The Hillsdale standard. [volume] (Hillsdale, Mich.) 1851-1909, 1853-08-02
EDWARD EVERETT ON PROGRESS.

Mr. Everett was called out ut the Fourth OF
| July celebration i'll Boston, by tho following
| toast:
"TAe u. S. Senaie-When erer il (Euerett)
| speaks. discord and disunon shall hide their
| heads"
His reply was the following powerful and
eloquent speech, from which wo omit only the
preliminary paragraphs;
The sacred tie of family which, reaching !
backward and firward, binds the genera
'inns of men together, and draws out the PLAIN
tive music of our being from the solemn alter
naive Of cradle and grave-the black and
white keys of life's rpschord-l sensaiionl -
the magical power of language, which puts
s.irit in communion with spirit in distant peri
: ods and climes; the grand sympa,hes Of cnan-
try which lead tho Greek Of the present day TO
talk of the victory which zoe gained over
! the barbarians at Marathon cheers tho
r mys,ic tissue of race, woven far hack in the
dark chambers of the past, and which, after
vcisstudcs and migratious of centuries, wraps
up great nations i'm its broad mantc-lchecrs
e --those signiicant expressions which carry
volumes of meaning in word .-Forefathers,
( Parent. Child. Posterity, Native Land;--these
g all teach MS not blindly to worship bnt duly to
: honor the pass. to study the lessons of expert
ence to scan The high counsels of man In his
/ great associations, as those counscls have
y maxims, in traditions. in great nndoubted prin
cpes and right and wrong. which have been
81 sanctioned by the general conseat of thoso who
r have gone before US: thus tracing in human in
n. stitutions some faint reflections OF the divine
wisdom hich fashioned the leaf that unfolded
itself six weeks ago in tho forest, on the pattern
al of the leaf which was bathed in tho dews ol
Paradise in tho morning OF the crcation.--l En-
thus astic cheers.
&, T ifrcf a11 n n l.
80 raj. The principles which prompts them lies
~ deep in our nature; it ives birth to he dear
est charities life. and it fortfes some # the
sternest virtues. (Cheers) But these prin
T. ciples and feelings are not the VIII lie OF ou
nature They are portion only of those sen
tments which belong TO us as men, us patriots
'. as Christians. We do not err when we cher
ish them bot when We cherish aud act on then
ch exclusively. forgetting that there is anothe
class of feelings and princpes--dIfferent Tho
not nntsgoniSic-which fiom another side t
est our wonderfully complicated exstance.
, This is the side TO which an opposite cias
: in the community devotes itself excusi' ely.-
They arc the men If progress" or, as the
sometimes call themselyes, in imitation OF sin
e. liar d, sionatons in most countries OF Europ
-. "Young America" Either from noiural ardc
ron. of temperament, or the fervid spirit OF yout
or impatience caused by co, stan M dia ion O
the the abuses which accumulate in most huma
OF concerns in the lapse of time. they get to tim
. that everything which has existed for cons
erable time, is an abuse; that consequently
charge is as matter of course, to reform
:. innovate, uf necessity nn Improvement. The
do not consider that if this notion is carrie
bu- too far it becomes suicidal it condemns the
the own measure aud jusiifies the next generate
ieh, in sweeping away heir work as remorseless
AM, anI as they are ditposed TO sweep away the wo
ar of their predecessors (Great choering)
inty Now here again, sir, the error is one of G
: A. acperation only. Young America is a vc
s. honest fellow-he means well. bnt liko 9th
Young folks he is sometimes little too mu
=. in o hurry daughter and cheers) He nee
lew the curb occasionally, as we cid oucs perha
eady more frequently need the spur. tLaughcr.)
&c. There is u principle of progress in tho hum
:, 'he mind-in all the works of mems hands-in
- associations and communities. from The villa
clnb to tho empire that embraces quarter
J. tho human race-in oil political institutions
,ced In art, literature and scence-and most esp'
sions ally i'm all new countries, where it must, fr
ce in the the nature of the case be the leading q
lents lents governing principle. (Great cheers.) w
caIi can compare the modern world, its cnnditi
re. its arts its institutions. with the ancient woI
and doubt this: the daily newspapers smnk
every m,rning from hnndred presses. viii
strip of fhieroglyphics on the side of an ODE
perpexng the world with its dubious imp
and oven that found out within the last tn
vears-,ho ocean steamer with the row gal
creeping timidly round tho shore-the 7
ways in the United States alone. without m
tioning those of Europe, with those famous
man paved roads the Appian and Flanir
way, TO which the orator alluded-which
railways exceed tenfold in cxtent to say II,
ing of their superiority in ove:y other rel
as q means of communication; tho prin
eco, press driven by cam, with the scribcs,
some pen. the telegraph with the mail co
the post horse the pedestrian courier; ant
Sovo all. representative republican conf
racy, extended over "a continent with fed
disposition building palace on the neck
people. or a stormy Grccian democracy.
sistngits citizens by public largess, oil Il
servie. osiraeisiug lis good men insulting
expressing its allies, and rending its own V
within the circuit of the city walls to whic
was confned-who say can make this
parison, and doubt that the principle Of
gress is rs deeply seated IN our nature pr
cal wisdom and high national policy rcsic
due MIXTURE and joint action OF the two.
...;.. Now. sir. this was the wisdom of tho
Instant of'76 This is the lesson Of the Fourth o
ly; this tho oracle which speaks to ns from
shrnes of this consecrated hall. (Greai q
= pork ing.) If we study the writing of the m
ny tne that dav We find that thew treated the