Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1858-07-18
ORETI0E OF HON. RUFUs CHoKTE.

Inc ordtou 0elfeIe4 Dl INT HOl- RlfIh
csoATE, before the Young Mems Democratic
Association Of Boston, on the 5.h inst, fills
six columns in the New York papers. 1t is a
mastery effort. We present the opening and
closing passages:
g It is well that in one year, 50 busy, 50
secular, SO discordsnt, there comes one day
when the word is, and when the emotion is,
our country, or whole country and nothing
but our country It lie well that law-our only
sovereign on earth-duty, not less the daughter
Of God, not less within its sphere supreme, cus-
tom not old alone, but honoTed and usefEl,
memories, our heart, have set a time in which
-scvthe, loom and anvil stilled, whsrves si-
lent, the hag-ouT flag unTeut-the Tag Of our
glory and COMMUNICATION waving on mast
head. stseple and highland, We may come TO.
Cethsr, and walk hand in hand, thoughtful, sd-
miring, through those galleries Of civil great
ness, wien We may own together the spell OF
one hour Of our history upon Us all when
faults NAV be forgotten, kindness revived, viz
tues remembered and sketcheo Unbalanced
when the arrogance OF reform, ne excuses Of
reform. the stTifes Of parties, the r~iFalries Of
regions, shall give place to d wider, warner
and ulster sentiment ; when, turning from the
corners and dark places OF ohsnsiveness, If
such the candle lighted BY malignity, CT envy,
or consciousness, or truth has revealed any
where; when, turning from these, We may &c
I'd together to the serene and secret mountain
top, and there pass, and there unite IN the rev
srent exclamation and in the exultsnt prayer
How beautiful at last are Thy tsbernscles
What people at last is like unto Theei Peace
be within Thy palaces and JOY within Thy
Eztesl The high places are Thine and there
shalt ThOB stand proudly, ard innOcently, aud
securely.
aHappy if such a day shall not be desscra-
ted BY cur s~erFicel Happy il fOT Us thatds-
. scending sun shall look out on a more loving,
more elevated, more united America! These,
no less, no narrower, be the aims Of our cele-
brstion. Thsse always were the true aims Of
this celebration. In its origin, a recital or de-
Tense Of the grounds and the principles Of the
RsEolution, low demanding and permitting no
dsfsuss-aIi taken for granted, aud all bad by
heart; then sometimes wasted In a parade Of
vzin-glory, cheap and vulgar /; sometimes pro-
famed BY the attack and repulse OF partisan and
local rhetoricisns its great work, its disiinc-
tive character and It's chief lessons remain and
vindicats themselves. and viii DO 50 while the
ewes Of the fighting or the dying shall yet read
on the stainless, ample folds ne superseription
blazing still in light Liberty and Union, new
snd forever, one and inssParabie-'
+" had something to say more directly still
on the ethics Of nationality, on the duty Of in
structing the conscience, on the crimes OF trea-
son, and SANDER, and fraud that are committed
around Us 10 its name. on the shallOWness and
stupidity of the doctrine that the mere moral
sentiments, trained by a mere moral discipline.
may safely guide the complex civil life Of the
teachers and studies which they need to # them
for 90 precious, difficult and delicate q domin-
ion Of The high place in the scale Of duties,
which, thus fitted, they assign to nationality
Of the judgement which, thus fitted, they would
apply 70 one or two Of the common places and
practices Of the time.
aBut Ipsss it all to say only that these
ethics teach the trae susOrdinatiou, and the
true reconciliation of apparently Incompetent
sible duties. These only are the e~ssuists, OF
the safest ~cssuists for Us. Learn from them
how to adjust this conflict between patriotism
and philanthropy. Thus, indeed, there seems
20 be no conhict, for We are philanthroFisls in
proportioh as We are unionists- COR p1ilan-
thropy, we venture 70 say, is a true PhilaHthro-
". That is all. Il loves all men, It respects
an rights, kseYs all conpaets, recognizes all
dangers, pitiss all sufsrings, ignores 10 fact
master and slave It enfoids alike.
ct happens thus, that it contracts the sphere
Of our duty somewhat, and changes not the
nature bu- the times, the places, tie MODE Of
performing then il does not make cur love
cold, but il makes il safe il ustursHzes II, Il
bapsisss It into our life, It circumscrioes Il
within our capacities and necessities, It seis on
u he great national public seal. II you say
that thus our patriotism limits our Philan-
thropy, ] answer, ours is American philsH-
thropy. Be this the virtue we boast, sBd this
The name b. which We know it.
81 In this name, 10 this quality, End the stan
dsrd and tie Uttsrsncs Of the virtue itselE
By this, not By broad phylsetsriss and chief
sscts the kseneT hate, the gloomisr fsnati-
cisns the louder cry, Judge, compare, subordi-
nate. Do they think that nobody is q philsn-
shFopist bat thsmsslEss2 We, too, look up the
long vista, and gaze, wrsPt at The dazzling as
cent We, too, see towers rising, crowded. in
psrisI. and TIE tribes coming 70 bend in The
opening Of q better day. Bat We see peace.
order, reconciliation Of rights along hat bright
snlg future
We trace az along that succession Of re-
Torn. the presiding instTumentslities Of ns-
uoBsl life. We see our morality working it.
sslf clearer and clearer one historical or con
Fsrtio1sl right Or WTOng after another falling
peacefully and sill We hear the chain break
ing. bat there - no blood on it /: hone q his
whom il bound none Of his Who put It On
hin we bear the swelling chorus Of the free.
but master and slave unite IL that chorus, and
there is 70 discoTdaut shrek above tie hzr-
uonV; we see and We hail the bientinE q cur
own glory with the eternal Light o. God. but
we see, too, shapes Of love and beauty ascend
ing and descending there az il the old visloni
- Hold fast this hope; diEtrust the uhilzn-
thropT, di5trust ths ethics which would, which
must, turn il into shame. Do not evil that good
may come. Perform your share, for you have
a share, in the abolition of slavery; perform
your share, for yea have a share in the noble
and generous strife Of the sections, bat perform
Il BY keeping, BY transmitting, a united, loving
and Christian America.
g But why, at last, do I exhort, snd Why d.
- - G--w On rn~h = Iaw - HhfaT 4 Il
not the n~aticn's birthday ? Is II not this cOun
frv Of or lovss and hopes which celebrates It
This music Of the glad march, these banners o
uride and beauty, these memories 90 fragrant
these resolutions Of patriotism, 50 thoughtful
these hands pressed, these congratulations an
huzzss and tears, this great heart throbbinI
audibly-sre they not hers, and dc they not as
sure us?
a Those forests Of masts, these singing work
shops of labor, these fields and plantation.
whitsuiRg for the harvest, this peace and plsn
~. this sleeping thunder, those bolts in th
closed, strong talon, do not they all tell rs c
her health. Der strength and futune2 Thi
shadow that fits across our grasses and i
gone, this shallow ripple that darkens the sur
face Of our broad and widening stream, an.
masses away ; this little perturbation Ehicl
our telescope cannot hnd, aud which our sci
euce can hardly ind, but which we know can
not change the course or hasten the doom 0
one star; have these any terror for usy an
He who slumbers not, nor sleeps, who keep
w~stcnfully the city Of his love, on whose wi
~ life of nations is suspended, and 10 WhoI
All the shields OF the earth belong, our father
Cod, Is be not our God, and Of whom, thea, an
Of what shall we be afraid?
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adopted an ordinance prohibiting the keeping Q