The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1857-11-12


The addre>, driiver,d by the Hon. Ed
WARD EVERETT, at ihe close oi the New York
State AgrcnI,ara, Fair was mastcrly
production worthy of his splendid
reputation We make room .0r the follow.
ing extracts
tag MIRACLES oF NArURE.
A celebrated sceptieal philosopher OF the
last century the historian llume--though,
10 demolish the crclibiiiy Of the Christian
Revelation, by the concise argument at Is
contrary to experience that miracles should
be true, but not contrary to oeyperieoceS that
testimony should be false" The last
part Of the proposition, especially in u free
country. on the eve o! u popular election, is
unsappily, too well founded but In what
book worms dusty cell, ,apistried with the
cobwebs Of age, where the light Of real m.
,ure never forced il, ay--in what rdan''s :
school, where deaf cars listen TO dumb lip,
aud blind followers are lei by blind guides -
did he learn that this was trney Most Ger.
tainly he never learned il from sowcr or
rcaper-from dumb animal or rational man
connected with hushandry. Poor Red
jacket, Off here on Buffalo Creek II he could
comprehend the terms Of the proposition.
he would have treated il with scorn. Con
trary TO experience tina, phenomena should
exist which We cannot trace 10 causes pcr-
ceptible to the human sense, or conceivable
by human thought II would he much
nearer the truth TO say that within the
hnsbandman'r experience, there arr no phcn
omena which tam be nationally trncod Ia
anything but the, infant .ncrgy OF creative
power.
Did this philosopher ever contemplate the
landscape at the close Of the year when seeds,
and grains AMI fruits have ripcncd, and
stalks have witherel, and leaves have fallen
and winter has forced her curb even into
the roaring Jaws OF Niagara. and sheeted
halt continent in her glitterlng shroud
and all this ,ceming vegetation and organic
I'd life are lock-l IN cold and marble OBJ
s,ruciions and week after week, and month
upon month have swept with sl'et and chilly
rain and howliug storm. over the earth and
riyetc,l their crystal bolts upon the door Of
natures sepulchrc WHEN the sun u, length
begins TO wheel IN higher circles through
the sky, and softer winds to breathe over
melting SHOWS. did h. ever behold the long
hidlru earth at length appear. and soon the
tiulid grass peep forth. md anon the autumn
nal wheat brQiu to pain, the field and vel.
vet leaflets to burst from purple buds
throughou, thu rcyying forest 10 every
grain and seed dropped from the planters
hand. buried but to- spring up again clothed
with new mysterious being and then ~
more iervid snn iniiame the air and softer
showers distil from the clouds. and gcn,lcr
dews string Their pearls pD 4" IL and ,eudri!l.
did BE- ever watch the ripeniny grain and
fruit, pendant from stalk, and vine, and
tree the meadow, the iicld, the pasture. the
grove, each afier i,s own species, arrayed IN
myriad-tlnted garments, instinct with circu.
laiing life seven millions OF counted leaves
on "A single tree, each of which il system
whose exquisite complication puts Ia shame
.hrwdest cunning OF the human haipI. every
planted seed and grain which have been
loaned to the earth, coinpoundiDg its pioD
usury thirty. sixty. hundred fold. all har.
mon'ously adapted to the sustcnancc Of iv.
iny nature--thc bread oi hungry world
here tiled corDdcld. whoee ydlow blades
ARE nO,sling With the food oi man there an
implanted wilderness great Fathers
fafIn--wFte b. who the rayeus cry has
cultivated with bis own land hi- mcrcilnl
crop Of berrics, aud nuts. aud acprps and
.esGs. for the humber families Of animated
nature, the solemu elephant, the browsing
der The Wild pigeon. whose hutt"ring cara.
van darkens the sky tie merry squirrel,
who bounds from branch % branch ia the
joy oi his little Iiie--ha. seen all this dpes
be sec il eytIy year, snd month and day
dpz be live and move, R8d breathe, and
think. IN th.s atmosphere Of wonder him.
sell tie greatest wonder al all, wh0se
smallest fibre and fan,esi pa!,stiOp is a,
much M .isry a. the b.azing giorie- Of
Ori0D. bclt---anI DOS b. still maintain that
a mirac.e i. contrary 10 experienoo, II he
ha.. and il be dor. then let hin 20, ID The
name Of Heaven, aud say that II Is contrary
10 erysrier,o tina, tie August Power which
turns ,lJe ciods oi the earth into thc daily
breas %: thousand million sous, c1lii
i.sd Z - thousand ia the WILDERNESS