The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1854-07-03
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Die In advance. PAoRoiuon ana pays
oiy OF nonpfosreas or progress In circle or
as.s, conpen:eieS by retrosresson there. wauId Il
effort or generous ssiEsacrfce ia saeS "a p.arlotic
Would it sol When Esrssips Cocles stood
bridge, to stay the march Of the Etruse.n 49, me ao
Rome. was he bound to consider or did ts into
consider, whether what he was doipx woni5 h.ss ss
the human race7 He knew he was hoidip bseh =,
enemy from the city that contained the ,riite v.iI
OF hs home, the ashes Of his fathers and the tems
OF ms sods-snd was not that enough for hirus yinS
ns.s;s waIrors think you, have kepf back from
hssIhs austria at Sempach or Morsarten. rrless
VI nsa believed they were only protecting their
5om an insolent foe, bat were rpskins .ten
Nay. even 50 late the period Of your Reya;s;n
atn3nEn In the writings of some LEADING men ths,,
aressiye II some tnge Of the modern pro.
e.eIs0 p.iVsoPny, TAKEN from the French Eucvco
peasu yer am strong in the belief that the brsva
nc o.ew 9hefr rwort sgainst the preaubIs
oi an act OF Parliament 10 those davs
little Of fixing bow of hope in the ,sy 10y . 'lousnl
k'ndling starry Pharos to guide the srsnsy' Hy' "
future No if they were dongy ii to some grsnder
they were unconscious of it: they simply yvor,d 3
without due representation, pay that accurses t,sc
not the hres.hundfedth part of three peace@s,,
POSED insoently, contemptuousy ana with nrst.n
81 q. right 70 impose it. Now such achieven,euts a,
these, performed in the simple might of manhood
unconscious of anyworld-wde mission flor men hsS
no missions in these days)-these were the arsncis,
whereby the race of man would be really yated II
In this wcrld 1t were capable of elevation - :
as 60 the argument, that these theories IL
received would take away one main n,ot;ve Sor go
ton in good cause, ir is further 10 he sa;d ,h, III
good and brave men of the earth act their brs,sa
ana sne goodness not for the sake of postery or Of
good and brave; and it is necessity of their bsn. re
act accordingy-to act in the living present sttpr
bury tbs;r dsa taxe care Of itself and the dead
iu OF labor Man cannot utter it, the eve is nof .a
Ssu Tbssn with % seeing nor the filed with hearing
Inese good and heroic men, and the woyt tha9 A.,
can by no means be dispensed with r. 49, W.
tnese men and their work, the world is world and
nota waste and desolate wildernes. TaEa ,hs.o sno
away, and human society and the race of IA. Iness
soon rot OH the face of the earth These In the s.es
es ana most literal sense, the saA Of the eayS
70 1859 It's SAVIOR. True heroism then true henevo
iience, courage, self fabnsgaton, individual worth
are If NOT esvsr.soorpg thaunaturzis, thousht,
and antlseptic. They prevent our life rom sinIr1
INTO INT foul obscure slime, peopled with monstsrs
word from Iusfing blindy into the hungry FIRE. and
being burned there-not before its timegor without
its mshty and glorious souls it would not be- worth
Moreover If the whole genus homo cannot be eIs
saeed and improved in one mas. yet nation can To
oe sure such Improvement and elevation are certain
to be compensated by the contemnoransons dseav
snd degredaton of some other race and to be reoui
Isd moreover by ages Of evil against years of good
WnaI ihen shall you, indeed refuse to bask in the
warmth of your summer, and to kindle veur hearts
and souls at the beams of the hen has climbed
your soistce because other nation ia into
the valley of shadow and sinking into the 1xnter Of
its dscontent or because you foresee that The sot
sbsr ods fsq.ags s Of your tssns summer win sssured
last in winters grave of snowsl
Americans! young Americans! il is your day now:
the fruit ripens and reddens Will Won dean II yr.
sumption in me, foreigner who have come to ebsl.
ter myself in your green shades If say to YOU that
given; of You, also. much will be required or ali
the people and tribes, and tongues and nations now
extsnt there are two-one in the East, Russia; one
uboyY, -ha,I
believe the task OF carrying the main concerns OF
the world, in these our days-the task of taking or.
der not for the regeneration but for the conservation
Placed, physically, in two he pheres-placed mo.
rally at two opposite poles Of thought in two sepa.
rate centres OF action, those two nations appear to
me, (now that Asia is dead, and Africa unborn and
Western Europe in the agonies, almost with ths
death-ratte in her throat-those two young nations
seem to be set each in its pace, each with its own
work to do each its own problem to solve at its own
proper peril The main difference is that Americsns
will themselves work out their experim nt; the Rus
slams will have theirs worked upon Them and for
them. These two nations are Row, In the emily pro-
nations of the globe. Each viii probsbly ia its owf,
direction go far and labor much and in the sweat of
their brows and in heavy toll of hand and of BRAIN
they will labor to fulfil their task; yet, when all ID
done they may consider it If they leave man.
kind where they found 1t, no better and no worse
Their charge Is like the mission of the Rcmau Dcta
tor far as the human is concerned to provide
ne qnid detriment eapidt 1t will need all the con-
servative energies and antise pti, virtue Of all their
great men, to stay modification and to give q new
lease of life to the old EARTH -
On America especially, and in q more signal men-
ner as fondly believe, devoves this glorious busl'
ness. You cannot, young Americans. you cannot re-
generate your kind; but you make your own lives
sublime; you can make the history of your own land
panorama of great ends q Pantheon of demi- gods.
And is this nothing Do you not fad this aim high
enough, good and great enough, to your souls
to ali manly actions That block of cold, grey gra-
mite which presses the dust of Jefferson Monti-
cello, speaks to you here and now-He that hath
beckons to you from the summit of the Cordilleras-
you in the balmy airs of the Pacifc--sghs TO
you out of the palm of the Antilles chained
Andromeda sighed for her deliverer. Aye, and OPP
portunity, too winged horse of Perseus sadded and
bitted comes bounding by; mss it, and you may sit
long helpless by the wayside but seize the steed,
mount, and ride victorfousy, and the sounding corr-
dors of Time shall long echo the cang your tramp
ling hoofs and the pages of history shall gieam and
glow forever with the ponp of your pre-destined
march.