The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1850-11-01


explains with great beauty and force the character Of one
Of principal elements OF unrvaled prosperity The
whole address il worthy Of MIR Cushing's fine talents
and high reputation.
address dsivsred September 49, 1850. al Sasa, before
the Esssx agricultural Sociay, By catso Cushing
Mr. President and gentlemen Of ne
isie Essex agricultural Soeisiy'
Il would be plesumptuous on my part 70 think Of ad
dressing Won on matters OF practical agriculture choose
rather 10 invoke your indulgence for appropriate
reflections OF another class,
Allow me, however, in the outset, whilst congratula-
ting YOU on the happy reunion here oil many members
Of The society," 10 give uiterance 10 common grief,
view OF the absence of who honored and esteemed
by the community al large, was more especially dear 10
you, both an associate and ss friend. alude OF
course TO your deceased vice president the Hon Daniel
p. King.
have known Mr.. King well public man, and in
that respect speak OF him with the precision Of per
sonal observation As statesman, indeed, his memory
now belongs not TO our own Commonwealth only but To
the whole Union. t8q4N
He owed TO the accidents OF birth and Of circumstances
but This that be enabled To pass into the public ser
vice without going through that apprenticeship IN active
sharpen the faculties and enlarge the sphere OF know
edge, yet has tendency 10 leave the heart hardened ~
the conflict OF human passions and Interests, and the mln
sophisticated by the habit Of seeking for arguments to
maintain assumed opinion side in the stead OF the
unpreudiced exploration OF the depths OF supreme and
eternal truth.
own opportunities OF education ard mental formation
faithfully improved-sc OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES:
full and ready neutrality-suspicious. bearns-candoi OF
Judgments sprl manly and generous-hrmness OIL tenet
soflened by moderation OF ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS OF pnn.
cpie-phanhropy in sentiment and practice, not IN loud
proessonTeligon OF the heart well OF the head aud
of the outward ffe-equabencss OF general worth--con
stancy and uprghtness IN the performance oil all his du
ties whether to himself his country. or bis God. Add
which, that in him conscientousness OF political
vclion was Tree Of that bgory OF party which, in the
OF its myopic perception looks on difference
OF sentiment as crlme and his earDesfness OF execu-
ton in the line oil his convictions unaccompaned by
that common form OF party action-a calculated and self
interested intolerance.
Thus il was that he rose TO and well discharged public
functions OF high eminencest in the domestic govern
ment OF the Commonwealth and afterwards for series
OF OF her representatives in the Congress OF
his age and OF his acules has cut short the OF
wise, good and patriotic who, had he been longer
spared TO us, would have continued 10 win true glory in
the honorable service OF his country.
OF the private virtues OF Mr. King as distinguished
from those qualities which have marked his political
life-of the excellence OF his character son. hus-
hand, father, fellow ctlzen-lt would be unbeconlng
for speak in the cold terms OF public euogy
here the midst OF those by whom his memory is cher
ished, and his death depoIed, for considerations higher
and sacred than all OF respect or OF admiration
which gathers around the name OF the departed states
But Mr. King was a farmer, ALSO with strong predi
lection for agricultural pursuits, showing, by the
csssful management OF his own ample estates, how
science may be combined with practical skill, and in
Az
earning the confidence and esteem oil the society:
Gentlemen, there in my estimation, no condition OF
private life useful to the community, more hon.
orable TO the individual, than the cultivation OF the
earth propose, continuation, TO develop this idea,
and 10 exhibit the relations OF land, its ownership, and
its cultivation, 10 the material wealth of nations to their
moral and political welfare, and especially 10 the pros
perity and happiness OF these United States
Il 10 impossible thai any American should call TO mind
the history Of his country and look abroad on its present
condition, without feeling sentiment OF EMULATION in
the remembrance OF the one and OF pride IN the conlem.
pation OF the other.
may be that something OF exaggeraiion enters into
the sentiment may be that the frequent expression OF
il has sound OF boasuness TO the foreign ear; yet as
Mr. Everett truly and well observes the feeling and the
manifestation OF have been most natural TO us OF this
generation. who saw eminent men OF the revolutionary
struggle still lingering among us after the nation had al
ready grown into surprising greatness, thus proonging
our heroic age even into the present time.
This feeling is the more natural, nasmuch
selves the witnesses OF a visible yet marvellous
tionsl growth Of populous cities filled with monuments
OF a, which have sprung up il were, by enchanmeni
from the bare face OF the wilderness with the sudden
but without the transentness OF one OF the vast
oriental encampment of great States, with their hrong
ing mions oil inhabitants, appearing IN wide lands,
where the fist fuuow ploughed in the virgin soil
by the hands Of very fathers; nay, OF an empire
broader than Macedonian king or Roman general
ruled. rising out OF the earth as II al the stamp OF our
We see that it is not an empire only, bu, people
standing before colossal, glorious sublime its
perna majesty, with the aureola Of divinity flashing
from IFS brow for that people has the highest Of the
patents OF nobility 10 show Tor itself, as the Spaniard
phrases il. namely, its works; It has taken Its
knghily spurs the field it has gained its blazon OF
arms In the council. chamber; il is the child OF its
achievements. And in thus learning TO become great it
has learned the harder lesson to be great for whilst
other nations struggling in vain 10 establish free in
stituons, wildly tossing their limbs in the throes and
convulsione Of mingled hope and fear only sink down
again into the death like iorpor of despair. the
contrary led forward by those great among whose
solid minds alike mistaken, whether by the uui
rus insanfis fyrdnn" by the euium ardor praud
benfum," have amidst difficulties unexampled, held on
in conscious strength, proudly dsshng behind
US the troubled waters OF discomfort ard disunion.
Well, therefore, in such time as this, might republi
France look with admiration al the spectacle oil the
regular working OF the institutions OF this country, when
the conQueror OF well fought and hardwon held
of battle bowed his head last before the great conquero
Death. and the supreme power OF the Union passed in
tranquility and peace, TO the hands Of one, having IN.
deed just titles respect, but Of Identified
with great events TO make the heart tbrob and the
blood run thrilling through the veins, ike his pedeces-
sor therefore, equally sure OF the spontaneous
Difference OF his counrymen.
And well. therefore, may we say TO the American
Union, m The exquisite words oil one OF the sons OF
Essex
slope OF the world May each omen OF III
Fade Ia the light Of thy destiny still
Time bring but increase aud honor TO thee
Land Of the beautiful, land Of the free y
Nevertheless, il may be right for MS to inquire how
much OF all these grand results OF this rapid growth in
power, OF this happy combination OF liberty with crder
and OF the organic perfection OF our political system,
due TO men, their race character, spirit, Institutions and
how much 10 other causes above beyond all human
Influences, and what those causes are.