Weekly North Carolina standard., 1858-07-14

brought out a variety OF famous people. Speeches
were made by Rufus Choate, Edward Everett GOV.
Banks VIM LLOYD Garrison and his followers; John
S. Holmes was the city orator President Buchanan,
Senator Crittenden and Robt. @. Winthrop wrote
letters and the proceedings Of the day were gener'
ally enlivened by prodgious display OF military
a regatta. double balloon ASCENSION &c. The city
orator, Mr. Holmes, made cruel hit at the Garri-
sonan school of professional philanthropsts in the
course of his grafton. He remarked:
"There are among us men who live upon alarm
and terror: who fatten upon public tumult, and find
no peace i'm the still movement of ordinary political
life. Take away their power OF disturbance. ana
they would die from want OF means OF living, or
come their proper destiny is, to inhabit the mad
house or workhouse. There is no meaner animal
than the protsssed philanthropist, who, under the
preteuse Of feeling for public and political wrong
gathers to himself good living and always leaves
the objects of his charity as they we're, and ohere
they were, as the sentimental capital Of his future
harvest. And out of this sectional temper OF the
time there has arisen usty crowd Of such partisan
philanthropsts who work like rats in the dark and
CO adiutant with the selfish politician above ground,
live and move to one end-to blndly, foo'shly de.
stroy the united, essential power of these broad
States. Perhaps such vermin must exist, but let
the heel of every honest American be upon their
heads"
Mr.. Everett spoke to the Democracy of the Revere
House. He INDUCED in a bit Of personal renlnl'
Scence: q
AS long as was in public life, I was member,
as YOU know, sir, of that old Whig party to which
you have referred-thc national Whig party; pol
itical association, sir, am sure you Will grant, OF
which no one need be ashamed. The prostration OF
nv health compelled me, four years ago, to resign
the honorable post which then filled in the public
service Since that PERIOD new parties have been
organized old ones have either retired for WHILE
at least from the field have been forced in some
degree on issues and if felt the slightest in
clnation (Which do not) with the partial restora
Of M heal q /
be deferred from it by the fact that between the ex
tremes of opinion which distract and threaten to
convulse the country, find no middle path to prac-
tical usefulness which friend Of moderate oounSels
is permitted to pursue. Statesmanship, as at aods
understood in my younger days-that is, the study
of the foreign relations of the country, its defences
naval and military, its currency and finances its in
terna improvements its great industrial interests,
and the relations Of the Government to Indian tribes
has almost become obsolete idea, and our political
life has assumed almost exclusively the form Of
tional agitation. Into that dreary and profsess
agitation have no heart to enter"
Mr.. Everett added:
"For myself, I have found in every part of the
country generous traits of character, vast and we'll
understood capacities of progress and hopeful augu
ries Of good and taken in the aggregate, they are
the abode Of population as intelligent, as prosper
ous as moral and religious any 10 be found on
the surface of the globe. There is one little corner
of each which should like to annhilate; If could
WELD a magician's wand, | would sink it to the
tre Its name is Buncombe; not the respectable
county of that name in North Carolina, against
which have nothing to say, but pestilent little
political electioneering Buncombe in every State and
every district, which the prolific source of most
of our troubles. If we could get rid, sir, Of Bum
combe, and if could bring back the harmony
which regned the day which We celebrate and
the days which preceded and followed it-when
Massachusetts, summoned Washington to lead the
armies of New England; when Virginia and Carolina
their supplies of and of rice to feed their
famished brethren ir Boston; when Jefferson and
Adams joined hands to draft the great Declaration
if could live to see that happy day. would, upon
my honor, sir, 60 to my grave as cheerfully as the
tired and conented laborer goes to his nightly rest
SHALL in the course of nature go TO it before long,
at any rate, and wish other epitaph to be placed
upon it than this: Through evil report, and through
good report, he loved his whole country"
Gov Banks having been called out ut the City
Banquet, also gave morsel OF his own personal
history:
official, why he pleased TO join with the citi-
zens Of Boston in the commemoration Of this day.
He begged leave to say that he helped to build this
city himself In its darkened shops, upon the print
ing presses and engines which have contributed so
much to its glory, he gave the toll Of his youth,
and it necessary he could still return to them
Those localities he never passed without emotion
| Although subsequently admitted to the profession
| Of the aw-of which the orator of the day so
| distinguished an ornamen;-hs memory still rerert-
ed ,eih pleasure to the days uhch he passed an those
scorksnops for there with those who associated
with him, were passed many Of the happiest hours
| of his life"