Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1856-11-13

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can supply. For this she has already the
regard of good men. and will have the i'm.
mortal life Of history. For this she has
also the reproach and coutumely, which,
throughout all ages, have been poured upon
those who have sriven for justice on earth.
Not now for the frst time in human strug.
giles has Truth. when most dishonored
seemed most radiant, gathering glory even
out of nbloquy. When Sir Harry Vane
courageous champion of the English Com.
monwealth, wss dragged on hurdle up the
Tower Hill, to suffer death by the axe, one
Of the multitude cried out 10 him-"You
never safe on 30 glorious 4 seat" And
again when Russell was exposed in thr
same streets, on his way 10 the scaffod. the
people, according 10 the simple narrative oi
his biographer, imagined they saw Liberty
and Virtue sitting by his side. Massachu.
sets is not without encouragement in her
own history. She has seen her ports closed
by arbitrary power-has seen her name
made by-word of reproacb-has seen her
Cherished leaders, Hancock and Adams, ex-
cepted from all pardon BY the crown; but
then, when most dishonored, did Massachu-
8 tls deser:e most; for then vas she doing
most fur the cause Of Ill. And now, when
Massachusetts is engaged in greater cause
than that OF our Fathers, how serenely can
she turn from the scoff and jeer of hesrtless
men. Her only disgrace vii be in disloy-
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Worse to bear-oh far worse-than the
evil speaking Of others--is the conduct OF
some Of her own children. 1t is hard to
see the scholarship which has been drawn
from her cisterns, and the riches which
have been accumulated under her hospitaole
shelter, now employed to weaken and dis
credit that cause which is above riches or
scholarship. 1t is hard, while our fellow
citizens in Kansas, bone of our bone and
flesh OF our flesh, plead for deliverence from
a cruel usurp,tion, and while the whole
country, including our own soil, is trodden
down by dumineering and brutal tespo-
tism, TO behold. sons Of Massachusetts in
sympathy, open or disguised, with the vul-
gar enemy-qnickening everywhere the lash
Of the task-master, and helping forward the
Satanic carnival when slavery shall be fast
ened not only upon prostrate Kansas, but
upon all the Territories of the Republic;
when Cuba shall be torn from friendly
power by dishonest force; and when the
Slave Trade itself, with all its crime, its
woe, and its shame, shall be opened anew
under the American flag. Alas! that any
child of Massachusetts, in wickedness Of
heart, OF in weakness of principle, or under
the deIusion Of partizan prejudice, should
join in these things. With such have no
word Of controversy A. this hour. But
turning from them now, in nv weakness,
trus, not to seem too severe if covet FOR
the occasion something of the divine power
''To bend the ,ilver low with tender skill,
While void OF pain The silent arrows kill"
Gladly from these do turn TO another
character, yet happily spared to Massachu,
sets, whose heart beats strong with the
best blood of the Revelation, and with the
best sentiments by which that blood was
enriched. The only child of one of the
authors Of American Liberty--for many
years the able and courageous representa-.
tive Ct Boston, on the floor of Congress
where his speeches were the masterpieces
of the time--distingnished throughout long
career by the grateful trust of his fellow.
citizens-happy in all the possessions of q
weIl-speat life, and surrounded by love
honor, obedience, troops OF friends-wilt
an old age, which is second youth. Josiah
Quincy, still erect under the burthen o
eighty-four winters, puts himself atthe head
of our great battle; and never before, in the
ardor of youth, VI t4.e- ~ru.urfsy "a sr',stroud
DID he shew himself So grandly conspicuous
and ado SO much 10 the heroic wealth Of ouI
history. His undaunted soul, lifted already
to glimpses OF another life, may shame tie
feekler spirits of lalei generation. There
is one other parsonage, at another period
who, with precise ly the same burthen o
winters. has asserted the same supremac,
of prwers. 1t is the celebrated Dands 10
Doge OF Venice, at the age of eighty -four
of whom the historian Gibbon has said, il
words which are strictly applicable to on
own Quincy: "He shone, in the last periot
of human life, as one OF the mos; ilus,riou.
characters Of the time; under the weight o.
years he retained sound understanding and
manly courage; the spirit of hero and the
wisdom Of patriot. This old man carried
the Venetian Republic over 10 The Crusad
ers, and exposed his person freely to all the
perils of war, 50 that the historian describe:
him in words again applicable to our day
saying: "Tn the midst of the conflict, the
Doge, venerable and conspicuous form
stood aloft, in complete armor, on the pruw
Of the galley, while the great standard O
81. Mark was displayed before him." Befor.
the form of our venerable head is displayed
the standard of greater Republic thar
Venice, thrilling with its sight greater mui
ti,udes than ever gazed on th2 standard u
St. Mark, while a sublimer cause is our.
than the cause of the Crusaders; for oul
task is not merely to ransom an empty sep
ulcher, but to ransom the Saviour himself
in the bodies of his innumerabie children
not merely to displace the lnidel from {
dirrant foreign soil, but 10 displace him iron
the very Jerusalem of our liberties.
May i: please your Excelency-I forheal
to proceed further. With thanks for tni.
welcome, accept also my new vows of duty
In all simplicity let lie say that seek moth
irg but the triumph of Truth. To this
offer my best efforts, careless of office oil
honor. Show me that am wrong, and
stop at once; but in the complete conviction
of right. shall persevere against all temp
tations, against all odds, against all perils
against ell ihreats-knowing we'll that
wherever may be nv fate, the right vii
surely prevail. Terrestrial place is deter
mined only by celestial observation. 1t i:
only by watching the stars that the mariner
can safely pursue his course; and it is only
by obeying those lofty principles. which are
above men and human passion, that we car
make our way safely through the duties o.
life. In such obedience | hope to live
while, as a servant Of Massachusetts,, avoit
no labor, | shrink from no exposure, ant
complain of no hardship.
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