Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1852-05-29

my Speiung D0tk. anu THIS would De mus
beg leave, therefore, TO discaim the compliment Of the
Royal Court Gazette of Madrid and decline to be cassed
with OF letters In the literary Of that phrase
certainly am of letters; although, when Official
duties require it, it is true that have sometimes written
letter.
Well, gentlemen, this is friendly meeting We assem-
Bile socially in friendly spirit to interchange personal
regards and to congratulate another upon the
periy and fair prospects Of the country Let enjoy
both with cheerfuness and gratitude the blessings which
Providence has poured out around rs
.sn Hence, loathed melancholy
But come thou Goddess, fair and free,
In Heaven ycleped Euphrosyne.
And in thy right hand lead with thee
The mountain nymph, sweet Liberty.
Wen live with her and live with thee
In unreproyed pleasure free"
Gentlemen the growth Of this city is remarkable and
in any other country would be most remarkable came
here to take my residence among you in the year 1876
The population of Boston then 10000. 1t now
100000 And its increase in wealth. in commerce. the
arts and manufactures has kept pace with the increase
the population. 5eia
And now what is Boston? What is the character Of
Boston What the essential eements her prospe-
ry? Why she is nearly unrivalled on the face of the
earth for her important efforts behalf Of and extensive
benefits for her citizens and for the improvement
mankind. What viii you say which perhaps you all
know, when you are informed that the amount Of public
taxes in this city, for the purpose Of education alone
amounts to onequarer Of the whole laid by the pub
lie authorities! Where do you find that elsewhere !?
Where do find another Boston in this respec9 Where
90 you find Of the whole tax paid by ndvdu
ais flowing from the public devoted to educaton in adj
don to the very great amounts paid to the teachers Of
private schools? Nowhere else that know Of.
The city Of Boston pays than $780, year for
the support Of religious instruction and public worship
Where do you find that elsewhere Tell the place. the
city, the spot the country the world over where great
anamountn proportionto the population is paid for re
giousinstructon That's Boston This principle which we
our ancestors We seek 10 edu
cate the people, We seek to improve mem moral and re
Wi tn mi
rs on matter And in working mind, it enlaYges the
human intellect and the human heart We know when
we work upon materials immortal and imperishae that
they will bear the impress which we place upon them
through endless ages tocome. If we work upon MARBLE
IT will perish if work brass time will eface it, If
we rear temples they win crumble to the dust But if
we work on mems immortal minds, if Undue them with
high principles, with the just fear Of God and love for
their feow-men, engrave those tablets something
which no time eace, and which will brighten and
brighten to all eternity. 3A2
And my friends, that charity which seeketh not her
own, that charity which endureth all things beareh all
things, hopeth all things is not conspicuousy
hbited In any part Of the globe than among peo
pe The personal attendance the poor the bountes
Of all those who have the promote the happiness
Of the hecess0us, and administer to their welfare
just themes of praise And above all that let say
and let it be known to those who wish to know what Bos
ton has been, what Boston is what Boston will be- what
Boston has done and will do let me to those that Bos
ton has given within the last twenty-five years between
FIVE and six millions of dollars for educational religious
and charitable purposes throughout the United States and
throughout the world. [Cheers
Gentlemen, my heart warns my blood quickens in my
VEINS when reflect upon the munifcent gifts, grants
and provisions made for the purpose of education for the
morals, enlightenment and religious instruction of the
citizens and for the relief of the poor by the uence Of
Boston. And never think of all this without having my
attention attracted to venerable citizen in my eye
Hon. THOMAS H. PERKINS [Col. PERKINS occupied seat
upon the platform Three cheers given for him.
Will he at request rise and show his benevolent
-
three hearty rounds of applause God bless him
He is honor to his CITY, honor to his State and
honor to his country His memory will be perfumed by
his benevolent actions and 60 down sweet odor to
chidren's children.
Gentlemen the happiness of mankind is not always in
their control but something accidental rather
to speak more properly providentia in the Of
things, governs it. We live in an age infinitely beyond
now, in this day and generation, emerging from
the dark ages and just getting into the light We begin
to see where We are. We begin to world. A
rush of ideas u.s. 86
Gentlemen, when the great Humboldt stood on the
mountains of the equatorial regions amidst their gorgeous
forests and foliage their unsurpassed flowers their genial
warmth and under the brilliant consultations Of the
South his heart burst out in eusion of sympathy
wards the inhabitants Of the other parts Of the earth
How unhappy" said he, are those members of the
human who doomed to live in those melancholy
regions which we call the temperate zones And this
generation gentlemen appraised from the temperate
Of former times and eliminating the recently
and lofty tops of present knowledge and science looks
back with some indifference upon the history of past
times We think them torpid uniformed and unenter-
prisng and well may think them So comparatively
In the eulgence of the splendid light Of SCIENCE skill in
venton enterprise and knowledge which has burst
times. ~ s,4
Gentlemen Mr.. Locke says that time is measured by
the passage of ideas through mems minds If that be so,
we live great while in few revolutions Of the earth
around the SUM- If new IDEAS new thoughts, new con-
temptations hopes constitute lfe why then have
lived much, whether have lived many few years,
according they usually estimated The age is
markable New thoughts press, and new inventions
crowd upon US. We used to say, proverbialy, that
thing done quick thought; but that lisa nger
ing mode Of expression nowadays great many things
done much quicker than some mems thoughts
Thought cannot keep up with electricity. While we
talking the thoughts cannot travel fast cleo
speaking the word which left my lips has already
been seized by lightning, and before utter few
sentences more, will be read not only in New York and
Washington, but also in Savannah New Orleans Cncin
natl, and St. Louis; and my words will all be read with
interest not because they mine, but because
they proceed from Faneuil Han, from which place NIL
know that in important periods OF the past voice
heard but that Of determined resoute national patriot
ism. lCheers, t..5St
few For my part hardly envy the patrarchs for the
many years Of their lives They neither much
enjoyed much and enjoy. In TRUTH do not
think very highly the felicity of Mehusaehs longevity
Fellow-citizens let be grateful for oil blessings
and perform duties cheerully and readily, men,
as patriots, and as Christians -agt ~ sAtn
We all feel that we have country not Boston alone,
Massachusetts, Alone but composed and bound by
that union Of Independent States which united
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