Weekly national intelligencer., 1851-10-25

uy with such hearty Of favor q shovel
be in harusuy wihc great public want The mechanics
Bslhmore responded to i with an slacry which bespol
true interests Of their order, And thus II about hs
almost once the Institute as'uned commanding posc
in the face of the cy and in the year Of s esabshme
il surprised even its most sanguns hends by the success
| its exhibition.
do not know in the history of similar l,ndred ins
tons parallel TO the rspidity with which this n:s grow
upon the esteem Of the community, and attained asui
vigorous and healhful Three years spen In brnl
ing the organ zsiion to what il 10. The Legislature
its last session incorporated the company and gave ur
of its regard for tie Institution in the grant Of IN an
nuy Of FIVE hundred dollars The future experience Of lh
benefits OF this establishment to the community of the State
we may hope, will again commend II to the bounty Of th
Commonwealth and bring il resources to enlorae th.
| field Of its usefulness
II is scarcely year gone by the members Of the So
cey resolved upon the erection Of building adapted the
various duties and necessities which their plan of operations
embraced In projecting this they determined to build an
edce of such dimensions and character should not only
ad ample space and verge for every contemplated ia
the several departments Of the lnsute but which should
also contribute 10 the adornment Of the city. This project
made known than found friends at hand to
give aid. The city authorities oremos, in this good cause
became the powerful patron Of the enterprise, and with
spirit of enlightened munifcence, Whch has them uni
vesal praise made appropriation Of fifteen thousand dol
lars to the object and added to this donation of the site for
the building. Private citizens contributed largely and the
fund was provided 1t but little than months
W0efe
the buush aud the water-y grew and the wild fowl fed
and the ooan and rail fOcked amongst the reeds another
great architectural glory rises of the bosom Of the ancient
marsh The old msrket hsuss rich in the old-tme
morie covers under the shade Of the palace of art and
surrenders to the over archng grandeur of the Present all
trophies of the Past.
So far, the history Of the Institute. lie. this magnificent
saloon, this dazzling display tonight of the works around us
tell the triumph Of its founders. Here 10 the Maryland Ins
tnte with than thousand members Here ii seated
under this stately roof amidst the countless creations of our
countrys artsthe special objects Of its Here IT,
with Its premiums to reward industry and genius with its
Academy of Design teach that exquisite skill which makes
the Beautiful the handmaden the Useful with it's school
OF instruction in the complicated and delicate Of that
expansive emica science which, in modern times, has be-
come the great auxiliary and instrument of the mechanic
Here s, with its lecture rooms inviting the teachers Of
every science take the chair for the instruction Of crowds
emulous students whom honorable ambition Of knowledge
ever gathers under the eye ofthe teacher These the OBJ
ecs which surround the Institute, which M its halls and
vte its guardianship Look upon this whole scheme and say
whether the who have established this and those who
sustain have not conferred great benection upon Bs
whether they have done something worthy Of this
generation to speed city onwads in that Of which
have taken some notice tonight
YOu gentlemen of the Institute entitled to the honor
OF having originated great thought is embodied in this
noble structure; in these mutudinous exhibitions Of the
paciiy, genius aud talent Of workmen. Il is still
admirably embodied in the organization of this Institute Its
destined effect and result in the honorable
emulation have stirred up in this community, and in the
intelligent working population have taken advantage of
ne means Of instruction you have placed at their command
Every product Of the creative power with which God has
endowed man is source Of pleasure to its author Every
creation OF human skill originates in act of the mind,
which, in its appropriate Of development
eria form and outward manifestation thus becoming visible,
and taking its place in the rank Of actual exences hap
Py instinct brings Of qualification
to the mind at every step Of this process There is plea
sure in the conception of the thought and delight in
each successive step towards its final point of material
summation There is not in this fabric, impls-
ment piece Of machinery, the product of any machinery;
no trivial toy, engine vast work of simplest handcra,
that has not in its degree brought JOY to the mind of its
author and which he has recognised to himself
of happiness to be sought again. The workman has
felt the blessed glow Of labor in bis mind and body, and
in that has found happiness which has made his work boon
OF mercy to him from his God sure, gentlemen, that
do not exsggerae misrepresen your feelings when
that the pleasure which the humbest workmen has
been conscious the creation the things around has
been also, in higher degree yours in the accomplishment Of
this entire organization, the product Of your abors and the
conception Of your minds II any thing be added that
gracaton you have ia the wedeserved thanks Of this
community and in your recognition Of the consciousness
OF having performed duty of good works your generation
The things at this day. not here only in
this Hall, but every where the wordconnected with
the development OF mechanical the and universal
interest which has grown up in oil nations in reference
the honor that has been conferred upon the instruction
that has been poured into it the enlargement and multiple
cation Of its connexions with the highest order Of science by
formed for its encouragement the journals that have been
established for its teachings; the great distinction and cee
by which has been given of late to the who have become
eminent in it the visible increase Of the respect of mankind
for its pursuit. manifested in the general sentiment to applaud
and sustain those who have devoted themselves to 1t their
vocation and the abandonment of those absurd and may
call them, wicked preudces which for centuries have been
allowed the hearts of against mechanical labor
and to work the foul injustice Of that long prescription which
for centures dsgraced the rulers of European sociey all
these considerations force upon attention the conviction
that and happy epoch has arrived, Of which s to
CROWN fact is most conspicaously growng-an ilmi
table of good to the human These phenomena
belong unmsakabe civilization, such the world has
yet SEEM and the ultimate resul, of which foresight
picture, perhaps imagination reach. The world has
been slow in it's progress to this point Society has gone
through many throes and palms, through many conflicts Of
passions before has this day. has groaned under
many stripes has walked many burning poughshares,
been bound many racks before it has arrived the
vcon that there better be made of than de-
grading him in his labor, sr his mind in compelled gno
rance, extinguishiDg his body in FIRE.
We have in the history of Christendom very
distinctly marked phases inthe condition and poly Of modern
nations. There time, embracing centuries when
all the great Of society regulated with view to
clerical supremacy and the world brought into subord
nation the ambition Of priests. The Church supreme
in the politics of naions-hs,her for good ill., it concerns
not to inquire. CoRtemporaneous with this dom
nor and conspicuous instrument and ally in maintaining
IT, that military despotism which pervaded every avenue
of ls and enforced submission with the sword. In this
double pressure upon the incapable and feeble of
ciey, mechanical vocaons not only stnted in their
Of instruction, bun absolutely branded th igno
mny and the who pursued them were stigmatzed as
the bases Of their need not the outline OF
that unhappy history which tells Of this long and drea de-
sadaion Of adownrodden and persecuted classnor
10 exut over those few bright which record