Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1854-10-03

IIrum thI Eu!iiNHrlt T"II"FJ
iddrr-s Of Is. johnson DarbouT' bea' '|'
DJ,ccre@ htrrs the Literary S"c'rt'e' " "e '"s'
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Address Of Is. johnson Darb"uT. Isl W. go
DI,ccr.I htcre thr Literary Socrt'c' " "e '"s
Military INSTITUTE
We have found this admirable adir's"m'n' . .:.;
crn Literary Messenger, and have i'fEr," a., ,:.;
pleasure. 1t is tie Production "i Il m'n. ". rv =
information, ripeneI lay reflection; :rt - .,n.c rr,.
heart animated with patriotism. we h'"" ,u.."r
earnest terms. But we do not Us" mem '. ,Ir,L
We look at the text OF n DISCOURSE address," - 49,
and we employ luugiage Of COMMUNICATIVE, H.. in
we wish TO aid with cur humble "lprop GIi",r; ~ rx.
fueuce of truth and elnquence. The loNo" -"
tracts will be found to vindicate our c"iH'hc"""''"
ADVICE TO THE YOUTH OF VIRGINIA.
And have j come TO ask you, among ~. -,
to do what / fear too many OF our L1slsato'Jh i'f,ro
failed to do-to spread the map of Virginia pctotI
vnnNto trace ont NOT only her dotted boundaries and
pencillcd shores, but to study her condition, nrI " ~, ,ho
and her rcsourcrS--to bend your hcaa 10 =" -,
~pleadings Of her feeble voice, aud them WIFI nou..
resolution here in the purcr atmosphere "i. "i mr Wv, "m.
grandcr scenery, TO consecratc yor!r'c!fr ~ mt "a
vice. And here let me entreat yu'Il IN M "n
confidence ~ commence your III. ui G"'E %! c"9''"-
off or rcpelliug TINT false pride too 'onlhh"" III w.
State, which il prone rather 10 cXac; man ~ ir.u:
honor. ] hope and believe il:a; the DAY ~ h""'."
thinking and miserable working is past-tiat TIE !i'ic
is at hand when the Youths of Virginia wiI! deem II no
degradation to earn IN honorable Independence III '"G
cause Of their State by tile strength "i thcir "" gnu u'N
right urIns-will believe that idlcncsS Is MOI i'el'''I
ri0rs, and labor not huniilinting-that an c'norowne"
Cnpch II IO utiOEnii'h mum iAt .
hardened hand may be but the surer plcuSc vi Il
warmer heart. If you value the noblcr paris Oh Inc
Virginia character, lis true nobility OF Soul, us sep'n
of meanncss, its high-toned honor, and M most oliieI
social and moral qualities which have ~ ioiiS nuorncd
Inequalities that its enemies have pretended 10 dc,
ride, but before which they have ever stood '''ashcu
If you would preserve md transmit these, you must
early learn thut their true basis Is hdePei'urHce'I :,
You must learn to seek other rondS 10 "cn"n "m'
fame than in the walks of ov~ercrowdcd professions
or along the precorious and slippery paths oil r"iitics.
Do not think | have come To READ you Il hniiiiiF
against ambition. would myself suspect tic slii-
ccrity Of any nun who would proclaim hlinscM iliscll-
sible 10 the good opinion OF bis fellow men. There 10
much truth in the old scholastic apliurism, that he
who lives wholly detached from his kind, must be
either al angel or Il devil. But what would impress
upon You is, first, that however g!lttcrinS the prize,
it is but Il false ambition which docs not hold seli-rc,,
spect fur above any office in popular or governmental
gift, and secondly, that if office, in the only form III
which you should accept it, is withheld, II It be not
offered without solicitation, and won without dishon-
or, it is still in your power, with talent and pcrscvcr-
ance, 10 gain high and enduring distinctions sucti rs
midnight c~aucusses canno: give, nor schcminG pol;l-
clans take away.
IMPORTANCE OF TIE BIBLE TO YOUNG MEN. ,
shall not venture preSnnp;uOuslv 10 Recommend
any particular course OF study ar ui rra'ilHg. But
there. is one Rock that would place IN the centre 81
Your thoughts, rs | would place the jewel III the crown
and the keystone il the arch. Edward Bu!Wcr, Ill n
late noble Grafton, advised the youth q. Scotland 10
the prosecution of classic studies, BECAUSE "hc Whose
curlv sicIrs have been led into the land Of dc:ni.gnds
and heroes, will find that its very air will enrich the
life blood of his thoughts, md he will quit the soil
with Il front which the Greek has directed towards
the stars, aud q step which imperial Rome has discip-
lined Ia the march that carried her eagles in triumph
around the world" 1t is but just 10 add that i'll u
mcarre paragraph, he "deeHs it unnecessary to al
moiiish~ religious Scotland that the most daring specula-
tions rs Ia Nature may be accompanied with the hum
hlcst faith in those sumblime doctrines which open
Heaven alike To the wiscst philosopher, alIi the hum
blcst peasant" But seeing that BuIwcr lives III al
age where these daring speculatlols nrc made IN de-
tiaucc of, md for the attempted ]rciu;ation ot, these
sublime doctrines and that humble taiih, We must de-
plnrc that such Il mind as his-onc that III his later
works has shown itself suscc ,aiible 10 pure aud sacred
iLlLcnccS-did not advocate the study OF those no
bier Classics and those higher oracles which transcend
Greek originals and Roman copies, III beauty and
.ublimity, Us fur as inspiration is above intellect, ana
in mighty thoughts Us the heavens are high above
the earth. 1t would have been II noble atoncmont tor
the fascinating evils of Falkland and Dcvtreux, II
Bulwer had made his pilgrimage To Edinburgh TO IN
culcatc with all hs force md beauty that there was
more of grandeur in the lofty warnings of Isaiah,
than in the sublime arrogance Of -E,chvlus-thnt the
nothingncsS of human wisdom was better taught ny
the psalmist than by the Eiipus Of Sophoclea-thnt
the simple story Of Ruth shines with n lorcllcr light
than al the llCrc;riciOus s~pirndors "i Aspasias Court
and that the words under which Felix trcmblcd,
and ACrippa wavcred. appeal more eIoJnently 10 me
heart Of man than all the persuasion OF Cicero, or The
thunder Of Dcmostlirncs.