The Nevada journal., 1851-12-25

successful nations. and in honorable ri
valry competing for the markets Of the
world. Her soil is noe fertile, yet the
toll Of the husbandman has caused the
barren place to bloom, and all over the
land are thrift and comfort and content.
Characterized by energy and enterprise,
she seeks every variety Of industry,
Nowhere is there greater sympathy
with humanity, or more liberal pro-
vision for the unfortunate. To relieve
the misfortunes Of the poor, the insane,
the blind, the idiot, have been devoted
both public and private munifceDce.
Her common schools are justly q source
of pride. Stars are they, thick-set in
her frmament, that every where sparkle
and CLEAN, and send forth in thousands
Of rills pure and grateful light. Her
cslle yes and institutions Of learning,
based upon that common education.
stand out like her mountains, strong and
towering all over the land. And if great
men in the varied departments of mem
tai cultivation are the ornament any
glory of land, where is there countrd
in the wide world Of no larger popula-
ton that can present more distin-
guishsd array. There is Story, whose
thoughts come rushing down from the
heights of intellect, like one Of our own
mountain rivers swollen to overAowing,
bearing onward the golden sands, and
deposting them all along its course to
enrich the juridical or intellectual mi
ner; Claiming whose calm, command
ing intellect, and fervid feeling for the
human race subdued the seul not less
by powerful reasoning than by warn
sympathy--who deemed religion means
Of promoting happiness here as we'll as
hereafter, and kindness and comfort and
consolation to be its proper attendants
who saw equality and sought goodness
in the nature OF man, and standing upon
that position Of equality AID goodness,
spoke TO the universal heart Of the pee.
pie rs he plead for common rights and
common elevation; Edwards of an ear.
lier day, Of a seversr creed, whose meta
physical mind grasped ut the most abb
struse subjects, and with the incest dis
elimination and broad scope OF INTEL
lect unfolded our intricate nature
There are Webster and Wright, side by
side-stars Of the sky-the enc second
to none in vigorous word and thought,
whose eloquence deep and majestic as
the rolling thunder reverberating along
tho mountains, whose presence and
power are rs 6xed and enduring as the
mountain profile in his native state
tho other, clear and conclusive in his
temperament, whose mind flows like the
the deep river, strong and still, and like
it freighted with rich treasures which
it bears ever onward to the marts Of
the world. There are Sparks, and Ban
croft, and Prescott, who have nobly mar
rated what others have nobly acted
who have found in the fresh fields of the
American continent as daring deeds and
adventure to describe as ever chivalry
performed in its palmy days Of the Sala-
din and the lion-hearted Richard-a
more solid and comprehensive liberty
to develop than ever Greek or Roman
knew--a race of men hardy and heroic
as ever conquered world, or created
state; and equal to the occasion has
been the historian. Dane and Ma
son, profoundly learned in the law, who
traced back principles to their remotest
sources amid the darkness Of distant
ages. There is Webster, the lexiceg-
rapher, first and foremost in developing
copiously and defining perspicuously the
English language--Morse who made the
lightning subservieAt 70 his will and
sent it to do the errands of man Everett
the finished scholar, who has adorned
whatever he has touched with intellsc.
tual beauty and ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
whose pure and heslthful thoughts, re.
vealed with pre-eminent grace, come
like genial showers Of May bringing
freshness and bloom to the land Of the
soul-Willis, who with delicate fancy
and feeling has sought tho gentler chords
of the soul, and evoked the sweet melt
ing music of affection and love--Bryant
who amid the forests of New England
caught all the glow and glory Of nature
and reflected them upon man-Burritt.
the learned blacksmith, who bounded
to On acquisition Of languages which is
ordinarily attained only by lifelong To-
UOr. AHcbc, uuu VtucTb uOs Hbhu0u, hEo
the sons Of New England, of whom she
may be justly proud, and who in their
different pursuits and departments rank
with the 6rst in the wo.ld. have not
alluded to the revolutionary heroes and
worthless of New England. They stand
apart by themselves, brilliant galaxy.
Try New England by any and all Of the
tests Of nations greatness and worth,
and we'll will she bear inspection. Is it
moral worth-is it mind in all its various
Developments of intellectual beauty and
utility--is it that noble sympathy which
prompts generous endowment Of insti-
tutiOns for the relief of suffering human
ity-is it the general diffusion Of know
ledge aad education-is it industry or
enterprise it one or all of these by
which you would test her character, and
where surpassed in ono or all Of these
ennobling traits! But in recalling these