The examiner. [volume] (Louisville, Ky.) 1847-1849, 1849-02-10

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We take the following extract from an ad
dress delivered by DIR. DIN, before the student
Of the University at Mbidleiown. The addres
is said by those who have read Il to be mos
admirable production. The extract below 1
peculiarly appropriate TO the times.
Always be ready TO avow your princi
plies Of action. Scom concealment. Po
out your true colors to the gaze Of men ant
angels. There is false prudence, mocl
nlodesly, which inculcales the opposits
method. Ii discourages confession, as saw
Oring of ostentation, and would have u.
leave the world to infer the existence o.
virtuous principle from our conduct. In
most instances this is bat poltroon's ex
Pedient to avoid responsibility and save q
convenient position for treachery or evasion.
II is well and safe 10 stand committed 10 The
right, that the world may know, in advance,
where you will be found in any day Of trial;
and il is reflection upon good mans in,
telligence Or integrity, to have bis opinions
and principles forever unsettled, or in doubt.
Society has right to know what it may
expect from him; and justly suspects him OF
interested and dishonest aims, when he
chooses TO remain undecided and uncommit-
ted till suffrage has announced the safe way.
Educated men are the natural sources and
guides OF popular opinion; and they are
bound TO stand forth boldly, to battle with
prejudice, and breast the inundation Of pas
sion, though at some risk Of being swept
away by its fury. The principles Of the
educated, active, influential men, OF every
community, generally become It's public
sentiment. This living embodiment and
OF reason. truth and righteous
ness, acts upon the multitude with vastly
more drectness and efficiency than books
of morals and religions; and as il consti.
tutes the most effeciual method for the for
nation and vigorous maintenance Of sound
public sentiment, so it is chiefly relied upon
for that function. On this account it was
that the laws OF Athens held that citizen an
enemy to the State, who remained a neutral
in any important crisis or question Of gen.
eral interest. The Redeemer Of the world
has given to this equitable principle the
sanction Of religion, and il 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-seNer, beware of
feeling more solicitde for promotion than
he does for his principles II they are TO
be put down, it is a misfortune and snare
10 rise; and he should blush, and suspect
himself knsve, who is conscious Of
grudging the slcfi6ce which it may cost
him 10 be an honest msn. No valuable
ends, besides those of selfish or profigate
can ever be secured by such dis
successes; and any but weak
or Inscriptions man will prefer to bide his
lime, and wait for more suspicious days.
when God, whose attributes ever side with
the right, will pluck its drowned honors
from the deep, and make the conscientious
and the brave sharers in its triumphs. Who
ever covets promotion while his principles
are under the ban, must fall back upon the
expedents and resources OF party, which is
always framed and held together by CON-
promises in which principle is sacrificed to
policy. Into this turbid maelstroom, from
which virtue and conscience never came
forth without a stain, good, but ambitious
men, Of facile morality and feeble purposes,
are ever ready TO plunge.