The republic., 1852-01-09

| - Ase s7Ss0S"S " uVe CUSte0 Nt0tSe.---t Frcdl-
3. AndrsD jackson: Foreign nations sse hi. fans
on the Held Of n S.ssie--hi. sa.nt,yi. - Sivil AZ
mitnge Hail TO the Chiefl
+. r. BLAia, esq, being directed by the COM
mittee to respond to the sentiment just expressed
delivered an address, in which he referred 10 the
cause represented by their illustrious guest, en-
dorsing and sympathixing in its behalf, and ex-
pressing the hope that Hungary may yet boast of
kossuth, a. was said Of Jackson-"this man filed
the measure of his country's glory"
| After the applause with which the address was
received subsided, the toast
"Ihs Eriis' T E~ops-Liberty and Louis Kos
SUN
was drunk with unboundcd enthusiasm. Then
followed music by Marsoettis band
KOssUTHS SPEECH
M. kossuTH rose and was greeted with applause
1t was some minutes before order was restored
| when he spoke as follows:
After the delivery Of the address. which con
sumcd three iourths Of an hour, NJ. Kossuth WAS
frequently interrupted by applause, long
continued. and, when he concluded there were loud
huzzas, waving of hats and handkerchiefa; and
again and again there deafening cheers and
| wild enthusiasm.
The following toasts were then severally drunk
| with enthusiasm:
| GESTLrNENi feel sincerely gratifed with the
honor OF being invited to be present this solemn
occasion, dedicated to the memory Of glorious AS
well as highly responsible fact in your history
| There is high political wisdom in the custom
early to revive the memory Of civic virtue and ma
| uonai glory in the mind Of the living generation.
because nothing ia more efficient 10 keep alive the
| spirit Of patriotsm-this powerful genius which.
| like the angels OF scripture guards with flaming
sword the paradise of national liberty and indie
pendence. Happy the land where the history Of
the past is the history Of the people, and not mere
| hattery to kings; and doubly happy the land
where the rewards Of the past are frightened by
present glory-prcaent happiness-and where the
noble deeds of the dead, instead of being mourn
| ful monument of vanished greatness, which but
saddens the heart though il enobes the mind, are
lasting source Of national welfare to the age and
| to postcrity.
But where, as in this your happy land national
history ia constituted to be the elementary bass OF
education-where the very scbool.boy is better ac-
| quainted with the history Of his country than in
monarchics scarcely the professors sre-in such a
country il would be indeed but ridiculous parad-
| ing Of vanity for a stranger to dwell upon facts
which every child is better acquainted with than
he can be- Allow me, therefore, gentlemen, rather
briefly TO expound what is the practical philosophy
of that great victory which you assembled to
| celebrate. What is the moral Of the strain, az il
presents itself To the scrutator's mind
just as n man has TO pass through several periods
Of age, each Of them marked with its own peou-
| liaritics, before he comes to setttlcd position
in life, even nation. A nation has first to be
born then to grow; then il has to prove its passive
vitality by undergoing trial of life; afterwards il
has to prove ito actice force in gaining asccndancy
in its own immediate horizon; at last it must take
it's competent scat amongst the nations Of the
world power earth. Every one Of those pc
RODS of national life must be gone through; there
is no help against II; IL is necessary process Of
life. And every one Of these life periods has it's
own natural condition, which must be accepted,
| a necessity, even If VIC should not be pleased with
it, AZ there is Jumping in nature equally there
| is no stop to IL. man must be child before he
! becomes a youth; and he must have been a youth
before be becomes man. But then, If IL be ridicu-
lous TO desire from the child TO act es youth
from the youth to be man, II is indeed impossible
for the youth TO be siill child, 10 the not
to become a man. He must, because he is; and if,
being a man. he does not act as IL becomes man To
act, then he oses the position Of man. IL is quite
the same with nations.
Gentlemen, having passed the ordeal of an
s~ncst life with the view before my eyes TO have
yet 10 steer through stormy gales, II ia rational
that, while grasp with steady hand the helm OF my
tempest tossed barque, look with calm attention 10
the compass Of history TO guide me by its philoso
ply through the fOaming waves. And there ia no
history more instructive than yours because you
have concentrated within the narrow scope Of
few years that natural process of national life
which clsev here was achieved but through centu-
rice. And while other na;jons, starting from
false point Of false principle, wavered 10 their
progress, like the magnetic needle surrounded by
iron bars, you, starting from true point,
scous Of your aim, advanced in a straight direction
TO that aim; and there you are, arrived in short
time where other nations failed te arrive in contu-
riss. consuming the strength Of manhood in
turing their way, and growing old before they got
| 10 the scttIcd position OF the rpen.
| IL would be mistake, and mistake not
dangerous, 10 believe that your nation ia still in It's
youth because IL has lived but seventy five yesrs.
The natural condition Of nations IL not measured
by years, bot by those periods Of tho process of life
which had tho honor TO mention already. And
there is nation earth in whose history those
periods were so distinctly marked ss in yours.
Fret you bad to be born. There i- tho period ~
your glorious struggle for independence; eternal
glory TO those who conducted u. You were bsp-
tiyed with blood, u secms 10 be the destiny oi
nations; but IL was the genios OF freedom which
stood godfather at your baptism, snd give 70 you
lasting character. * giving yoa ,ne om'''aaa a'1
indeed vou have grown ~ith the luSurant rspidity
Of tho virgin nature Of the American coil. Wash
nston knew the nature OF this soil, fertilized by
| Inc hlsod of your martyrs, and warmed by the sun
| o( vour liberty. lie knew IL when he told your ia
thers that you wanted but twenty Of peaceful
growth to defy whatever power in Just cause. You
have grown through those twenty years, and wisely
avoid ed 10 endangcr your growth by undertaking
toll not becoming TO your growing age and
there you stood about another twenty years. look
ing resouely but unprctendingly around II there
be anybody ~ question that you really ma
ton earth. Tho question ~ss put in isi2. and
decided by that glorious victory the snpivers"ry oil
which you celebrate to day That victory has
deeper meaning in your history than only that OF
, n repuscd invasion. u marks period IN your
national ie-thc period Of acknowledged, on
, shakabe security OF your national existence. u
il the contamination Of your Declaration Q, 'nne
pendeuco. You have proved by il that The United
ststes possess an nccntessibo vitality having the
power TO conserve that independent nauona' s'ua-
! lion which vour fethers have established by The
Declaration Of independents. In reality, " was
the victory OF New Orleans by which you took your
seat anon gst the independent nations oi the world
| nevnr To- he cont Gated through all posteriY. ma