The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1844-03-05


one man. The wonderful and perfect adaptation of tina
to the great purpose Of that whole me and the
plete Identification OF the cause oil the mutton with his life
and character perfect illustration OF this genera
TRUTH and best demonstrated by the fact that this
moment his need not be uttered In all this
bly, there heart that does not thrill with grateful
and enthusiastic impressions Of that And here
alone--no merely where our language ia spoken--no
merely those countries and places with which have
frequent and familiar ntercoursebu in other lands that
name
sis still watchword to the EARTH"
work which was given him to do, washington departed
and with him. the purposes Of that time being accom-
phed the age departed The unity Of that great drama
was complete and the curtain fails rise upon another
and greater scene In the Revolutionary age, if what
history had then been prophecy and had been
commissioned TO select the man who should in the next
generation forth to be the leader of the ma.
| uon in the development Of its purpose--whi.
Their would he have gone to seek him destined
TO he the man OF the people and the of the age
Perhaps to the halls Of some school, college universe
y, where the favored few acquiring sudious
ciusion the wisdom OF antiquity and arming themselves
with the weapons OF science and literature for the coming
contests OF their time Perhaps among those who by
ISOLATION with other nations, by familiarity with foreign
countries were learning the world and thus apprecatns
by COMPARISON the peculiar excellence of good her
age and the peculiar glories OF opening destiny No.
not there shall he find the though among these there
who shall bear their part and stand in their lot
in the end OF the days" Shall seek him then here
growing up amid the refnements OF associated wealth
surrounded by the advantages Dense welorgan1ed
ciety among the Of the rich and the honored NO
not mere though these Influences are dcy clipping mighty
OF intellect and moral power which shall be et IN
their time and in their place Shall we seek HIM then
among those who are looking TO military service for the
means of adapting themselves to the natural tastes OF
nation born in and baptized in blood-whose infancy
fed the mangled carnage OF thousand battle eds
No. no mot there not there though thence shall come
those who shall IN their turn receive their share OF honor
and do their allotted portion Of good and evil The ma
ton SHALL at time, worship the incarnation Of Mooch
the demon OF awess tyranny, Violence base vndicve
ness murder and rapineand at another time shall bow
in the dust before the golden image oil Mammon the god
selishness covetousne.s avarice meanness and faud
hut at last these abominable idols shall crumbe and
tumble down upon their besotted adorers. crushing
with them their own false pre- phes who made the peo
pie sto sin--men OF Beial, who with intrigue and
trick perverted the truth, and loved and made
the lie" which misled the honest and the simple.
But far away from the Of violence and crime and
the monsters that shall engeder and nonrsh these agen
ces of evilla away from the home OF ancestral pride
and hereditary honor-away from the classic hall-and
far from foreign lands and courtsar away, in humble
rustic scene shall find him who appointed unto the
mission Of the ageto achieve the purpose" OF his time
There in that wild woodland, that rough road leading
from the little story farmhouse to the MILL through
ana swamPs ana fieids there PAGES an oia horse
frightened boy sunburned and bareio0ted in his coarse
homespun dress, evidently exclusive patron OF domes
tic manufactures, and pledged to rerenchment That
simple rustic scene is unassociaed with high chieve
ment in history. II is not OF the fields which
fathers fought the murderOus savage the naughty Br
Yet it has associations which shall make it dear
to Americans, as rich in its peculiar gories,
Bunker Hill Yorktown or Tppecanoe shall he to the
republicans every age and cline OF the places holy
to liberty, one Of
.the Palestines,
The Meccas Of the mind
II shall be he of nations hopes and happiness
Patriots poets philosophers and historians shall trace from
it the mighty stream of the Of the age land pill
grms come far TO salute the bes spot" and find in il
lesson to the world That scene is the Sashes OF Hano
ver and that poor little orphan child is "the Mill boy OF
the Sashe'an appellave whose rude provincial SOUND
shall not hinder 1t from becoming than classical fol-
with all its harhness shall make the music of ages and
nations; and shall be the watchword and rally cry
millions rushing to bloodless battle 1t shall be shout
ed in the assemblies OF the patriotic and faithful and
peated with ntonaons enthusiasm and rapture in the
great congregation OF the just The day shall when
