Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1850-1854, 1852-07-30
THE FESTIVAL OF THE ROSE.

THE FESTIVAL OF THE ROSE.
| We have perhaps witnessed IS many exhibi-
tons of as many different kinds, as most persons
who have attained no greater age, but we must
say, in all sincerity, we have witnessed none that
yielded us the same unalloyed qualification in any
thing like an equal amount, as the musical ex-
hibton under the above name, at Public School
House, No. /, of this city, on Friday and Satur-
day evenings. And in this utterance we have
little doubt We speak the feelings of all present,
not excepting those who may have listened to
the strains OF the divine Jenny herself. Beyond
question there have been exhibitions in music OF
both greater genius and art, bat we doubt wheth-
err there have been many, or indeed any, that
took hold at once of so many heart-strngs and
moved them so pleasurably as this. For the as
scmblage was not one TO be moved only by genius
and art, to forget the emotion when the moving
cause was no longer present, but all the affections
of lite were involved in it, and in those affections
will the pleasures of the evening be forever en-
shrined. 1t was an assemblage of children, on
one hand, and on the other, Of parents, sisters,
and brothers with all the tender affections and
exalted hopes that pertain to such relationships;
and when all that affection must have been more
than rewarded, all that hope fully realized, in the
exercises Of the evening will not its pleasures
be forever enshrined in that eternal memory of
the beautiful and good, which pertains to all
Perhaps we over-estmate these influences
perhaps we are cnthusiastic-and perhaps but
few will appreciate the emotion which stirs our
pen in this matter, but just such exhibitions in
spre US with a now hope for humanity-they
tiuge the future with radiance that dispcIs much
of the darkness of the present. and we take fresh
inspiration of courage and hope. Why not? As
people and nation we have attained no small
degree of happiness and greatness with young
humanity in the highways, byWays, snd cutters;
and when we find it here from the gutter and
parlor, undistngnishable in its common beauty,
drinking from the same cxhaustlcss fountain of
knowledge, and pouring exalted song from hearts
happy in common and from threats tuned in con-
cord, what may we not hope? This influence is
brought to bear right at that time of life when it
will be most powerful, and It's effects most cndu-
ring, The great poet says, apparently with spc-
cial reference to the Wild, untamcd, uubroken
humanity assembled in the school room:
"Yor do but note Wild md wanton fcri
OrrNcc Of youthful and uuhardIya colts.
irGn,o4 ,ad BOUNDS, hGnl"* TX &nd lGisihS ""d'
II they but bear pcruhunte "a rgi4prt oqmd,
CIR any mir Of tustr touch thcir ears,
You snail perceive them make mutual stand
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snc, !. ,bo ro,,.o- o. music and who sb,Il
calculate is Influence when with tho hor,hcr
grosser elements Of education, its sof,ncss and
beauty are itnpcrccpubly inStiIlcd into the young
mind. Who Shall guess how MANY wayward
impulses have been chcckod-how many savage
an,otons have hoo, taro1 and sortonod-how
,nonv woods or yi,c have b,cn nIncko5 in tho
bud and seeds of virtue planted in their stead
in tho young mind, trained to powers such as
were exhibited on this occasion. Minds trained
under such influences, will 60 forth and weave
themselves as golden threads in the great wool of
And will they not too, in that good time coming
for MI of MS be better nrepared 10 ion in that still
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The best Observation-Disclosures Tor eIevatin@ and ocs-
sing humanity, each soul Of which is said 10 be
worth more than n world We can boast oc the
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OF budding humanity that has been Witnessed IN
the state, and We apprehcnd in the west.
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