New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1855-09-28


fegaI- ooeses there was good d,Al sad sboat tns'r
being unfit N rec-ive diplomas BaS th-re l. n'seinI
remarkable mysterious Ia hlp 'ns IA" "
-houif ~ rrufned % men. H coald Sc ~ ns''1
w. shoud not allow the lsiics :, s'uis Ia WA,
ever brarch Of science ADD learn sh ateser pr'es 80
uey may J'iok prorr. Isseef, sneVef Fe ai 70
or no. nv may b. sare they vii manage IN some F'y
~ do a. they please.
The eleventh t,s-t Wa then Announced:
IL Esiio'' II tie heospape- Pre'-G .dian, o. or u ~,
tur- sre -er,in.s on he htossr Of GA LIE - tlJ
Ida ~b c. att De hioae noU rh or 9!e'I'e P7'
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TIE Rev. z. CalPIS was announced n respond.
Mr. Chaplin aose amid oli ch~ers lie said:
There are some things, Sir, that overwhem Poo'i
ton and ou,staDd alliances. The man who tres TO
drown the thunders Of Niagara with lis vJ-3 will at
appear more Insignificant than the poe' or ,'or Sho
undertakes o illustrate and euI,gss it. IL Is very
much 20, Sir, with the prIntiI press oil ns we oI
and electricity. "A it far outruns tns nVary OF
human speech, and digribGes 5 myriad ne7s4Sts IN
day ~ il ia itself far more eiOque3t 'hau ythoS
that can be said about il At least l. st1ni befJrs
us tarLested TO these twin OF mght sod WIZ
Zee il seems more ike al intelligent beng than
machine; We look g. lis loog hnsers AZ they pusn
mp the operations Of thought aud scatter tn IN urIuIh
the world as noiselessy a. the fall OF the sGow-dtNe,
but potent the thunder. IL Is quite certala "a
the profound suggestions that it makes are mex u IL
s1pressihle.
Mr esideut, the printing press o. the age Of seam
especs:
/. As an indicator Of mechanical progress.
.. As an actual power, ard
3 As an sgeut OF grs at and benehcent ara
few pords upon each of these very obvious points;
We can suppose, select no illustration ut mecnsni'
cal proer for the last 400 years that Is so oOVou'
tangible the printing press In the hrst PV'cel
in all that variety that is afforded u.s. thsre Ia no Agent
which is OF such immense Importance Ii there ever
was out Of inspired history palpable sy n6ol OF
crisse II is in that clumsy machine of Faust and Gut
teuberg. That was power pprentous-'hN ou
ricbety frame that came stalking among kngs priests
thrones cast.es other feudal respec taples nat
tore the chains FROM ,hoag hit and let it freA Cheers
That was a troublesome Democrat. II was tree
prophet Of bold and beauiiful thou<ht-the WORKING
creature that took the Word OF God from the pllars
of the Mouasteres and scattered abro4 through the
world and kinded light to read it 10y Loud
eh.er.l But. Sir. if the printing press 10
remarkable symbol OF mechanical IMPROVEMENT,
il il equally certain that all great convel-
lions since that time have siIed themselves II
ard have served It's great ends. The appliances OF
ST. am however are not more solendldy Ill istrated
the rail- ar and steamship than they are ia ole oil hSe
wonderful and marve Gus pieces OF Uechansn. the
ell cbic telegraph brings To us 'he ldst wofus OF 70
Fusion Convention and the confusion caucus laugh
teri the pews of the capture 1T SeSastOpol, the re-
wiling at midnight in the interior of the Sena'e-in
fact IL places daguerTeotype OF oil ina Is interesting
10 contemplate in the world upon your or ssast t1De'
IL You youd realize what the mechanical progress has
been Tor the last 400 year, go back in yoar magma
ii On to the piess in which Gutenberg pnntd, per-
chance the identical old Bible which IA now IN your
CITY, or 10 the time when Caxton looked at the damp
sheets Of the Histories of Troy, or the oldea Legend
and iLen turn away and wslk with me 10 the vast
manufsctori-s of the Harpers or Appetors. Begin
down in tue cellar with that old elIcT-'ht nre-ester
which works with force of 40 or so horse power snd
keeps every thing in mo ioo then through perfect
Ctibese walls Of pin ing paper, cstaconbs OF type,
and armies Of m.n and women who fOd
sheets into volumes OF illimsble power Sir, ahodSn
YOU will observe the great mechanioh Improvement,
vet il is lot merely mechanical IL ia very usual
doctrine that in an Improvement in mechanism we
have made very material advances But, Sir, the
IMPROVEMENT marks something prior-improvemen 10
mind For what is the printing-pre but the symbol
OF prog ress sc thought l. IS also great power iot
good or evil. Here il stands. You cannot chain It.
