The primitive Republican. (Columbus, Miss.) 18??-1852, 1851-07-31


what mankind is, BY what it always has been.
Take not your standard Of human character
from the dubious sentimentalities of Bulwer,
or the degraded morality Of Eugene Sue, or
from the other less pernicious illusions Of
most modern publications of light literature.
These are calculated to impart to the inexpe-
rienced, false estimation of character, false
modes of reasoning, false views of life alto
gcther, as well as to produce impotence I'M
der its realities. Read such books as will
communicate energy to your minds; not such
as will narcotise and weaken them. Learn
to think.
The view which have to-day presented,
Iof life and its duties, may seem to your ar
dent and buoyant inaginations as dark lab.
yrinth, full of care, and woes. But not so.
Investigate the subject at your leisure, scru.
tinise it in all its behring's, and you will find
that the very boon If intellectual existence
entails upon US, as accountable beings, intel
lectual action-nobh and virtuous effort fol-
the attainment of eiccllence-and that it is
in the earnest disc large of this obligation
that true happiness is to be found. Then
shEnk not from tbecompanionship Of duty
1t is not stern task-master, as many sup.
pose, but rather ficnd encouraging us in
the prosecution of very worthy enterprise,
and assisting US totwine many a vine and
plant many flower b cheer and beautify oul
pilgrimage.
Ioannot conclude these remarks without spe
cially impressing on YOUR youthful minds anc
hearts the importanc. of religion as the mo
tive-power in the greet machinery of human
action. That Bcingwho spoke matter int
form; who said Let there be light, and thor
was light" and Whose voice all nature from
its first creation, has obeyed, has also said t
every intellectual beng Remember you
Creator in the days of your youth" Obedi
ence to that Divine mandate, and life devo
ted to the fuIGlment of His will, I can assur
you will impart to each of you happines
which the splendors and pleasures of tn
world cannot give--of which the affiictior
and sorrows of time can never deprive you.
In conclusion, l take pleasure in offerin
the congratulations Of the Trustees on I'll
5 highly creditablc manner in which you hay
: acquitted yourselves, in the trying orde
: through which you have passed as the fir
graduating class of this Institute. We ha
this, as a happy omen of your future cours
: Permit me in bidding you adieu, to offer
e the name of those under whose charge "
e have so long been, our sincere prayers f
n your prosperity and happiness in life, al
n that you may have an abundant entranc,
IS into that world, where flowers fade not, tea
n and partings never come, and
+, Where the anthems of rapture increasingly re
Y And the smile of the Lord is the feast of the so
pGA After the address was concluded, t
IS speaker as President of the Board Of TT,
IS tees, oficiated in the distribution of degr,
lie as follows:
re now proceed, in the name of the Prin
a pal and Trustees, to bestow upon Misses E
"a L. LOVE, MARY c. MEANS, SALL1E
y WALLACE, SALLIE L. MORTON, MARY
'e KENNoN, ADEEN A. MARsALL, tcstimoni
u of scholarship and correct department,
y graduates of the Columbus Female Institu
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