The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1855-07-14
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GRAFTON or EDWARD EVERETT.

We regret inability to lay before readers
tire the noble Grafton Of the Hon Edward Everett at
Dorchester, in Massachusetts, the last anniversary OF
the 4th Of July l776 Many of its passages OF com
mandng eoquence two powerfully applica-
Die TO existing combinations and parties. The following
is surprisingly fine
a On the 10th of April the all important blow struck
the blow which severed the ted chain whose every link
boed Of Parliament whose every riset was closed
up BY order in councwhch bound to the wake OF Eur
rope the brave bark of youthful fortune, destined
henceforth and forever ride the alonethe blow
which severed that aed chain was struck The blow was
struck which will be felt in its 70 ourselves
and the family nations till the seventh seal broken upon
the apocaypc volume Of the history of empires The con
summation of four centuries completed. The lifelong
hopes The heartsick visions of Columbus poorly fulfilled in
the ubugaton Of the pumed tribes of few tropical islands,
and the distant glimpse OF continent cruelty Knocked by
the letters placed upon his noble limbs by his nena
and which he carried with him into his grave, at
length than fulfilled, when the New World of his
discovery put the sovereign robes Of her separate
ona existence and joined the great panathenaic process
sion of the nations The wrongs of generations wers
redressed The cup Of humiliation drained to the dregs
by the old Puritan confesprs and non-conormist vie
tins of observation-disclosures prisonsblasted fortunes
lips forbidden to open in and water denied in
pleasant native landthe separations and scrrows Of
the sounding peris &c the oceanhe scented hedge
and vocal thickets Of the od counte exchanged for
with the scalpng knfethe secular nsoence OF colonial
rule checked by periodical to the public will
governors appointed the other side of the globe that
knew Josephthe patronzng disdaih OF hndelegated
owerthe legtl rontmcy IF foreign law wanting the first
element of obligation The consent of the governed expressed
BY his authorized representaveand at length the last
utterabe and burning aron and shame mercenary SOL
dey eneamped upon the fair eminences OF ctesshps
owar with springs their cables moored in front Of
crowded quaysarlery planted open-mouthed In prn-
cpa streets at the doors of houses Of assembly Their
morning and evening savos procaimng to the rising and
the setting that Ore the subjects and they the orda
all these heo phantoms Of the long colonial night swept
of by the first sharp voley Lexington green. ssl
Well might Samuel Adams exclaim as he heard it, oh
what glorious morning ia this glorious, bus as too
often the with human glores the and the fruit Of
sorrow, sanctiied with tears and sealed with blood Pre-
lives be sacrificed great trials public and pri-
be endured eight years Of to desolae the
land patriot armies march with bloody feet ice
clad fields cloud Of anxiety must hang the prospects
of generation OF tho young, while another of the aged
down the grave before the vision is fulfilled but still glo
home and for America and strange
the word may sound, glorious for England Lord
Chatham reoced that America had resisted Surely Lord
Chatham rejoced in the shame Of England; he re-
oced that America had resd because she resisted the
great principles or constitutional liberty Burke In the early
stages Of the contest spoke these golden words we vieH
the establishment Of the British colonies principles Of lib
erty that which to render this Kingdom venerable
future ages In comparison of this regard all the ticto
res and connests of warke ancestors of
times barbarous and vulgar distinctions which many
nations whom look upon with little respect value have
equaled If not exceeded THIS
ESaLANp. All the victories and conquess of warlike
ancestors of tmesP lantagenets and Tudors
Crecy, Poiers, Agincourt DuDkk and Calais Jamaica
and Gibratar the Cromwels and the Blakes the Williams
and the Georges the rumphs Of Marlborough the gates
Of France the thundes of Give the banks of the Gangc
ALL in Burkes Judgment barbarous distinctions vulgar fame
compared with the peculiar glory of founding colonial
empire on the principles Of liberty" a