Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1852-11-19
JuDeD coNRAD,s oRAmoN.

At the late nee,ingef the Historical Society of
the State of Pennsylvania, the 10th anniversary
of the landing of Penn, Judge Conrad delivered the
address before the Society of which we have brief
Synopsis in the North American, and also an inter-
esting account OF the toass addresses and proceed
ings OF the day. Addresses were delivered by Hon.
VIM NJ. Meredith, Hon. J. Buchanan, Hon. VIM.
B. Reed and others. The eleventh toast was as
follows: "The illustrious dead of the Republic,
may their virtues survive in the living" In re-
Spouse to which Judge Conrad spoke as follows:
Mr Presiden I'll feel that have made sufficient dren
your pate TO day. and doubt whether even tho
knowes that am expected TO speak to this noble sent
will further tTcSpasS your attention.
The very h9Peessness Of doing justice to that sentiment
our republic be rendered In words yet is noby
Tendeed-TeBdered in the heaTthrobs and tears of
ofihe dead and OF the living and doing honor 10 both
Ths summons to g1ves over which continent weeps
bell for Parot-Ceanght up and echoed nom hilltop 70
before another ns announces another national calamity
II would II He, In whose hand the issues OF lie
a moi Co. The Revolution rieh Itself great men, len the
seeds race The heirs Of their genius
Gher Calhoun, and Clay, and Webster sbone out from
Shons, how bghty-and how the nation reoiesd In
their iish-who does not knowl No wonder that thus
nanst from The sST ,S s I went down. At nearly the
hey are sen no more, radiant with their glory.
Our country even tears happy In having long
iOts service and tia PATRIOTS ame and each fell,
wondered at that he fell no sooner:
Our country happy In the wealth OF vrtuc. and genius
and patriotism which she which the grave is
beyond the reach ofehanee change OF its own fabiliy
or Of wrongs Of others Our dead cannot be taken
rcontry happy the departed have set their seal
upon that which patriots we value Our Constitution
would wrong the dead3 Our Union is not only: It be-
longs to Washington and Jackson, tn Clay and Webster
NOTth1Tu would be divorced the tomb at
AshIandI What Southern from that at Marshhed?-
upon The haunted holy ground OF Mt vernon-his thers
Is So i When Il g s5ee an AMI 1 e.
fed by the dead-who lived for here, and who now
heavens. p f.E0.a .--.'I-7
Our country is happy too in her g.ras .EoG 9 no
tous deada gratitude loly DO reached by tho low
country and Which, wkS Il towards the Pstrosm or the
past aords noble incentive TO that OF the future Great
Il may belong before we have another Calhoun or Clay,
WebSteri but that TINA will coms and when 1t does
eeTe a. oUrS-it cannot be more so.
We have Eeen but few of the productions of this
most accomplished and talented speaker and wri-
Ter. but from those few we have no difficulty in
expressing the opinion that the eloquence, the tai
ents and the accomplishments of the "illustrious
dead of the Republic SURVIVE in the person of the
author Of the foregoing eloquent and touching al
fusion 10 he'greatdeparted Tothe casual observer
of our Republics course and to those who look, as
all do, with reverence at the character the illus
trous actors in country history and progress,
feeling Of melancholy and sadness will obtrude,
and while the effect of that reverence often in
duces an inyidious comparison of them with tile
living, II Is nevertheless the province of the calm
surveyor of the present and its relations even while
entertaining all due reverence for our country's
great men, to look with pleasure and profit to the
present ACTORS in our country's drama, and endeav-
or to end in them men worthy to walk in the paths
ofgreatness trod by the generation passed away
foreFeI and gathefedto the past.
Lisa well established principle, in human af-
fairs that t'great emergencies produce great menu
and while ali true lovers of ourcountrys prosperity
may together express The hope that the trying emer-
seneies ia our past history. which called forth the
most powerful efforts of The three great Americans
who have 30 recently passed away, may never
fecur again, sill our Knowledge Of American
character confns US in the opinion that intellect
talent and high attainment are still among US, and
when occasion calls, men. high-minded and talent
edmen win be found, ready to respond to that call
and throw themselves as the great dead have done,
iuto the chaAn of their countrys danger, ready 10