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

Hsea ssHfuI Extract.

We take the following extract from an I'D
dress delivered by DIR. DIN, before the studsni
Of the University at Middletown. The address
Is said by those who have read IT to be mos
admirable production. The extract below !,
peculiarly appropriate TO the times. SRI
Always be ready TO avow your prinoi
Piles of action. Scom concealment. Po
out your true colors to the gaze Of men and
angels. There is false prudence. mock
modesty, which inculcales the opposite
method. 1t discourages confession, as saw
oring of ostentation, and would have us
leave the world to infer the existence OF
yirtuous principle from our conduct. In
most instances this is but poltroon's ex-
pedient 10 avoid responsibility and save a
convenient position for treachery or evasion.
IL 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 it is a 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 its public
sentiment. This living embodiment and
OF reason. truth and righteous
ness, acts upon the multitude with vastly
more directness and efficiency than books
Of morals and religions; and as it consti.
tutes the most effeciual method for the for
nation and vigorous maintenance of a 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 neutral
in any important crisis or question Of gen.
eral interest. The Redeemer of the world
has given to this equitable principle the
'"hSdVh VI iSistOii, anu IL 10 oii1 tncl "uo
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
ceiling more solicitude for promotion than !
le does for his principles. IL they are to
be put down, il is misfortune and snare |
10 rise; and he should blush, and suspect
himself a knsve, who is conscious OF
,rudging the sacrifice which it may cost
him TO be an honest man. No valuable |
snds, besides those of selfish OF profigate
can ever be secured by such dis
successes; and any but weak
II unsorupulous man will prefer to bide his
ime, and wait for more auspieieu days.
when God, whose attributes ever side with
he right, will pluck its drowned honors
rom 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 |
sxpsdients and resources Of party, which is
always framed and held together by com.
promises in which principle is sacrificed to
policy. Into this turbid maelstroom, from
which virtue and conscience never came
forth without stain, good, but ambitious
men, Of facile morality and feeble purposes,
are ever ready TO plunge.