New-York daily tribune., 1858-11-30

leas; ia. As tie body was ccncerneJ.
speaking widely Eerent languages. Tho
old Ic'ianders we're smorg the meet vengeful of
raticrs ard With them the vendetta was a. commoo
as il was With the Italians. but the lcelsrders Of
TO-DAY, although they spoke the same language, hsd
become 40 mild that vioelce was scsrcely koowa
smong them snd when, but little whle ago, . man
was col iemed to death, by their Courts Tcelsoders
couli b. found who would execute th- sentence. SiI
every man SHARED in the general traits which went 10
mske unity of his language ard nation. Toere
could be grsster misfortune for naiicn than 10
-pesk two largusg-s url,y Of spee,h was necessary
20 unity Of people. This sas the spirit OF the pcem
What is the German Fatherlandi ?" The EnSl.hmsp
bnd the American were more like each other thaa like
The men Of any other country. As Ben johnson says,
Language Eost 81 ows the man speak that may sec
thee" 1lers were cases where Government had
stamped upor people character not is own. Lsn-
dor argued the peranenCe of the sbaSemeut OF tho
Italian people fom the fact that il had been ground
INTO Their language. Must not people be debssei
which used for instance. the ptrss. smtl,arc
sufF9ica-ore, TO humiste supplcation, for pre-.
sent PETITION or whc, called every house which
had large door, pQld::0; oI which ramed mes
sage seut by iootmsn TO his tailor throu sculio'.
an Gmbosci0ia, an embassy. Yet he woald grossly
misjutge the people, who should infer that.
because their language the language OF
slaves they were ret ripe for revolt. Free
dom aoce could restore the nobility of language
which had been lost by centuries of servitus Graad
words in language indicated tie existence of grand
thoughts, and they ~eIe spt TO nducc :hem Sappose
people with terus poudiug 20 holiness lore.
mercy. chGruy what should We expect of it Could
ITS moral teachers III woul not he likely TO have auy)
incucste morality Men mus. also learn to hate aud
abhCr the evil, well as to love the goot 80 they
must bave pames for the ces. The translstion Of
the Bible into the uncuvatei languages had been
found exceedingly difficult as they had no names for
the virtues OF the wees tic people having no clear
conception Of either. 1he French boisted that
tley had no word for brile 10 their language,
and argued that, consequently, they must be less
gwen To bribery than other nations. But Mr..
Marsh thought that the ieproash conveycd
by the wCrd had wholesome influence.
Indeed it would be difficult properly to abhor wrong.
unless il was definite enough in minds to have
name 1t was better to have an opprobious name tor
the Il g than to glaze il the French dill by al
apologetic circuuocutop. Most oI the moro intimate
words of moraity and religion were Saxon. The words
atone mcnf Gcd good hoiy, sia, tckcd, rig, wrong,
and their derivatives, were all pure Angio-SsSon
Mr. Marsh devoted the conclusion of his lecture to
rcbuke of the tendency of fashionable society to use
vague expressions partly from the desire to be non
commilal and partly from tie vulgar prejudice which
prescribed precise and definite opinion up any sub
iect as arrogant ard contrary to the laws OF good
tate He thought that nothing was more destructive
To marness of thought than vageness of expression
On the other hand, must not be intemPer1ey
strong. 1t was u psychological law that the mere
giving uterance to feeling intensified the feeling;
sometimes this was the case to such degree that the
brute became master OF the man. The form which wo
gave to our thoughts reacted upon them with mighty
force Fiery words sere the hot blast which niiamed
the fuel of our nature. Hence the Importance of ex-
treme crcumspection in the of strong language;
hence the importance, too, that should embalm our
conclusions in moderate words. II fsyorite
maxim with Webster that violence of language ind-
Gated sbalowress of feeling, ami he always kept bis
auditor ahead OF him in that.