Arkansas true Democrat., 1858-08-04

| hF Tn the oration, delivered bv the Hon. Rufus Choate, before the national men of Boston. July 5th 1858, there occurs the following beau- tifnl and patriotic passage:
 "There is love of country which comes un- | called for, one knowns not how IL comes in with the very air the eve the ear, the instincts. the first taste of the mothers milk. the first beating of the heart The faces of brothers and sisters. and the loved father and mother; the laugh of pavmates, the old willow tree. and well. and schoolhouse; the bees at work in the spring, the note of the robin at evening the
 lullaby, the cows coming home, the singing
 brook the catechism, the'vists of neighhors. the general training, all things which make child hood happy, begin it; and then as the age of the passions and the age of the reason draw on. and love and the sense of home of security and of property under the law come to life: and as the story goes round, and as the hook or the newspaper relates the ss-favored lot of other lands, and the public and the private sense of a man is forming and formed there is a tyne of patriotism already. Thus they had imbihed if who stood that charge at Concord. and they who hung deadly on the retreat. and they who threw up the nasty and imperfect redouht on Bunker Hill by night, set on it the blood-red provincial flag and passed so calmly with Pres
 cott, and Putnam, and Warren through the ex- periences of the first fire But now to direct | this spontaneous sentiment of hearts to inc | Union, to raise 1t high, to make it broad and deep, to instruct it, to educate it. is in some things harder, some things easier; but it may be l done; 1t must be done She. too has her sDec
 tacles; she, too has her great names; she. too
 has her food for patriotism, for childhood for man. Americans" said an orator of France
 '' begin with the infant in the cradle. Let the | first lisps be Washington'' Hang or his neck on that birthday, and that day of his death at | Mount Vernon. the medal of Congress. by its dark ribbon; tell him the story of the lag as it
 passes glittering along the road; bid him listen to that plain, old-fashioned, stirring music of 1 the Union; lead him when school is out ali even- | ing to the grave of his great-grandfatber. the | old soldier of the war; bid him. like Hannibal
 at nine years old, lay the little hand on the constitution and swear reverently to observe if: | lift him up and lift yourselves up to the heiqht of American feeling; open to him. and think for ! yourselves on the ralaton of America to the States; show him upon the map the area to which she has extendel herself; the climates | that come into the number of her months. the ! silver paths of her trade, wide as the world; \ tell hm of her contributions to humanity and | her protests for free government: keep with him | the glad and solemn feasts of her app,irtrnent. bury her great names in his heart. and into vour hearts; contemplate habituallv, lovingly. intel- | lgcntlv, this grand abstra"tou this vast reality of good; and such au institution may d. some hat {" transform ths su.passiny beauty ipto a national life, which shall last wlfle sun and moon endure.