The Kansas herald of freedom., 1855-01-27

| the American Continent These were
the men who had gEasped the heaven
born idea of religious liberty and civil
freedom, and determined to develop it
upon new and congenial SOIL All, what
progress! What development To be
sure, during the Revolution dark night
of battle lay upon them for a few years ;
but they struggled earnestly. like true
men, and the sun of Independence arose
He spoke of the progress of science
and inventions under free institutions as
they could be under no others spoke of
the invention of steamboats, and railroads
and telegraphs, as indicative of human
progress-also of gunpowder, firearms,
and ships-of-war, whichhave she'd enough
of human blood to float themselves.
He spoke of the power of voluntary
associations that characterize our times
which speak one voice-good will to
man; of civil and religious liberty as not
simply nations legacy, but the inherit
ance of mankind, and should descend
with them in blessings on the world
spoke of the progress of the age. as seen
in the exhibition of the industry of the
nations, which assembled in London in
1851. 1t was glorious premonition oi
the incoming reign of peace. Those
nations which had been learning and
practicing the arts of war, fastened to
meet each other as if actuated by new
and lovelier impulse. In that Crystal
Palace was erected the most splendid
altar that breezes ever famed! Upon it
were laid the inestimable offerings of a
hopeful world! Itwas sublime scene
the first, but not the last, to be witnessed
On earth. One nation learned, and an
other caught the spirit of a better age,
and awoke from its long sleep.
He closed by an appeal to the young
men of the Ath2neum to be earnest and
active in efforts for the good of their fell
low-men-to cultivate the broadest phi
lanthropy. 1t blesseth him that hath it
and him that reeeiveth it, to give gen
erous and cordial support to associations
designed to bless mankind To learn to
despise mean, contracted, selfish spirit,
as one that is barren of every moral
virtue, and fruitful in everything detesta-
BILE and vicious to avoid Incidence, that
incubus of death, which broods over
every moral, social, and tender feeling
to devote their evenings and leisure hours
to the best books; to shun as they would
a pestilence places of vail amusements,
foolish conversation, or idle mirth be
awake to the great duties of life, and
sguander not its golden sands!
For life is real-life is earnest
| And the grave is not its goal"
Some men, he said, could never be
made to do anything, because they were
young men, and affect the greatest mod
esty, and speak of their timidity and
bashfulness as insurmountable obstacles.
He exhorted them to examine history,
and see who, that ever did anything for
God or humanity, did not do it young.
or at least give hopeful promise. Wash
ington had important trusts committed to
him by the Governor of Virginia, before
he was 21 Napoleon was commissioned
officer at 16; at 90 commanded the ar
tillery at 26 was commander-inchief
of the armies of Italy. Hannibal was but
24 when he guided the legions of Car
thage over the everlasting, untrodden
Alps, and thundered at the gates of
Rome! Pope wrote his Pastoral Songs
before he was 16; Pollock his " Course
of Time" before he was 23. Patrick
Henry was admitted to the bar before he
was 81, and Henry Clay was elected to
the U. S. Senate before the constitutional
age.
He appealed to the young men to be
true, in the trying duties of the new set
tlement, to themselves, to their anxious
| friends at home, to their country, to free
dom, and to God-then their sunset OF
life should be an evening of repose.
90 To thine own self be true,
| And it doth follow, as the day the night,
Thou canst not then be false to any man."
You have undertaken to plant the civil
and religious institutions of our fathers
upon the soil of Kansas I! A noble enter
prise In this work l am with you,
with more than my physical presence
1 am here, if need be, to offer up my life
my health-my hopes! Don't be dis
couraged by temporary defeats; fol
they that be for us are more than they
that be against u.s. Remember that he
whose cause is just is doubly armed -
Dicipline and trials are often essential to
success. Metals are not purified until
they have been through the furnace; the
greatest reformer was "made perfect
through suffering"
AS noble and true men, bring up your
hearts to the heaven-called conservation
of laboring and sacrificing for truth and
for freedom! Don't be afraid to lay your
richest offerings upon such an altar. Be
encouraged by the history of the father:
look calmly, yet courageously, upor
the darkest cloud that rests upon youl
vision, and look there and look unit
that cloud is spanned by "bow o
lpromise !'' and when the storm subsidies
you shall enjoy an evening of repose.
Be encouraged TO give generous and
cordial support to the institutions we love
Be first among the foremost to suppor
the school. the press, and the pulpit
and act earnestly!
s'Act, in the living present m
/ Heart within and God overhead"
| The lecture occupied an hour and (
quarter, and was listened to with atten
ton until the close. The next viii bt
delivered by JOHN HUTCHINSON, Esq, o
this city.
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