Edwardsville spectator. [volume] (Edwardsville, Ill.) 1819-1826, 1821-06-12
MORA
FROM THE NEW ENGLAND GALAXY.
MR.. QUINCY'S ADDRESS.

MR.. QUINCY'S ADDRESS.
The following is an extract from the ele-
giant and classical address of Mr. Quincy, be-
fore the Massachusetts Peace Society.-The
following picture, though Aattering to the pre-
sent times, will nevertheless be acknowledged
as true by all whose hands hold the page of
history"
: " At what previous time did the world
exhibit the scenes, we, at this day. wit
ness !? When did science ever, until this
period, present itself to the entire mass
Of the community as their inheritance
and right !? When for the purpose ofar-
resting the general ear, and promoting
universal comprehension of its precepts,
did it before adapt its Instructions, to
every form of intellect; to every stage
of human life &? Science, indeed existed
in former times.--But where In the
grove of Academus with Plato dream
ing concerning the soul of the universe.
In converts, among ,cowled monks and
fasting friars. In colleges, accessible,
only to the favored few. Iron clasped,
and IRON bound in black letter folios.
Locked in dead langn pes. Repellinr
all but the initiated. Where exists sci
ence now? No more immured in cells !:
no more strutting, with pedant air and
forbidding looks, in secluded walls, it
adapts itself to real life; to use F.; and to
man. 1t prattles with the babe. It takes
the infant on its knee. 1t joins the play
of youth. 1t rejoices with the young
man in his strength. 1t is the companion
of manhood; the solace and the Joy of
the hoary head. 1t is to be seen in the
field, leaning on the plough; at the work
bench directing the plane and the
in the high places of the city, converting
by their wealth and liberality merchants
into princes; in the retirement of do
meslic life, refining by the aid of taste
and knowledge, the virtues OF sex, by
whose purity and elevation man attains,
at once, the noblest earthly reward, and
the highest earthly standard of his moral
and intellectual nature. Science 10 more
works as formerly in abstruse forms, and
with abstract essences; but in business
way: seeking what is true and what is
useful; purifying, elevating, and thus
producing, by degrees, slow indeed, but
sure, level of intellect in the whole
mass suited to the state, and illustra
tive of the relations and duties, of all the
parts, of which it is composed"
The followingis deserved compliment to
the genious and talents of Fulton:
{" Scarcely ten years have elapsed,
since the projects of Fulton were the
common sheer Of multitudes both in Eu-
rope and America; and those not COM
posed of the most ignorant classes of So
ciety. He, indeed, has already joined
the great congregation OF departed men
of genius; but where are his inventions !?
Penetrating the interior of the new world;
smoking along our rivers; climbing
without canvass, the mountains OF the
deep; carrying commerce and comforts,
unknown and unanticipated, to inland re-
sions, and already establishing new era
in navigation, and new facilities for hui
man intercourse incalculable in bene-
fits and in consequences"
His views of the utility Of an unshackled
press, are no less accurate and convincing than
the language in which they are expressed is
elegant and beautiful.
"The press, also, by its magic power,
almost annihilates time and space, in its
rapid spread, pervading every class and
every climate; making more and more,
mutual acquaintance, commercial inter-
change, and intellectual intercourse, the
strong ties of peace among nations; APP
proximating the world to state Of gene-
raj society; in which the bond of man is
recognized; and humanity is becoming
every day less and less the dupe of in
trigue and arti6ce.-States touch each
other, no longer, only at those corrupt
and irritable points called king, noble, or
chieftain. Mind embraces mind, in spite
of intervening seas or wilderness. An
allegiance to intellect, to morals, and re-
1;g;on begins to be acknowledged among
mnItitudes, in every land, which is UNI
dermining that false and artificial allie
riance by which mankind have, at for
mer times, in the train and at the beck OF
statesmen and warriors, been dashlng
against each other; contrary to the law
Of their God and their nature"
Poets and orators have pen attempted to
descr;be the horrors Of Geld Of battle; but