The Rhode-Island Republican. [volume] (Newport, R.I.) 1809-1841, 1828-05-29

North AmencaJ before the Society OF Phi
beta Kappa, August 26. 1894. by Edward
Everett Boston, 1926.
z. Analysis Of The Character Of Napole-
on BonnpsrIe, suggested BY the publication
tot SCOTS lie oi Napoleon. By w. T..
banning, IL. d. boston, printed. Lon
toN. reprllicd, 1928.
4 Fnr the pleasure derived from tho peru
/, al OF .Mr. 'sNelres's Grafton, We are indsbsA
d To friend Who obtained a copy of IL
from The Americ an Consul at Manchester:
md we make thishurried notice, in the OK
recitation tha: some OF our own booksellers
| will take the requisite measures for putting
such u valuable production within the reach
/ OF the British public. Ii is discreditnbie 10
US that this should yet have 10 be done
since II proves that John Bnll is more busy
cultlvaIing his own self-esteem, than i'm
searching Tor what is ostimable in other
| uations, or, when discovered, in making il
his own. A murder, or a clever butioon at
home, is OF far more Importance 10 his eve
| than those things which indicate the con-
dltlon OF people whose mental progress is,
more than all other causes put together, to
effect, and IN no Sigh, degree, regulate the
| fortunes OF the human race. Well might
our orator say, "that The departed wise and
good Of all places and times are looking
down from their happy seats, 10 witness
what shall now be done by America that
| they who layished their treasures and their
blood of old, who labored and suffered, who
spake and wrote, who fought and perished,
in the one great cause offreedom and truth,
are now hanging from their orbs on high,
over the last solemn experiment Of human
ity; they cxbort us, they ndjure us, to be
faithful TO our trust; they inplore us by the
long trials of suffering humanity, by tho
blessed memory Of the departed, by the
dear faith which has been pligbted by pure
hands to the holy cause OF truth and man;
by the awful secrets Of the prison houses
where the sons Of freedom have been inn
mured; by the noble heads which have been
brought to the block; by the eloquent ruins
Of nations they conJure us not to quonch
the light which Is rising on the world.' Af-
ter tracing man from his cradle in the east
TO those last limits OF his wandering, "be-
holding him ever flying westward from civ
il and religious thraldom bearing his house,
hold gods over mountains and seas, seek
ing rest and finding none, but still pursuing
| tho flying bow OF promise, 10 the glittering
hills which il spans in Hesporian climes
| well might he exclaim, sit is here then that
q mighty work is to be fulfilled, or never,
by the sacc Of mortals. The man who
looks with tenderness on the suherings OF
good men in other times; tho desc endant of
pilgrims W no cherisbes the memory Of his
fathers; the patriot who feels an honest
glow at the majesty Of the system Of which
he is o member; the scholar who bcholds
with rapture the long sealed book Of un-
prejudiced truth opened for oil TO read
these are they by whom these auspices ara
TO be accomplished" well might he say,
" "Yes-brethren--it is by the intellect Of
the country that The mighty mnss is to he
inspired; that It's parts are 10 commune ste
and sympaihisc, Ills bright prospect 10 be
adorned with becoming refDcments, it5
strong sense uttered, its character reflect
cd, it's feelings interpreted TO its own chill
dren, N other regions, and 10 after ages"
These are not the sporuve exercises ofn
buoynnt faDcy--the vague aspirations ofnn
ardent bcnevolence--tbey are based upon
comprehensive grasp Of facts and circun-
stapces-npon the largest philosophical
views Of the nature of man, and bis conds
ton ia the new world. Mr. Everett called
on his hearers 10 remark that tie expert
ment then going forward in the United
States, was one that would show what man
could do without hereditary sovereignty,
an order Of nobility, an established church,
a standing army, or an all. peryading police
without any one OF the five requisites Of
a strong governmeDt-w without what, in Eu-
rope, was considered Of no less importance
Than all the rest, curb on the Press. In
America, the Press, unfetlered by power,
and unchecked by those numerous obsta-
cles which present themselves elsewhere,
from varieties Of language, is employed in
exchanging intelligence, and circulatingo-
pinions over an empire more extensive than
he whole OF Europe, and whose people,
!roat already and mighty 10 be, can be ad-
iressed in one tongue from ST. Lawrence
20 the Gulf Of Mexlco-from the Atlantic
% the Pacific. And our orator holds that,
ns ~ Greece new and beautiful forms Of bu-
nan thought and feeling sprung up under
he stimulus of her free institutions, so in
Northern America, where, by representa-
inn. the unity and strength Of o monarchy
d re united with the freedom and excite
nent or the ancient rcpublics-snd where
he idea Of restraining the errors Of the
peoplc By one, a nan himself, on whose err
rors and expressions, however intoxicated
~ corrupted by power, there is DO check,
- laughed to scorn-- the energy ofthought
viii be commensurate with tho masses
which prompt II, and The masses il must
DO peneirale-new forms Of address will be
truck oui OF the new circumstances in
.hich man is plsced--snd the literature Of
imerica-since the literature is the vose
Df people, the more perfect form in which
mind communicates with mind--will rice
10 the elevation Of her fortunes and pros