Litchfield enquirer., 1837-07-06
ELOQUENT EXTRACT.

ELOtRUENl EAIRACI.
 Extract from an address by Gov. Everett of Massachusetts, on the importance of the young men of this country cultivating their higher powers
 "1'hus far, the relative position of England and the United States has been such, that our proportional contribution to the common lit erature was naturally small one. England by her great superiority in wealth and popu- lation, was of course the head quarters of sci ence and learning. All this is rapidly chan ging. You are already touching the point when your wealth and population will equal that of England. The superior rapidity of your progress will at no distant period give you the ascendancy. It will then belong to your position to take the lead in the arts and letters, as in policy, and to give the tone to the literature of the language. Let it be your care and study to show yourselves equal to this high calling-to vindicate the honor of the new world in this generous and friendly competition with the old. You will perhaps be told that literary pursuits will disqualify you for the active business oflife. Heed not, gentlemen, the idle assertion. Reject it as a mere imagination inconsistent with princi- pie, unsupported by experience. Point out to those who make it, the illustrious charac- ters who have repeated in every age the high est honors of studies and active exertion.- Show them Demosthenes forging by the light of the midnight lamp, those thunderbolts of eloquence, which
 Shook the arsenal and fulmned over Greece,
 To Macedon and Artaxerxes' throne.
 Ask them if Cicero would have been hailed with rapture as the father of his country, if he had not been its pride and pattern in phi losophy and letters. Inquire whether Cesar, or Frederic, or Bonaparte, or Wellington, or Washington, fought the worse because they knew how to write their own commentaries Remind them of Franklin, tearing at the same time the lightning from Heaven, and the sceptre from the hands of the oppressor. Do they say to you that study will lead you to scepticism! Recall to their memory, the venerable names of Bacon, Milton, Newton, votion to learning will withdraw your steps from the paths of pleasure! Tell them they are mistaken. Tell them that the only true pleasures are those which result from the dil- igent exercise of all the faculties of body and mind and heart in pursuit of noble ends by noble means. Repeat to them the ancient apologue of the youthful Hercules in the pride of strength and beauty, giving up his generous soul to the worship of the future Tell them with the illustrious Roman orator, you had rather be in the wrong with Plato, than in the right with Epicurus. Tell them that a mother in Sparta would rather have seen her son brought home corpse upon his shield, than dishonored by its loss. Tell them that your mother is America, your bat tie the welfare of life, your shield the breast plate of Religion"
 Some years ago, as the late Rev. MT. Prin- gle, of Perth, was taking walk one summers afternoon upon the Inch, two young beaux took it into their heads to break jest upon the old parson. Walking briskly up to him and making their bow politely, they asked him if he would tell them the color of the devils wig. The worthy clergyman survey ing them for few seconds, made the follows ing reply Truly, here is most surprising case! Two men have served master all the days of their life, and can't tell the color pf his wig!"
 MT Delavan has defeated the brewers of Albany in their suit for damages against him for saying that pos- Onous drugs. filthy water, &c. were used in making their beer.
 Maryland Congressional Elsction.-The Governor and Council have appointed Wednesday, the 18th of July next for the election of members of Congress of this State. a