American Republican and Baltimore daily clipper. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1844-1846, 1845-07-02

Gost warn us who survive TO seek supremely an
lncoruptbG crown, give us grace to lay it Ia
heart At the grave of the mighty dead, may
we lay down our ambition, cupidity and lust,
and resolve to live hereafter for the well being
of the soul, in view of death, judgment and
eternity. Let Thy Holy Spirit lead us through
this vale OF misery in holiness and righteous
ness all the days of our life; that when we
shall have served Thee in our generation we
may be gathered unto our fathers, having
the testimony OF good conscience, in the com
munion of the Catholic Church; in the conf
dence of certain faith; in the comfort of a
reasonable, religious and holy hope; in favor
with Thee our God, and in perfect charity with
the world, All which we ask through Jesus
Christ our Lord
Our Father, who art in heaven, SC. Sc.
The grace OF our Lord Jesus Christ, SC. sc.
After the prayer the Choir, under the direc-
ton of Mr.. l.. Wilder, sung the following in.
troductory him:
INTRODUCTORY HYMN-Tunc cold Hundred. !,
Before Jehovah's awful throne,
Ye nations bow with sacred 10Y:
Know that the Lord is GOD alone;
He can create and he destroy.
His sovereign power, without our aid,
Made us OF clay and formed US men;
And when like wand ring sheep we Strayed,
He brought Us TO his fold again.
Wen crowd thy gates with thankful songs,
High AS the Heavens our voices raise;
And earth, with her ten thousand tongues,
Shall I'LL thy courts with sounding praise.
Wide as the world is thy command,
Vast as eternity thy love;
Firm as a rock, thy tfath must stand,
When rolling years shall cease to move.
At the conclusion of the Hymn the Oratol
of the day, General Benjamin G. Howard
rose, and IN an impressive and eloquent man
ner, delivered the following Grafton: ..
FELLOW CITIZENS. Penetrated with most
profound sense of the unusual Importance of the
present occasion, of the solemnity and univer-
salty of the public feeling which has given birth
to this vast and imposing assemblage, ana i'm
pressed with deep conviction of the magni-
tude of the services rendered to his country by
the llustrous man whose death we deplore and
whose memory we honor, | proceed to address
you. In no instance of my life have | ever felt
such innate shrinking from tue performance of
public duty. When a nation mourns, the
emblems of its grief address themselves to the
imagination of the beholder, and the task of
combining and concentrating in words the vi
vid emotions of an intelligent multitude may
us is shrouded in the habiliments of woe. The
Slldlils vi uieldHCuOiJ HiuslC ldIl upon tIc cal
IN plantive sounds, and around me are the
men most conspicuous for excellence and virtue,
for honorable stations in society," for talents and
character and all which can dignity human ma
ture. Surrounded by all these incentives to
stimulate imagination, how poor is language
when it attempts to catch and embody and ex-
press the feelings which are thus powerfully
70 used into action. If the speaker were to be
actuated by cold selfishness, he would ADAM
don his duty in despair. But the occasion calls
forth the kind and gentle feelings of our nature,
and he may we'll throw himself upon the for
bearance of an audience pre-disposed, from all
these circumstances, to the indulgence of the
generous instead of the stern emotions of the
heart.
In assembling, as we have done, to place up
on the records of our history, this solemn tri-
butte Of respect to the memory of departed
worth, we find ourselves in an attitude as no.
vel as it is interesting. Here are men of all
political parties, gathering under the Flag of
the Stars and Stripes, to lay aside for short
time all differences of opinion, and in the name
of their common country, for the benefit of
those who now live and those who are to come
after us, to pay token of respect to the me-
mory of the patriot soldier, ANDREW JACKSON.
II is delightful to witness this union. 1t is re-
treshing to the contemplative mind to look at
one of those epochs when American citizens
can meet around the holy altar of their coun-
try, laying aside every feeling which could de-
tract from the solemnity of the occasion. We
are around the bier Of one of the dead Fathers
of the Republic. Though his mortal remains are
not actually present, the symbol is here. The
funeral car, and the pail bearers and all the in
sigma OF mourning are present to the senses,
and the feelings which press upon me as con-
template these indications Of respectful grief,
induce me to exclaim, as it was once said upon
an occasion infinitely more solemn even than
this, "Put off the shoes from thy feet, for the
ground on which thou standest is holy" Yes
it is holy ground. Nothing should be felt or
said that does not 'partake of feeling Of awe
Nothing should be felt or said which is not cal
culated to make us purer patriots and better
men. We are told that in the early history Of
Europe, III the eleventh century, during the
seasons of Advent and Lent, there was cessa-
ton of all private warfare from the evening of
Thursday to the evening of Sunday in every
week. No matter how embittered were the
teuds which prevailed. no matter with what
fierceness private injuries were sought to be re-
dressed at the point of the spear and the sword
the warriors OF chivalry lowered their pennons
when the time came for the "T'ruce OF God" to
prevail, 1t was beautiful institution, cstab-
lshed by religious authority to mitigate the ie-
Iocity Of the age
So it is with us on this day. Under the dis