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SENATOR EVERETT ON THE CELTIC

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The distinguished Senator from Massachu
setts delivered an address before the Newly ork
Historical Society last week, on the discovery
md settlement of America, which is a compre
hensive sketch of that important movement
The New York Ecening Mirror, speaking of the
Grafton, says: $40
t'No historical document of greater interest
and value, or more inspiring to Republican
pride, has ever fallen from American tongue or
pen. 1t is succinct and complete. The dis,
covery of the New World; its colonization; the
new political spirit generated in its colonies; its
| freedom Speaking of our own race springing
from that spirit; its mighty expansion of terri
tory under the pressure of national growth and
marvellous emigration; its overshadowing OF
| Old Rome in splendor and power; its indepted-
ness to the Celtic race; its gigantic influence
| among the nations, even in its youth: and its
promise in the future are rapidly boldly and
/ beautifully traced. OF Mr. Everett's many no,
ole utteranees none is grander than this.
T. "Ifthe address had less merit of its own to
win the admiration and approval of Ameri-
/ cans; and all who had an interest in the record
and destiny of the New World, the name and
fame of its author would bear it far But it
needs no adyanttious aids. Mr. Everett has
sounded the well of truth for his reflections and
! glimpses of prophecy betray the genius of phi
losophy and inspiration. In Great Britain,
where his career as Minister made him admired
and respected the address will be widely read
and pondereQ. For the vassal world of Europe,
it points to cur almost boundless public domain,
land of premise for the human race.
I 'The Historical Society and our city owe two
/ Ill L T. IL Ill
! Discourse on History, by Daniel Webster, and
the other for the address of Edward Everett
Both are master pieces Webster is gone from
among U.S. only his mighty memory remains
But Ever TT still lives-not an unworthy sue
ceSsor of Americas greatest statesman and
orator Everett-in the ripeness of his years;
a scholar iuriSt, an orator, and statesman,
If equalled by any, surpassed by none. a star
in the Senate we lift not the horoscope to sean
his future; it viii be ample for his fame, if his
future be as radiant as his past"
We regret that our limited space viii not per-
NIT us to lay this mastery production in ertea-
so before our readers, and as we have room for
an extract only, we shall confne ourselves to his
notice of the present emigration, which will
doubtless have so great an influence on the des-
tiny of ireland, Germany, and the United
States:
'The races that invaded Europe came to lay
waste and to subjugate; the hosts that cross the
Atlantic are peaceful immigrants. The former
burst upon the Roman empire, and by oft-re-
peated strokes beat it to the ground. The immi-
/ grants to America from all countries come to
east in their lot with the native citizens, and to
share with us this great inheritance of civil and
religious liberty. The former were ferocious
barbarians-halfcladin misunderstanding strange
tongues strange gods with bloody
rites:-the latter are the children of the coun-
tries from which the great European settlers of
this continent proceeded, and belong with US to
the great common family of Christendom.-
The former destroyed the culture of the ancient
world, and it was only after thousand years
that better civilization grew up from its ruins.
The millions who have established themselves
in America within sixty years, are from the
moment Of their arrival, gradually absorbed
into the mass of the population, conforming to-
the laws, moulding themselves to the manners
of the country, and contributing their share to
its prosperity and strength.
ut is a curious coincidence, that as the first
mighty wave of the hostile immigration, that
burst upon Europe before the time of our
Savior, consisted of tribes belonging to the
great Celtic race-the remains of which, identi-
fed by their original dialect, are still found in
p-iY IN, oil in +ho ioblo IF
land, and especially Ireand-so by far the
greater portion of the new and friendly immi-
grafton to the United States consists of persons
belonging tothe same fervid, imaginative and too
eften oppressed race. have heard in the vii
ages of Wales and the highlands of Scotland
the gospel preached in substantially the same
language in which Brennus uttered his naughty
summons to Rome, and in which the mystic
songs of the Druids were chanted in the depths
of the primeval forests of France and England,
in the time of Julius Caesar. 1t is still spoken
| by thousands of Scotch, Welsh and Irish immi-
grants, in all parts of the United States.
This. great Celtic race is one of the most re
markable that has appeared in history
Whether it belongs to that extensive Indo-Euro-
pean family of nations, which, in ages before
the dawn of history, took up line of march in
two columns from lower India, and moving
westward both by a northern and la southern
route, finally diffused itself over Western Asia,
Northern Africa, and the greater part Of Eu-
rope; or whether, asothers suppose, the Celtic
race belongs to a stiI1 older stock, and was it.
self driven down upon the South and INTO the
West of Europe by the overwhelming force of
the Indo Europeans, are questions which we
have no time at present to discuss. However,
it may be decided, it would seem that for the
first time, as far as we are, acquainted with the
fortunes of this interesting race, they have
found themselves in a really prosperous condi-
ton in this country. Driven from the soil to
which their fathers have clung for two thou
sand years, they have at length and for the first
time in their entire history, found a real home
in land of strangers. Having been told, in
the frightful language of political economy,
that at the daily table which nature spreads for
the human family, there is never laid fer them
in Ireland, they have crossed the ocean to find
occupation, shelter, and bread on a foreign
soil