New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1854-07-28
ADDRESS
DELIVERED ny THE HON. WIN. H. SEWARD,

DELIVERED ny THE HON. wM. II. SEWARD,
Before the Beta Kappa of Yale College July o. 1854
GHNTLIMES: A political discourse may seem ont OF
time and out Of place at classic festival and in academic
groves Nevertheless the Office of instructor TO prince
brought something of dignity even to the learning
and pey of Fenelon TO study the forces and tendency
Of republic which is obscue, cannot therefore, at
apy fine or in any place be unbecomng association
which regards universal philosophy the proper guide Of
human life.
Nations are intelligent moral persons, existing Tor the
ends Of their own happiness and the Improvement OF man
kind. They grow, mature and decline Their physca
development being most obvious always attracts our at
tention FIRST Certainly we cannot 100 Wen ,o
material condition Of country think, said burke
sadly addressing the British House of Commons just after
the American war -" think can trace all the ca!anlues
of this country to the single source oil nor having hsu
STEADILY before eyes general comprehensive We'
connected aud wel-proportioned view OF ue "oie :"
our dominions and just sense OF tneT bearings "" IT,
'latioDs.. 49, e ~ r-,;.oa
States ms they we're defined by the treaty OF Versailles
in I7s3 See with what jealousy Great britain aorldeeo
their enjoyment of the isheries on tne - he 81
and how tenacously she locked up against theni he 81
Lawrence, the only possible chaMel De'TeUn ss;
,,gons end The Atlantic Ocean observe no" SPAN, wlle
,sfang the vast and varied soudcs which spread our
westward the Mississippi River to the racine ocean
nj the same time assigned The thrynrst Pah!e Ca o Z"
latitude as The southern boundary OF the United sIa'e
and thus .hut them out from access 10y thAt sNer OF O'c
wise 10 the Gull of Mexico See no" no" VIC na>sNe
and
,enuhhc fIom north to south dividing II l"'o TWO re-
.ons-tle inner one rich IN agricultural res 'uVots o
without markets and tie outer one adapted to defense
and markets but wanting the materials Tor !'he4 90
Were NOT the Europeans astute in thus conhmng Tue
United States within limits which would proOaD! renter
an earlv separation Of them inevitable and would also pr
won't ,cuav the whole aId each Of the failure parts from
,vcr Incoming formidable or even really mae Pehtoi'
ATLANTIC power They had cause fox Their Jc1o9SfS'
They were monarchCs, aud they largely diVuict tho
Wescrn Hemisphere between them. The United S'a'es
aimed 10 become a maritime nation, and their success
would tend 70 make that hemisphere not only repdoean
hut also ndcre ndeut of Europe That success was ioe
seen British Statesman, in describing tue American
Colonies lust before ne peace, had sad - s country
nen-.Your children DO not grow faster from infancy 10
"mauhood than they spread from family % communities,
and from villages 70 nations
The United Statcs, thus confined .auIward, 0cio'N
themselves 10 The sea- who e broad realm a unaDTopH
aed md having furnished themselves wan shpPn< ana
seamon equal The adventurous pursuit oil the "hAIe '
cry under the Poles they presented themselves III E'''
yeon ports maTaine people Afterwards 'ho'. wei
known attitude OF neutrality, III Sc ason d Seht," ~
enabled them TO carriers for The world but 'ney
never forgot for moment the importance OF IMPROVING
her position on the France was now tue owner o
ue Province of Lousena, which stretched al along the
Wos,crn bank Of the Mississippi She wisely so'd pos
t'sslon, which sho unable 10 defend 70 inc 'A'
s'ts VITO thus, only twenty years after me tfe'y %
versatile secured tie exclusive navigation o. inc Sic
'it md dcecending from tncir inand frontier ''.4o
,'.a ihemseivss on The c0as- Of Tie Car q hcN'o'
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