New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1852-05-08

heart and all the of that mourning concentrated
upon this poor beart the tears rushed 10 the peoples
eye and all the fame of those team burnt In my eyes
but locked up 10 God and the eternal destiny OF truth
came my mind and my people looked b. me; and
We hear the harshness of the winter with unfalterns
patience, and look to the spring with undated hope
Applause God viii move good neighbors in our aid,
and thus hoping ready 70 TIL the ded once more
IN the sweat Of our browready TO water IL once more
with our hearts blood, and trust to God that new
harvest VIII come richer than that which We lost and
the day will come when sitting in the lap of blessed
future we will look with the sie OF serenity into the
mirror Of past suftcrngs. lAppsuse.]
felt never more intensely that trst to the
Ing of Lbertys new spring than when stood upon the
battlefield where the rst battle of Americas liberty
fought TO which you have alluded, Sir II defeat
ard turned out into most glorious victory. Appisuse
Had IL been victorious, perhaps q trausaction would
have been It's result, and Massachusetts, would be
Colony yet as Canada Is. Being such as IL was, on
one side it satisfied the country's noble pride,
veeed the vital power OF the patriots to themselves and
gave them the consciousness of their strength On the
other side reused the indignation Of all the land and
by rendering compromise impossible, made freedom
and independence sure.
1t Is therefore, that like to Iinger these felds,
where the future destiny OF Republican America was
baptized by the blood of your first s,srtyrs They
like mirror of revealed mysteries TO me, where the
forebodpg shadows OF future rise like vision of
magnetic dreams approach them with ave. and leave
them with inspiration and with hope Applause
But If the view of Bunker Hill be inspiring gaidening
is the view of Lowell IApplause At Bunker Hill the
Liberty" made Lowell rise out of the very earth ike
the palaces Of faries-an overnight work Of mystic
spirits. IApplause
Industry is a great word 1t IL science made sub
sci veIt to the practical welfare of humanity. lAp-
pause Agriculture is the nursery OF Natures restless
life multiplication is its task. Commerce is the great
vehicle OF products communication Is its task; IT Is
mankinds storehouse; il dresses the dinnertsbe for
humanity Industry Is creating power. IL makes
new things; il is the spark of heaven represented in
the touching tale of Proetheus it the word by which
tho A,,ioh tit-.u hot fnfn
origin; will give thee share OF my spirit Natures
hidden elements the chaos, the confused mate
rial of new creation: give thee science, that thou
mayst find out those elements and snsyzs their hidden
qualities and that thou makest creation out of
the chaotic material give thee my tarest gt indus
try" lApplause
1t awakens recoectons dear to my heart 1t reminds
of what did for my countrys industry; collecting
the modest sparks of knowledge by the mighty
lever of association" into blazing torch, spreading
light and courage and energy throughout the landi
zee myself carried on the wings OF memory back to
those days when, seated amid the mechanics OF my
country spoke to them Of Arkwright of Blanchard Of
Whitney, and James Watt and Of the wonderful re-
suits falling upon mankind, like the morning dew from
the ever.owng well Of their genius and see how their
eyes sparkled and how the hidden flames Of their soul
burst FORTH and how the gloom OF their workshops
passed away before the luster Of sefconscious dignity
see myself seated amid the boys, gathering in my
socisons evening schools when the task of the day
done unsolvDg with glazing eyes and open lips the
spirit Of science and of art superintendent by their grave
masters wondering to hear what their boys are taught
feel delighted recolect the pressing crowds Of men
and women, of girls and boys gathering into our halls
to the disclosed wonders Of industrial chemistry the
perfection Of welladapted Tools the manner Of using
them best explained by the everlasting rules of m the
mates in their practical application to technics and me-
chanics. lApplause lses new inventions OF the new
ly reused genius pouring in, and myself presiding the
Areopagus of practical workmen, in Judging them
see the happy cheerful life in the factories which
made rise and the noise of the water.whee, and the
