Burlington free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1827-1865, 1843-06-23
From the N. Y. Eve. Post.

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"a reception honorable both to him and those
who gave il. The grafton delivered on that oc.
casion is marked with Mr.. Simlns's usual char.
acteristics, force and iuency of style. and unbor-
rowed thoughts. The groundwork of the dis.
course is the position that the love Of home, at.
tachment and reverence for the domestic heart,
is in its results political principle of the high
est importance, and is the cause Of the perna.
hence of nations. This he has illustrated very
ingenously from the history Of our own coun.
try.
We cannot better commend the discourse to
our readers than by few extracts:
THE PoLIrIcAL EFFECT OF THE Love OF
HoME--"Why are not the Spanish and French
adventures who traversed these regions three
hundred years Accommodating with armies and
banners,--a noble and bright array,-in all the
pomp of fame and chivalry,- why are they not
now in possession of these domin ons,-the mas.
tiers of this clty,-speaking the sonorous Ian
guage Of the one nation, or the courtly dialect OF
the other,--and engaging, this hour, in the gor-
geous and imposing rites of their peculiar relig-
ion! Why is it that the French and Spaniards
are in possession Of SO few of their colonies and
onquests,-drven, either wholly or in great
part, from the West India Islands,--from Next
CO, from Central, and from South America
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because they pursued not these humble pro-
cesses Of comfort,--because, with all their quail
ties of conquest, they lacked the only one which
makes conquest permanent! That domestic
feeling. which is equally sentiment and pass.
ion with the Englishmen,--the appreciation Of
a social impulse which no fashion can easily
subvert,--a sort of household religion, from
whose sweet and simple affairs no accused love
of lucre can ever thoroughly beguile. 1mbued
with this religion of the house and heart, the
Englishman makes castle wherever he plants
a footstep. 1t is his law and fortress, and rails
ing this moral superstructure wherever he lays
his hearth.stone, he has founded his lordy dwell
ling in the four quarters of the earth. His
drum,such is his naughty boast, still keeps sono.
rous sounding time, responding, like ancient
Memnon, to the progress of the sun, in every
known region which he honors with his beams.
In each of these, such has been his devotion to
the substantial objects OF his nature, his treasure
is too great to suffer him to forego his possess
ion. lie is rooted there like some natural
growth Of the forest, he takes root readily, main
tains his foothold with his life, and you can only
dlspossess him by a recognition of those social
laws by "hich he is governed, and by stern
patriotism. which, in the assertion of a natural
right, finds superior impulse to his own. In
no other way can we account for the fact, that
these naughty islanders, of all living conquerors,
have alone maintained their conquests,- -seldom
baflled,-and never, but in a single instance,
driven from the ground where they had found
oothold, and then only by the arms of a people
sprung from the same ancestral loins with them.
selves. Nay, even this exception mus, have its
qualification. They were not expelled from
America, they maintained themselves in Ameri.
ca. The invader was foreign despot hostile
to British liberty, and the expulsion Of British
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forts of British freedom. 1t was the struggle of
the Bri,on's Preside, against Britannia's avarce,
the social man against those usurping passions
ola government, which too frequently war up.
on the sacred HEARTH in the name Of church and
sceptre."
The MORAL DISEASE OF THE TIMES
with impatient spirit, a heart swelling with
diseased DESIRES hope that knows no measure
IN modesty or reason-our country, at this mo-
ment, through its inappreciation of the social
virtues, presents a deporabe picture to the eye
and mind. 1t is a nation free from beggary.-
Never was nation so free at all times from this
saddcst Of all conditions. No man lacks in food
or clothing. Never was nation, in the whole
broad eye OF the sun, SO we'll fed and habed
S with such various food, with such fine rament
Plenty covers the land, and the God who has
been thus boun,iful in blessings, has withheld
the arm of punishment. There is no pestilencc
in our cities there is no savage at riot along oul
borders. Yet we clamor, we complaint! Never
was mouth so loud as the Ame orleans in the Ian
guage of complaint! Ofwhat do we complain
That the Arts avoid our shores, that the Graces
fly from our habitations that we have lost
"Our peace, our fearful innocence"
that we are selfish men, that we have no Liter
ature worthy of the name, that our desires are
base, that brutality stalks among US with rare
n impudence, that crime is rising with hideou
. dimensions throughout the land Is it of these
things we clamor! No! No! These are mat
tiers Of small significance, these call for no com
plants, often no feelings, alarm no virtues, oc
cason no lamentations. Our clamor is 70
something better, sweeter dearer, more neces
sary to our souls, for gold, for silver, or, NOR,
specious deusion still, though more harmless
for good currant paper of banks not yet absolute
y broken. The national appetite RACES, is still
unsatisicd, will never be satisfied. We are tori
with the greed that works within us-our want
not our need, raving that promises to pay vii
no longer enable us TO fleece the poor # on
own, and defraud the rich of a foreign nation :
FORTUNE MAKING.-"This is not the bust
ness of man,-nay, its pursuit is usually fatal T.
all his proper performances. On this subjec
we have conclusive authority. What is
that we are authorized to ask for, in our morn
ing prayer to God! Give us this day our dai
lily bread No more, yet this is much, muc
, more than any of US deserve. Millions rise eve
ry morning in Europe, with an overpowering ap
he prehenson, that day, that they shall get n
ead--neither for themselves nor for their lit
20 tie ones. Nobody contents himself, in Amer
ca, with so humble desire; and were we t
form any idea of our prayers, in this country
from our complaints, we should be seen, morn
ing and night, before the throne of God, suppl
eating, not for bread, but fortune. The mer
bread of life seems but sorrow object of prayel
and yet, without this prayer, no better futur
awaits us. Certainly, peace, security, happ
ness, are not ours, with all our tolls, and wit
all our prayers to fortune. Gentlemen, "
must pray to God, and not to fortune