New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1853-10-21
THE TRUE BASIS
AMERICAN INDEPENDENCE.
ADDEESS OF WILLIAM H. SEWARD,
OF


who are hurried 50 fact through the everchaugng pan
Drama Of metropolitan life may regard the quiet scenes
o. tlis unpreendng festival appointed ani arranged
eith 80 much care. by the American institute but
confess for myself that coming from distant aud rural
lone and being more than al occasional spec
tstOr here End always the same first FRESHNESS 10
tese autumnal shows Of flowers, and fruits, and an
ns of subsistence fleece and burden, trained AMI per
ced by lard vet gentle hands and that these ANIMAL
trials Of the sk Of e.uuous, yet unambtous men and
women ID the use OF the spade and the pow TIE forge
and tie furnace tie dairy and the needle the spindle
and the loom innocent in their nature yet benehcent
in their effect by stimulating invention and enterprise,
while they faithfully mark, years roll on, tie pro-
crefs which cur country is making in arts and ciVza-
tion. never fail to excite within gmpath.es and
emotions uore profound ami pleasing than any state
rageant which have witnessed at home or the most
imposing demonstration Of military power that can be
seeu in any other and less favored land.
Society divides concerning that progress those
who are occupied with their own personal cares and
srprehensiye Of evil in every change look upon It with
Indifference or ds.rust others knowing that IN Re
pubic constituted as this is there is always restless
act ity toward either peace or war virtue or vice.
gre ness or shame de.Ote themselves to the duty OF
regulating that activity and giving II right direction
Tie members of the American Institute are OF tbs
class Having constantly sympathzed WITH them mere
to|ore when their unremitted labors secured nel'her
rewards nor favor rejoice in meeting them nov" m
der more proptious circumstances. congratulate
YOU. Messrs Reese, Livingston and Hail. Stiiman
Mees and Chandler and others associates that your
institution has been adopted as model by many toWns
and by all the counties in this state, By the state tse
and by many other States and that your Instructions
and example, patiently continued through 50 many
years have at last induced the nation Itself 70 consent
70 ,presr and to win some significant trophies in the
Exhibition of Universal Industry, already held in Lon
don and TO naupnate another and brilliant one in the
worlds new capital which We founding on this yet
rude coast of a recently impossible ocean
Nevertheless Ibaye been for many reasons habituall
sverse from ningng in the sometimes excited debates
which crowd upon each other in great city. There
wac however. an authority which could not disobey,
in the venerable name and almost paernal kindness OF
the eminent citizen who recent presided here with
dignity and serenity all his and who transmitted
tie invitation of the Institute and persuaded Its oc-
ceptance
How sudden his death Only three weeks ago the
morning mail brought to me his announcement OF his
arrival to arrange this exhibition, and his summons TO
ne TO Join Linn here and the evening dispatch on tho
self same day bore the painful intelligence that the
lofty genius which had commuued with kindred spirits
so long on The interests Of his country had departed
from lie Garth and that the majestic form which had
been animated by it had disappeared .oreyerirom among
living men
Iial disciplined myself when coming here TO
purpose to speak no word for the cause Of human free
dom lest what might seem too persistent AN advocacy
might offend.
But must l. therefore, abrdge Gifts Just proportions
tho euogum which the occasion and the character OF
the honored dead allie demand
The first ballot which cast for the Chief magisiracy
Of ny native and most beloved State, bore the name Of
James Tallmadge a. the alternate OF De Witt Clinton
If have never altered in pursuing the policy OF that
immortal statesman through loud repr0ach and yndic
tive opposition during bis life, and amid camors and
contentious often amounting almost 10 action since hrs
death have found little occasion to hesitate or wayer
in adhering to the c0uusls and examples 81 the Illus
trious compecr who after surviving him so many years
has now been removed in ripened age, 10 the compan
ionslp of the just How does not time yindcate hde
ity 10 Truth and to our country
A vote for Clinton and Tallmadge in 1924, what cen
sures did it not bring them Who will impeach that
balot now
A statesnan's claim to The gratitude Of his contry
rests on what were, or what would have been the re-
suits of the policy lie has recommended. Il t,e coun-
not only would American forests, mines, soil invention
and industry. have rendered our country now and for
ever independent Of all other nations except Tor what
chI ate orhids hut then, also, mental hama would
ever have guided plough and no iootstep OF slave
would ever have been tracked on the soil OF al that
vast part Of cur national domain that stretches away
from the banks Of the Mississippi 10 the lar western
ocean
This was the policy of James Tallmadee. 1t was
worthy of New York, in whose name II Was promu-
fol I hpep ID
eether failed in establishing it, He successful in
part though only through unWiso delays and unneces-
Rary compromises which be strenuously opposed, and
which. Therefore have not impaired his just fame And
in the end he nearly than any other citizen OF
our time realized the description of the happicst MAN
in the world given to the frivolous Cresus, by the
great Athenian " He saw his offspring and they all
" survived him. At the close OF an honorable and
prosperous life the field of civic victory he was
" rewarded with the hOnOrs of public funeral, b. the
" State that be had enriched adorned AMI enlarged
Gentlemen Of the American Institute, DR.. Johnson
truly saidthat the first man who balanced straw on
his tie first man who rode three horses ~ time;
IN short all such deserved tie applause OF man
Kind account not Of the Of what they did but OF
the dexteriy which they exhibited for that everything
which enlarged the sphere of human power and showed
han he could do what he thought he could not do
aluhbe. l spprehend that this - Eue exposition
os the philosophy of your own useful labors The
Of personal power and skin diminshe' indiy dual
deper1sncc and Individual independence when Il per
vades the whole State IL rational independence
IL II only when through such individuality OF ~ mem
bers nation aitsns certain Independence that passes
from that condition If society, III which 10 thinks moves
end acts whether for peace or for war FOR right or Tor
wrong according the Interests capccs OF Of
few persons Ia condition which defines monarchy o. ars
tocrHcy 10 that better condition in which II THINKS moves
and acts in all things under the direction OF one common
interest 6sCerained and determined by the intelligent
oonss Of majority all OF It's members, which c0nl
ton constitutes Republic Democracy. 50 Democracy
IL exists Is more or less perfect and Of course
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