The Belmont chronicle, and farmers, mechanics and manufacturers advocate. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1848-1855, 1853-08-26
HASTE CHARACTERISTIC OF YOUNG
AMERICANS.

1t appears by the brief reply of Bishol
DoAEE. the President of Burlington College
New Jersey, to the neat address Of Mr.
BARTON, vi the senior class, that he intend,
to celebrate. as long as he ives, the day on
which that institution and the liberties of A
merlca were both founded. In pursuance o
tbs resolution, the Bishop pronounced upon
the FOURTH. just past, his annual address
which is contained in pamphlet sent us
from which We gathered the foregoing par.
ticulars. Having said something of thi.
vigorous performance on previous occasion
we propose now only TO make a single ex.
tract, which might be taken hap-hazdrd; but
we will select what is said on HASTE, which
the orator specifies among the dangers t.
which the YoUsG American is liable.
"a kindred DANGER, the result Of this, to
which the Young American is liable, is haste.
the progress of this nation has been 81 IA pid
that the time has seemed to be OF no import
ance to it. And then the whole machinery
OF the aye aims. as near as may be, at its
annihiiation. But this is very dangerous.
When God made the world he made it in six
days. 1t might have sprung as instantane-
Gus as the light. And when He would cum
plete the plan OF its redemption, He took
four thousand years for the development oi
that which, in the counsels oil the Godhead,
YVES complete before the Fall. These are
lessons to our hearts. No real greatness is
spontaneous. The oak is not monarch Of the
woods short of q thousand years. And ma n b,
(, ha e a.. Z: { L
and then an infant, and then child. and has
halfmeasured his allotted years before he is
full grown. No matter in what it is, in letters,
in science, in art, in war, in government, in
any thing that is to be for real greatness,
time must be taken, and deliberate thought
and patient labor be employed. Think OF the
studies Of Sir Isaac Newton. Think of the
touches Of Raphael Think of the chisel OF
Canova. See by what heightened process
Rome grew up to be the mistress of the
world. Contemplate the slow march of Eng
lands greatness. And remember how the
Fathers Of our Republic waited, and watched,
and toiied, and prayed before the hour was
reached that consecrates this day. And then
pursue their bood-stained footsteps through
the seven years war, by which the issues of
that hour were consummated and made per-
petual. The Young American that would do
] Justice to his name must learn to wait. VIVA,
he can do well off-hand he can do better with
deiberutiUn. There is no royal road to real
greatness; and, if there were Republicans
should not adopt it. We have greater is
sues in our hands than ever came before the
Congress at Vienna. And they are an our
hands; with only God above US. Here only,
of all nations Of the world; the voice OF every
man may be potential. And us it is in
cumbent, above all other nations, to aim at
doing the most not only, but at doing it the
best. The Young American must study. The
Young American must work. The Young
American must wait. He mast not hasten
to be wise, or to be rich, or to be great Goi
never hastens. 'Patiens, guia eteraus
Patient, because eternal"