New-York tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1841-1842, 1842-02-17
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tina, give YOU back your hnd wishes and good
feelings with more than compound inlcrest-and
rl.at feel how dumb ar., y.owcress the best ac-
snowledgcnents would bc beside such genial hos
pitaliiy yours--i5 notliina. To say tat in this
winter season, flowers have sprung up IN cvcly
tootstcps lcngth.o the path yyhich has brought me
lierc-tha country eyer smiled more Ile,,san;l:
man yours has smiled me-and that haze
rarely looked upon a brighter summeI prospect,
than that which iies before no.2--l- nothing.
tAppausc.
But it is something 10 beno stranger lna strange
pIace-to feel sitting AT boa,i ion the si. h!ne,
the ease and affection. oil an old gues-;i.d to be
AZ once on such intimate terms witn the family,
us to have a nomely genuine interest IN It's every
r,erube,--it IS say, something TO be in tins novel
aud happv frame of mnd-and as il * of your
creation and owes it, being 10 you,l have no re-
Iictancc IN urging a why, III address
Ing Won, should not much consult The form
and fashion OF my speech "a ! should employ tial
universal language !" the heart, Wtcilzynn, ma;
such a. vGu best teach and best under lstt.
Gentlemen, thai universal luDguagu--c
to vou IN America, AID 10 Us III I.nglanJ az ,hn;
;9unger mother tongue, which, by the means and
through the happy unloriot our two sreal conn
ines shall be spoken, hence by lii.d and sca,
oyer the vide surface oil the q e-1 thank y0I.
had OCCASION, gentlemen, to=sa.. In. other.
nigh, IN Boston, as have more than once had Of
casion 10 remark before that it Is not easy fJr al.
author to speak OF his own books. If the tas!; be
a difficult one at any imc, lis difficulty certainly Is
not diminished when tro;lgs,.t recurrence to the
same theme, has left one nothing new 10 say
Sull | feel that III = company Ike thi., and espe-
cial!y after what has been sail by the President,
that ought not TO pass lightly overdose abors Of
love, which, il they had no other merit, have been
the happy means OF bringing ! ragc,hcl
II has been often observed that vo, cannot Judge
OF anautlor's personal cl.nractcrir"m his writings;
II nay be that you camol--l tfith II very likely
Tor many reasons, that yon c;lnno.tu III least u
reader will rise from the Irclrsni OF u book with
some defined and tangible idc; al. the writer's mo-
raj creed and broad purposes, II he las ANY AT all
and II probable enough that he MAY like have
this idca confirmed from the authors lip, or dis
ipatcd bv his cXplanatlon Gentlemen, my moral
crced--which is very wide and comprehensive
one, and includes nll sccts and articsis very east
" summed up. have faith. and | wish 10 dIt1l,sr
faith in the cX,stcnce--yes. of beautiful! thing,
even in those conditions oi socictv, which one 80
degenerate, degraded and ororn, that al first sigh,
would seem as though they could not be described
but by a strange and terrible reversal of the words
Of Scrip,rre--(iod said let there be light and there
was none. take it, that we are born and thai we
hold our symraihies, hopes and energies, in trust
for the Mann and not for the Few hat can
not hold in too strong light ot disgust, and con-
tempt before tie view OF others ali me;,llncs-
tasehooe, crucl,y aud oppression, Of every grade
and kind Above all, that nothing is high. be-
cause it's ira high place; and thar nothing low,
because ii is ina low one Loud appiausc) This
/. the cssontnught III the great Book OF Nature.
Tins Is the lesson which MAY be read. alike in the
bright track OF The stars. and in the dusty course
of the poorest thing that draSS its tiny length, upon
the ground. ThiS i the lesson ever uppcrmo>l IN
the thoughts Of that inspired man, who tells rs
that there are
Tongues in the trees; books III RAINING brooks
Sermons scnc>; and good in every tllng (Chc,r>l
(ien,lcmrn keeping ,lrsSe objects steadily before
me- am At no loss To refer vour=fuvor and Your
scncrous hospitality back to the right sonrcc.-
w lille know on the one hand thatit, instead of
Icing what it Is, this were land Of tyranny and
wrong should care very little for Your smiles ol
irow,s so am sure upon the other that II, !Asicad
Of being what am, were the greatest genius
That ever lrcd the earth, and had diverted myself
for the oppression and degradation OF mankind,
You would dcspisc and reject me. hope youwiil
wlc.cvcr, through such means, sive you the OPP
poltun.,y, Trust me, that whenever YOU give me
the Ike occasion / will return tn, plmenlwith
interest.
Gentlemen. rs | have secrets from YOU, III
the spint of confidence YOU have cnscndcrcd be-
tween us, and rs | hive made Mind III compact
with ,uvsclt tina, never will..wh:i" remain in
America, omit opportunity OF referring 10 Il
topic in which, and all others OF ny class onboth
s.dcS OF the great water equally Interested
equally iutcrcs,cd--hcre is no difference between
uS-l would BEG leave 10 whisper IN Your ear nvo
wordS-lmcrnational Copyright. USE Them IN
sor,lid sense, believe me- and those who know
me best best know tha, For myself, | would
rather tha, my children coming after me, lrudgcd
il, the mud and knew by the general feeling OF So
cictv, that their father was beloved aud had been
OF some use, thanl would have them ride in their
cGrriascs, and know bv their bankers books that
one should be Obliged to make tie choice CT why
fame, besides playing that delightful fcvcll.to'
which She $50 Justly celebrated, should not blow
GU, of he trumpet few notes OF n different kind
from those with which She has huhcyto contcnicd
herself
1t MAS well oh>civc,i the other might by beau
=unll speaker whose words wenlro the heart Of
every Who heard him. that ii there had exist
ed ally law IN tins respect, Scott might not have
sunk beneath the mighty pressure on his BRAN
but might have lived 10 add new creatures OF III.
fancy the crowd which arms about YOU in vcul
summer walks, and gather round vo,IG winter eve
ning hcathS.
As listened % his words, there came back
tr,>hupo. me, that touching scene in the slea
man lie. when he lay upon his couch surrounded
bv has family, and listened Tor the last time TO the
ripping OF the river, he had 50 we'll loved over ii.
sto,y bed pictured HIM TO myself, faint, wan
diving. crushed both in mind and bod, bv his non.
orablc struggle: and ovclins round HIM the phan
toms o, his own Observation-Disclosures, Ravens
wood, ,Ecamc Deans. Rob Roy, Caleb Bladder
Stone, Dominic Sampson--all the familiar tinon!
with cavulierS, and puriyans, and Hishlaip'
..l.:.ts ;unlnnrlhlc- Overwhelming i. snalnhur nnl