The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1855-01-08
HrARs I'M wAsHngaToN.

AFFAIRS I'M WATERMELON.
Our Washington Correspondence.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 4. 1855.
The Fli6usters- Gen. Scott and the Army-Gen
Hosstom-My. Sickies MOI Reyigaed, &c.
The President has No intention of sending to
bopgress war message upon Cuba or any other
inject. This was determined upon jast before the
heeting Of Congress, and / 30 wrote you at the
Ime. There never was period when flibusterism
las more at discount than it ID at present here
Cuban, Sandwich Islands and Central American
stocks are wofully below par with no prospect ola
rise.
General Scott has appeared before the Committee
on Military Affairs, and given many important sug.
gestions for the increased fcency and strength of
the army, which have been received VITA the re-
spect due his undoubted experience, and will carry
g,eat weight with Congress.
General Houston reached here last evening look.
ing in excellent health, Notwithstanding his recent
iImerson. He says he intends to resign at
tie close of the present session OF Congress, as
his private affairs require more attention than
he Can bestow upon them II he remains in public
life. he Is poor, with large, and net only grow
az far az "Andrew Jackson" and unless he stops
his youthful indiscre.ions he will be obliged to num-
Der them over again, ss they do steamboats, on the
distinguished Presidents is well nigh exhausted and
Sans" soDs are entitled to be called after Presi
dents, at all events.
Mr.. sickles is here, and states that he has not
resigned the position Of Secretary OF Legation.
On the contrary, ne contemplates speedy return
10 London.
II is belie we'd the President has ipti mated his in
tenton Of vetoing the French Sp0liati0u bill, should
II pass the House. From present appearances he
will not be required to exercise his constitutional
power in this respect.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 4, 1866.
The Delta Kappa Epsilon Convention ora.
tion and Poem Supper at Wiliards.
According to announcement the annual meeting
of the Delta Kappa Epsilon Chapter of the United
hates convened at Carusis Saloon, in this city
Ast evening, and the large and spacious hall vas
smfortably filed with fashionable audience of la
les ard gentlemen, including the literat of the
Metropolis fine band of music was in attend
ss2Se, and opened the ceremonies with pew polka,
= the occasion. General Dodge, OF
Iowa, then introduced Mr. Diu.e., :. r... ccIi.ra
who delivered an eloquent, soul st,ring address.
copy of which herewith enclose you -
ORATIcN BY EDWARD Z. FILINGS, YALE COLLEGE TO
TIE CONVENTION or TnB DELTA KAPPA EPSILON
FRATERNITY, AT oAnrsI's SALOON, WASHINGTON
CITY, WEDNESDAY EVENING, JAN. & 1sss
GENTLEMEN or THE DElTA KAPPA EPSILON SocIErr-Asa
society sacred to friendship and learning placing your
utility hope in your past and future achieve
ments it is matter for earnest congratulaton that
sembed as you are in this annual conference for
the interchange of views for mutual Indictment in the
preparation for the s.erner duties that await you be-
hold your fraternity expandngwth the advancing years.
like our Republic multiplying the recipients of its bless
ings and augmenng the means Of its greatness, and
like her too though in vastly humber way dissemina
ting and vindcatng grand principles of conduct and po
created by arbitrary fiction, as the isolated nhabit
ant of some grove or grotto, but living inspiration,
the offspring Of the associative localizng faculty
q the mind which clothes with attraction and power
the places and in which the worthy and lustr
crafty ancestral PRIDE to foster national devotion
were to be guided by the suggestions with which the
national metropolis was fraught,he theatre Of their
struggles and OF their glory invite your attention to
the pdOlic OF John g. Calhoun, Henry Clay and
Daniel Webster, as aiordins to US high national tri
umph and deepa practical lesson biography
mails yield. Before these three came to their
large abors the great questions of national existence
and constitutional organization had been decided The
colonies had to be independent States The States
by their union had formed vast empire. The colonial
and revolutionary eras endurance and hercism had
been noby 10 history The confederative and
formative eraseras of doubt, ofexperiment and nven
tion-beonsed to less hopeful period. The great con
test had been fought between the school Of Jefferson
whose life Of usefulness and Immortality of fame
vealed in that modest but significant epitaph, written
Nendence-of the Virginia resolutions and the founder
the Virginia University breathing his love
Hamon, whose an anu coetrolisg ps stn0t
sn, all inventive ingenuity and ntuitiye reasoning
fted him to be the artifCer constituton-than
hich prouder title can he awarded to mana
est in which the utility Of direct rammclrd popular
overeisnty and the necessity OF centralized vigorous
power government, had been canvassed practically
reconcied and forever defined by the American people
themselves An updisturbodly prosperous nation with
OF danger the propensities OF revel
ling in conscious security and of hope
the innate irrepressble energies of freedom to
custom itself TO wear gracefully the novel and costly
texture OF its laws and TO learn move with dignity
and harmony in that rational pathway upon which,
without precedent or guide 1t had entered With their
trim wpli nd sti nj
these giants in American craftsmanship came 10 their
labors. John c. Calhoun born in 1882. His early
youth was ono of quiet and retirement Then came his
absorbing interest in those great historical astersLyy
and Robertson The OF brother detected his ability
and promise. Then that fraternal conference
faugh with destiny and that pleasing result an adeu
to the plantation for academic studies-then his con-
nsetion with Yale College with largo circle privileges
forecast of his exalted future seemed to break upon
him. ami tie ntuitive sagacity of genius gave encour
agement TO his aspiring resolve. His commencement
theme-the True the ideal that haunt
ed his mind Then his legal studies and the age
OF twenty five he brought to his vocation the spos aud
the culture OF years interchangeable application Mr.
Calhoun's orstory urostentatous but impressive
while his style was severely classical and forcibe In
his words che did not date but lett truth, plain
Iy announced TO battle Cor ITSELF" Avoiding alike
nament and embclishmen appealing passion
fancy Eliminating, simplifying, condensng like the type Of
truth and eloquence, he spoke right when he kned
and glowed i was from the fire Of pure Intelligence when
virtue; when he rebuked, il was as 1t we're the
voice O. angtred justice, and when he mastered and
uumphel ~ was by the force and thoroughness OF
his analysis. His mind broad and comprehensive.
He trusted little to intlitive judgment and much
to the verdict of logic How highly he estimated cho
lastic precision may be from his words-'More
than alt the errors Of my life," says he, "msy be
traced to fallaces originating in the improper Of
words As drectness characterized his speech
titnde governed his mind. Intensity pertnacity eef
nteness, proneness to strict logic-these we're his
er tai characteristics. He took at the outset position
mmandng the whole field Of debate; unless dsodged
ON this he inevitably victorious. No ambus cade
no truce-no captuation. He conducted his contest
'enly-lhe giant conscious of strength, and feeling
,need OF article, dexterously as having been long
mi lar with the strongholds of argument and yigor.
sly as the champion Of right, what wonder that his
nquests were so frequent, sigral and decisive