Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1854-10-05

We have found this admirable address in lhe
Soalhdrn Literary Messenger, ana have perused il
with pleasure Il IS the production OF mind stor-
ed with informaEion. tiPsned BY reelection, and u.
tered By heart animated with patriotism. We
knew these are earnest terms. But we do mol use
them 70 latler We look Al the text Of discourse
addressed 70 youth, and We employ language Of
humble appreciation The i1fnenee Ct truth and ele-
quence. The following extracts win b fonndt 20
Tindieale our commentator:
ADVICE TO rHE T0ura or VIRGINIA.
And have come 10 ask you, among olher things,
70 Do what fear hoo many Of our legislators have
failed to do-to spread the map Of Virginia before
you-io trace out not only be- dotted boundaries
and pencilled shores. but 10 study her condition,
her wants, and resonrees--to bend your head 10
catch ihe pleadings Of her Feeble voice. and then,
with noble resolution here in The parer atmosphere,
and amid our gfandef scenery, 10 consecraie your
in all kindness and confidence 10 commence your
life OF duty BY casting OF or repellng that false
pride 100 common in our STATE which IS prone ralh
er 10 exact than 10 render honor | hope and BE-
lleye that The day Of morbid thinking and miseTa-
bic working IS past-that the time Is al hand when
the yoaths Of Virginia will deem il no degradation
TO earn an honorable Independence in the cause bf
their Stale BY the strength Of their own good right
aTms-wiI believe ~ idleness is nei meriIorious.
and labor not hqmiiating-that 40 eHlbrownsd
tuccA - 10 octOSdtlon from the Senlcman. dpQ
that hardened hand may be but ihe surer pledge
of a warmer heart III YOU value the nobler pats
Of the Virginia character Its true nobility oil soul,
lis scorn OF Ineanness, its hgh-oned honor and all
those other social and moral qualities which have
SO long adorned it--qualies that its enemies have
pretended 70 deride, but before which they ever
stood abashed-f you would preserve nd trans NIT
these yen must early learn that their true basis is
Independence. You mast learn 10 seek other roads
70 wea q and lame than IN the walks Of overcrowd-
ed professions o. along the precarioas and slipPe-
ry paths Of politics. Do not think have come TO
read you homilY against ambition. would my
self suspect the sincerity of any man who would
proclaim himself insensible 10 the good opinion OF
his fellow men. There is much ruth in the old
scholastic aphorism, that be who lives wholly de-
iached from his kind, must be either angel or a
devil But what would impress upon you is, first,
that however gittering the prize. II is but alse
ambition which does not hold sefrespect far above
any Office in popular or governmental gin, and Sc
condly that il Office, in the only form 10 which YOU
should accept il, is withheld, if il be not offered
without solicitation, and won without dishoDor. il
| is still ia your power with talent and perseysr
anee, 70 gain high and enduring distinctions such
as midnight caucusses cannot give, nor schemihs
/ politicians take away.
IMPORTANCE OF The DiBLs TO YOUNG MES.
\ l shall not venture presumpluously torecommend
| anv particular course Of study or OF reading Blu
/ there is one Rock that would place in the centre
OF your thoughts as would place the jewel in The
/ crown and The keystone IN the arch. Edward Bul
wer, in late noble Grafton, advised the youths o.
Scotland TO the prosecution Of classic studies, Be-
cause The whose early stems have been led into the
land OF demigods and heroes will find that lis very
air will enrich the life blood of his thoughts, and
he will quit the soil With front which tbs Greek
| has directed towards the stars, and step which
| imperial Rome has disciplined 10 The march thai
| carried her eagles 10 triumph around the world T.
Il is but just to add that 10 meagre paragraph id
deems Il unnecessary 10 admonish religious Scot
land that ibe most daring specllations as to Nature
! may be- accompanied with t6e hnmblest faith in
/ those sumbline doctrines which open Heaven alike
| to the wisest philosopher, andIhe humblesi peas
! ant" But seeing that Baiwer lives in an age
where these daring spsculalons are made in dei
ance of, and Tor the attempted relulation Of these
! sublime doctrines and thai humble faith, We mus
/ depoFe that such mind as his-one that in bis la
Ter works has shown itself susceptible to pure ant
sacred inhuences--dd not advocate the study O
those nobler lassics and those higher ofaces which
transcend Greek originals and Roman copies il
beauty and sublmly, as iat as inspiration is above
intellect, and in mighty thoughts as the heaven:
are high above the earth Ii wond have bei
noble atonemeni Tor the fascinating evils Of Falk
! land and Devereux, il Bulwer has made bis pill
grimage TO EdinbuFg TO incucaie with all his fore,
/ and auty that there was more OF grandeur in th,
i lofty warnings OF Isaiah than in the sublime AFRO
! gance Of Eschylus- that the nothingness ofhumal
wisdom was bel er taught BY the psalmist chan b
Ruth shines with a loveier light than all the DE
retrieions splendors Of Aspasia's Cour-and tina
the words under which Felix trembled and Agfip
"a waFered, appeal more eloquently to the hear
Of man than all the persuasion of Cicero, or TAI
hunderi Of Demosthenes