T. has n mower in the world. I cannot think that the
nress is the mightiest power vi the hme, Tor
think tina, nothing so powerful a. the hvin8 "re 80
far as il goes; bu when we lase tle press s"sepln
its messages past the eree when are READ naii-
wsy 10 Albany before we are halt way out OF pea,
the measure of its power is absolutely lncacuao.e-
1t may always he the reflector OF pure 'n'ugu,
but il il an index which shows the diIectioa OF tue
current. The amounts Of money invested 10 the
publication of books are sufficient to create surprise
] was truly surprised to know how mach hidden
treasure there was buried in New York-more. 10
deed than the fabulous treasures Oh Capt hyd,
and which too, wren it is opened TO the day
ligtt, is found TO posses mighty power.
The press has actual power. Ii lt was
democrat
the earth hoIliny one of the creates. ,ires Of the
earth as diadem on its head. l come noF TO the
teudeicy of the power of the press. think no man
who studies that tendency profoundly aud conpre,
hensivey fail 10 that 1t IL Tor the -lSnt snd
the true am not going into any process OF abstract
argument now TO show you that Intelligence, vr ne,
and religion are rdissolubly linked t1gethef bar |
will say pr,ori that the press must be the aseat OF
that which is good, for Providence never permits
such an agency in the long run to WORK Tor eViL
kit, fhaN a n n
thips are simply of pleasure and profit tor 90 a
merce and tie Custom-Hou | say that ProyI-
dence uses these means to carry out His own ends
In the final results they must work for rlgnt,
and right only. In these iron grooves Of
the press ran the eternal plans OF Prov,
depce-the everlasting right and truth. And
so lool upon this occasion "a very sign meant inleed
When think that s hg hest Interpretation the moral
power welded by this Publshe g Ass 'cia'ioo. L
would say 10 those women, then, Work on the
"re+ults OF your WORK are worthy OF womin's spirit
land woman's prayers" To the brothers With their
sleeves rolled up say "WOrk oo it Is mighty battle
that you conducting. TIE rafting oil the s'eanc
press il the rumblog Of your artillery; the click OF
The ccmposors stick ia the clark Of armor. Every
"tick will make it's mark, though it be Thousand
years ah, ad" Loud cheers]. Mr.. President and
gentlemen Publisher, thank you Tor these munitions
Of war these embatued hosts. Advance, battalion;
for every step you advance upon t1e MtlakOf and
Redsn OF ignorance they tremble in despair Loud
cheerl.
L. Periodical LfrTa'Se. =
DrJ. V. c. Smith, Mayor of Boston, responded.
He ssid that Mayor Wood, by whose sida he W. sit
ting, said to him while the last speaker on the
floor, that be pitied the an who was to follow him.
He little thought that he was to be the victim 10
speaking of the authors Of Boston, he said that Fields
was one Of The brightest fields under culrue Ia the
United States; and he closed with the sentiment;
American Au.bors-Lfe the American f;s Wherever Ae'
hey fesnNcted- ., 1900.
ia En0Iih Lit-aisy dsd Gses,, nho Wsstyais a.
HEsRY WARD BEEcHER, in rsIng to respond, SAID
tha. brother Cbst in had run away with bis horse and