New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1857-09-04

GENTLEMEN: Day by day, wherever our homes
may be in this great land We have watched the pass
ing pageant of the year. Day by day. from the first
quick flush Of April, through the deeper green ADD
richer bloom Of May and juno, we have seen the
advancing season develop and increase, until, ct last,
among roses and golden grain, the year stood perfect
in midsummer .plendor.
Az YOU have contemplated the brief glory OF our
Summer, where the clover almost blooms out of snow
drifts and the red apples drop almost with the white
blossoms, you have, perhaps, remembered that the
flower upon the tree was only the ornament OF mo-
ment brilliant part of the process by which the fruit
was formed, and that the perfect fruit itself was but
the seedvesss BY which the of the tree is con-
tnued from year to year.
Then have Won followed the exquisite analogy-that
youth the aromatic flower upon the tree-the grave
life of maturer years, its sober, solid fruit; and the
principles and character deposited by that life, the
seeds by which the glory of this race, also, is per-
pe.uated
/ know the flower in your hand fades while you look
at It. The dream that alures you gmmers aud iSgone
But flower and dream, ike youth itself, are buds
al d prophecies. For where, without the perfumed
blos,omIg OF the Spring orchards all over the hills
and among all the valleys of New England and New
York. would the happy harvests OF New York and
New-England be J And where, without the dreams
Of the young men lighting the future with human
possibility, would be the deeds of the old mer dign
fyipg the past with human achievement
Gentlemen, how deeply does it become us to be-
leye il who are not only young ourselves, bat living
with the youth Of the youngest nation in history.
congratulate you that you are young; HOnSratu-
late you that you ale Americans. Like you, that
country is in s flower not yet in its fruit and tha
flower is subject TO thousand chances before the fruit
is set. Worms may destroyit; fros:s may w'ther III
fires may blight it; gusts may whrl 1t away bu'
how gorgeously it still hangs bkssomng in the
garden of time, while its penetrating perfume floats
all round the world and ntoXcates ali other nations
with the hope Of Liberty.
Kuowipg that the life Of every nation as OF each in
dividua is battle, let remember also that the
battle s to those who fight with faith and undespar-
ing devotion. Knowing that nothing worth fighting
for az all unless God reigns let al least believe as
much in the goodness of God do IN the dex.erity
of the devil. And viewing this prodgious spectacle OF
our country hope of humanity, this Young Amer
ca, America, taking the sun full IN its 'front.' ard
making for the future as boldly and bthely as the
young David for Goiath--let us believe with al on
healts-and from tina. faith snail spring the iact-thst
David and not Goliath is TO win the day, and that out
oil Inc hsn-nearItu dreams OF wise anu goOu men
about our country Time, however invisibly erl in.
scrrtably, is al this moment slowly hewing the
colossal and respler dent result in history.
am not unlnindfu of the occasion. do L.: forge
the idea coDsecraion OF the coegeto good letters aud
good morals. remember that our college system,
continued with great notifications, from that OF En-
gland was there founded by monks. recall, with q
delight tina. will surely last with life the pensve seelu-
sion of monastic clostes the tail trees Of Christ g,
." the groves of Hsgdslen, the shadow of the msh'y
"Bodley," and the memory OF the mshtier men wao
walked there and refec; that the closter to rooe
mar was not comfortable bed in which ne was tucS-a
up om trouble, to rehea!se death in sleel, Oh! 'hs
chapel in which he knet al night il prayer, rni t'7
momen, wher the voice should say to HIN, 60
forth BE brave, he loysl, be tnun ?hsn.'
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