Daily Richmond times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1849-1850, 1850-04-11

which has just been drank supposes degree of COURAGE
too strongly stated. Men, Mr. President are coura.
geous IN proportion to the magnitude of the object and
the greatness OF the stake for which thew are contend
ing; recipe men-men OF sensitive temperament, ire
uous as the leaves upon the trees have brayed the ter
ros OF the nquisition and OF the aggo-her faith sus
tanning and unfolding them. Fearful men will plunge
nl he to save the objects Of their affection or pass
through the hre to secure their wives or children from
| destruction.
Who is there that will not be courageous if he finds
hse IN an exlgency in which the safety of his coun
| Try may depend upon his exertions And So as
servant not new to the councils OF his country felt on
recent occasion that the exigency demanded some
lh1ng which might incur risk of misunderstanding
Which might bring opprobrium Man, sir, has natural
lie and political lfe-he one to be terminated by
nose natural events and circumstances which occur
all the other to end either with the natural e or to be
terminated by those political events which the changes
| OF time and of things are ever producing But the
one and the other to be held valuable only while
ihey are OF use-to be enjoyed only while he who en-
| day and generation. When public man draws his
lite In that capacity to close, if he has performed his
duty to his country and has been faithful to the
posed in him, he has that consolation which no oppro-
brium and no censure take from him. But whether
he ends his life natural political man he can
never come to his final end too if he tails in de-
fence OF the honor and the constitution of his country
Mr. President-Whe the RomanR R pnblic lin its pal
mest period threatened with civil war; when arms
were introduced into the Senate by persons who had
designs upon the freedom and stability OF the Republic
the great oato and great OF antiquity in addressing
the Senate in defence OF his measures supposes the gen
rs OF MS e9aTnptry to be aposrophzing Murcus Tuous
ling the Republic; you the prospect Of civil war
devastating Italy aand what do you do3 Are you afraid
OF the reproaches OF poserityl But censure be that
whereof you afraid think which most TO be appre,
d-thecensure incurred for acting with rmness
and courage, or that tor having acted with soh and
pusillanimity When Italy shall be laid desolae with
| war-her cities plundered, her dwellings fire,
| tion?"
This great Union, Mr.. President, must last through
our generation and through generations yet to come.
Whatever clouds may overcast the political hori-
zon shall live in the hope and die in the hope that such
glorious Union as this will never perish The neces-
sty OF the case is all on our side. We united,
and can see no possible process by which we can be-
| come dsunited. In all Governments grievances are to
be borne and where Government is extended over so
great and extensive country as the United States diff
| erences OF opinion will exist. Our destiny is Union
and we must bring our minds to this fact or reconcile
ourselves to the probability of events which none now
could foresee 1t was barely possble-no, it was not
possible that the good State of Maryland should go
back to what she was in 1774 and you might as soon
tear asunder the granite hills Of New England as to
sever her from that conederacy of States which she
IS bound by so many ties Our fathers who had achieved
the independence OF the country and established the
constitution OF these United States, had deprived us of
rich Inheritance of glory but what they had left
was the defence and the preservation of what they had
established 1t was ours to show estimate of this
liberty and this constitution, by defending with all our
energies and, If necessary to the last drop of our blood
|
u.s. then we may look to their memory not as recrean
| fathers.
Inpolitca matters when a man rises in Congress to
make speech he is said to define his position; and may
we not Mr. President define the position of our coun-
try! The past has been all love and raternal concord
but who shall define the tuture2 Shall the States rush
from their several spheres and throw all into state of
| political anarchy and confuson-surenderng their
political gravta,ion; shall every State forth
independent voyage of exploration involving all in one
10 aOneco
centre The laws Of political necessity forbid that it
should be otherwise The waters of the susquehanna
and OF the Potomac rivers flow into the Chesapeake
Bay and by the general law of nature there unite The
States also by law of political necessity lead directly
10 union and the attempt might as we'll be made to
tans Of Pennsylvania and the waters of the Potomac to
| the Alleghanles as to prevent that union.
Mr.. WEBsrR concluded his remarks by expressing
the pleasure which he felt in being present at the eel
ebraon OF the Society, and wished the members all
success in the rational intelligent and ennobling histor-
cal researches in which they were engaged. He pro-
posed the following sentiment:
Liberty and the Cross-May their united influence
pervade and regenerate the world.
The remarks Of MIR. Webster, tof which we pretend
give but sketch occupied about half an houl
in their received with the greatest enthu
sasm, being frequently interrupted by warm and pro-
! longed cheers
| Mr. JNo. IL. b. LATRoBE then proposed TO the Com
pany with remarkable appropriate preface, alludn
to the common ancestral gories of Eng ishnen and
Americans, the following toast
SIR HENRY LyTToN BULwER.-The Missionary of
kindred nation from whom we have derived the most
sacred precepts of civil liberty and the nobest records
of human thought. May these ever be the effective
pledges OF mutual and unbroken friendship between
his people and our people!
This was received with hearty and continued greet
linz xubi Cir Dali, -.
That in rising after the Senator from Massachusetts
he was reminded OF gentleman who being called upon
to speak after the great Mr. Burke said that the only
way to satisfy his audience and acquit himself hand
somely OF his task was by exclaiming, Gentlemen
down" This would suit him especially, for his very
profession was that OF sence nevertheless there was
one feeling that he would omit to give uerapce to
nor even allow the eloquence of his friend the Senator
OF Massachusetts to express Tor him. namely the warm
and lively gratitude which he felt for the sentiment which
ceved 1.-The had wanted any illustration Of The fact
that the people of the United States and the people of
Great Britain ought to live terms of the closest
friendship with each other he should have found such
illustration in an anecdoe related to him during dinner
by his friend to the left 81 wandering one day.
said that gentleman, Sin the woods of Baden and lost
my way, when luckily met strange gentleman. Now
mad he been German, Spaniard, Dutchman an
Italian, this accident would not have hepedme should
neither have got back to my road, home to nv din
ner-but the strange gentleman was an Englshman he
gave me English answers to my questions in English
and as we understood each other if we were Of one
country, we soon forgot not" Exactly SO the
law OF language is the law of Cod and they who speak
the same tongue are not intended by Providence to cut
each others threats. If any twoepeople in the world
should dwell togetheri in peace, it was those who YOU
have coupled in the toast just given, and who were
already drawn closer together by the very fact that il
had been given; He would furthermore say that if
treaty OF eterna be contracted between
ing and ratiyng scf Saf no place SO proper for sign
then were, any witnesses who could so duly testify
to its proprety as society dedicated to the purpose
| and pursuits OF history. rf'0O
question, by giving to both common property in thnas
mpershabe. Hence We're gathered round their sdfths
the same household deities and breathed ntaeir ears
biers, the holy names. The iusrfotis fred to
whom both countries were indebted for theLola Saxon