separate national existence2 a feeling that we have a transcendent destiny to fulfil1 which we mean to fulfil2 a great work to do1 which we know how to do1 and are able to do2 a career to run1 up which we hope to ascend1 till we stand on the steadfast and glittering summits of the world2 a feeling1 that we are surrounded and attended by a noble historical group of competitors and rivals1 the other nations of the earth1 all of whom we hope to overtake1 and even to distance2--such a sentiment as this exists1 perhaps1 in the character of this people4 ,and this ,i do not discourage1 ,i do not condemn4 ,but1 sir1 that among these useful and beautiful sentiments1 predominant among them1 there exists a temper of hostility towards this one particular nation1 to such a degree as to amount to a habit1 a trait1 a national passion1--to amount to a state of feeling which is to be regretted1 and which really threatens another war1--this ,i earnestly and confidently deny4 ,i would not hear your enemy say this4 ,sir1 the indulgence of such a sentiment by the people supposes them to have forgotten one of the counsels of ,washington4 ,call to mind the ever seasonable wisdom of the ,farewell ,address3 ,the nation which indulges toward another an habitual hatred1 or an habitual fondness1 is1 in some degree1 a slave4 ,it is a slave to its animosity1 or to its affection1 either of which is sufficient to lead it astray from its duty and its interest4 ,no1 sir6 no1 sir6 ,we are above all this4 ,let the ,highland clansman1 half-naked1 half-civilized1 half-blinded by the peat-smoke of his cavern1 have his hereditary enemy and his hereditary enmity1 and keep the keen1 deep1 and precious hatred1 set on fire of hell1 alive1 if he can2 let the ,north ,american ,indian have his1 and hand it down from father to son1 by ,heaven knows what symbols of alligators1 and rattlesnakes1 and war-clubs smeared with vermilion and entwined with scarlet2 let such a country as ,poland1--cloven to the earth1 the armed heel on the radiant forehead1 her body dead1 her soul incapable to die1--let her remember the wrongs of days long past2 let the lost and wandering tribes of ,israel remember theirs--the manliness and the sympathy of the world may allow or pardon this to them2--but shall ,america1 young1 free1 prosperous1 just setting out on the highway of heaven1 decorating and cheering the elevated sphere she just begins to move in1 glittering like the morning star1 full of life and joy1 shall she be supposed to be polluting and corroding her noble and happy heart1 by moping over old stories of stamp act1 and tea tax1 and the firing of the ,leopard upon the ,chesapeake in a time of peace8 ,no1 sir6 no1 sir6 a thousand times1 no6 ,why1 ,i protest ,i thought all that had been settled4 ,i thought two wars had settled it all4 ,what else was so much good blood shed for1 on so many more than classical fields of ,revolutionary glory8 ,for what was so much good blood more lately shed1 at ,lundy's ,lane1 at ,fort ,erie1 before and behind the lines at ,new ,orleans1 on the deck of the ,constitution1 on the deck of the ,java1 on the lakes1 on the sea1 but to settle exactly these wrongs of past days8 ,and have we come back sulky and sullen from the very field of honor8 ,for my country1 ,i deny it4 ,,murder ,,will ,,out4--,daniel ,webster4 ,an aged man1 without an enemy in the world1 in his own house1 and in his own bed1 is made the victim of a butcherly murder1 for mere pay4 ,the fatal blow is given6 and the victim passes1 without a struggle or a motion1 from the repose of sleep to the repose of death6 ,it is the assassin's purpose to make sure work4 ,he explores the wrist for the pulse4 ,he feels for it1 and ascertains that it beats no longer6 ,it is accomplished4 ,the deed is done4 ,he retreats1 retraces his steps to the window1 passes out through it as he came in1 and escapes4 ,he has done the murder2--no eye has seen him1 no ear has heard him4 ,the secret is his own1--and it is safe6 ,ah6 gentlemen1 that was a dreadful mistake4 ,such a secret can be safe nowhere4 ,the whole creation of ,god has neither nook nor corner where the guilty can bestow it1 and say it is safe4 ,not to speak of that eye which glances through all disguises1 and beholds every thing as in the splendor of noon1 such secrets of guilt are never safe from detection1 even by men4 ,true it is1 generally speaking1 that murder will out4 ,true it is1 that ,providence hath so ordained1 and doth so govern things1 that those who break the great law of heaven1 by shedding man's blood1 seldom succeed in avoiding discovery4 ,especially1 in a case exciting so much attention as this1 discovery must come1 and will come1 sooner or later4 ,a thousand eyes turn at once to explore every man1 every thing1 every circumstance1 connected with the time and place2 a thousand ears catch every whisper2 a thousand excited minds intensely dwell on the scene1 shedding all their light1 and ready to kindle the slightest circumstance into a blaze of discovery4 ,meantime1 the guilty soul can not keep its own secret4 ,it is false to itself2 or1 rather1 it feels an irresistible impulse of conscience to be true to itself4 ,it labors under its guilty possession1 and knows not what to do with it4 ,the human heart was not made for the residence of such an inhabitant4 ,it finds itself preyed on by a torment1 which it dares not acknowledge to ,god nor man4 ,a vulture is devouring it1 and it can ask no sympathy or assistance1 either from heaven or earth4 ,the secret which the murderer possesses soon comes to possess him2 and1 like the evil spirits of which we read1 it overcomes him1 and leads him whithersoever it will4 ,he feels it beating at his heart1 rising to his throat1 and demanding disclosure4 ,he thinks the whole world