not fail to produce the most unhappy effects there could not be any security for that species of property is absolutely necessary to the salvation of the south in he wrote to our minister in england if should not be attached to the united states we cannot maintain that institution of ten years and probably not half that time so the south must have and extend slavery over that soil whence the had it out the north prevent it most certainly even new england could have prevented it mr who thanks god that he did not slumber over that danger says new england might have prevented it if she but her people would not be roused but long before new learned to the pr ant hinges of the knee that may follow the most disinterested enthusiasm of this day � long directed slavery in general fought against this special act and a few noble men spoke loud and long but to reluctant speech in hall not th m art ears and cold hearts had been followed we should have had no no invasion no war but a idea had gone abroad m new england � that southern slavery is profitable to the north the and the morality have one common � not the love of their country nor the love of but the love of gun so new england assented to the north assented a the fatal of slavery in her land with the expectation of a war the south has its wish the north its reward the nation the of her constitution the of her great men � it was by slavery and to that her sons have bowed the neck she the of her honor � it was betrayed by slavery she for thousands of her children � were murdered by slavery � which still for more behold the be of the end � which is not the end itself art n � powers greek slave thb appearance of mr powers statue among us and the feeling of earnest admiration with which it has n received afford us an occasion to say a few words not so much with reference to the and his work as to art in general of which it may be said that there is no one side of human knowledge concerning which the ideas of men are so vague and inadequate to explain what it truly is to place it in its true relations to make every man feel that it is of importance to him and that its is essential to the highest development of mankind will be the future work of genius through many ages if we cannot give a reason for that is in us we can still protest against and indifference it will assist us in our endeavour if we the views and feelings with which art is regarded i we have the large class who have no thought on hie subject but to whom music or any work of art not beyond the range of their is a source of the highest gratification an art n those in whom a partial or development has the natural balance of the thus the man whose life has been devoted to action in the world is accustomed to view art as action without a useful end or else sees in it only a means of pleasure and gratification the thinks its doubtful or dangerous to the interests of on and morality m those persons who are not wanting in a due sense of the value of art but who see it only in parts and fragments or are influenced by fashion or some dominant and are thus incapable of it as a whole iv we could wish there were a class to be added but in this age of the world when we are made familiar with the works of times without selection to the whole and through the mass of works that obscure it seize the clear image of art itself as the did must be to genius industry aad opportunity ere may be but a class we say and more or less we believe that ood made man in his what are the attributes that we involuntarily attach to the supreme being are they not creation that action that love that us and in we exist the life of man is passed in the exercise of these same attributes or faculties we believe that on is love to god and man to action man is by from the first moment of his being when he ceases to act he is dead man lives and he now feels the necessity to create the natural in melody in imitation first points out the way he makes a he draws a rude and art exists this nature of man religious practical and artistic is rarely if ever confided by nature in full measure to the same individual always the one and thus we have the priest the poet and the man of action or m early times the man of action par excellence � the soldier aod this is the reason for the fascination that the military still the soldier has been in au times the visible of the man of action the harmonious development of these three attributes is necessary to the harmonious development of the individual man which that perfection of development that was in individuals in the earlier ages so that whilst the progress has still been towards on art the improvement of the race we can point to no more perfect specimens than the jews and the possessed in all times it has seemed to be the design of providence to make some peculiar race the of the divine fire of a new idea or at least the means of its and interpretation to mankind and by the steady progress of the idea m such a race an individual development has been attained that has served as a 