Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1831-12-08
THURSDAY. DECEMBER 8, 1881.

THURSDAY. DECEMBER 8, 1881.
TcoMMuNIcATED.
The annual meeting of the Alexandria Tenn
perance Society, was held on Tuesday evening
last, in the Methodist Protestant -Chu rch. The
President Of the Society having taken the Chair,
the meeting was opened with prayer, BY the Rev.
Mr. WALTON.
On motion, the proceedings Of the last meet
ing, and the annual report Of the Executive
Committee, we're read.
A discourse was then in compliance with the
request of the Society at previous meetng) de-
livered BY the Rev. MIR. MANN, from these
words =" BE not thou partaker Of other mems
sins.''
The Society then proceeded to elect their Off
GERS for the ensuing year, when the following
persons were unanimously elected:
CoLIN AuLD. President.
ROBERT JAMESON, Vice President.
JOHN DOUGLASS,
JOHN WrTHEns,
JOHN D. VowELL, >EIecutire COMMITTEE
JAMES VANsANT,
CAssIus F. LEE,
JAMES MckENZIE, Treasurer.
REUBEN JOHNSON Jr, Secretary.
The Sd article of the Constitution having been
read the following persons subscribed their names
and became members:
Anthony Rhodes. James Harris, Jr. John
Shakes, Phares Throop, Theodore Meade, 81.
las Reed, John Bright.
COLIN AULD, Pres't.
C.. F. LEE. Sec'y.
At meeting of the Executive Committee,
held the 7th of December, it was
Resolred, That the proceedings of the aunu-
al meeting be signed blythe President and Secre-
tary, and that the editor of the Alexandria Phe-
nix Gazette be requested to publish the same,
together with the annexed report in his paper.
The following is an extract from the eloquent
speech Of Mr.. Maxwell, delivered at the Ami
versar. Dinner of St. Andrews Society in New
York. 1t will please all who admire the Scot
tish character-and whois there that does nots-
With the permission, then, Of our respected
guests, we may exult in the character Of Scot
fand-eAult, he said, that she possesses qualities
that constitute the highest honor and confer the
truest dignity. It was not, he said, that Scot
land could boast Of natural advantageous to
soil or climate 10 these respects, like the north-
ern nations of Europe, she was inferior to other
countries. She had not the gorgeousness OF an
Italian sky-she had not a soil that yielded spon-
taueously to the call of the husbandman, she
boasts not the
"slsves spicy foe ss or gold bubbIing fountains'
she has not extended commerce or boarded mil
lions, or political domination, or pOmp or power.
10 these advantages he said, if advantages they
may be called, Scotland acknowledges no obliga-
ton. Before the union with England, and in-
deed after the union, a lawless nobility, national
feuds, aud distracted people ever kept Scot
land the victim Of the jealousy OF England or OF
the overbearing arrogance of France, or what was
worse than either, made her prey Of her own
intestine faction and disquiet.
That notwithstanding this unhappy state, there
were eras in the early history Of Scotland. exh-
bilng the lndomitable courage of people wor-
thy Of freedom. There were names, there were
tri4mphs at which the blood warns, and the
heart beats high. Your own glorious Wallace,
he said, =" who MOLLY dared to stem tyrannic
pride or .nobly die,'' lives immortal with the
Washingtous, the Tells, and Kosciuskos Of man
kind. The triumphs Of Bruce-the battle Of
Bannockburn. will live while history shall record
the freedom of nations. lie said that, however
ilIustrious these names and triumphs may be, in
his Judgment. they did not constitute the highest
glory Of the Scottish people. He thought there
we're other triumphs, bloodless triumphs, that
conferred higher dignity, and truer glory
He meant the riumphs Of the parochial schools
Of Scotland. Look, ne said. Mr.. President
look at the religious, moral and intellectual con-
dition of the Scottish peopIe-look, he said, at
that system Of education that has acted like a
charm upon the character OF people once the
most ,u,yielding and impracticable IN Europe
look at that system Of education that descended
upon Scotland like an angel Of mercy and of
light, with healing in her wings, shedding down
upon the whole land blessed influence in one
unbroken stream Of effalgent brightness. Look,
Sir, at that glorious conqueror IN the humble
character of the schoolmastsr, under whom, by
whom, and with whom, Scotland accomplished a
victory greater than ever she had achieved before
"a victory ouer herself Look, he said, lat the
resnlts Of this victory.