The Wyandot pioneer. (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1853-1868, 1856-11-13
Seminar Summer

city. His response TO Josiah Quincy
who made the speech of welcome was elo-
quent and touching. The following is a
sketch of ii:
Mr.. Qu1Ncr: year has nearly run
since / left Boston in the discharge Of my
public duties. During this period, amidst
important events, I have been able to do
something which my fellow citizens and
nelghbors, speaking by your authorita-
tive voice, are pleased to approve. am
happy in this appreciation. Especially
am l happy that it is conveyed by the elo-
quent words ofon who, from my child
hood, has been with me an object Of un-
affected reverence; who was the NUM-
cipal head of my native city while was
a pupil at his public schools, and who was
the head of the University while was a
pupil in that ancient seat. Boston early
in her history set her face against slavery,
BY vote entered upon her Town Record
as long ago as 1901, to negroes being
slaves. II have done anything to de-
serve the greeting which you now lavish.
it is because l have striven 10 maintain
those principles she called upon her Rep:
resentatives TO maintain, which have been
here declared, and to extend them to
other places, stretching the venerable shell
ter of Faneuil Hall even over distant Kan
sas. You have been pleased to allude to
the suffering which have undergone
This has not been small, but it has been
incurred in the performance of duty, and
how small it is. Sir, compared with the
sufferings of our fellow citizens in Kan
sas-how small it is compared with that
tale of woe which is perpetually coming
to us from the house of bondage. With
you I hail the omens Of final triumph,
ask no prophet to confirm this assurance.
The future is not less secure than the
past.
Washington has left the Injunction
which you ap;ly quote, Not to submit
to usurpation." If ever there was occa-
sion to take this injunction to heart, the
time is now. And there are other words
of Washington which are full of inspjra-
ton fer the present hour. In the early
darkness Of the revolution he wrote thus:
II see my duty-that of standing up for
the liberties of my country; and whatev
er difficulties and discouragements lie in
my way, dare not shrink from it, and re
ly on that Being who has not left to US
the choice Of duties, and whilst shall
conscientiously discharge mine, l hope
shall not finally lose my reward"
The rule of duty is the same for the
lowly and the great, and in the communi-
cation which I addressed to the Legisla.
ture of Massachusetts, accepting the trust
which 1 now hold, ventured to adopt
the determination of Washington and TO
avow his confidence in both. l hope to
hold fast to the end.
l response tc Gov. Gardner he made
the following eloquent remarks:
More than FIVE months have passed
since I was disabled from the perform
ance of my public duties. During this
weary period l have been constrained to-
repeat taily the lesson of renunciation.-
Confined at first to my bed, and then
slowly regaining the power even to walk,
but beyond the constant irrepressible
grief which must swell up in the breast of
every patriot, as he discerns the present
condition Of his country, my chief sorrow
has been renouncing all part in the con-
test for human rights, which, beginning
in Congress, has since enveloped the
whole land The Grecian Chief, griev-
cusly i'll Of wound from the stealthy bite
Of snake, and lett behind while his com
panions sailed to the seige of Troy, did
not repine more at his enforced seclusion.
From day to day, and week to week
vainly sought that health which we value
most, only when lost, and which now per-
petually eluded my grasp. For health
strove and for health prayed. With un-
certain steps l sought it at the sea shore,
and sought it on the mountain tops
Two voices there are-one is of the sea
one of the mountains-each mighty |
voice. In both, from age to age, thou
didst rejoice. They were thy chosen mu
sic, Liberty. I listened to the admoni-
tions of medical skill, and I courted all |
the bracing influence of nature, while
time passed without the accustomed heal
ing of its wings. l had confidently hoped
to be restored so as to take nv seat in
the Senate, and to be heard there again
before the session closed. But Congress
adjourned leaving me still an invalid.
My next hope was that might be permit
ted to appear before the people during the
present canvass, ,and with heart and mind
plead the great cause which is now in is
here, again, have been disap
pointed and the thread of my disability is
not yet spun to the end. Even now,
though happily lifted from my long pros
tration, and beginning to assume many of
the conditions of health. am constrained