The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1851-03-05

he crowned the plough with the amai.s nths q his
d 81. Peters: France rejoces over her CoISelie,
Moliere, Racine and voltaire; while Beranger snc
has crowned the poet laureate of the people nss
ssSSS..: have wrtten inc sacred name OF LiDely
upon the hearts Of nation deeper than letters weIe
ever carved in adamant. Lams..:ne was poet
the pilot and paladin OF the French revolution
While to the English tongue belong Chaucer,
Spenser, Pope, Goldsmith, Cray, Byron, Colerdge
and Wordsworth and her literature has also been
Illuminated by the Wizard of the North, who slum-
bers peacefully beneath the broken columns Of Dry
burgh Abbey The wrongs OF Ireland are so Well
told by Moore that far of lands have wept with
sympathy for the oppressed jewellers on that gem OF
the sea.
Our own country, Mr.. Chairman, has produceda
few names that were not born to die" Bryant
and Halleck have struck the Tyre OF Apollo with
success in this newer and better world. The first
is Druid of our grand old forests-the second has
transferred to bis page the touching eloquence OF
the red man who inhabited them,
Poets have ever been the great civllizers OF man
kind. Poets have ever been the pioneers OF human
freedom. To prince and peasant, in college and
hall, their songs have brought social happiness or
sweetest consolation. As memorials OF the past,
they count the tears, they tell the sorrows, they
number the joys, they cherish the membranes,
and they soothe the passions. OF the great brother
hood of the world. They breathe the mathis over
our cradles, the Te Dcnmsef our manhood, and
the vespers at our graves Where song sleeps, pa
triotism fades away, nationality declines; but
where it wakes, like the strains Of MemnoA Of old,
it tells of the sunnse of a nations glory.
crave the indulgence OF the committee; but,
sitting as do at the feet OF Poesy and having lis
tened TO throbbings of her harp, is kind Of duty
that | owe to her for my exceeding reward, to
utter this humble defence Of her immortal children
And look upon it as one of life's ineifable plea
sures to have seen the rosy peaks of Parnassus,
though aiar Off Look where you may, the purest
lights that burn upon the altar of worlds know
1aI cIaWE raI kxx l.rxv h. a-t rG
men Alright in their devotion TO truth, are the hal
lowed flames kindled by the inspiration of song.
Without further DEPRESSION, will proceed to the
bill under discussion, which simply provides for the
appointment of five honorary delegates to represent
this State-the largest and richest of a powerful
confederacy-at the Worlds Fair, to be elected in
the same manner as Senator in Congress, whose
duty shall be TO report to the next Legislature the
result ofheir investigations concerning agriculture,
arts, manufactures and mechanics, and who shall
serve without compensation
In oldtn times mountains made enemies, when
an isolated feudal system, supported by fraud and
force with Its lords and serfs, the denizens OF cas-
ties, who prospered by the pilage of paupered
yeomanry, till wrongs became too erievous TO be
scabbord and avenged them. Then came the mid.
die ages, with the diplomacy OF Machiavell, and
the priestly craftsmanship of Rchelieu, MedIci,
Wosey and a Mszarin. But the day is past
"when words were given TO conceal thoughts"
Then came years of revolutionary struggles, Of
wars and bloodshed-a breaking up of established
usages, destroying of oppressive institutional
new order of things, out OF which sprang an era of
constitutional liberty. And in the midst of Its
dawning we behold century OF progress, where
the useful is encouraged the beautiful patronized,
century of steamboats,, locomotives, da-
guerreotypes and telegraphs, century of COM
merce and inventions, by which not the few, but
the many are benefited, and as the GROWING of
this era OF human progression we behold novel
spectacle, tournament Of peace, where arts, not
arms, are TO win the golden prizes, and We as
nation have been invited to exhibit the products of
our mechanics, agriculturE,s, manufactures and
artisans. | would not underrate the crimson
laurels due to the sword and the cannon but il is
now time that the loom, the anvil and the plough
should receive their stainless honors-that labor,
which has long borne the insoence Of office, and
the spurns that patient merit Of the unworthy
taxes" should now meet with brilliant recog-
milton and the presidents, emperors kings, sultans
and princes Of continents have been invited to do
honor to the industry Of the people. For the better
purpose of presenting the u'ea result Of this grand
these delegates is perpendicular whatever may
be of utility in any department OF labor, may be
reported by them 10 be adopted by our citizens,
and also by careful observation, market may
be found for products in whose growth or manu-
facture we may have the good fortune to excel
This exhibition strikes me as republican in
principle, end our Empire State, whose coat Of
arms bears the motto " Ereslstr," should rea-
lie that motto in the future it has in the past
in being among the first 10 advocate and encou-
rage design whose object is the benefit and ele-
The English government has expended thou
sands OF pounds sterling in raising and adjoining
crystal palace in Hyde Park, of sufficient magn-
tude, built of glass as the cheapest material, for
the reception and exhibition OF articles sent; and
the United States has been allotted for its ex-
hibitors twenty-seven thousand superficial feet
Tree OF charge. Our government has considered II
OF sufficient importance TO tit out the frigate ST.
Lawrence, to convey the came, also free ofexpense
Nearly ten thousand feet OF that space will be oc
cupied by the industrial products of citizens from
this State Nor is action of this kind unpre cedent-
ed, as has been stated TO the committee, for Geor-
gia, South Carolina, and Massachusetts have each
appointed representatives who will attend to all
that may be OF interest to their several States.
Thus the gentleman from New York's misnamed
'poeiical and Pickwickian affair" has been sane
toned in high quarters
The friends Of this bill seek only to clo,he their
honorary delegates with the most honorable ere.
dentials that the State car bestow for the sole pur
pose Of afordng them superior facilities FOR inves
uRating all things that they may deem of utility,
and for that purpose alone. The idea OF service
without compensation, is looked upon as extra
ordinary feature, but by this clause of the bill II is
hoped TO secure services Of the highest character,
from men who would scorR the name OF office.
seeker, but who would serve for the glory, for the
honor, Of the enterprise. Such services are price,
taxed to support men in Office, OF every grade,
throughout the State, would like more Of il. To
me itfayors very much Of the poetry Of patriot
itm.
One word as TO the general effect OF this indus
trial convocation. Its glorious results canno, be
measured by words. The gathering together Of
Frenobmen, Russians, Mexicans, Turks, Per-
sians, Bra zilians, Africans. Moors, New England-
srs, Hindooe, Americans, kanakas, Chilans, New
HoIlsndefs, Swedes, Russians, Arabian., Peru.
VANS and Californans will destroy long cherished
prejudices and beget wisdom They meet with
one common aim-the witnessing Of the fruits Of
civilization from every land Il will indeed be a
millennia type Of the "Peace on earth and good
will to men" that yet to come to all the troubled
nations OF the world.
Court of Oyer and Terminer.
Before Chief Justice Edmonds and Aldermen franklin
and Delamater.