, 1841-01-23
WESTERN LITERATURE.

The following is Il beautiful extract from
an address delivered by Governor WALLACE
of Indiana. at the foundation Of the new As
BURY UNIVERSITY. IN the State Of Indiana
This institution is. If we mistake not. found,
ed bv the .UeihOliStS. Itis one of many.
which. OF late years. IN the true spirit of
Christianity, thew have reared in the Yves
tern World. In The love of God and the
love of man, they are building Institutions
founded on PETY and LEARNING, the great
and only true basis of Christian Liberty.
Ia the following passage. Governor Wal
lace does no more than Justice TO the untIr-
ing labors and sIeepIess zeal with which the
Methodist Ministry have accompanied the
pioneer to the verge of civlizatian-there
TO build new homes and new templeS:-C Gin.
cinnatI Chronicle.
"But to whom, it may be asked. are we
and the country indebted for this noble
manifestation in behalf OF such acause?@
Whose minds conceived. whose beaevolence
prompted. whose energies achieved. the cree
ton OF this Temple. and ~ Il spot too. where
the sound of the wnnd.nan : axe. as he ieiled
the forest around hin. had scarcely died
away upon our cars! Nay. Who>e ~iIagiEa-
tons so virIi--Su pregnant. AZ II were. with
creative power. is Ia Trv' birth IL so Wild
and novel Il conception rs frat al planting
the garden ot the muses. on the yet unre-
deemed bosom ot the wilderness! lie not
surprised. and revere them uUnc the less for
it, when | tell YOU that they are Old and Ia
miliar OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES 20 US, or
ought to be By some of lie sweetest. purcst.
and hottest reco.lectlJnS OF lie Eca:'. They
have been the companions Of our Pence:
fathers: they have been our moral AMI reIi-
rious instructors. SpurEin- Ia luX!.lcs oi
iife-lhe refnements OF taste and elegance:
the comforts Of ease aud aiilaeEce--thc
allurements OF the world. with the spirit oi 4
Wesley only 10 nerve ~them--they laughed
the dangers Of food and field To scorn; look
ed the terrors of the wilderness in the face
with checks unblanched: endured cold and
hunger without i murmur encountered prI-
walton and peril without shrinking; and dy-
inc bv the way-side even, leaving no me-
mortal of their burial place-and for what?
that the voice of supplicatlon and prayer
might rise from the deepest soliiudes OF our
vaIIies; that the lamp OF eternal lite might be
lit up in the gloomy recesSes OF our lone cab
ins:-that the departing spirits OF their rude
but noble tenants might be cheered. and sus-
tanned. and ~reconciled in that awful hour, by
the glorious promises OF another and better
world. And now-even now that all
those stirring scenes are with the past; that
the dreadful solitudes are no more. that Tenn,
and forest, and river have been shorn OF their
terrors; that hungry want and gripping penury
and chilling privation have been banIshed
from our hearths; these men-so fearless-so
selEsacriicing-so perseverIng-whoSe ap-
nroach TO our solitary abodes has so often
bro't chiIdhood's %sunniest smile to our cheeks;
are still with US; but. unlike every thing else
about them-they have not changed. The
same sternness Of purpose, the same unfiag-
ring zeal. the same untiring effort, rs in the
beginning, still stamps their every conduct
and action. They have suffered no pause
in their labors: and follow the steps Of i'm
movement now, only to gather materials,
and to seize occasions, the better to scatter
the choicest of heavens blessings along their
halfway and at last, as if determined TO
leave nothing undone, that the power and
subIimity of the principles they teach may
be appropriately displayed-they are seek
ing. out of the immense mass OF intellect a.
round them, to rear a moral and mental py-
ramid, up on whose summit the beacon fires
of eternity shall blaze"
yronDIDI T.