The State guard., 1848-05-23
ADDRESS.
LADIES, GENTLEMEN, AND BRoruERs-

LADIES, GENrLEMEN, BRoTHERs-
 assembled ourselves together tody commemorate e Anniversary sf the introduction of beloved Order States And in returning sincere thanks yu brothers entering subject for the aterna courtesy you have manifested in selecting speaker this that conceive present position owing feelings friendship rather than competency to do justice the principles
 The and involuntary questions lips those who connected with in the mystic ties of Friendship Truth on an occasion like the present. What 0elowp ats orgn and it's aims !
 shall the patience of audience by long, might be- useless research into the origin and progress of the Order not quote from and ponero upon whose yellow shveled pages history has traced with faithful pen M siccnng tyranny and crime of wkcdness wrong the recon the past that the enlarged an liberal principles benevonce and charity that the heart and Old Feo ecrd thelf d and benent influences long buried the silent sepuche of the An existence for virtue render venerable objects themselves are not nnate and essentially lovely merius The blind and devoted with which bow aon rather than intrinsic merit or worth To me is matter but
 slight importance whether institution co-cxstence with the proud priesthood of Egyt whether it's founders the chosen friends and Roman certainly able enlightened and its founders and disciples of science philosophy and rational morality in suspicious age In truth entertain serious doubts whc ore essentially liar could have existed far back gloomy, dspo der like received charter Roman Emperor
 Titus Csa the year of the Christian 79 we have no evidence the working the present day dssimar and no doubt the fundamental principles of the would present striking tive feature of the institution and give highest dignity.
 No, Brothers, in the thick dans of those ages such creed could have existed Is plant that could ahe arid and soil of and ignorance would wh meath the scorhn heat espom and cenousne Only upon
 
 atmosphere of enlightened time that puts forth its bright leaves beautous flowers and bears its rich and delicious ruits
 The present day of marked and features Old things have passed and if all things had Its prominent characteristic is ceasess change Whether mutations tend instance improvement deemed questionable. Could the moueng dust of humanity for dream less century has been locked the iron letters of the e mated with the Pomehan spark, and bursting tomb again walk forth the face the earth the that would meet his bewdered gaze would convince him that he had other planet The aniquad that rule millions by irresponsible will and claim throne and sceptre by gs divine " that mortal by the fouou accidents of b though fool all hemisphere been exploded and in the greatly
 gated The science Government has undergone radical the manace have been from the strong limbs millions The stale and absurd theories that pevadd every branch and intellectual sciences, have vanished before omnipotenc of truth and experiment The fearless spirit that dared that the fixed his everlasting place. and the earth and the planetary world pursued their unboen familiar friend his has been written on an immortal page, while the memories of those who Jeff him but the recantaon or the ake have passed away like forgotten
 Religion that than nonyme of bgoiy cruelty has felt the influence of the great morals physics Her priests longer hold the blazing reeng in hand and articles of faith in the acreo robes are horrors an inson freeze the blood The worship e according the dictates of his conscience priv ge of each one to sit beneath his and hinder make afraid secured large portion of the human
 He who few hundred upon when be prophesed that huge ships woud without sa tides of old Ocean upon philosopher Where but awgeneaion back the unwcd single ship staggered amid the crested pillows the stormy Atlantic bearing narrow cabin few immortal spirits who fled with their household gods rack scu and the dungeon ten thousand noble spread their broad and snowy the winters g walk thing of Through the ingenuity of man the bounds of the door nghbo and the distant made kindred Thought has ghnngs sky and harned them to the of human ingenuity while the earth ous with her puaons Such changes say within century, while they have been mostly confined raj sciences and generally uaan naue indirectly eed an influence the morals of the world Yett melancholy truth that in the latter progress has been less marked rapid than in the me and many may diosynasy the gay tends to cheek and the and better instincts of the