sees it in his face1 reads it in his eyes1 and almost hears its workings in the very silence of his thoughts4 ,it has become his master4 ,it betrays his discretion1 it breaks down his courage1 it conquers his prudence4 ,when suspicions from without1 begin to embarrass him1 and the net of circumstance to entangle him1 the fatal secret struggles1 with still greater violence1 to burst forth4 ,it must be confessed2--it will be confessed2--there is no refuge from confession but suicide--and suicide is confession6 ,,strive ,,for ,,the ,,best4 ',tis better to give a kindly word ,than ever so hard a blow1 ,to know we have by kindness stirr'd ,the man who was our foe2 ,to feel we have a good intent1 ,whatever he may feel-- ,that gentleness with us is meant ,to make the old wounds heal4 ',tis better to give our wealth away ,than let our neighbors want1 ,to help them in their needful day1 ,while they are weak and gaunt2 ,a kindly deed brings kindly thought ,in hamlet and in city2 ,a little help1 we have been taught1 ,is worth a world of pity4 ',tis better to work and slave and toil1 ,than lie about and rust2 ,an idle man upon the soil ,is one of the very worst4 ,he eats the bread that others earn1 ,and lifts his head so high1 ,as if it was not his concern ,how others toil'd1 or why4 ',tis better to have an humble heart1 ,living in faith and trust1 ,to act an ever upward part1 ,remembering we are dust2 ,to let the streams of life run past1 ,beloved and lovingly1 ,until we reach in joy at last ,the great eternal sea4 ,,early ,,rising4--,john ,g4 ,saxe4 ,god bless the man who first invented sleep6 ,so ,sancho ,panza said1 and so say ,i2 ,and bless him1 also1 that he didn't keep ,his great discovery to himself2 or try ,to make it--as the lucky fellow might-- ,a close monopoly by patent right6 ,yes--bless the man who first invented sleep 7,i really can't avoid the iteration72 ,but blast the man1 with curses loud and deep1 ,whate'er the rascal's name1 or age1 or station1 ,who first invented1 and went round advising ,that artificial cut-off--,early ,rising6 ,rise with the lark1 and with the lark to bed1 ,observes some solemn1 sentimental owl4 ,maxims like these are very cheaply said2 ,but ere you make yourself a fool or fowl1 ,pray1 just inquire about the rise--and fall1 ,and whether larks have any bed at all6 ,the time for honest folks to be in bed1 ,is in the morning1 if ,i reason right2 ,and he who can not keep his precious head ,upon his pillow till 'tis fairly light1 ,and so enjoys his forty morning winks1 ,is up to knavery2 or else--he drinks6 ,thomson1 who sung about the ,seasons1 said ,it was a glorious thing to rise in season2 ,but then he said it--lying--in his bed ,at #aj o'clock1 ,a4 ,m4--the very reason ,he wrote so charmingly4 ,the simple fact is1 ,his preaching wasn't sanctioned by his practice4 ',tis1 doubtless1 well to be sometimes awake-- ,awake to duty and awake to truth-- ,but when1 alas6 a nice review we take ,of our best deeds and days1 we find1 in sooth1 ,the hours that leave the slightest cause to weep1 ,are those we pass'd in childhood1 or--asleep6 ',tis beautiful to leave the world awhile1 ,for the soft visions of the gentle night2 ,and free at last from mortal care or guile1 ,to live1 as only in the angels' sight1 ,in sleep's sweet realms so cosily shut in1 ,where1 at the worst1 we only dream of sin6 ,so1 let us sleep1 and give the ,maker praise4 ,i like the lad who1 when his father thought ,to clip his morning nap by hackney'd phrase ,of vagrant worm by early songster caught1 ,cried3 ,served him right6 it's not at all surprising-- ,the worm was punish'd1 sir1 for early rising6 ,,deeds ,,of ,,kindness4 ,suppose the little cowslip ,should hang its golden cup1 ,and say3 ,i'm such a tiny flower1 ,i'd better not grow up2 ,how many a weary traveler ,would miss its fragrant smell6 ,how many a little child would grieve ,to lose it from the dell6 ,suppose the glistening dew-drops ,upon the grass should say3 ,what can a little dew-drop do8 ,i'd better roll away2 ,the blade on which it rested1 ,before the day was done1 ,without a drop to moisten it1 ,would wither in the sun4 ,suppose the little breezes1 ,upon a summer's day1 ,should think themselves too small to cool ,the traveler on his way2 ,who would not miss the smallest ,and softest ones that blow1 ,and think they made a great mistake ,if they were talking so8 ,how many deeds of kindness ,a little child may do1 ,although it has so little strength1 ,and little wisdom1 too6 ,it wants a loving spirit ,much more than strength1 to prove ,how many things a child may do ,for others by his love4 ,,the ,,gates ,,of ,,sleep4--,dr4 ,john ,henry4 ,there are two gates of ,sleep1 the poet says3 ,of polished ivory one1 of horn the other2 ,but ,i1 besides these gates1 to blessed ,sleep ,three other gates have found which thus ,i count3 ,first the star-spangled arch of deep midnight1 ,when labor ceases1 every sound is hush'd1 ,and ,nature1 drowsy1 nods upon her throne4 ,pale-visaged ,specters round this gate keep watch1 ,and ,fears and ,horrors vain1 and beyond these ,rest1 balmy ,sweat1 and dim ,forgetfulness1 ,relieved1 at dawn of day1 by buoyant ,hope1 ,fresh ,strength and ruddy ,health and calm ,composure ,and daring ,enterprise and ,self-reliance4 ,the second gate is wreathed1 sideposts and lintel1 ,with odorous trailing hop1 and poppy-stalks2 ,the shadowy gateway paved with poppy-heads1 ,and there1 all day and night1 keeps watch sick ,fancy ,haggard and trembling1 and ,delirium wild1 ,and ,impotence with drunken glistening eye1 ,and ,idiocy1 and1 in the background1 ,death4 ,the third gate is of lead1 and there sits1 ever ,humming her tedious tune1 ,monotony1 ,tired of herself2 about her on the ground ,sermons and psalms and hymns lie numerous strew'd1 ,to