The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1851-01-14

association should embody your opinions and the
reasons h a memorial TO Congress, and ! Wan
yisld any individual prefersnee may have short
Of principle, Tor any plan, and aid in carrying
4 out your wishes.
Thank you, gentlemen, for the honor conferred
fby inviting ms 70 partaks with you in the ffstvi-
ties of your anniversary, and for the warm recep-
ton have met on this occasion. Allow me to
offer the following sentiment;
Printing: The only art which succeeds in max
ing scholars and divines out of devils. lGreat
| laughter
The Committee of Arrangements next proposed
the following: IA EE
Ellwood Fisher, esq; Though we know mo
North, no South, no East, no West, we greet
with pleasure the accomplished editor Of the
Southern Press at our festive board. r.s \
| Mr. FIsHER. Mr.. President and Gentlemen of
the Typographical Society: | had INDUCED the
hope, until this moment, that before it came TO
my turn to speak, il that turn came at all, |
should have the benefit Of the inspirations Of some
of the other conductors Of the Metropolitan Press
besides the venerable gentleman on my right,
(Mr. Ritcbc.) But, from some cause or other,
there is an unaccountable hiatus among the lumi-
naries which haGituay and diurnally light up this
great city Of the seat If Government. do not
recognize the features ofthe great Globe itself and
while we have heard great deal Of the Union, to-
night. do not recognize the bland countenance Of
the Republic on this occasion. But, perhaps,
they will all come in due time. III ie s
| ! do most cordially concur in the sentiment ad-
vnnced in Of the toasts, the first in the regular
order of proceeding this evening. know Of no
event in the history Of the world since the advent
Of christianity that is better entitled to be cele
DRAFTED with all the festivities that characterize the
! importance Of the great events Of rast time than
the discovery Of printing. No event in the annals
Of history has produced greater change in the
character and condition of mankind. We who
IL Al.
vention, can scarcely realize the immense contrast
that It has created between the condition Of mod
ern society, and that Of the period, even the most
refined, of ancient times, of which history gives
US any account, before the Introduction of that
great art AT this day, man of ordinary capa-
city, man whose thoughts are only to be num-
| bered, and whose understanding is only to be
graduated according to the average Of his race.
may yet secure for his opinions wider dissent
nation over the civilized world than was accorded
to the most distinguished teachers Of philosophy,
than was given to the most inspired attempts al
eloquence in the days Of antiquity. Why, the
most eminent State the most enlightened, the one
whose fame has come down to us brighter than
that ofany other State was, on account OF the pc.
cular difficulties with regard to the transmission
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dissemination Of it's opinions than this single city
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