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MIR, Eycrctt's Speech IN New York.

Mr.. Evcrett's Speech IN New York.
On Wednesday cvenin : June Is Mr. Everett
delivered an address before the n. Y. uis,ori-
cal society, on the discovery and colonization
of America, and emiglAt on to the United
States. 1t was, Of couIS =, most interesting
and beautiful produc' .on. One Of the New
York papers s'.vs at was perfect grace and
beauty througI 10 and from beginning to end
it fascinated tbt. attention of every henrer--
We need not ay that it will a thousand times
over repay lis rcading,'
Mr.. Eve EFT commenced with the last gu r
ter Of the 18th century. when the Italian mari
ner first made his appearance, in the Courts OF
the South and West of Europe. soliciting aid
for tn, bold and novel project, which was to
unVf il tho New, to the Old World, when the
ct at~bof science was not such as to enable
rAon to dis 2rimnate between the improbable
and the absurd, and they looked upon Colum-
bus as we did thirty years ago upon Captain
Symmes." Re went on to speak Of the genius,
faith and perseverance Of the I!ustrious adj
vcnturer, and W,,h graphic touches rccountcd
the o't-told incidents of the departure, voyage
and Observation-Disclosures in winch, he soys
"thc authentic history Of the discovery Of our
Continent eXcc.s the spocjous wonders Of ro-
nance, as much as gold cXcclS tinse or the
sun in the heavens outshincs the hichcring
taper"
In contemplating this discovery, he said,
50 we encounter one Of the most terrible mys-
tcries in the history OF our race. the fact
that navigator, with piece Of parchment
from Ferdinand and Isabella, could by landing
upon one or two Islands near the Coast Of
America, acquire for them, such vast cT-
tension of territory--n land crowded with in
habltans, subject to Government of their
own, and over which neither by inheritance
colonization, nor as yet by conquest, had any
human beng in Europe a right to rule. Such
however was the caso.
"Amcrica was conquered before it was dis
covered. .By the law Of nations rs then IN
derSoud (and fear there IL, less change in its
doctrines at the pIc5rnt day than We are ready
to think, a sovereign rlght to the territory and
government OF all newly discovered rc@lons
inhabited by heather tribes WAS believed to
vest III the Christian prince under whose aus
pceS tile discovery vas made, SUBJECT 10 the
ratification Of the Pope, as the Ultimate dis
poser Of the KINGDOMS Of the earth. Such was
the law OF nations as then understood, III virtue
OF which, from the moment Columbus. on the
might Of the l,2th of Octobcr 1892 caught.
from the quarter deck of the Santa Maria. the
twink!ing beams Of taper from the shores Of
san SALVADOR, all The territorial and political
rights Of its simple inhabitants we're CXtln-
guIShcd forever. Nhen on the following morn
ing the keel of his vessel graled upon the
much Iongcd for strand, 1t completed, with
more than electric speed, that terrible circuit
which connected tive islands and the CUn'Inen,
to the ioo,sloo of the Spanish throne. As he
landed upon the VIRGIN shore, lis native mia
bltants, if they could have foreseCn the future,
would have trlt, if may presume thus to apply
the words that virtue had gone out of it forever.
W it'll some of them the process was sharp and
lnstantaneous-wl'h others more gradull, but
not less sure--wh some even after nearly four
centuries, 1t is stll going on; but with ali 1t
was lrrevocabe doom. The Wild aud war-Ilke
the indUlent and semi cvl lzed the bloody
Aztec; the inolenslve Peruvian; the fierce
A mucanlan; all tared alike foreign rule
and an iron yoke settled or Is settling down
upon their necks forever"
The extraordinary effects of this territorial
extension upon both the new and old countries
are shown to be most disastrous.
s'As for the aboriginal tribes, after the first
work ufcXtermlnation was over, IA remnun was
saved from destruction by being reduced to a
state Of predml scrvItude. The detected and
spiritess pOstcrly OF the warllke tribes that
| offered no mean resistance to Corlez and
PIZarro, are now the hewers Of wood and
drawers of water to Mexico and Peru. In a
word from the extreme Southern point of Pa
TACOMA to the northermost limit Of New Nix
Ico, am not aware that any thing hopeful was
done foe human improvement by either Of the
| European Crowns which added these vast do
mans to their territories"
The orator then passed on 20 the next cen
tvry, in the course of which the French and
English took possession of all of North Amer
lea not pre-occupled by the Splniards.
"The French entered by the st. Lawrence
| followed that noble artery to the heart OF the
| Continent; traced the great Lakes to then
parent rNuIets and weeping fountains des
ccnded the Mississippi. Miracles OF humble
and unavalmg herolsIn were performed by
! their gallant adventures and p,ous missionaries
in the depths of our Western wilderness. The
English stretched along the coast. The geo
graphcr would have pronounced that the frcncl
in appropriatug to themselves the mighty
basins ofthe Mississippi and the st Lawrence
had got possession oithe better part OF the Con
tinent But 1t was an attempt to compose Tho
second volume of the Fortunes of America, II
advance of the first This, 1t was ordained
should be written at jamestown and Plymouth
The French, though excellng all other nations
of the world in the art of communicating 10
temporary purposes with savage tribes, seem
still more than the Spanlards, to be destitute o
the august skill required to found new States
| do not know that there is such thing IN lh
world as a Colony of France growing up mt
a prosperous Commonwealth hall a mllllo