Arkansas true Democrat., 1857-07-07
at West Point,

u, of the relative rank of the different
 t.,s the distribution of the diplomas, and
 .oomendation of the graduates to pro-
 in accordance with their merits, as de-
 :nod by the examination. Henry C. De-
 esd. the Connecticut member of the 1 of visitors, delivered the farewell ad-
 o the graduating class, and it is so re-
 wifh eloquent allusions and powerful
 ,gs against the dangers of disunion, that \ .. nsrsuaded, notwithstanding it's length,
 ..snt t to our readers, knowing that many
 l.u, will be delighted with it's sentiments:
 NR. DEMIYG's ADDRESS.
 ,,.;,r Dela6eld: It is my pleasing duty in
 rg N If the board of visitors to return to
 and your academic and military staff our
 ..fal acknowledgements for the kindness
 .,nrtesy with which we have been receiy- \ .95 entertained during our visit here. and | ,be ail and assistance you have so freely
 cbeerfully afforded us in executing the du- | If our commission. We part from you 1 :, tbe conviction that the high and impor l functions devolvlng on your board are ad-
 ,tered with wisdom and intelligence, with l -,e and impartlality, and we shall carry to l several homes additional respect for the .,mnshments, the scholarship, and the gen. manly bearing of the American officer, and 1 reasing pride and increased confidence in the 1 onal arm of our great republic.
 youns Gentlemen of the Graduating Class: ave been deputed by the board of visitors 1 this occasion-so interesting, and. ! trust, ,n.pcious to yourselves, to your instructors, IS. to your parents, friends, and couutry--to few words, weak, feeble, vapid though 1 be, when compared with the strength of emotions and the intensity of our interest l. few words pertinent and appropriate to a I adieu.
 !! ha, been my fortune in life to participate l lely in occasions similar to this, and they always of great interest to me; but the in l E., is rather of a mournful than lively lacter, more apt 10 move tears than smiles. tuse my mind dwells intensely upon the lre rather than upon the present of young en.urers, like you, upon the worlds arena; ] lu-e, too, experience is given to prophecy, Ter vatcinations are not apt tO be rose red.
 f We were about to send these young soldiers l h to encounter at once an invading enemy, Il what pareutal care we should equip them the field; with what anxiety we should fol- |r them as the last platoon was hid from our Eng eve by some intervening hill, and the dy- |. train of their martial music faded upon our |euing ear; with what. .unutterable solcitude aid We trust them to the chances of the ! la!
 But is not life a warfare, and are you not ! 1t 10 enter it? Are we committing you to any the less imminent when we send forth to battle with the world?
 -, to change the metaphor, We are here to .h these fragile barques on the sea of life; ve5e n their behalf halcyon seas and pro- Is bteezes; bnt we, who have been launch ore them, with good wishes as earnest rth auspices as favorable, find that the q life Is not pure or tranquil one, but E1us, Notus A.ti1c~sQ~e incu5uere mar7, > slsi, the north, aud the stormy south brood t, to lash up its waves from It's profound- | +pths, and with night, cloud, and tempest l sun, moon, and stars, and even hope it. from the distressed voyagers eye.
 You arc all aiming, my young friends, with l 0r less earnestuess, at what Is called suc- ! u life; some of you, doubtless, to success l srms-your professions; some of you to pe- l ary success. You are each of you moved ! what Davenant describes as "the extraor- ny lifting of the soul over the impedi- is of fortune;" a soldiers unsulIied fame. yr)'s deathless name are the priceless jewels which you pant. But you, sir, Undressing or Deafeld,) can tell them, for you have ned il, that the heights of professional auce, even in time of peace, are not to be lei, as those of Cerro Gordo or Inkermann e, by a shout and rush, but that it is a stopol seize throughout, where obstacles 10 be slowly overcome, antagonists slowly luered, parallels laid down and points of age secured by great danger and sacrifice, the assailant frequently driven back dis |lhtted when the prize of victory seemed within the grasp. Without such strug- your profession, in time of peace is stagna- ., corrosion, ennui.
 What it costs to purchase soldiers peerless EDe in war; the eminent chief of our army, if today, as he was but yesterday, could in- |m you. He would tell you it was life ser beginning in early manhood, and ending a. the grand climacteric; that it sts.drils l rliags, watching, seiges, battles, wounds, ease toll sorrow, wearlness of spirit, antag- n, rigaifies; long, hard campaign, com eng with the crossing of bavOnets on the of Chippewa, where the thunder of the l iacr mingled with the roar of contendiug
 es, aud its rainbow of promise spanned the
 se of the battlefield; and con, lu lng with
 E4nd cordon of desperate engagements
 R the iake-crcled citadel of the ancient
 cs. He would tell you that its reward is
 articuiate breath of mau"-hardly earned,
 -g bought, grudgingly yielded--a life of
 '- an old age of want.
 N too, with pecuniary success. It is true
 aouuHe is sometimes won b, a success 1 speculation, but ln a vast majority of eases he result of aborious tol anl small say
 ald the statistics of commerce show that {? fail where one succeeds, and that Col
 $ only to be reached and the golden fleece 0Y navigating straits which have Srylla
 .le one side and Cdaryblis on the other.
 ny friends, fl, embracing in your aspra-
 these varieties of success, (to which
 briefly alluded,) you aim at that still
 f and nobler success, which depends upon
 n. culture and discipline of every power aaulty of your nature, realizing in its fruits
 alakind those ameEorations in his condition p have immortalized the names of his
 Fest bencfactors and reformers in its fruits aarselves the consciousness of fully devel-
 and perfect manhood; realizing, too, no 2 no turpitude, on the pure tablet of your acter not even the semblance or suspicion of 9lor; realizing, too, the repose of con si happy old age, and that serenity of which will enable you to lie down in as calmly as you lie down to dream-if am at success triumphant, transcendent a>, then, thicker than the sprites which ef over Michael Angclo's great master see trials, temptations, disappointments \ Vha5 over this little band. This is sue 70 which the others are easy; this is
 -"ay which but one in a thousand can tread.
 re are foes without as well as foes within
 -l debar your entrance into this celestial We hear of great battle fields like Boro- ahf Austerlitz, where the ranks of both
 dug armies were decimated; but before
 can reach the point, the period when a
 -@ like this can be said either to be lost
 p, death will have beckoned one in every
 IIom your rank of fesh-lipped men;''
 with his greedy preference for shining
 Y, the roblest and manifest of you will be
 -fed to his cold embrace.
 2 those that remain, alas, alas! what Il 'ss will twenty years bring upon you
 'ogsts tell us that every seven years