Herald of the times. [volume] (Newport, R.I.) 1830-1846, 1830-07-28
AN EXTRACT FROM
DOCT. MOORE'S GRAFTON.


ed wish to read the remarks in Doct.
MooRE's Oration ofthe 9th inst. on Ma
iional Aniipaity, we have obtained per-
mission from the Doctor to publish them
in the columns Of this paper. Sensible
how inadcquately isolated parts of such
productions, express the spirit and gene
raj tenor of the connected whole, we
hope the Doctor will consent to have
the Grafton published entire, as we do
not doubt it will amply pay all charges
incident to publication.
After an appropriate Introduction, the
Doctor goes on to observe that, he need
not now repeat the dark detail of our
country's wrongs-tliat they stand fixed
with blood in the bright tablet of her sto-
ry--that there, amidst the perennial lau-
rels other virtues and triumphs, they will
be blackencd by the contrast to the end
of ftimc-that combined, they constitute a
tale, familiar to every American, and
from the contemplation of which, every
high souled patriot must turn with min
Cled sentiments of wrath and admiration
that il is tale that shall one day be
sung by all the nations ofthe carth-that
the coming champions of freedom, shall
make its heroes their beacons to Liberty,
and watch words for fght-that its scene,
shall be the Ilium for some future Ho-
mcr, and the immortal Washington shall
be the Achilles of his song-that this
song shall be the votivc pecan that shall
re-echo from the arch Of the expanded
heavens, when the sons and daughters
of unborn generations awake in one uni
ted voice to sing with burning pathos, the
grand Millennium of Universal Liberty.
The Doctor further says--'1 need
not wander among the tombs of the illus
trious Warren, of Mercer and Montgom-
cry; nor lingcr around the cnsanguined
borders of fBunkcr's field ofPrinceton and
Saratoga; the present scene, tho days the
occasion itsel, bring these glorious rally
ing points and watch-words, home to the
bosom of every American, and with them
all the mingled emotions Of gratitude,
voneration, and patriotism which, their
terror and carnage, their valor and glory,
their triumphs and their laurels, are cal
culated to inspire.
Some subjects are so sacred as to be ell
oqucnt even in themselves, and the very
names which shall call them to memory,
with all their scenery and incident, are
fountains of eloqucnce, setting with an
Uncomfortable current toward the sy,n-
pathies and passions, and orators that with
the silent tongue of association, bear the
most irresistible appeals to the reason
and the heart.
As we need but little power of elo-
quence to plead the cause Of injured in
nocencc, an aged parent in chains, or
our country in danger, so to inspire graf
itude and patriotism in every American
bosom, we need only to alludc to the val
or, suflerings, and trumphs, ofthe Revo-
luton, and to the names of those heroes
by whom its destinies under Divine Rro-
videncc, were regulated and controlled.
1t is with reluctance that l now speak
of, or even mention, the injustice, crimes,
and cruelties, by which many of our pa
triotic countrymcn were doomed to sui-
fer, when thrown within the power of our
ancient enemies and oppressors. would
speak ofthcm not Anthony like, to height
en- and embclish, or to innamc that re-
sentiment which such acts and outrages
naturally excite c:-I would rccur to them,
not that they should be entirely blottcd
from the page of history, or wholly OBJ
liberated from the memory of my coun-
trymen; but with view entirely to disap-
prove the use which has hitherto been
but too generally made of them on such
occasions, as means of heightening our
prcjudiccs and perpctuating cnmity and
resentment against our mother country.
However severe she has been in her
chastisemcnts, ENGLAND is still our mo-
thcr, and one too, that we arc proud to
own. In saying this, am confident l
do not commit myself and trust no one
in this assembly will regard such views
as servilc or unpatriotic.
/ The time has now come, nay, has long
since arrived, when Briton's resentment