the same import all1 and all almost ,in the same words varied in form and order ,to cheat1 if possible1 the weary sense1 ,and different seem1 where difference is none4 ,at th' opposite doorpost1 on her knees1 ,routine ,keeps turning over still the well-thumbed leaves ,of the same prayer-book1 reading prayers1 not praying2 ,behind them waiting stand ,conformity ,and ,uniformity1 ,oneness of faith1 ,oneness of laws and customs1 arts and manners1 ,and ,self-development's unrelenting foe1 ,centralization2 and behind these still1 ,far in the portal's deepest gloom ensconced1 ,a perfect1 unimprovable ,paradise ,of mere1 blank naught1 unchangeable forever-- ,these1 as ,i count them1 are the ,gates of ,sleep4 ,,the ,,bugle4--,tennyson4 ,the splendor falls on castle walls1 ,and snowy summits old in story2 ,the long light shines across the lake1 ,and the wild cataract leaps in glory4 ,blow1 bugle1 blow1 set the wild echoes flying2 ,blow1 bugle2 answer1 echoes1 dying1 dying1 dying4 ,oh1 hark6 oh1 hear6 how thin and clear1 ,and thinner1 clearer1 farther going2 ,oh1 sweet and far1 from cliff and spar1 ,the horns of ,elf-land faintly blowing4 ,blow1 let us hear the purple glens replying2 ,blow1 bugle2 answer1 echoes1 dying1 dying1 dying4 ,oh1 love1 they die in yon rich sky2 ,they faint on field1 or hill1 or river2 ,our echoes roll from soul to soul1 ,and grow forever and forever4 ,blow1 bugle1 blow1 set the wild echoes flying ,and answer1 echoes1 answer1 dying1 dying1 dying4 ,a ,,hoodish ,,gem4 ,the little snarling1 caroling babies1 ,that break our nightly rest1 ,should be packed off to ,baby-lon1 ,to ,lapland1 or to ,brest4 ,from ,spit-head1 ,cooks go o'er to ,greece1 ,and while the ,miser waits ,his passage to the ,guinea coast1 ,spendthrifts are in the ,straits4 ,spinsters should to the ,needles go1 ,wine-bibbers to ,burgundy2 ,gourmands should lunch at ,sandwich ,isles1 ,wags at the ,bay of ,fun-dy4 ,bachelors flee to the ,united ,states1 ,maids to the ,isle of ,man2 ,let ,gardeners go to ,botany ,bay1 ,and ,shoe-blacks to ,japan4 ,thus emigrate1 and misplaced men ,will they no longer vex us2 ,and all who ain't provided for ,had better go to ,texas4 ,,purity ,,of ,,the ,,american ,,struggle4 ,by ,hon4 ,henry ,wilson4 #ahei4 ,while the exalted heroism of the illustrious men who1 in the ,cabinet and field1 defied and baffled the whole power of the ,british empire1 excites the admiration of mankind1 the consciousness that the founders of ,american ,independence were not allured into that deadly struggle by the lust of dominion and power1 by the seductions of interest and ambition1 or by the dazzling dreams of glory and renown1 excites far higher and holier emotions4 ,theirs was not a contest of interest1 of ambition or of glory1--theirs was a contest for principle1 for the inherent and indefeasible rights of humanity4 ,they accepted the bloody issues of civil war1 rather than surrender the liberties of the people4 ,when the terrific struggle began1 which was not to be closed until the power of ,england on the ,north ,american continent was broken1 they reverently appealed to the supreme ,ruler of the universe for the rectitude of their intentions2 and when it closed with the ,independence of ,america achieved1 they avowed to mankind in the sincerity of profound conviction that they had contended for the rights of human nature4 ,they deduced from universal principles1 in the words of the brilliant and philosophic ,bancroft1 a bill of rights as old as creation and as wide as humanity4 ,they embodied in this bill of rights1 the promulgation of which made this day immortal in history1 these sublime ideas3 all men are created equal2 endowed by their creator with the inalienable rights to life1 liberty1 and the pursuit of happiness2 to secure these rights1 governments are instituted among men1 deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed2 and whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends1 it is the right of the people to alter or abolish it4 ,the embodiment of these ideas1 these self-evident truths1 which are as old as creation1 and as wide as humanity1 into the organic law of ,independent ,america1 associated the names of the founders of national independence with the general cause of human liberty1 development and progress4 ,they were champions of ,american ,independence1--they were1 also1 the champions of the sacred rights of human nature1 and mankind proudly claims them1 in the words of ,mirabeau1 as the heroes of humanity4 ,,old ,,age4--,theodore ,parker4 ,the old man loves the sunshine and fire--the arm-chair and the shady nook4 ,a rude wind would jostle the full-grown apple from its bough1 full ripe1 full colored1 too4 ,the internal characteristics correspond4 ,general activity is less4 ,salient love of new things and of persons1 which hit the young man's heart1 fades away4 ,he thinks the old is better4 ,he is not venturesome2 he keeps at home4 ,passion once stung him into quickened life2 now1 that gadfly is no more buzzing in his ears4 ,madame de ,stael finds compensation in silence for the decay of the passion that once fired her blood2 heathen ,socrates1 seventy years old1 thanks the gods that he is now free from that ravenous beast which has disturbed his philosophic meditations for many years4 ,romance is the child of passion and imagination--the sudden father that1 the long-protracting mother this4 ,old age has little romance4 ,only some rare man1 like ,wilhelm ,von ,humboldt1 keeps it still fresh in his bosom4 ,in intellectual matters1 the old man loves to recall the old time1 to review his favorite old men--no new ones half so fair4 ,so in ,homer1 ,nestor1 who is the oldest of the ,greeks1 is always talking of the olden times1 before the grandfathers of the men then living had come into being2 not such as living had degenerate days4 ,verse-loving ,john ,quincy ,adams turns off from ,byron and ,shelley1 and ,wieland and ,goethe1 and returns to ,pope4 99 99 99 ,elder ,brewster expects to hear ,st4 ,martin's and ,old ,hundred chanted in heaven4 ,to him heaven comes in the long-used musical tradition4 ,the middle-aged man looks around at the present2 he hopes less and works more4 ,the old man looks back on the field he has trod3 this is the tree ,i planted--this is my footstep2 and he loves his old home1 his old carriage1 cat1 dog1 staff and friend4 ,in lands where the vine grows1 ,i have seen an old man sit all day long1 a sunny ,autumn day1 before his cottage-door1 in a great arm-chair1 his old dog lay couched at his feet1 in the genial sun4 ,the autumn winds played in the old man's venerable hairs4 ,above him on the wall1 purpling in the sunlight1 hung the full clusters of the grapes1 ripening and maturing yet more4 ,the two were just alike--the wind stirred the vine-leaves and they fell1 stirred the old man's hairs and they whitened yet more--both were waiting for the spirit in them to be fully ripe4 ,the young man looks forward--the old man looks back4 ,how long the shadows lie in the setting sun--the steeples1 a mile long1 reaching across the plain1 as the sun stretches out the hills in grotesque dimensions6 ,so are the events of life in the old man's consciousness4 ,,beautiful1 ,,and ,,as ,,true ,,as ,,beautiful4 ,paul ,denton1 a celebrated itinerant ,methodist preacher and missionary1 in the early days of ,texas1 when the ,state1 then a ,mexican province1 was the outlaw's home1 collected a large crowd at a barbecue where he promised there should be plenty to drink of the best of liquors4 ,denton did this to collect a crowd that he might preach to them4 ,after the barbecue was over1 one of the boldest told ,paul that he lied4 ,where is your liquor8 said he4 ,drawing himself up to his full height1 ,paul thus broke forth in a strain that remains unsurpassed3 ,there--there is the liquor which ,god1 the ,eternal1 brews for his children4 ,not in the simmering still1 over smoking fires choked with poisonous gases1 and surrounded with stench of sickening odors and rank corruption doth your ,father in ,heaven prepare that precious essence of life1 pure cold water4 ,both in the green shade and grassy dell1 where the red deer wanders and the child loves to play1 there ,god brews it2 and down1 low down in the deepest valleys1 where the fountains murmur and the rills sing2 and high up on the mountain tops1 where the naked granite glitters like gold in the sun2 where hurricanes howl music2 where big waves roar the chorus1 sweeping the march of ,god--there1 he brews it1 that beverage of life1 health-giving water4 ,and everywhere it is a thing of beauty2 gleaming in a dew-drop2 singing in the summer rain1 shining in the ice-gem1 till the trees seem turning to living jewels1 spreading a golden vail over the setting sun2 or white gauze round the midnight moon2 sporting in the glacier2 dancing in the hail-shower2 folding bright snowy curtains softly above the wintry world1 and weaving the many-colored iris1 that seraph's zone of the sky1 whose warp is the rain of earth1 whose woof is the sunbeam of heaven1 all checkered o'er with celestial flowers by the mystic hand of refraction--still always beautiful2 that blessed cold water4 ,no poison bubbles on its brink2 its foam brings not madness and murder2 no blood stains its liquid glass2 pale widows and starving orphans weep not burning tears in its clear depths2 no drunkard's shrieking from the grave curses it in words of despair6 ,speak out1 my friends1 would you exchange it for the demon's drink1 alcohol8 ,,the ,,deluge4 ,the judgment was at hand4 ,before the sun ,gathered tempestuous clouds1 which1 blackening1 spread ,until their blended masses overwhelmed ,the hemisphere of day3 and1 adding gloom ,to night's dark empire1 swept from zone to zone-- ,swept the vast shadow1 swallowing up all light1 ,and covering the encircled firmament ,as with a mighty pall6 ,low in the dust ,bowed the affrighted nations1 worshiping4 ,anon the o'ercharged garners of the storm ,burst with their growing burden2 fierce and fast ,shot down the ponderous rain1 a sheeted good1 ,that slanted not before the baffled winds1 ,but1 with an arrowy and unwavering rush1 ,dashed hissing earthward4 ,soon the rivers rose1 ,and roaring fled their channels2 and calm lakes ,awoke exulting from their lethargy1 ,and poured destruction on their peaceful shores4 ,the lightning flickered in the deluged air1 ,and feebly through the shout of gathering waves ,muttered the stifled thunder4 ,day nor night ,ceased the descending streams2 and if the gloom ,a little brightened when the lurid morn ,rose on the starless midnight1 'twas to show ,the lifting up of waters4 ,bird and beast ,forsook the flooded plains1 and wearily ,the shivering multitudes of human doomed ,toiled up before the insatiate element4 ,oceans were blent1 and the leviathan ,was borne aloft on the ascending seas ,to where the eagles nestled4 ,mountains now ,were the sole landmarks1 and their sides were clothed ,with clustering myriads1 from the weltering waste ,whose surges clasped them1 to their topmost peaks ,swathed in the stooping cloud4 ,the hand of ,death ,smote millions as they climbed2 yet denser grew ,the crowded nations1 as the encroaching waves ,narrowed their little world4 ,and in that hour1 ,did no man aid his fellow4 ,love of life ,was the sole instinct2 and the strong-limbed son1 ,with imprecations smote the palsied sire ,that clung to him for succor4 ,women trod ,with wavering steps the precipice's brow1 ,and found no arm to grasp on the dread verge ,o'er which she leaned and trembled4 ,selfishness ,sat like an incubus on every heart1 ,smothering the voice of ,love4 ,the giant's foot ,was on the stripling's neck3 and oft despair ,grappled the ready steel1 and kindred blood ,polluted the last remnant of that earth ,which ,god was deluging to purify4 ,huge monsters from the plains1 whose skeletons ,the mildew of succeeding centuries ,has failed to crumble1 with unwieldy strength ,crushed through the solid crowds2 and fiercest birds1 ,beat downward by the ever-rushing rain1 ,with blinded eyes1 drenched plumes1 and trailing wings1 ,staggered unconscious o'er the trampled prey4 ,,the ,,worm ,,of ,,the ,,still4 ,i have found what the learned seemed so puzzled to tell-- ,the true shape of the ,devil1 and where is his ,hell2 ,into serpents1 of old1 crept the ,author of ,ill1 ,but ,satan works now as a worm of the still4 ,of all his migrations1 this last he likes best3 ,how the arrogant reptile here raises his crest6 ,his head winding up from the tail of his plan1 ,till the worm stands erect o'er the prostrated man4 ,here1 he joys to transform1 by his magical spell1 ,the sweet milk of the ,earth to an ,essence of ,hell2 ,fermented our food1 and corrupted our grain1 ,to famish the stomach and madden the brain4 ,by his water of life1 what distraction and fear2 ,by the gloom of its light1 what pale spectres appear6 ,a ,demon keeps time on his fiddle finance1 ,while his ,passions spring up in a horrible dance6 ,then prone on the earth1 they adore in the dust1 ,a man's baser half1 raised1 in room of his bust4 ,such orgies the nights of the drunkard display1 ,but how black with ennui1 how benighted his day6 ,with drams it begins1 and with drams must it end2 ,a dram is his country1 his mistress1 his friend2 ,till the ossified heart hates itself at the last1 ,and the dram nerves his hand for a death-doing blast4 ,mark that monster1 that mother1 that shame and that curse2 ,see the child hang dead-drunk at the breast of its nurse6 ,as it drops from her arm1 mark her stupefied stare6 ,then she wakes with a yell1 and a shriek of despair4 ,drink1 ,erin6 drink deep from this crystalline round1 ,till the tortures of self-recollection be drowned2 ,till the hopes of thy heart be all stiffened to stone-- ,then sit down in the dirt like a queen on her throne4 ,no phrensy for ,freedom to flash o'er the brain2 ,thou shalt dance to the musical clank of the chain2 ,a crown of cheap straw shall seem rich to thine eye ,and peace and good order shall reign in the sky6 ,nor boast that no track of the viper is seen1 ,to stain thy pure surface of ,emerald green3 ,for the ,serpent will never want poison to kill1 ,while the fat of your fields feeds the worm of the still6 ,,man',s ,,connection ,,with ,,the ,,infinite4 ,that is to every thing created pre-eminently useful1 which enables it rightly and fully to perform the functions appointed to it by its ,creator4 ,therefore1 that we may determine what is chiefly useful to man1 it is necessary first to determine the use of man himself4 ,man's use and function is to be the witness of the glory of ,god1 and to advance that glory by his reasonable obedience and resultant happiness4 ,whatever enables us to fulfill this function is1 in the pure and first sense of the word1 useful to us4 ,pre-eminently1 therefore1 what sets the glory of ,god more brightly before us4 ,but things that only help us to exist are1 in a secondary and mean sense1 useful1 or rather1 if they be looked for alone1 they are useless and worse1 for it would be better that we should not exist1 than that we should guiltily disappoint the purposes of existence4 ,and yet people speak in this working age1 when they speak from their hearts1 as if houses1 and lands1 and food1 and raiment were alone useful2 and as if sight1 thought1 and admiration were all profitless1 so that men insolently call themselves ,utilitarians1 who would turn1 if they had their way1 themselves and their race into vegetables3 men who think that the meat is more than the life1 and the raiment than the body2 who look to the earth as a stable1 and to its fruit as fodder2 vine-dressers as husbandmen1 who love the corn they grind1 and the grapes they crush1 better than the gardens of the angels upon the slopes of ,eden2 hewers of wood and drawers of water1 who think that the wood they hew and the water they draw1 are better than the pine forests that cover the mountains like the shadow of ,god1 and than the great rivers that move like his eternity4 ,and so comes upon us that woe of the preacher1 that1 though ,god hath made every thing beautiful in his time1 also he hath set the world in their hearts1 so that no man can find out the work that ,god maketh from the beginning to the end4 ,this ,nebuchadnezzar curse1 that sends us to grass like oxen1 seems to follow but too closely on the excess or continuance of national power and peace4 ,in the perplexities of nations1 in their struggles for existence1 in their infancy1 their impotence1 or even their disorganization1 they have higher hopes and nobler passions4 ,out of the suffering comes the serious mind2 out of the salvation1 the grateful heart2 out of the endurance1 the fortitude2 out of the deliverance1 the faith2 but now1 when they have learned to live under providence of laws1 and with decency and justice and regard for each other1 and when they have done away with violent and external sources of suffering1 worse evils seem rising out of their rest--evils that vex less and mortify more1 that suck the blood though they do not shed it1 and ossify the heart though they do not torture it4 ,and deep though the causes of thankfulness must be to every people at peace with others and at unity in itself1 there are causes of fear also1 a fear greater than the sword and sedition3 that dependence on ,god may be forgotten1 