the utterance OF that shall raise the awful voice oil
mighty nation in Of thunder from the Lakes tie
Gulf from the Ocean to the mountains and from the
tan to the distant sources OF the Father OF Rivers for
shall associate with that nations most inspiring
brances and exalted hopes 1t shall be their gorytheir
pride their boast to the world throughout Christ
endom, and welcomed everywhere as the sign of repub
faith vndicated and American honor retrieved Long
shall ring through the Continents and the Oceans
that glorious name associated with that of Washington
from Peru La Plata and Oregon to Sparta Athens and
Thebes These two names shall be heard when nothing
else that belongs to America is knownshal be heard
the exempihcation OF all that is good and hopeful in the
liberty
He born within year after the declaration of indie
pendence and therefore among the first offspring ci
our republic among the first Of those who never knew
what to have king government in which they
were not represented Before attaining manhood he lett
the region OF his BIRTH and went the mountains to
the dark and bloody ground" away from the influences
Of comparative refinement Entering public life he began
his career as statesman by presenting resolutions in the
Kentucky Legislature. in favor OF the protection OF
glance, he saw the duty of government the duty
Of the people to themselves, the duty to promote the
h Of he s and The the e
earthan example, encouragement. and boast to all
who love liberty 1t is remarkable that the idea which
Washington at the close of his seemed most espc
ciay DESTROYS to impress upon the nation next to the
preservation of the Unon) the necessity of national
seltreance sepoection aud independence of the innu
ence Of foreign from their poll
cy and power-not dependent on them for any thing
particularly not for the manufacture Of opinions He
snn tn NAL Ia tr,,ly indian nl.ut NATHAN
a peculiar people, Jealous Of good works." thsi
would demonstrate the excellence of institutions by
their beneficial results upon ourselves He left the Ma
ton with character OF quiet independence-wth The
disposition and power to supply themselves and Develop
thelr own resourcesnot to be mere 'hewers OF wood
and drawers OF WATER to other Nations producers
OF raw material for Europeans TO shape into the fabrics
skill and then return to us at our double cost He knew
that the American genius and mind the activity energy
and ingenuity Of this free people preeminsnt and
that good Government with independent self protective
National legislation would make us preeminent in power
prosperity and glory 10 reognae the idea tn present.
in new and enlarged form, to make it practical was
the great political movement of the man OF sge
From that time he proceeded steadily in the gradual de-
velopment and modification OF the mighty scheme OF
tional measures which the Wing party uphold
The life Of that man is the history of the nation Tor
quarter OF century The American who knows not the
connection between that life and the benecent influences
Of Government during that period sadly ignorant OF th'
history OF his country is 10 be inferred that there
person in this assembly ignorant and therefore al
details may be omitted as superfuous Out from the
Revolutionary age the Nation came. mighty OF
ties, yet without distinct form, without definite outline
expression finish To shape that OF material
to be the purpose OF another tmethe work of another
man. There was once sculptor who said something
like hs"In every block Of marble there is Statue
image Of perfect beauty which only needs the eye OF
genius to discover it and the hand of genius to
it." Our modern artists first mould in plas
ter material the figure which they have imagined
aud then with due corrections, commit it to astonecutter
who performs the heavy labor of copying it in the last
ing marbe-lsaving to the designer only the finishing
touches" But about three hundred ago. there
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real genius who did these things in his own way and
that often little different from other peoples ways
The consequence that he did two three remark.
able things which are likely to be remembered with adm
ration when whole schools and generations of critics who
have censure1 him for his violations OF rules forgot
ten. This man is commonly called Micheal Angelo, in
our rude way OF perverng the sounds OF continental
names. Whether he suits the cognoscenti not, it is
enough for to know that he designed and reared the
vast and wonderous dome" of St. Peter'stha he painted
the Last judgment the Sisne Chapel and that he
not only such architect and painter but he was also
eminent as sculptor And he far dsdained the aids
and convenences of art that having looked at the block
Of marble, and having developed in his mind the form
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