Literary cadet, and Saturday evening bulletin. [volume] (Providence, R.I.) 1826-1827, 1826-08-19


blessings Of grateful millions shall visit, with
glad light, his fading vision and flush the las
shades Of his evening sky, with the reelected spen
,iors Of his meridian brightness.
How peculiarly and imperonsy incumbent then.
H. il on this day, in this place, ard in TINS
bly,, to speak together concerning the glory Of
ancestors; analyze that glory ;-and to inquire
what il is to deserve, and what it is TO disgrace
those ancestors"
Wandering for a moment from the main theme
Of discourse, Mr.. Quincy enters On a metaphysical
examination of ,!,e different kinds Of moral glory,
aud as il is rather too abstrusc for understand
ing, we leave him until he shall have returned to
that part OF his efusion, which with proprety may
be termed an Grafton that is defamation. The
precise object he had in view when he entered into
this analysis, we cannot exactly understand, and we
shall leave Mr.. Quincy TO make his own explana-
tons, for cannot do it for him-and if we could,
it is not likely ne would thank for undertaking,
what he alone has the right to perform. By the
way, we always supposed glory to he nothing more
or less than giory-a fact equally certain as it is
that bees wax is bee's-wax. After getting through
with this ce and exceedingly difficult discussion,
he proceeds to pay merited encomium to the me.
mories Of those heroes and sages Of the Revolution
who herocally led us on TO liberty and 'ndepen-
dcnce, and who feurlessly met the foe the tent
ed field" The encomium closes with the follow
ing spostrophe, which select, as one Of the most
prominent, not the happiest passage in the Grafton
"Generous men exalted patriots immortal
statesmen For this deep, moral and social Affection
for this elevated self de votop. this noble purpose,
this bold daring, the multiplying myriads e YOUR
posteIity, as they thcken along the Atlantic coast,
from the ST. Crox to the Mississippi, as they spread
backwards TO the lakes and from the lakes TO the
mountains, and from the mountains to the western
waters, shall. on this day. annually, in all future
time, we at this hour, come up TO the temple OF
the Most High, with song, and anthem, and thanks
giving and choral symphony. and haeIuia ore
peat your names, to look steadasiy on the bright
Of your glory to trace its spreading rays to the
points from which they emanate; and TO seek,
in your character and conduct, practical Illus
tration of public duty, in every occurring, social
exigence."
Fastening along, Mr.. Quincy stops for moment
only to tell his audience that he shall conne his
Marks that is, his encomiums, 10 the State Of Mass
chusetts, and particularly TO the town(we beg his
pardon, we should have said city)-of Boston -
which he says has produced constellation of he
roes, statesmen and orators exceeded by none in
brightness, yielding to in power, surpassed by
none in influence and that the conduct of Massa-
chusetts during the Revolution, and since that Pc
rod, has electrified the continent. That Massachu-
setts. and the citizens of Boston particularly, did,
during the Revolution, behave valiantly, honora-
II. pI IN nIm
that since that period she has possessed a con-
stellation of I" heroes statesmen ard orators, ex-
ceeded by none in brghtness-yielding to none in
power-surpassed by none i'll in0uence-and whose
noble daring has electrified the continent is pro-
position to which we, solemn sadness, cannot as
sent.
The orator proceeds 10 descant on the events Of
by-gone days, and quotes largely from pamphlet
written by Nathaniel Ward, entitled The Simple
Cobber of Agawam, IN America" published l6II,
a work, which, as far as we can understand, is in
troduced merely because it is performance of an
tiquity. number OF pages is then occupied in set
ting forth historical facts connected with our early
history, by which Mr.. Quincy attempts TO show
that as early as 1859, ancestors thought of es
tablishing government of their own, free and in
dependent of the mother country. 1t is true he
does not say so in so many words but no other in
ference can be drawn from his language. Mr.
Quincy may be right. but as far as we have become
acquainted with the history Of this country, we
have not stumbled upon any thing that would in
cline us to the adoption of such an opinion.
Il is not to be Denied that early ancestors did,
often and openly,an ervently, complain of the OPP
pression ofthe mother country, and that they pub
ncly claimed the privilege ofchoo|ing their own
lers and judges; but that they were prepared to
make an effort to throw off the bondage Of their
Royal Masters at that early period, is what we can
not believe. Such an idea would have been pre-
posterous in the extreme, and il they had
known any thing, they must have known, that such
AN attempt. could not have failed to hurl ruin on
their beads.
Bringing the minds Of his audience, TO more mod
ern times. he with much feeling and eloquence, re-
ers to the numerous obstacles, hat were reared to
deter the patriots of the revolution, from under
taking the glorious cause, which resulted in their
emancipation. and which gave TO us, the rich In
he, e,itance of Liberty. By submission, says Mr..
@. they would in their own tune, have enjoyed
peace, secured plenty, attained protection un-
der the shield of Great Britain, and in the grad
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