Daily Richmond Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1828-1831, 1829-07-04

between the states, will put i'm the power oil hcreus
ing numbers of or brethren in other parts of the
Union To yc ms rood nm account oil thai portion of
It, TO which belong, and from an experience us u
groeabe. Il
Gentlemcn, there is no place in the West, havc
taken greater interest visiting, than your hospi-
table town; interest strengthened by the former
residence OF beloved ond lamenied brother among
you, and his connection with the University here cs
tablishcd which has already done much, and is des
tined am sure, TO do much more, for tho public
good IN this part of the country Every patriot, ev
cry rehcctpg man, who considers that useful know
edge widely ditiused il the only sure basis of enght
cned freedom, svmpathizes with you in your regret
for that disaster, which has reduced it's well provided
apartments and stately walls to melancholy ruins.
The public spirit which raised, will, doubt not,
speedily restore those walls, nnd mtuse energy
into an institution justly ranked among the
pcctaSle in the country honor To this town. and to
tho state anS public benefit to the West. Indeed
IN the early care, which III this and some of the
neighbouriny states, has been had for tho establish
ment of places of education, though much is natu-
rally still 80 be done, recognize the spirit, which
imatcd the pilgrim fathers of New England, (never
to be mentioned by their descendants without praisa
in the cause. You have had your Morrison us
we mad our Harvard. AS community, you have al
ready given pledges, that you determined your
posterly shall hive cause tn bless your memory,
we have 70 bless the memory of ancestors. Let
but the foundations be deeply laid in liberal public
and private patronage, and the intellectual cdifce-
the solid fabric of an enlightened community-will
stand firm though the brick and the marble may for
time, sink beneath the dcvourng flames and the
scientific treasures they contained, be reduced to dust
and ashes.
There is association, recalled to mind. in visiting
this place, to which it would be objectionable were
inscnsiblc; association, which has perpetuated
IN the name of your city, that of
village in the county inhabt, and in the neigh
oourhood of my residence. When the news of the
battle Of Lexington, the 10Th of April 1875,
reached party of hunters, assembled at the spring
IN this place, they resolved, in prophetic commemo
ration of that event to give the of Lexington to
n M nj md fha q
should there be founded. Not more than fifty years
believe, have passed away, since the actual laying
out of this town; and in TINT period, what monu-
ment have not you and your fathers reared TO the
brave and good MEN, who, that doubtful crisis of
the countrys fate the morn of her independence,
offered up their lives in her sacred cause! They
were not OF your kindred except in the kindred of
struggling liberty, and by the blood whic h
they shed for your freedom for their own.
They lie i'll their humble graves, in the beautiful
vilinge. where they fell; and simple stone marks
tho scene of their costly sacriice but how
worthy, i'll the remote west, has their pious selfde
voon been COMMUNICATED, in the ample streets, the
slightly dwellings, the substantial public edices. in
the charitable, the literary the religious foundations
OF thus importan town!
Meantime, in the astonishing progress of our coun-
try, this state, then an almost painless Wilderness
half explored, untitled titled only by the bold hun
ter who went to the field with spade in one bs nd
and rife in the other, has become itself the parent
of other rising states Beyond the Wabash-beyond
the Mississippi-there now large communities
who look to these. their native fields, with the same
feelings with which your fathers looked back their
native homes in Virginia. have myself, within a
week or two, heard an individual who had been to
explore for himself new home in Illinois, and was
on his return to take his family the chosen spot
even while commencing the abundance and fertility
of the vast prares in that region, check himself as
we were passing by some of the prosperous settle
ments, the comfortable houses the rich corn fields
the pleasant medows the beautiful woodland pastures
OF his native state, and exclam, cater ALL there is
nothing OF Gods earth like old Kentucky"
And thus, gentlemen, 1t is, that civilization, i'm
provement and republican institutions of govern.
mont making their suspicious progress from re-
gon to region, throughout the continent; founded
on the happiest conception of political wisdom and
confirmed by the dear tics of nature, and kindred.
The rapid growth of the country has brought into
unusual associations those opposite feelings and rela-
lions, which belong respectively ancient and mod
ern states, and never before combined in onc
And the torch of enlightened liberty, originally kin
died at the ultars Of jamestown and Plymouth. and
long ago transmitted across the mountains is still
travelling onward, through the wide West. Ii re-
CURES no great stretch Of Imagination to trace it's
suspicious path TO regions yet lying in the untenant-
ed solitude of nature; to apply to it, with stiIl
happier augury, the beautiful language by which
the poet has described the revival Of freedom
the nations Of the elder world
saw the expecting regions stand,
To catch tho coming flame in turn
J saw, from ready hand to hand,
lhe bright but struggling glory bctu.
And each, she received the fame
49, Lighted her altar with it's ray;
Then, smiling, to the Who came,
Speeded on its sparkling way.
But, Mr.. President, | must check myself, OH this
delightful theme, and spare your patience. Allow
me III sitting down, to renew my thanks this re-
spectacle company for their friendly and hospital bic
attentions, and to propose tho following sentiment:-
The E"'iern and WSterl Sfntes-One in origin, one in
nteres-united in government may they still more strongly
united By mutual good will. %
From the HdrriSburg (Pa) InteLligeneer Of June 30
ANTI-MASONIC CONVENTION
The anti-masonic convention assembled at the
courthouse in this borough on Thursday last at Oh roe
o'clock in the afternoon. ROBERT MITCHELL
Of Indiana was chosen the president. JomN LIvEH-
GOOD, Of Somerset, and CoHRAD GERMAN, of Lehigh
ice-presidcnts; Isaac RothrOc Of Union and Roland
Dhier Of Lancaster, secretaries The following per-
sons appeared as delegates, viz: