The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1851-01-30
One Hundred and Fourteenth Anniversary
OF Thos. Paine's Birth Day.

Coliseum, Broadway, to celebrate the ono hundred
and fourteenth anniversary of the birth day Of the
celebrated author of Common Sense and the Rights
Of Man.
At eight o'clock the company began to arrive and
at nine there about $50 ladies and gentlemen in
the ball room. Dancing was then commenced, and
kept up with greas spirit until IL pollock when the
company repaired TO the supper room, where sn
CANT supper provided by Miller the proprietor OF
the Coliseum. After supprr, Edward J. Wells, Esq,
the chairman rose and announced that Doctor Hal
lock would deliver an address.
Doctor HALLocK then rose and spoke follows -
LADIES AND G 6ENrLEMEs:-W told by the Apos
tie, that There diversites of gifts, bat the
spirit And there diversties OF operations but it
true men no matter in what age or country they may
have lived-no matter how diversified their modes of
Operation moved BY the ram. spirit 70 Of al
of summer-the sunshine and the shower--ths
storm and the calm evening and the morning
SO opposite antagonistic In their operation,
moved by the same spirit-al work to the same end
the perfection Of the hsrvest-the good Of And
all because the aggregate Of truth however,
diversified the elements that compose 1t must be har
verse Ia . unit So Of the true msn-so Of whatever
truth there 10 in But during the uggle Jar
n - TINS % same
ties engaged II ths elements could calumniste
and rail at each other, or mispnderstsnd each
What union have / with darkness The calm
would not extend her gentle hand to the the
summer would feel that she would be chsd to death
In the embrace Of winter They could not seen their
diversity of gifts the same spirit Neither dees
man Among other things, let us devote portion Of
the brief period allotted to reflection this festive
OCCASION to consider aon of this fact and its
sequences. Such thing a martyr in all proba-
bility, would never have been had this fact been
known Both the victims and the prosecutors Of that
grim old age were In earnes-here can be no doubt OF
that do burn ach other suffer themselves
to be burned In sport There was deep purpose at the
bottom Of all this; could some power have lifted the
ye and shown that purpose, both in the judge and
his victim, to be the same, how different would have
boen the result.-How changed the whole current of
history-hew purified from blood would have been It's
stream Tine has lifted that veil for u.s. and standing
upon to day, the apex Of pyramid compoted Of all
p ssss. not Ssr crssas aps ,gs
heroes sf the thoir purpose their motive
the same. In looking from this mental Pisgah into
the past, 1t is sublmely ludicrous, the anomalous
Of earnest heroes that in review before
us-Gregory the Pope-Luther the Protestant-Aifred
few). But fancy some of these to have met Pope
Gregory the 1t he cast his eye that
dim iriand of the sea, warm with earnest hope for
Its redemption from Druid rites and barbarian thra
dom, and Thomas Paine, fresh from battle with
the very superstition which Gregorys church en-.
gendered. How could these have met +" Ready cord
and shirt shrft' for the :" hereto" that infdelity
might die. And yet, when the one sent his
II onks into Britain, and the other wrote his "Age
of Reason" and "Cemmon Sense" not
see? II we cannot, let anoint eyes with eye
ty of gifts, " the same sprit.n Where would be the
obloquy which obscures the name OF Paine now,
twain and his defamtrs could Look into the sanctua
sancorn Of his heart and the spirit that guided
ita-or must we forever be deamers and Prosecutors
Of each other and blinded By the form and fashion
OF men, be unable to discern the motive that impes
them But what Is It that binds us to these mighty
spirits of the past? 1t is because love liberty
and love to cherish the memory Of its pioneers and
its defenders This is Why We are here to- night to
ce brate the birth Of OF the best Of these They
werebrothere ALL but they could not know it Let
just 10 them than they could have been to
themselves. And now, .hsn stop to say when and
Thomas
lars Of his syentful e' Let for the leave
all that hisrory. What matter where he WAS
hornl Such matters fern the body of history:
our concern s With it's spirit and it's philosophy
only useful as it contains a moral and soul When
We have secured these let be honoraby emtombsd.
