The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1854-11-03
THE DAILY DISPATCH
FRIU.Y MuKnlNes. nOveMsER 5. las4.

i TIT JAIL INST r. III
THE MECHANICS lSsTiTuTE.-There has
never been an exhibition in our city of great
er interest than the Mechanics Institute
Occurring at the same time with the Agricui-
tural Fair, il has nevertheless been thronged
with crowds Of visitors, who have examined
with wonder and delight the numerous anu
beautiful products of human ingenuity WIN
which the large building is tiled. oucn an
exhibition reflects the highest credit on the
enerpv and taste of all who are connected
with Il The mechanics of Richmond have
began this great work nobly. and if anything
were necessary, beyond the energy and de-
termination they have displayed, to render
their future success certain, it would be the
UNION and aUIETEEss with which they carry
on their great enterprise. They are perfectly
united among themselves, and being men
accustomed to action and not to speech,
they are in no danger of being retarded and
distracted in their counsels and progress by
windy and interminable debates. Weregard
this Mechanics Institute as of more inpor-
lance to Virginia than all the political con-
ventions which are likely to be assembled in
her borders for the next twenty-five years.
Virginia has been talked to death by seheming
demagogues and garrulous politicians. We
shall now see what the useful members of So
ciety, the working bees, can do for the OLD
hive.
MANIA FOR TALK.-There is an awful ma.
mia for talk in these latter days. Legisla
lures, ecclesiastical assemblies, political
gatherings, and even Agricultural Societies,
all suffer from this intolerable pest. CUES
tions that might be settled in five minutes
debate occupy hours, and are made instru'
ments of torture to an unoffending audience.
1t is astonishing how fond is every man, who
has "the gift of the CAB" of hearing his own
voice, and how few speakers there are who
know how to stop when they have DONE
Many fine speech in this way loses all its
effect The orator has said, in a short space,
and in clear, telling style, all that was to be
said, and is greeted by hearty round of APP
plause, when instead of availing himself OF
the occasion to retire gracefully, he is encou-
ragged by the cheering to go on, and migrate
fully bore his kind audience to death. Our
sensbilities have been greatly excited of late
in behalf of large assemblages of the coun-
try gentlemen of Virginia, who have been
the innocent victims of unrelenting orator.
cal augurs. 1t was painful to behold these
excellent and practical persons compelled to
listen when they wanted to vote; flooded by
sea of talk till twelve o clock at night, and,
ever and anon, in the extremity of their ago.
ny crying Question Question" as the
drowning mariner cries for mercy. But the
cry for mercy proves unavailing; the unhap-
Ply agriculturists might as well beg the joint
worm to spare their crops; the demand of
Question is answered by fresh avalanche
of words and with an undertone of impatient
anathemas running through the pews and
down the aisles, the hapless farmers resign
themselves to their fate, and the orator pro-
ceeds as complacently as if he were an ac-
knowledged Demosthenes, and was electri-
flying every heart and delighting every ear.
90 wad some power the giitie gle u.s.
To see ourselves others see u.s.
1t wad from many blunder free us,
And foolish notion"
We have never been more struck, than on
such occasions as those referred to, with the
truth of these passages of the Apostle St
James: Gwen so the tongue is a little mem
Der, and worketh great things. Behold, how
great matter little fire kindleth! Fol
every kind of beasts and birds, and Of ser
penis, and of things in the sea, is tanned, ant
hath been tanned, of mankind, but the tongue
can no man tame; it is an unruly evil, full O
deadly poison" We would recommend, thai
at the opening of all legislatures and agricul
tural societies, a sermon should be preached
from the above text and strong prayer of.
fered up that talking men may learn to tame
their unruly tongues, and that the people
may not be visited for their sins, by plague
by pestilence, by famine, by long winded Cos.
sips in breeches, and uproarious tempests in
teapOts.
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