because the bread is given and the water is sure2 that gratitude to him may cease1 because his constancy of protection has taken the semblance of a natural law2 that heavenly hope may grow faint amidst the full fruition of the world2 that selfishness may take place of undemanded devotion1 compassion be lost in vainglory1 and love in dissimulation2 that innovation may succeed to strength1 apathy to patience1 and the noise of jesting words and foulness of dark thoughts1 to the earnest purity of the girded loins and the burning lamp4--,ruskin4 ,,the ,,language ,,of ,,the ,,eagle4 ,it is one of the difficulties of those who undertake to make public speeches1 that sometimes they are embarrassed about the heads of their discourses2 and so ,i am somewhat troubled at finding the inferior position of the ,american eagle1 inasmuch as he has but one head1 while the ,russian eagle has two4 ,i suppose that the explanation of this ornithological difference arises from the necessity of the ,russian eagle having one head to watch over his large possessions in ,asia1 and the other head to look after his small property in ,europe4 ,i feel a good deal of confidence in speaking of the ,american eagle in contrast4 ,i can see that if the ,american eagle has but one head1 it embodies therein the national sentiment now prevailing1 of one country and one people4 ,it is very true that our brethren of the ,south--for ,i still call them our brethren--have been under the impression that ours was a double-headed eagle1 with a ,northern and a ,southern head1 with this distinction over the ,russian2 that the ,southern was the larger and more important head of the two1 and we are now engaged in the somewhat expensive and troublesome task of correcting that mistake in natural history4 ,there is a good deal that is appropriate1 and sometimes something that is suggestive1 in these national symbols4 ,the lion1 for instance1 is a very hungry beast1 and the large portion of the globe which he has got into his possession shows the appropriateness of the selection of the symbol4 ,the cock1 as we know1 is a very boisterous and demonstrative bird1 who never does anything that he does not make a noise about4 ,and certainly the ,gallic neighbor of the ,english lion has never been distinguished for his modesty whenever he has accomplished any thing in arts or in arms4 ,the eagle is a high-soaring bird1 and ,i had better bring before you what an ,english poet says of him3 ,he clasps the crag with hooked hands1 ,close to the sun in lonely lands1 ,ringed in an azure world he stands2 ,the wrinkled sea beneath him crawls1 ,he watches from his mountain walls1 ,and like a thunderbolt he falls4 ,if the illustration had been carried further we might be content with this ,english authority that the eagle1 as typical of ,russia and of the ,united ,states1 is to be armed with that thunderbolt which the ,greeks thought to be the prerogative of ,jupiter4 ,the ,american eagle has been distinguished for the quickness of his flight2 and ,i do not think that our bitterest enemies can ever bring against us the charge of slowness4 ,there are some points of resemblance between the ,united ,states and ,russia4 ,russia1 like us1 is made up of many nationalities3 and we have had recently the most satisfactory evidence that the ,russian eagle is soaring in the same quarter as we are--soaring beyond the crowing of the cock or the roaring of the lion4 ,in conclusion1 the eagle was an old symbol4 ,the ,egyptians had it2 the ,persians had it2 the ,romans1 after trying four or five other animals1 took it1 in the time1 ,i think1 of ,marius4 ,therefore1 as it is one of the oldest illustrations of national importance1 ,i indulge in the sentiment that1 as the eagle now represents the nations of ,russia and the ,united ,states1 it may at least be one among the latest4--,judge ,daly1 of ,new ,york4 ,,washington4--,s4 ,s4 ,cox4 ,all over the world examples may be found which are lessons to us4 ,could you go to ,naples1 you will find beyond the ,grotto of ,phisillippo1 where the soft waves of the delightful ,bay make their music on the shore--the tomb of the great ,latin poet--,virgil4 ,men from every clime go thither to pay their homage to his tomb1 although two thousand years have gone since his ,epic was given to the world4 ,his tomb is still the mausoleum of ,genius4 ,it is respected1 protected and honored4 ,some of you have seen the monuments ,scotland has reared to her gifted men4 ,some of you have seen the tomb of ,walter ,scott1 at ,dryburg ,abbey1 and have not only admired its beauty and repose1 but have admired the vigilant care with which it is guarded and protected4 ,go to ,rome6 ,beneath ,st4 ,peter's ,bascilica1 you will find there the tombs of the ,apostles ,peter and ,paul4 ,they are guarded ever by priestly vigilance1 and around them burn the ever-trimmed lamps of religious veneration4 ,at ,paris1 the great ,napoleon sleeps1 honored in death beyond all human conquerors1 in the ,hotel des ,invalides1 surrounded by a hundred banners1 emblems of his victories and his genius6 ,england has her ,westminster ,hall1 wherein is enshrined her royal line1 and by a higher heritage a line of genius1 from ,chaucer1 who sung the dawn of ,english verse1 to ,macaulay1 who illustrated her history in the undying eloquence of his prose4 ,france has her ,st4 ,denis1 the last abode of her kings1 and ,paris has its ,pantheon1 in whose vaults the literary demigods are immortalized6 ,but ,i pass these reminiscences by4 ,we have a tomb which1 ,i trust1 in future1 will be cared for and protected2 and as long as woman is the watcher1 her faith and patience will guard it with vestal vigilance4 ,it is neither a trite nor an untrue saying1 that if a man bears the blade of patriotism1 woman