Thomas Painss life was devoted 10 the establishment
of mental liberty and this embraces every form Of
liberty under heaven for the liberty to think implies
the liberty TO act For this he s called inddel and
ther. a name conjure up ths devil with /" But
for this rejoice and glad that he was born Yet
while rejoice let not forget what that liberty Is
Tor which be lived ana a5ored Liberty in the popa-
lar sense, IL n OF sn end but means In It's compre
hensive sense II is enjoyment, happness-truth-
without which there can be neither the one
the other. How can man be tree who makes
lie the governing principle Of his life or nation
either Thomas Pain. has well defined iaddety to I
be want of mental fsithiulness to ones self trying
to persuade ourselves that believe what we dent
believe And the man who does this the who, in
commerce, in politics, religion is governed By a
lie is slave! No matter though he be the euslsver
of others-no matter how loud may DO his praises of
liberty or his professions o regard for her martyrs
Therefore II would profit by the remem brance of
him shose birth We met to celebrate We wond be
frc,-let he did search for the cn every Depart
ment Of society for tyrant thatwe may dethrone IT,
How much OF political truth was uttered by Thomas
Palne-wc may well leok back with astonishment lat
the clearness OF his perceptions this subject in
that early day. Yet how much OF that truth and
liberty has the nation been cheated out OF by the
political lie; or ist truth that three millions of
than Russian serfs In our midst, are enjoying
theeer'y that Ihoms, I Paine laoorsd g establish
tended means perpetuation Of this serfdem to all
time and in all territories over which the dag Of this
republic shall wavef or Is 1t truth that liberty "a
compromise ofthst, and the highest duty OF freansn
to catch slave II 80, we'll but II u be not So
prooaims with her loudest voices and her still louder
silence; then, the hunt IL cut and dethrone
IT, the sooner we shall be lid OF tyrant whoists
forming . How much Of pecuniary liberty
do enjoy just rs much ss we have Of commsrctsl
truth and no nor shall we ever lido not speak ~
this doubling the desire TO barge peouniary ob
cations between and man, bat to inquir. rstner
whether commerce the vide ~.rld over be not mainly
great lie Else why do these who perform the heav
lest labor set the hghtest rewardi Low else s It, that
the idle thinkers are rolling IN coaches Tor peasurend
bread uow otherwise shall W. explain it We read
ofsome who 60 be given over 70 strong deusions
this The diculty with eur lords OF the mart Of the
workshop and OF the coil Let "a see what their faith
Is They believe most releiously in ttAtute justice
and stipulated wages and, as business doing oipsd
thisis their while duty a man Can there D. a
greater fslsshood than that In courts of Law,
dinicult questions are settled BY precedent. Sup
pots these we're ,ummoued 70 rhew cause, and some
asiute juTist to search not the statute boos,
not Blackstone and story but the Ter scrtpta
Of for n preceden where would he be apt 20
hnd it, Suppose the lord Of the forest, the stately
oak 70 adept this creed and should cut itseif
oote from the working elements. they do from the
working clssses-loote from the soil that reared It,
the that warmed II, and the dews that refreshed
It-whst would be its fate Why. the elements
that ,upporsd at once become agent, 10 destroy it
are 10 level g. ~ 10 let II knes that II " will ut
nir gle with them In harmony " must In power No
such union as this can be dissolved with impunity
But fof the discpes Of that creed this may BE- sad
thatn salvation msen highest happine,s puroat en-
jol ment- they not saved; and the victims OF u
are surely Ia heaven Quite otherwise Ot truth
msmmon is q potent deity; but, unhapplly for bi.
liberty are q ne Asd ndiyisibe III. Ia freeman
whom the truth makes free and all slaves beside
Let me repeat then In lusion Let ne search - he
did Tor the lie everywhere knowing. ss he ds that
we must dethrcn. e. or IL will eusave US This II
portion ofthe lesson Of the day TO These thcnshs