The Kalida venture. [volume] (Kalida, Ohio) 1841-1865, 1852-12-17
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Look next at the Hesdlands Of his
Life. Here I shall speak Of his deeds
and wordsas = Citizen aud Public Officer.
He was a great lawyer, engaged 10
many Of the most important cases during
the last forty years; bu. in the briefness
of asefmon | must by his labors 10
the law. g Ss 3s'E
As a citizen, / am to speak Of him
chiefly as public orator. In that capa-
city he made three great speeches, moi
a, all political, ,--at Plymouth Rock, 10
celebrate the two hundredlh anniversary
| Of New. England's birth, at Bunker Hill,
in memory Of the great battle Of New.
England; and at Fanueil Hall, TO honor
the two grea, men who died when the
nation was fifty years old, and they four
score. Each Of these ora!ions was a
great and noble effort Of patriotic elc.
quence. W is
Standing on Plymouth Rock, with the
graves ofth foreialhers around him, how
proudly could he say: 81
sour ancestors established their sys.
lem Of government on morality and reli
gicus sentiment. Moral habits, they be.
iieyed, cannot safely be trusted on any
other foundation .han religious principle,
nor any government be secure which is
not supported by moral habits. Living
under the heavenly light Of revelation,
they hoped 10 find oil the social disposi-
tions, all the duties which men owe to
each other and 70 society, enforced and
performed. Whatever makes mon good
Christians, makes them good citizsns.
Our fathers came here to enjoy their
religion free and unmolested, and, al the
end u two centuries, there is ncihing
upon which we can pronounce more
confidently, nothing Of which we can
express more deep and earnes. convic.
lion, than Of The ncsiimable importance
Of ,hn, religion 10 man, both in regard 10
this life and that which is to come."
AT Bunker Hill, there were before
him tile men Of the Resolution--yener-
able men who drew swords al Lexington
and Concord, and faced the 6ghti in many
fray. There was the French nobleman,
would 10 God that France had many
such to.day!-who perled his fortune,
life and reputation for freedoB, in Amer.
ica, and never sheaihed the sword he
drew at Yorktown, till France also was
Republic. Fayeite was there--the Fa.
yeme Of Two revolutions, the Fayetle of
Yorktown and Olmuiz. How well could
he say:
@Let our conceptions be enlarged TO
the circle OF our duties. Let US extend
our ideas over the whole Of the vast field
| in which we are called 10 act. Let our
object be, OUR COUNTRY, OUR WHOLE
COUNTRY, AND NOTHING BUT OUR CoUN-
TRY. And, by the blessings Of God,
| may that country itself become vast and
splendid monument, not Of oppression
and terror, but Of Wisdom, Of Peace, and
| Of Liberty, upon which the world may
gaze with admiration for evers" y
On another occasion, when two great
| men-who, in the time that tried mems
souls, we're Of the FIRST TO peril "thsir
lives, their fortunes, and their sacred
honor;n-men who had first been one in
| The Declaration Of Independence, were
| again made one in deaih-!then the peo-
ple returned to the cradle wherein the
elder Adams and Hancock had rocked
Liberty when young; and Webster
chanted the psalm Of cornmemofation to
The younger Adams and Jefferson, who
he Iped that new. born child 10 walk. He
brought before the living the mighty
dead in his words they fought their
battles Ger again; heard them resolve
that "sink OF swim, live or die, survive or
| PERISH" they gave their hand and their
heart for liberty; and they grew greater
before the eyes Of the people as he
brought up Adams and Jefferson, and
showed the massive services Of these
men, and pointed out the huge structure
Of ,ha, human fabric that had gone to
the grave. q Y Z.
aAdams and Jefferson, ! have said, are
no more. AS human beings, indeed,
| they ate no more. They are no more,
as il lT76, bold and fearless advocates
Of independence; no more, as at subse-
quen, periods, The head Of the Govern
/ u " & 3 \ N - II a
| men,; no more, as we have recently seen
them, aged and venerable objects Of
admiration and regard. They are no
more. They are dead. But how little
! is there oftle great and good which can
die! To their country they YET live, and
Hive forever. They live in all that per.
pe,uales the remembrance Of men on
earth; ia The recorded proofs Of their
own great actions, in the offspring Of
their intellect, in the deep-engraved lines
Of public gratitude, and in the respect
and homage Of mankind. TheJ live in
their example and they live, emphatii
cally, aud will live, in the influence
| .,k;ch thnsr Evno ard o{{.,vsui. fha;r ppiu