The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1853-08-02
=: CITY OF WASHINGTON TUESDAY MORNING AUGUST O. 1858

Of Masters Chase and Tappan snecessively--at work
sometimes and sometimes al play like any boy
bnt hhdi0g already, few beside hin did The sli n
ulaoDs and The food OF intellectual life in the social
/ libratyr-drnking IN unawares from the moral anj
phyiea aspects about him, the les and the power
contention and and learning how much grandeI
ihan the forest bending TO the long Storm the silver
and cherishlng Mefiimac swollen TO nundaiion. and
turning, as love become mainess 10 ravage the subject
inter vale--or old woods suleny retiring before axe
and hTe--eaning 10 feel how mach grandar than these
was The coming IN OF civilization there he il
Sonfase abor pasnse plain living, heoicll acting,
country, aud neghbohood, and family obedience 10 law,
and all that form OF human life OF which his father, and
mother, and sisters and brother the endeared ex
ein?lilcallon. In he arms OF that CIRCLE parent
Knees or later, in intervals Of work play the future
Amercan statesman acquired the idea OF country, and
ngcaas conscious OF national Tue and national ie
There and then something g'mpses little of The
mance--the sweet and ber memories of a soldier and
horderer OF the Old colonial time and opened To the
lass dark eyes Oi the of the Ffench
Indians stealing up 70 the very place where the story
telling; OF men shot down al the plough within sight OF
| The oId log house OF The massacre al Fort William
arms OF victory and thea OF the next age gIanier
scenes and higher names of the fathers part At Ben
nnsion and White Plains; Of l.aay cite and Washing
tom and ihen OF the constitution, lu.t adopted and the
hr~t President, just inaugarated, with Of pup
l'c thanksgiving (, Almighty God and the Union just
sprung lile--all radiant as morning. harbinger and
promise Of brighter day You have heard how in that
season he hought and fst read The constitution the
cotton handkerchief small cannon, think bis biog
IaPoc'S says WAS Ht oiainOus payUling OF NapoeOns
chllnood But this incident reminds us rather OF the
youthful Luther, asonished and kindI the first
lan bble he ever saw or the sui younger Pascal per
tied 10 look into the Euclm. 10 whose sublimes an
irresistible nature had attracted him. Long before his
fourteenth year the mother first and then the father, and
the teachers. and the schools. and the little neighbor-
hood had discovered an extraordinary hope in hlm--a
purpose, dream not yet confessed, of giving him ed
ucaon, began 10 bechershed and in May, 1885, four
teen he was sent TO Exeter. have myself beard gen
lleman, loag leader Of the Essex bar, and eminent in
public lie. nov no more, who was then pupil at the
school, describe his large frame, superb face, and
tic Dress surmounted with a students gown and i'm.
mature manners when first he came; and say, too
how soon and universally his capacity was owned
who does not wish that the glorious Bnckminster
could have fofeseen and witnessed the whole great
ness, bn, certainly the Ienown OF eloquence which
were 10 come 10 The young stranger, whom. chok
ing, s,eechess, the great fountain OF feelings sealed
yet he tied IN vain 10 encourage 10 declam beore The
unconscicus bright tribes OF The school The influences
o Exeter hlpuere excellent. but his stay orief
In the winter Of i7SG he was at home and in February
797 he was placed under the private tuition, and in The
family Of Rev. Mr Wood, Of Boscawen. II was on the
way wnh his father 10 the hous. OF MIR Wood that he
rst heard with aslonshment thatthe parental love and
good sense had resolved The great sacrifice of giving
blm education al college 81 remember" be writes,
'the very hnl we Mere ascending through deep
IN New England sleigh, when my alber made his pur
pose known me. lcould NOT speak. How could he,
thought. with large family. aud 10 sach narrow
think OF inearring great expense for
me warm glow ran all me, and lay my head
on my fathers shoulder and wepi." Thai etchless
ness, that glow those lears. reveal TO us what his
ofy cOuiu do 10 HlfD tHdt al
ready, somewhere AT .ome hour of day evening,
night, be read page, heard narrative,
saw some happier school fellow se of IRON Exeter TO
begin his college life, the love of intellectual enjoyment
1.-The ambition of Intellectual supremacy had tax hold
OF him thai. when or how he knew not but il bad come
to be, beioie he Of il Lis as thought before
he slept his hrst when he awoke, and shaped bis oams
Behold IN them, TOO, his whole future That day, that
hour that very moment, from the deep OF that
slow hill he sci out on The long ascent that bore him,
step baekwad 10 the high places OF the world. He re.
mtned under the tuition of Mr. Wood until August
1876, and then entered this college where he al
the end OF The iu term of four years, graduated in
1901. vi that college lie you tell more than
can tell you. II Is The universal evidence that IL
was distinguished by exemplary deneanor. by rever-
ence Tor religion, respect for instruction., and u,sefv
oil law. We bear from all sources too, that il
distinguished by assIduoas and various suiies Wlth
the reception oil one or TWO branches, Tor which hs nm
perfect PREPARATION had ailed 10 excle asie, he IS e
ported 10 have addressed himself 10 the prescribed tasks
and have avsled himself OF the whole body of means
OF liberal culture appointed by The government with de
aud Conscientious ZEAL We hear more than thus
! The whole course Ot traditions concerning his college
lie is fall 10 prove Two facts The fret Is, that his read
ingseners and various, far bey ond The requirements OF
the faculty Tue average cdpsciy taste OF that Stage
| Oi The literary he-was not solid AMI useful merely,
which vague CONNIE ndaion, but such as predl-
Gated and educated the future statesman In Eaglts ht-
efaure-iis liner Tals, lis poetry and tasteful wHiIng,
mean-he lad read much rather than many things but
\ he had read somewhat That young man OF his emo
onal nature, full Of eloquent feeling, the germs OF hne
TASTE The ear for The music OF words The eyefor all
beauty and all sublimy already 10 extraordinary mca
: hir already practising The arts oil cOmp0slton,
speech. and criticism, should have reercslsd himse as
kgow he did, with Shakespeare, and Pope and Addi-
with lbe great romance OF Del9e, with The more re-
biographies uf Johnson and bis grand limitations oil
JuVenai, with the and r,fned simplicity and ab
sracted observation oil Goldsmith mingled with sketch
es OF bomeeit delight with the Eegy cf Gray, whose
solemn touches sooihed The thoughts or tested the con
of the last hour, with the rigorous ofig-
nay OF the then recent Cowper whom he quoted when
he came home proved, To diehis we should have
expected But have heard snd believe, that u was 10
al other nsuton aussre and characteristic, that
has own mind Irtesisiiby and instncvey even then
atrac,ed The conduct OF what Locke calls the human
understanding, the limits OF human knowledge, the
means coming The knowledge OF the dHerent class-
es of truths the laws OF thought the science OF proofs,
which is logic, the science oil morals, the facts oil bs
tory tie spirit OF laws the conduct aad aims oil reason
ings ia pilics-these TIE strong meat that an
nounced and began TO train the gfea, political thinker
and teasoner Of later day.
/ | have heard tba he might otener be found 10 some
solitary seat walk, with volume OF Gordons or Ram
SAYS Re evoiuon OF the Eederalsi, ot Humes HIS
tory of England or of his Essays OF Golips, or Paf
endorf Cicero, or Monesqueu, or Locke, or Burke,
than with Virgil or Shakespeare or the Spectator. oi
the " Hstoty OF Opinions the Department OF Plloso-
ply" he already curious student. The ofauon he
delivered before The United Fraternity when he gradn.
aled. treated that Topic OF Opinion under aspects
as ecol,et from once rtajing the manuscript WITH
COZ iousness Judgment, and enthusiasm and some ot his
rdeue OF the Brkeian tbeofy OF The non existence o'
mnter, well tenember, anticipated The sarcasm OF
later day currency all iaetalhc and OF ruhcaion
as strictly constitutional remedy.
The other iac well established by all we can gath
er OF his life a, college s that The faculty 80 anseeh
ant aterwars o moving the minds of men by speeeh'
was already developed add elective ~ fematk'pe ue
degree Alway-, there - best wiiier and rPsaket ~
tyo In college but this sleTooyped designation seh@
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