is the jewel in its hilt4 ,she has and ever will make that jewel shine1 wherever there is a fair opportunity and an ennobling civilization4 ,why has this association of ,american women been formed8 ,for the purpose of purchasing1 preserving1 reclaiming and protecting that spot we have just left1 so sacred in our historic annals and in the nation's memory4 ,it is because the man who lies there buried is not the mere hero of a novel--not the mere hero of to-day--not the mere soldier who achieved with his own sword his own fortune--not your ,sultan ,mohammed or ,emperor ,napoleon1 who1 with bloody ambition1 created an empire on the ,bosphorus or a dynasty on the ,seine4 ,the career of these heroes of the battle-field is as yonder blood-red moon1 just risen above the ,potomac1 compared with the bright effulgence of the noonday sun1 which shines with no borrowed light1 as an auriole around the memory of ,george ,washington4 ,he can be addressed at this day1 when he is so canonized in our hearts1 only in the language of that poetry which has likened him to the brightest imagery which the material universe can furnish4 ,he has been spoken of as the illustrious but lost ,pleiad in our ,american constellation4 ,,america vs4 ,,england4--,david ,dudley ,field4 ,it has been said that if a new dictionary were now to be published in ,england1 another definition of neutrality would have to be given4 ,certain it is that much of what has taken place on the other side of the ocean during this unhappy war comports little with our previous understanding of the duties of neutrals4 ,and yet strict neutrality between belligerents is enjoined as much by philanthropy as by national honor2 for while it protects national independence it restricts the limits of war4 ,it is thus a rule alike of justice and of prudence4 ,it springs from principles which lie at the foundation of international law2 that is to say1 the independence and the equality of nations4 ,but there is another rule which springs from the same principles1 and which is as old and as strong as that of neutrality1 and is sometimes confounded with it--that is1 the duty of every nation to abstain from any interference with the internal concerns of another4 ,to be neutral between two belligerents is to help neither2 to make1 or help to make1 two belligerents out of the same nation is to interfere in its internal relations4 ,if it be said that this is but to recognize and declare a fact1 ,i answer that the nation itself1 as it is equal and independent1 is the sole judge of the fact4 ,the relation of the different parts with each other is a domestic concern4 ,to assume to recognize and declare relations which it does not first recognize and declare1 is1 equally with the violation of neutrality1 a departure from that courtesy and deference which are due from one nation to another4 ,both depend upon that public law of the world which is as old as governments and as eternal as equity4 ,no nation is so ancient or mighty as to be above it2 none so young or weak as to be below it4 ,each1 as it takes its place in the family of nations1 assumes it in all its plenitude4 ,these rules the ,government of this country has followed at all times and under all circumstances4 ,whatever may have been the sympathies of our people1 whatever may have been the moral aspects of the foreign wars on which they have looked1 and however much they have desired the success of one party over the other1 they have inflexibly refused to throw their powers into the scale1 or to allow any of their citizens to violate the neutrality which the ,government enjoined4 ,from the administration of ,washington to the administration of ,lincoln1 through all the wars of the ,french ,republic and the ,french empire1 through the struggles of mastery in ,eastern ,europe1 through the great civil wars in ,poland1 in ,hungary and in ,india1 we have steadily asserted the policy of non-interference1 and maintained it in practice4 ,and we have never resorted to the paltry evasion of doing secretly what we professed openly to avoid4 ,what we said we meant1 and what we meant we said4 ,we have held the obligation to be paramount and universal4 ,we complain of ,england and ,france1 first for the proclamation or profession of neutrality1 and then for the violation of the neutrality thus professed4 ,this is not the place to enter upon the reasons which justify these complaints4 ,the loyal people of this country have made up their opinions on both these subjects4 ,they are convinced that ,england and ,france have wronged them in both respects1 and are just as strongly convinced that ,russia1 whose naval officers are our guests to-night1 has acted differently2 has done us no injury2 has conformed her conduct to the solemn injunctions of the law of nations1 in accounting us competent to manage our own affairs2 treating the established and recognized ,government of the country as the only lawful belligerent1 and holding no relations whatever with the rebels4 ,it is impossible to mistake the settled convictions of the ,american people4 ,they will never forget1 through all the changes of future years1 that in their mortal struggle the ,czar has been true to them1 and in the exercise of his great office has been inflexible in his adherence to the grand and salutary principles of public law4 ,and they will just as surely never cease to believe that the ,governments of ,england and ,france have desired the disruption of the republic1 and have hastened unjustly to lift the rebels into the condition of legal belligerents2 have offensively professed neutrality between the lawful and the rebel forces1 and1 after all1 have evaded that professed neutrality by every species of indirect assistance which it was possible to give short of engaging