The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1853-09-12

Stand revealed In 1907 The cAsalsr slsat 6 ps.asl
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Htts descendant Of the one genus nsysr meet An
equally dminutive slee.:: q the stAsr vsthest tes
enough In Dutchmaa To rsgulats aaything; and 90 n
1921 God PLANTED tss colony q New Nshssaas sss.ly
wheat from the east scattered AL along oar western
coast The birth Of many little WAshiaxtons necsssl-
sed tn. advent q one great hero ' tss ssSs,
Labsrtys great battle is fought and woa- seoe
the area Of freedom is too nArrou, and the danger
| ef internal strife too great. The thrd Prsstdent
Of the United states buys Louisiana Why thsns Be-
cause the Hudson, at this same TINA. the steamboat
in ont sfoat The grand instrument Of progress like An
great agencies appears the fitting time place. Ths
nineteenth century arrives and great dan
The CRY, Gold. gold Why thss, and thsrsa Because
Americans in general and Yankees In particular, viii 70
as mouth ns Of me or tine q As ot
the Pacific II is no longer for the little Northernsr
or the little southsrnsr to talk about dividing
this Union; great Wsstsrners start to their fist
In predominang numbers, crying No yeu shall not
divide" simultaneously with the discovery Of Calfor
mia the keel Of the first successful steamship laid
in New York not to to Havre, Liverpool but New
OTleansthe frat link in the most stupeniaus chain Of
The trade winds Of God are AL westward
the growing end As the rude archaic SCULPTURES Of
sepus gradually ref cd nto the trsnscendant slc
ries of the Parthenon all the vitsties successfully
developed superseded through sixty centuries
becoming resuscased and harmonized this American
ACE TO CoaE-PxRFEcT CvIIIzAuoS.-Ia the 18th
nlad have the Fates and Fures contsnang for the
law of prmogeniture and Jupiter is threned above Nsp
tune and Pluto By right Even Aristdes and Phdias
bansheu without questioning the justice OF the act
nized SO that each viii say his less favored brother
like The Angel to John-Stand up: am your fellow scr
want. ,o6shp & , boz G. e, gsH yuS With
shall re appear to construct fair along the efest
terrace OF the Rocky Mountains. While, on either
hand from to from pole TO pole unbrcken
brotherhood Of millions shall Ia unity If
faith and knowledge the stature Of perfect in
highest life Then viii :. Times modest offspring
rave appeared indeed IS the final curtain ia about to
fall In view of that. let every aspire after the
blest gifts; and live the most useful life
This address delivered at the joint request Of the
two Societies. and q bright. beautiful. hopeful,
powerful appreciation of the progress of the present day.
leaving the old stationary, ecessary characteriscs
of the ages past, and passing to that higher safer
more enduring glory of perfected civilization which
the inevitable aim and end of the present ago. The
doctor correct in his udcious and pbilosophc ss
mate Of the past and by wrong in his buoyant
ansicpations of the future he realized higher vital
izaon in the present than in any past age and all
the elements Of and perfection lying within the
easy grasp of the student and requiring but energy pur
pose hope and fidelity to seize and mould them into
glorious destiny The doctors address was truly ear
He never weares, and certainly touchs com
menplaces Away Astounding in novelty, Praca,sbnity,
sustained his reputation both author and crater
This address was followed by handsome poem on eli
was wen conceived and admirably short.
At evening Rev D. Gillette pastor Of the Broadway
efere the Society of Missionary Inquiry tex-Jsr s, 81
For the hurt of the daughter OF my people An hurt
The theme Ths moral condition Of mankind censid
% ~ motive to missionary enterprise First the
home fed reviewed and . strong appeal was made
in behalf of native land secondly hs world At Large,
it, claims upon the educated free bora and christian
lied The whole effort characterized By the mental
traits Of A amisble author and the lofty aims Of our
An Of the meetings Of yesterday very largely at
tended. 1t is fact worthy of notice, that the three
principal speakers all descanted tho general sub
y claiming unusual attention from all the active minds
Of he age Man il moving, and rapidly; su. yhthsls
save anything BY foreboding
The Commencement exercises proper commenced this
rsdu.sips s.udsst., invited sns..s and the faeuty
The church must have contained three thousand
the ~ aes fss
not far short Of thirty thousand people in attendance on
After the opening exercises By President Wayland the
graduating class at procee ded to their orations
The sslutatory, by yeung Caswel, chasts brief and
large attendance Of Alumni. This young man cannot
fail making his mark at Soma not very distant day, and
doubtless in the professional world.
A most practical address was that of NJ. Maxcy Of
PIovidence the Popular Patronage Of Literature
he contrastsd the slow support and apprecation of
mAnd Of al classes and conditions of society at the
SAINT day Then the author of The Deserted Village Ian
guishsd unnoced and fasting in the .'Oid Bailey MI
tor died unrecompensed and unhonored and scsrcely
single author received much for the labors Of life
work Characteristic Of the authorship of the present
il its advocacy OF practical interests The full
ton, pOpularize them BY spreading them, By the
wings of the wind before the people Everybody, he
% @ and
again hs practical hints of dream life and took long pill
grinages with Mrs Stowe in search of "Unce Toms
Of potentstss and princes and the quiet jewellers
in the Inostentaous and lonely cottage. Authors
world world Co Confirm is destiny and ss1e their loot print. on
the times He here spoke with great effect Of the powers
and %
brought thoughts irresistisy to one great press
room and the daily issue ., y thousand copies Of the
appeal directly to the mighty public every issue and
fully settle The public viii before the book can b 50
Written and Spoken Oratory" by Asa Arnold, Of Pro-
vdeDce altogether one of the best college orations
e. e the
every word, and 80 reported nome He was frequently
loudly applAuded After discriminating discussion u
the pecuaritie of both written and spoken eratory he
cor cuded that our country ded times
pens, but Voices; not the head but the heart Our
sSsr p.op: in stirring scenes, needed that
which springs up indigenous to the occasion, and
i
/ is the oratory that has characterized De-
mcshenes studied abstractly and alone but Webster
seized the moving times and painted the panorama Of
republication with the crayon Of common sense, or
etched with the sharp point Of the most searching
logic He here most beautiful parallel between the
two and illustrated by the quick impassoned power
which occasions called forth from the mighty heart Of
Henry Mr.. Arnold could Distinguish himself in the
literary world.
Mr. Heard sAd some very good things. BE has
important element Of oratory-sef confidence In fact
il il superabundAnt even touching self importance.
Some OF the passages the eSuperDatural Charac-
tiers Of Shakspea-s were particularly Rne; while the
paper on the Commercial Spirit Of the Age capital
Young Sandsrson peculiarly earnest and will make
an orator as certainly as he attempts it.
Mr. Holly In his treatment CT Natural Motors" was
at times very eoq usnt while he manifested unusually
sne genius. His sentences finished with poetic
beauty.
| The valedictory was quite good thing, but tame
Colleges have strange habit Of making recitation
the standard Of excellence, and quite strange habit
Of assigning secondary rank to of their most
| Of NJ Arnnh Mr. Maxcx and NJ HOLLY asaxne1