pfnpuo f tbp xyhp
Of idleness rested and see the exhibitions arranged
the joy Of my recOlectons and the pride OF my memo
ry. | remember yet the excitement with which ar
ranged the first anxious TO shelter its poverty beneath
the lster of future days. and enember yet the joy
felt when had 10 watch the arrangements of the third
exhibition the rich treasurer of new life filling long
OF majestic halls and the nation pgrnins In thou
sands from distant parts to see the peoples glory and the
countrys pride, [applausel and the modest workmen
looking first astonished at themselves II 1t be indeed
they who wrought all those things then looking with
dignity around conscious Of their worth, and receiving
proudly the medals of reward from my hands, more
proud of them than arrogant atocrats OF their dusty
parcbmtnts. IApplause remember my JOY when,
at the banquet tables of industrial solemnities first
the distinction of classes give way human dignity and
the pretensons of old astocracy to the conscious merit
of rising democracy appause social equality, planning
the to pSSsIs s.SY else, com. to
my mind see the stout workmen closing the work:
shops and flying to arms aud fighting like heroes, and
dying with smile for their Etherand and the older
wants of those who fought (applausel and-but away
with recosctions all this has past the beauty OF
Israel fell" The halls are empty and the schools arc
ehut the fields lie waste and the hearth of the work.
shop is cold and the flowers OF the new creation are
tramped down But the spirit ia awake; no vi .lence
murder it; my voice raised in time will rouse II
from It's gloom, and the clarion OF resurrection will re
sound from valley to valley and from hill to hi-and,
after the battle s fought the enchanting rod Liberty
will once more call forth the hidden treasures OF indus
try Applause.
struggles for independence, well the rapid devel
opment Of your prosperity, has been avorte study -
me from my early youth. The ardent love OF liberty,
melted together with my very heart stimulated my mind
to look around for instruction not much at rinste
mournul monuments OF the fragilty OF human things
but rather at living free nation capable by its very life
to teach the great art of life. Applause like to con-
template how freedom 10 to be gained, and how to be
used what its generating powers and what Is the
influence Of institutions upon national character hh
natural that your countys In power
and prosperity attracted my attention. Your country
was not unknown to me, though my country had 70 fall
and had eaten the bitter bread OF exile TO see what mad
but known. And Lowell Is too preeminent among the
living wonders of America, that had not studied Its
very existence with high interest Applause
Let me therefore tell you what II which feitpar
ticularly delighted in learning from what had read
about Lowell.
II Was that the character of the manufacturing indus
trv of Lowell In its influence upon the social condition
ofhe operatives appeared to me entirely dierentfrom
Whist have elsewhere seen: worthy OF imitauon as
Is full OF instruction Agriculture Manuactuies au
Commerce must of give profit to the capital EN-
ployed therein else capital would not take that drec-
ton and IL necessary that 1t should take that dlrec'
ton else neither Agriculture nor nor Com
merce could flourish or even exist IL LABOR 70 tne one
great lever of prosperity capital Is the other Out OF
the reciprocal combination Of both results the welfare
OF nation. They must therefore, by the pracncai PM
losopher be considered Ia their mutual comoinston'
Applause.
And still in many countries that alse Intuition pre-
vailed at the first establishment OF manufacturing In.
dustry that it only capital to the security and proht
of which laws and institutions must reflect Hence,
we have seen countries standing high In industrial skill
as well as extended manufacture connected WIN the
most miserable condition Of the operative masses
Prncey fortunes Of the few hand In hand with the aus
tress of millions Capital being elected to the unlim
tied mastership over labor has lost all civic virtue In m
activity. And a. 1t s natural necessity that acuoo
creates reaction OF action leads to excess OF re-
action and In some countries the neglected interests
Hence the fatal movement known BY the name OF 30
casrn threatening with unnatural conyunion me so
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