The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1855-11-18
ELOQUENT SPEECH.


The following address, delivered BY Morton MeMichssl
esq the editor of the Philadelphia North American lie
grand banquet which formed interesting feature Of ia
recent agricultural display at Boston, viii be read via
equal profit and pleasure We informed BY those via
heard this mastery address that il produced great ill.,
preston, and from what know OF Mr. McMiclaa,
style Of oratory, can well conceive this 10 be tie
Although OF the most uncompromising and someliu,
unjust partisan in the opposition press he is neverthe
fl of good points Of character, and his ability either
writer or speaker places him in the very front RANK d
American intelsots:
From the land Of the Quaker to the land Of the Pun
the city where national Independents was R
proclaimed the city where its first great labor per-
formed-we who have just been bonored by the you
have proposed, have not might have cone
IN Of stripes and brandngs, and imprisonment nor a
again might have come hardened with the weight Of
gloomy forebodng to share in the peFis Of doubtful @
dict. No, sir. Happier in this than our fOrefather
whether of the earlier the later time, we have cone
assured Of hospitabe welcome and bounteous entertain
men to witness the generous rivalries of friendly con-
testants, and 10 mipge in the rsioicings which prop
erly belong to the triamphs Of peace. Aud, sir xs
feel that it is good for TO be here's we feel now Ar
the bitterness of intolerance as between you and u
has forever ceased, that the priyations and dan
gers revolutionary struggles for yoa and for forever
over recalling may with SMILE the foles OF the a.
naticsm by which separated, remembering as W.
with sigh, the trials Of the patriotism by which va
united feel that It is good for Us, Of Pennsy
yana TO be here with you OF Massachusetts, engage
with you a effort promote an important ints
est Of our country to admire with you the rapid
development Of that interests exu with you the IN
examped prosperity Of that country Missionaries from our
heaped-up granaries from prolific mines from teen
Ing furnaces, have entered your industrial establish
mentthose ofle, and motion in ia seep
ing intelligence resembling eand having with our
eyes and measured with judgments the men and
the that by consuming and COAL and
our iron and replacing them with the fabrics that supply the
staples Of busy commerce. have made interests and
yours complete aud IDENTICAL are ready TO cry sWo
woe, woe, unto him that should discover Sir bound To-
gether as we are it was not possible we could meet a
strangers but you have received favored and
in behalf of my colleagues and in the of those we rep
resent cordially thank you thank you for the coury
which has been extended thank you for the privilege
have enjoyed of being partakers at the time your
pleasing duties and your grateful cheer thank you for
the opportunity you have furnished Of joining hands
and hearts and voices with yours, in the hm
of mutual service in the recognition of mutual kindness IN
the utterance of sentiments of mutual goodwill
q Mr. President, looked yesterday on the gratifying
exhibition made among the triple hills of your beautiful o
ton like his excellency the governor too, reminded
of those ancient days when from all the isles OF Greece The
people gathered to periodical festival foremost among
whose attractions the achievements Of the course
the past, that in your curriculum gaudy and glenp
chaots urged by eted tyrants have flashed their useless
spendor in eyes but in their stead yon have shown rs
troops of gallant steeds stronger OF snew feeter foot
and lither of limb than champed bit struck ho
in the Elan circle and backed by oilhardened who
live in the daily practice Of liberty beyond any Of which
the Greek had dreamed. 1t is true, sir that within
your enclosures naked wreers sturdy athletes have
tortured their supple joints in degrading encounters bat
better far these you before whole droyes
do;rv
yoke whole ocks of sheep, rich in the wool that gives a
hvity to ooms, and the hesh that ministers to The
healthy, and tempts the sated appee whole hca
Of swine, suggestive of that abundance which, Of our
surplus, enables to feed the hungry of the earth
and all these you have presented cared for and pro-
yided, pampered and fattened, that while the one
hand you have avoided whatever might lower the
dtion Of man, the other, for his use, and conven
and noymcnt you have elevated the condition of the brute
And, Mr. President if in all things else this anniversary eel
ebraon of the United States Agricultural Society had fallen
short Of the farfamed celebrations Of old it, instead Of
passing them, it has in all the manifestations Of material
superiority connected with the multiplication Of human
FORTS ii had failed to match their efforts it, instead
of the nvincb demonstration Of progress which every Incl
dent Of the display has contributed to strengthen there had
been equally unnnkabe proofs of stagnaton retroge
SION there is thing in which it has gone mmeasnray
before them that for that and that Alone would be thou
sand fold more entitled to praise. Mr.. President the
Greek with all his elegance and refinement with all bis
citation of poetry, and music, and painting, and scu
ture, and stauary, had adequate conception Of the
true value and just position of woman, and admitted her
to participation unless in exceptional cases. in his higher
pursuits and graver occupations As part his general w
TEN, she prohibited, pain OF DEATH from being pres
the ceremonies Of the sacred island and the
ton in favor Of the feeove prietesses of Ceres only a
significantly the dhonoring character the exclusion
You, sir have been guided by wiser and better spirit and
recognising social equality of the which and
yeIattn h0ra osUide
open the maids and the of the community
have given them due precedence well in the pecaces
the banquet and in the bright, the thoughtful the eo
quent faces which at this turn towards me, Iper
ceive the visible of the mitabe advance which
Christian has made over heather civilization.
Mr. President in the glorious of Grecian art
under the administration of the magnificent Pericles the
wealth and power Of that accomplished statesman d.
eced to the obstruction Of such works being immortal
themselves might confer immortality their authors and
projectors. First among these in grandeur, in beauty
costiness the colossal statue of Jupiter, by Phda
Towering, in its pride Of place, in the temple Mount
Olympus, gorgeous with gold and ivory and all manner
precious stones that ranscendant result of genius drew
all the visitors OF the Olympic games who offered their deyo
ton rather to the conscious presence of divine art than
the inaged incarnation OF The potent Thunderer, which SAL
in cold stately majesty before Them Sir nearly four
centuries have rolled by since that statuebe faith
typfed having long before pershedwas buried beneath 10
smouderng embers Mt Constantinope, then the bh
liant of the imperial Caesars And alone have the
and its emblem perished The classic traveller era
in vain among the oberated landmarks of Antilila @
traces Of the Hppodrome vestges Of the Prytaneun