The daily republic. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1853-1853, 1853-07-08
Edward Everett's Address, at Faneutl
Hall, Boston, July 4.

H1dM, DOSsOu, July 3s
| The seventy seventh anniversary Of American
Independence was celebrated with much fsrvor at
Boston. A large civic and military procession,
when the outdoor ceremonies were over, pro-
ceeded to Fancuil Hall, where dinner was
served up. Of the regular toasts offered Mt this
entertainment, the fourth follows
The Senate of the United States--Whenever it
(Eyerett) speaks, discord and dsunion shall hide
their heads.
Hon EDWARD EVERETT responded follows:
Mr. CHAIRMAN AND GENTLEMEN: thank you
for the toast which has Just been given, and for
the marked kindness with which 1t has been re-
ceived by the company. | deem it q privilege to
be present on this occasion We all, think, sir,
who had the good fortune to be present at the
Old South Church, felt that it was good to be
there. Cheers. We felt that it was good to
pause awhile from the hurry of passing events,
and revive our recolectlons OF the times which
tried mems souls. | do not know that have ever
attended celebration conducted in more inter
esting manner. The solemn prayers that the
God of our fathers would extend his protection to
us; the public reading of the great Declaration
which has given Immortality to the day; the
sweet voices in the gallery, giving assurance that
| the sons and daughters were training up to catch
the spirit and initiate the example of the fathers
and mothers; this all gave uncommon interest to
the exercises. Much cheering.] 1t was, also,
own, sir, particularly pleasing to me to listen to
our young friend on my right, the orator of the
day who gave us such treat in his ingenious,
| manly and fervid discourse, in which he rose
very far above the commonplaces of the occasion,
| and adorned his great theme with much original
and seasonable illustration. 1t was especially
gratifying to me, sir, to witness the brilliant
| promise he afforded us of adding new lustre to
name which two generations in this commu-
nifty have accumulated their honors. Great
! cheering
| believe no one, sir, who has attended this
day 5 exercises is present, will be disposed
to concur in the opinion, which we sometimes
hear expressed that the interest of the Fourth OIL
| July is on the wane; that it is a worn-out, old
fashioned affair, which has ceased to have sig
nifcance for us. For my own part, value it in
no small degree because it is, | will not say an
sold fashioned" but will say an ancient and
venerable institution (cheers;] because its annual
celebration for seventy years has already noursh-
ed the patriotic feelings of more than two genera
t.ons and amidst the perilous commissions of States
abroad, and the rapid march of events at home,
has left great theme on which political
opinion is united; one happy day on which party
strife is at rest. Great applause.l
| | trust, sir, that the Fourth of July will ever
continue to be celebrated as it has been to-day,
Understandings as well as enthusiastically; be-
cause il furnishes at the most instructive and
glorious illustration of the union of the two great
principles of stability and progress, on which our
independence was originally founded; on which
our prosperity, at the present day, rests us upon
its corner-stone; and by whose cordial alliance
and Joint working alone the great designs of Pro-
whence in reference to our beloved country can
be fulfilled Much cering.
I am the more DESTROYS, sir, of making this re-
mark on the present occasion with some empha
sis, because there is OH the part of many-perhaps
of most--persons among disposition to sepa-
rate these two great principles-to take up one to
the neglect of the other, and consequently in ef-
feet to do violence to both. AS in all party diyi
sions so in this; we throw ourselves passionately
into the cause we have embraced, push its pecu
liar views beyond proper limits, overlooking all
reasonable qualifications, and forget that practical
| wisdom and plain common sense are generally
found about halfway between the two extremes.
| Cheers Accordingly there are and always have
| been among us, i'll all countries where thought
and speech are free, men who give themselves up,
heart and SOUL to the reverence of the past; they
can do Justice to no wisdom but the wisdom of
ages; and, if institution is not time-honored it
| is very apt by them not to be honored at all.
| They forget that the tall oak was once acorn,
and that the Oldest thing had beginning.
| Cheers. This class of men received a few years
ago in England the designation of s'cOnserva-
tives,'' from their disposition to maintain things
Just as they are. Recently, in this country, they
! have been called by the rather unpromising name
| of sold Fogies, the origin and precise import
of which are unknown to me. [Cheers and laugh
Now, sir, these benighted individuals, straight
laced and stiff-necked as they are, err only in
pushing sound principle to extremes; in obey
ing one law of social nature to the neglect of
another equally certain and important The rev.
erence of the past, adherence to what is estab-
shed may be carried great deal too far, but it
is not merely an innate feeling of the human
heart but direct logical consequence of the
physical and spiritual constitution which our Gre
ator has given us. [Cheersl The sacred tie oil
family which, reaching backward and forward,
binds the generations of men together, and draws
out the paintve music of our being from the So
Tenn alienation of cradle and grave--the black
and white keys of life harpschord-[ sensation;]
the magical power of language, which puts spirit
in communion with spirit in distant periods and
chimes; the grand sympathies of country which
lead the Greeks of the present day to talk of the
victory which gained over the barbarians at
Marathon'- cheers] the mystic tissue of race,
woven far back in the dark chambers of the past,
and which, after the vcissitudes and migrations
of centuries, wraps up great nations in its broad
mantle-[chee those significant expressions
which carry volumes of meaning i'll word-Forc
father, Parent, Child, Posterty, Native Land
these all teach us not blndly to worship, but duly
to honor the past, to study the lessons of expo
rience, to scan the high cOunsels of man in his
great associations, those counsels have been de-
veloped in constitutions, in laws, in maxims, in
traditions in great undoubted principles of right
| and wrong, which have been sanctioned by the
general consent of those who have gone before us,
thus tracing i'll human institutions some faint re-
Election of that Divine wisdom which fashioned
the leaf that unfolded itself six weeks ago in the
forest, the pattern of the leafwhich was bathed
in the dews of Paradise in the morning of crca-
ton. Enthusiastic cheers,
These feelings, say, sir, just and natural
The principle which prompts them lies deep in our
nature; 1t gives birth to the dearest charities of
life, and it fortiiies some of the sternest virtues
! [Cheers But these principles and feelings are
not the whole of our nature. They portion
only of those sentiments which belong to us as
men, as patriots and Christians. We do not err
when we cherish them, but when we cherish and
act on them exclusively; forgetting that there is