The Daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1845-1850, 1848-12-20
BEAUTIFUL EXTRACT.

We take the following extract from an address
delivered by DR.. DIN, before the students of the
University at MiddletowE. The address is said
by those who have read it to be most admira-
BILE production The extract below is peculiar
ly appropriate to the times:
"Always be ready 10 avow your principles Of
action. Scorn concealment. Put out voar true
colors to the gaze OF men and angels There is
a false prudence, mock modesy, which incuI
Gates the opposite method. 1t discourages con-
tession, as savoring OF ostensation, and would
have us leave the world to infer the existence of
virtuous principle from our conduct In most
instances this is but polroOn's expeiient tn
avoid responsibility and save convenient posi-
ton for treachery or evasion. 1t is well and safe
to stand committed to the right, that the world
may know, in advance, where you will be found
in any day OF trial; and ii is a reflection upon
good mans intelligence OF integrity, TO have his
opinions and principles forever unsettled, or in
doubt. Society has right to know what it NAV
expect from him and justly suspects him OF in.
terested and dishonest aims when he chooses TO
remain undecided and uncommitted till popular
suffrage has announced the safe way. Educated
men are the natural sources and guides of popu
lar opinion; and they bound to stand forth
boldly, in battle with prejudice, and breast the
mundation of passion, though at some risk of be.
ing swept away by its fury. The principles of
the educated, active influential men, of eyerv
community, generally becomes its public sentl.
ment. This living embodiment and oppression
OF reason, truth and righteousness, acts upon the
multitude with vastly more directness and eff.
cheney than books of morals and religions; and as
II constitutes the most etfectua method for the
formation and vigorous maintenance OF a sound
public sentiment so it is chiefly relied upon Tor
f.,.sa n.
laws OF Athens he'd that citizen an enemy to the
State who remained neutral in any important
crisis or question OF general interest The Re-
deemer OF the world has given to this equitable
principle the sanction of religion, and it is only
they who confess him before men, whom he will
confess before the angels in heaven.
Let every one who would not become a mere
puppet and time server, beware OF feeling more
sollcitude for promotion than he does Tor his prn-
ciples. Ii they are to be put down, it is a ulis-
fortune and suare to rise; and he SHOULD blush,
and suspect himself knave, who is conscious Of
grudging the sacrifice which it may cost him TO
be an honest man. No valuable ends, besides
those of selfish or proligate ambition, can ever
be secured by such dishonorabe successes, and
any but weak or INSCRIPTIONS man will prefer
| 70 oide his time, and wait for more suspicious
| Gays, when God, whose attributes ever side
! with the right will pluck its drowned honsrs
IRON the deep and make the conscientious and
the brave sharers in its trumphs. Whoever COW
e'S promotion while his principles are under the
ban, must tall back upon the expedients and re-
sources OF party, which is always framed aud held
together by compromises in which principle is
sacrlhced to policy. Into this turbid maelstrom,
from which virtue and conscience never came
forth without stain, good, but ambitious men !,
oil iaclle morality and feeble purposes, are ever
ready to plunge"