in hostilities4 ,these things will never be forgotten so long as ,americans can read and remember4 ,and1 more than this1 the men of this generation1 who have smarted under these wrongs1 will not rest until some of them are righted4 ,we see the ground fresh with graves1 half of which would never have been opened but for the countenance which ,england and ,france have given to the rebellion2 and1 whether it shall be procured from their apprehension of the consequences1 or their sense of justice1 reparation must be made1 or the seed which has been sown in these three years will ripen into an iron harvest of future war1 of which no man can foresee the end4 ,,if ,,we ,,knew4--,by ,ruth ,benton4 ,if we knew the cares and crosses ,crowding round our neighbor's way1 ,if we knew the little losses1 ,sorely grievous1 day by day1 ,would we then so often chide him ,for his lack of thrift and gain-- ,leaving on his heart a shadow1 ,leaving on our life a stain8 ,if we knew the clouds above us1 ,held by gentle blessings there1 ,would we turn away all trembling1 ,in our blind and weak despair8 ,would we shrink from little shadows1 ,lying on the dewy grass1 ,while 'tis only birds of ,eden1 ,just in mercy flying past8 ,if we knew the silent story1 ,quivering through the heart of pain1 ,would our womanhood dare doom them ,back to haunts of guilt again8 ,life hath many a tangled crossing2 ,joy hath many a break of woe2 ,and the cheeks1 tear-washed1 are whitest2 ,this the blessed angels know4 ,let us reach in our bosoms ,for the key to other lives1 ,and with love toward erring nature1 ,cherish good that still survives2 ,so that when our disrobed spirits ,soar to realms of light again1 ,we may say1 ,dear ,father1 judge us ,as we judged our fellow-men4 99 99 99 99 99 ,,beadle',s ,dime ,biographical ,library4 ,this fine series of books has become a standard library with all who desire such books4 ,each issue is #ajj clearly-printed pages1 in clear-faced type1 and contains the matter of an ordinary dollar book4 ,the subjects chosen embrace some of the most interesting and noted characters in history4 ,the biographies are all originally prepared expressly for this series4 ,the list embraces the following3 ,no4 #a4--,life of ,,garibaldi1 the ,washington of ,italy4 ,no4 #b4--,life of ,,daniel ,,boone1 the ,hunter of ,kentucky4 ,no4 #c4--,life of ,,kit ,,carson1 the ,rocky ,mountain ,scout and ,guide4 ,no4 #d4--,life of ,,anthony ,,wayne 7,mad ,anthony71 the ,revolutionary ,patriot and ,indian ,conqueror4 ,no4 #e4--,life of ,colonel ,,david ,,crockett1 the ,celebrated ,hunter1 ,wit and ,patriot4 ,no4 #f4--,life of ,,winfield ,,scott1 with a full account of his ,brilliant ,victories in ,mexico4 ,no4 #g4--,life of ,,pontiac1 the ,conspirator1 the ,chief of the ,ottawas1 together with a full account of the ,celebrated ,siege of ,detroit4 ,no4 #h4--,life of ,,john ,c4 ,,fremont1 the ,american ,pathfinder1 with a full account of his ,rocky ,mountain ,explorations and ,adventures4 ,no4 #i4--,life of ,,john ,,paul ,,jones1 the ,revolutionary ,naval ,hero4 ,no4 #aj4--,life of ,marquis ,,de ,,lafayette1 the ,man of ,two ,worlds4 ,no4 #aa4--,life of ,,tecumseh1 the ,shawnee ,chief4 ,no4 #ab4--,life of ,,geo4 ,b4 ,,mcclellan1 ,late ,general-in-,chief1 ,u4 ,s4 ,a4 ,no4 #ac4--,,parson ,,brownlow1 and the ,unionists of ,east ,tennessee4 ,,men ,,of ,,the ,,time4 ,this series embraces fine and authentic sketches of the leading ,,generals ,,of ,,the ,,war--each sketch being accompanied by a portrait4 ,the works are very popular1 and will be found available for reference and preservation4 ,no4 #a4--;,generals ,,halleck1 ,,pope1 ,,siegel1 ,,corcoran1 ,,prentiss1 ,,kearney1 ,,hatch1 and ,,augur4 ,no4 #b4--;,generals ,,butler1 ,,banks1 ,,burnside1 ,,baker1 ,,stevens1 ,,wilcox1 and ,,weber4 ,no4 #c4--;,generals ,,hooker1 ,,rosecrans1 ,,grant1 ,,mcclernand1 and ,,mitchell4 ,,beadle ,,company1 ,publishers1 #aah ,william ,st41 ,n4 ,y4 ,,beadle',s ,,dime ,,school ,,series4 ,,beadle ,,and ,,company have now on their lists the following highly desirable and 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,dime ,school ,melodist1 7,music and ,words47 ,this is adapted to schools of all grades and for scholars of all ages4 ,it contains the music and words of a great many popular and beautiful melodies1 with a preliminary chapter on musical instruction especially adapted to children4 ,the ,,melodist will be found very desirable and available4 ,price but ten cents each4 ,each book contains from #hj to #ajj pages4 ,for sale by all newsdealers1 or will be sent singly or in packages by mail1 post-paid1 on receipt of price4 ,special terms made to teachers4 7h7 ,catalogues of ,beadle's ,dime ,publications sent free on application4 ,,beadle ,,and ,,company1 ,general ,dime ,book ,publishers1 #aah ,william ,street1 ,new ,york4 99 99 99 99 99 ,transcriber's ,notes ,minor punctuation errors have been silently corrected4 ,page #ad3 ,changed ,whese to ,whose4 7,orig3 ,whese sons you required1 and left not any87 ,page #ag3 ,changed xindred to kindred4 7,orig3 but their tie was only one of xindred27 ,page #cb3 ,removed duplicate the4 7,orig3 ,far beyond the the cattle-pasture1 and the brick-yard7 ,page #ed3 ,retained author's use of lowercase in second sentence3 7,orig3 ,have we lost this spirit8 has it gone from among us87 ,page #ei3 ,changed indifferenece to indifference4 7,orig3 the indifferenece1 or the ignorance of some future ,american7 ,page #fj3 ,changed pefect to perfect4 7,orig3 almost pefect organism of the body politic87 ,page #fb3 ,changed soidifies to solidifies4 7,orig3 takes their half-truths and soidifies and unites them7 ,page #fc3 ,changed bongh to bough4 7,orig3 ,yon orchard hides behind its bongh7 ,last ad3 7h7 represents a pointing hand symbol4