The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1850-09-23

MAssAcHrsETTs CHARITABLE MECHANIC ASCOT
ATIos.-The customary exercises before the Mas
sachusetts Charitable Mechanic Association took
place at the hall of the Lowell Institute last
ing. The performances commenced with voun-
tary the organ by Mr.. Bissel after which
the chorus, "Hall to thee, Liberty, was sung by a
select choir, under the leadership of Mr.. Leonard
Marshall. Prayer having been offered by Rev.
Frederick ID. Huntington, the choir sung the fol-
lowing ode, composed for the occasion by Epes Sar-
gent, esq:
The camp has had it's day of song;
The sword, the bayonet, the plume
Have crowded out Of rhyme TOO long
The plough, the anvil, and the loom
o. not upon our tented fields
Are Freedoms heroes bred alone;
The training Of the work shop yields
More heroes true than War has known
Who drives the bolt, who shapes the steel,
May, with heart valiant, smite,
As he who sees foeman reel
In blood before his blow of might
The skill that couquers space and time,
That graces life, that lghtens toll,
May spring from courage more sublime
Than that which makes a realm its spoil.
Let Labor, then, look up and see
His craft no pith of honor lscks
The soldiers rifle yet shall be
Less honored than the woodman's axei
Let Art his own appointment prize,
Nor deem that gold or outward height
Can compensate the worth that lies
In tastes that breed their own deli ght.
And may the time draw nearer still
When men this sacred truth shall heed,
That from the thought and from the will
Must all that raises man proceed
Though Prize should hold our calling low,
For us shall duty make IL good;
And we from truth TO truth shall 60
Till life and death are understood.
Mr. J. s Skinner, editor of The Plough, The Loom,
and me dnuii, now introduced, and made an
address, which occupied some fifty minutes in lie
delivery. lie aimed not TO produce any oratorcal
hrf ala 10. a IL.
course upon the connexion Of the agricultural and
mechanic arts, and the infinite benefit Of systeu
Of protection 10 home industry 10 all classes of the
people. Enlargng especially upon the advantage
OF bringing the srtzsn's workshop and the manu-
iocturers mill close 70 the producers farm, he con-
trasicd the appearance and wealth OF Massacbu-
sctts. where THE system prevails and s cncours ged
with that Of Virginia where il ia ignored. These
States we're taken as examples merely, but the
great truth he sought 20 illustrate would hold good
with regard TO any people who pursued the two
different policies. He concluded with an eloquent
peroration, depicting the glory TO which coun.
try would inevitably arrive, were the true interests
Of her people consulted and provided for In the
measures OF the government.
The address over, achorus was performed by the
choir, and q benedictiou pronounced by Rev. A. l..
Stone.
the society hclda levee at the Revere house, where
good speeches were made by Henry n. Hooper, esq.
Hon. VI =. Wilder, Mayor Bigelow, Major General
Wool, and others. The reception Of General Wool
was cordial and enthusiastic. He is fnc-ooking
gentleman of the military school, and his speech
was apt and appropriate 10 tho occasion.
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