The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1852-05-02
Lexington (K.ntucky) acknowledgements ent OF
..a the Law C,aa-ProI Monroc's hddress

BACHELORS or LAW On behalf OF the faculty. !
cong aiuate you your success IN obtaining on Their
recommendation The honor just conferred on you by hs
On ssons OF this sort, il is 10 refer TO the
the graduate had spent in his collegiate and
professional studies, secluded from the world and Then
expaiae upon the epoch OF its termination aud his entry
upon the affairs OF lde then, after stating the principles
oil action which ought TO govern him in his professional
couTse TO present 10 his view the high rewards that await
every one who recognizes the occasion as in fact but The
commencement oil his education and shall persevere in his
efforts TO accomplish what be had begun. Now night
proceed and make out my address by compilation OF
these common places thousand times repeated.
But this is not commonplace age nor are We CON-
mon-pace people, and much such matter would have 10
employ would be wholly unfit The youths with NJ
not secluded schools and occupied with their books
unit majority and then suddenly ushered upon the world
but are in all the hustle OF lie from nancyare men al
pubetiy-statesmen at bare majority, ana all The lime
beng tducaed Whether this 10 all its extent be well
no, do not stop TO discuss but will pass with this
single remark: II corresponds with the extraordinary
growth and rapid extension OF great republic; but
whether II viii have any effect IN the pepeuation OF our
free institutions OF which it is the effect, is problem
will in like manner pass and direct your attention to
single fact
Every possession OF position in our noble pro.
esson wottby OF your ambition has exered great and
continued power the study of the books OF the law
II matters moi now al what period this done, whether
before after he had read the world; but that bis intel
ecua power had been exered and the work performed
bsfore his elevation just certain that this great
edlhce was not erected without either intellectual or
physical force.
Here then, is unquesonable fact and the fair in
ferenc that your elevation he effected only by such
exertion of your intellectual power. The Divine may be
called and enlightened from above still The prophets OF
old taught IN Schools aud Pael was brought up
the feet OF Gamale The legislator may be called by the
public voice. but all the powers OF the people cannot
make lawyer.
Bat what is this power Of which we speak. Is il in
teectual aconi Certainly there be exertion Of
orce, moral or physical without action but ths isnot
power, but It's effect Is it what is called attention.
DRY, reason or all Of them combined There cam II il
ha iufpl xtfh ihpsp
things; but they more the power of the mind
than The machinery OF that rapid dashng up thai
plain is The power that propels limo Than is the
instrument Of that Telegraph or common carrier OF
chanica power but tbsis only for OF better term.
That only deserves the which first the
lion This power of the engine battery, then, is the
caoric electric fluid This creates and maintains iis
action What, then, is the power OF the mind which
causes ITS action and propels its machinery The uW
Fhis then, is Your motive power And II necessarily
follows tba, your success. and NE degree Of your success
depend exactly much your will as does the action
OF The physical machine on its motive power Nov,
here might stop aud tell yos, Go make yourselves. and
lay the foundation OF your own moauments,
Of Will to propel him 10 the execution Of such work.
u you certain have not then abandon The proes-
sion at ooce. and adopt some inferior occupation ~ the
metaphysics OF the law too difficult, then select some
occupation in physcs-enter commerce, engage agfi.
culture, adopt politics. and become legislator, or turn
doctor hero In such occupations, is often built
up by ihe industry skill the cay,a folles OF
other people bui in the bar every man must he his own
architect and cantmpoy only his materials IS isg
But do not be too readily discouraged The fact that
you here shows thai you have come sreasi gwill
and nothing of the mind "A more fnproveabe Every
hour Of exeron will alsoHce add to ITS srepth, i'm
prove all tie machinery in us employment, and dinan'sb
the inoha which had resisted a. saufe ii .H
This is ALL 4 have been calling the study OF Law
,oork but this nbns been only in conformity to common
usage II you have determined that your design SHAH be
executed, or will now resolve upon H. and take up your