Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1853-07-09
,ppREss OF MIR. EVERETT.

one reported in the Boston papers
ADDRESS OF MR.. EVERETT.
~ Chairman ana Gentlemen: / thank you for the toast
which has lust been given and for the marked kindness
with which has been received by the company deem
il privilege to be present on TINS occasion we all
think sir who the good fortune to be present at the
Old South Church. felt that it was good to be there
ICheers We felt that it good TO pause awhile from
the hurry of passing events and revive our recoecons
of the which tried mems souls do not know that
have ever attended celebration conducted in more
interesting The solemn prayers that the Gou OF
our would extend his protection to u.s. the pubc
reading of the great Declaration which has given immor-
taity the day. the sweet voices in the gallery giving
that the and daughters were training up
to catch the spirit and initiate the example OF the fathers
and mothersths all gave interest to the ex-
ereises Much cheering 1t also, own sir, par
ticulary pleasing to TO listen to our young friend on
my right Of the day. who gave US such treat
in his ingenious manly, and feryid DISCOURSE In which
he very far above the commonplace o. the OCCASION
and adorned his great theme with much original and sea-
souable illustration 1t especially gratifying to me-
sir witness the brilliant promise he afforded us OF add
ing new lustre name which two generations IN
thiscournunty have accumulated their honors Cheers
believe one, sir who has attended this day exer
cses is now present. will be disposed TO concur IN the
opinion which sometimes hear expressed that the IN
Of the Fourth Of July the wane; that 1t IS
wor-out odashioned affair." which has ceased TO have
significance forus For my part value II IN no small
degree because il is, l will not say " od-iashoned
but | will say an ancient and venerable institution,
cheers because its annual seventy years
has already nourhed the patriotic feelings OF more tha
generations and amidst the perllous conVusons OF
States abroad AMI the rapid march of events at home,
has left great theme which political opinion y
united happy day on which party strife IS at rest
trust sir that the Fourth Of July will ever continue
to be celebrated as has been to-day understandingy
well enthusiastically; because il furnishes at once
the instructive and glorious illustration OF the union
of the two great principles of stability aud progress
which our independence originally founded; on
which prosperity at the present day. rests as upon
its cornerstone aud by whose cordial alliance and joint
working alone the great designs Of Providence in refer
to beloved country can be fulfilled lMuch
cheering.
am the more desirous ,sir Of making this remark
the present occasion with emphasis because there
is on the part of manypehaps OF mostpersons among
us disposition to separate these two great prncpies
to take up to the neglect of the other anu conse
auenty in effect to do violence to both As in all party
divisions so in this; throw ourselves passonately
into the have embraced push ITS peculiar views
beyond proper limits, overlooking all reasonable quah-
cations, and forget that practical wisdom anu PLAIN com
mon sense are generally found about half way between
the two extremes. [Cheers. Accordingly there are
and always been among as IN all countries where
thought and speech are free, men VINO give themselves
up heart and SOUL to the Of the past they
can do justice wisdom but the wisdom 81 ages and
If institution is not time honored, II Is very apt by
them not TO be honored all They forget that the tail
oak was once an acorn and that the oldest thing had
beginning ICheers This class oil men received 2 rev
years ago in England the designation Of
from their spostion TO maintain things Just AZ they are
Recantlv IN This country they have been called by ht
rather unpromisng name Of sou osles, tne origin ana
precise import Of which ore unknown 70 me- loheers
and laughter
md sti-necked Ne they are only inpushing sound
prucpIe 10 extremes in obeying one law OF our socal
nature 10 the neglect of another equally certain anu ~
r,a. THE reverence Of the past adherence TO what is
established may be carried great deai TOO ar nut " -
~, MERELY an innate feeling Of the human heart but a
droc lcicl consequepce Of the physical and spiritual
s,;.,,,snr Which our Creator has gwen [Cheers
The sacred ito family, which, reaching backward and
ford llds the generations Of men together and draws
~ i, plaintive music of being from the solemn al
sarstion OF cradle and grave-the back and the white
uys Of life's harpsicbord, [sensaiion; the magica
power Of language, which puts spirit in communion will
OF country which, or the present day t
talk the victory which gained over the barbarian
Mt Marathon, cheers: the mystic tissue Of race, woye
far back in the dark chambers Of the past and which
after the vicsstudes and migraons Of centuries, wrap
up great nations in its broad mantle [cheers; those sig
nscant expressions which carry volumes Of meaning in
word-Foreather Parent, Child, isterity Native Land
these all teach blindly to worship, but duly L
honor the past study the lessons Of experience, t
the high counsels OF man in his great associations
those cOunses have been developed IN constitutions
in laws in maams in traditions in great undoubtec
principles Of right and wrong, which have been sanction
cd by the general those who have gone before
U.S. thus tracing in human institutions faint refec
ton OF that Divine wisdom which fashioned the leaf thai
unfoded itself six weeks ago in the forest the pattern
of the leaf which bathei in the dews Of Paradise il
the morning Of the creation, Enthusiastic cheers.
These feelings, say, sir, just and natural The
principle which prompts them lies deep in
* gives birth the dearest charities of life and it ort
hes some Of the sternest virtues ICheers But these
principles and feelings the whole OF nature
They portion only Of those sentiments which belong
TO men, patriots, and christians. We 40 not
when cherish them, but when cherish and act
them exclusively forgetting that there is another
of feelings and principesderent although
nisticwhch form another side to wonderfully
plicated existence.
This is the side TO which nm opposite class ia the com
munity devotes itself exclusively. They the
progress" they sometimes call themselves, in mi
taton OF similar designations in most countries Of Bu
rope "Youne America" Either from natural ardor 0
temperament the fervd spirit cf youth impatcnc
caused by constant meditation the abuses which
muate In in the lapse Of time the
get TO think that every thing which has existed for
siderable time is abuse that consequently u chang
Is, matter Of course, 10 reformto innovate OF ne
cessity improvement. They do not consider that
this notion is carried far il becomes suicidal II
demns their and nst6es the next genera
ton in sweeping away their work remorseess as the
are disposed TO sweep the work " their predeces
sors. Great cheering
Now here again. sir, the error Is Of exaPgeratio
only. Young America is very honest fellow he
well, but like other young folks he is sometimes m
too much in hurry. daughter and cheers lie need
the curb eonaily as we old ones perhaps, still
~equenty need the spur Laughter There Is princi
pie ofprogress in the human miud-ine the works
hands, IN All associations and communities from the vii
lage club TO the empire that az the I'm
race, in all political institutions n art literature
and science, aud especially IN nil new countries
where il must from the of the case he the lead
ing and governing principle Great cheers who can
compare the modern world its condition its arts its in
sututions with the ancient world aud doubt this the
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