New-York daily tribune., 1858-02-03
EDWARD ErERErr ON CHARITY


Tbs A;aj'ny IN Eew.YorA may become q. fs,oo,s
e. That on'e N Aihors for lie clss-ica. mansuss
Wills tbo lyrical performers are in Phladelpha-.,x
ing perhaps Mogsrs requiem over TIE boues n VIZ
Isn Peun-tAe charitable performers take po.o-s;oo
ofthe groves Of Irving place. Firt we have Mr. E,.
erea ior ies- Charity sake and we are 10 have
\ Csico Bal. for the same eud. Charity is much e.
.eemed, ami Mr. E,orc.. more; co. with the coubasA
taery Tie forces brought to bear last night i'm
mer,e The parterc, The boxes and the galleries
al filed Beside that, crowd was on the stage.
There mus, BE- certain charm in being close 10 the
o,s,or-liie tia, {et by the boy who pinched The
Pnenomsnon TO see If she was real. Else We cannot
account for the penohsnt ladies have for get
ting in the. rear Of the speaker. Mr.. Everett
looked very wei. On bis going in front to-
ward the footligh,s with the stately Committee q
Arrangment-same with awful badges Of authority,
some Hithout-he was cheered In good opera style. Hs
Honor Mayor Temsnn said good word; and then the
Rev. Mr.. Beloss made some appropriate Introductory
remarks respecting the Woman's Protection Emigrasi
Society, for which the address was gratutously aal
kindly given by Mr.. Everett; and next the orator
took the stand.
Mr. Everett began BY alluding TO the crisis a. sud-
den was il ~ and then took up and denounced the
Malthusian rhodomontade about there being place
at Natures feast for the beggars brat. We suppose
ii TO be proper- is so univesal-to treat Of thee
things morally empricaly and not scientifically BE-
fore popular audience; so We presume Mr.. Everett
cusom-wise right in not extngushng Ma!thus, -
be done by argument and that sesher long nor
abstruse The doctrines of MaltfAs wsss erroneously
held TO be true by the Socialists and therefore they AZ
eued that all the present arrangements of society are
false If their premises were right, they were right
Ia
of that economist were the fruit of English ohgsrchg
seeking TO reconcile privilege with humanity. whea
it cannot be reconced. On his Malthusian point Mr..
Everett was simply rhetorical, aud proved nothing.
Next he detected naturally by the lave Of traDstioe
to nice collection Of agreeable, beggarly anec-
dotes. Here Mr.. Everett was happy; and the
Versatility he displayed, combined with some other
qua tiles made his effort last evening the best address
we have heard from him-for the fault wo find with
Mr. Eyerett's Corinthan as well with Mr.. Web
sers Doc is that of order temper. one tone;
whereas it should be many-sded. Last night w 20.
and by all the indomitabe exigencies of art in ts
richest FORMS such variety is essential to the orator.
In the midst of his ragged friends, Mr.. Everett intro
duced some good landscape painting, apropos OF
scene in the south of France where the mendicsnts
lay pilgrims under contributions Very pood painting,
this. Our orator then recouned the destitution o(
Antiquity as regards provision for the poor the lame,
the halt and the blind; remarkng that there were no
hospitals no aims houses, no determined legal provs.
ion for the mendcant. The excess Of suffering through
such deficiencies the barbarous neglects OF the poor
by the proud and luxurious rich, aenated the patriot
ism of the Masses inhibited the existence OF body
of country loving defenders, and finally destroyed tho
ancient States We do not think, considering tho
claims of Mr.. Everett classical scholar and the
o1u oc audia for lad
annalism this satisfactory accurate statement.
We take the Roman Empire as the most prominent
Now it is incorrect to say there provision for
the poor at Rome On the contrary great masses were
fed out Of the provinces; bread and games was a.
common a popular phrase in the streets OF
Rome bread and water in the solitary c0nfns-
ment system now. II was not because the poor
were not fed at Rome, but because the
provinces and the slave population were plundered
to feed them. II not primarily poverty that
destroyed Rome It was Slavery which burnt
TO death the fatness of the land Slaves at tho
time of Cncinnatus were in Isl at the time Of the
Emperors they were one-half the population. Mr..
Everett or no other orator can attempt 10 handle
charity or poverty historically and leave out Slavery;
he might as well try to speak Of drunken.
ness and leave out alcohol. In speaking of tho
cruelty of antiquity, Mr.. Everett made the finest
point of the evening. He said that while religion
ordered the institution Of vestal virgins to keep alive
the sacred fire, religion ordained among the Psgans
tie maintenance Of the sacred fire Of the life Of tho
poor and hnmble This essentially true, the whole
spirit of antiquity conshleredits perennial wars, en-
savements ortures, cruciGxions considered And yet
how soft.tempered and generous the writings Of
Cicero How fresh the hunsnities Of Juvenal-the
most earnest of the ancents Mr. Everets next point
was the tricks of professional bsggars aud chevalers
dindustrie, which were very amusing. His persona
tion was elaboratey fine.
This address possesses-without being uniformly
accurate in its historical points, or scientifically sug
gestive a. regards refoms-unform elegance Of Tone
good deal of intensity some humor, some lightnes.
characteristic precision of language perfection Of what
Boeau calls 70 difficult, the art Of transition, con.
trast of tint, welafimed progression, and rapidly
varying interest. 1t was well received throughout By
the splendid and numerous audience. In the arts Of
the oratorgesture pose movement rcticence accord
ing TO his school and temperanent-Mr Everett h
admirable.