New-York daily tribune., 1858-07-07

trui o n % .snse that shall couduce 10 virtue, public
tbHl - 10 patriotism. We hHVe returned IfOn isy
spIn o. coru1 r.ssoue Of the City ArDory, cIoum
ing tne STself perhaps not Of so much mqotauc as
EtssV h;..orcs autece6euts for that S.r1ctIe = 20
nDon tie {, undaton OF upon the 5ile o, .e @ oo
- Tihrsry and the corner stone OF tHS. tII"o.u'e
pee yssrs ago was sid with in,posng ceIelno1ies'
snyant A. that time Officiating and dig1iiyng With
sio Pssrce Vas that immortal man ana ps'ilot, Ls-
hsI,,e (Cheers8 8od cries OF " Bravo, bravo. One
I'm f.y men whom We car aLorG hesrli'y % pIalse
OF INC be.d st the expepse OF his hesr, ror his hesrt
mol ns oe,s noe Of his head but head and heart ana
s VIZ ,Ss Whole nsn together in youth 10 middle age,
81 soc and after bis depsrure "heh nls Leiloy - -
orrssd up we can ofcrd TO praise tle whYie ls.,y
ss.S ~ rasp We ebould speak well OF LslsyetH'
o1 o1l9 ln9 .nad ard cheers He is one Of those lev
luO';,, sSbo,n the romaItlc sentiment OF h0er'y IN
"ns r;rened to principle stable az msnnooo s,nen
svi,bopt euils without sebsnntssi " Ike oo'-y
1--we 10 his fellow man, and no. IN MS own
DIes DIeslv nm in this lsnd well ss IN France man
a. esy. himself freely for the welfare OF tue people
80 tsyeI took back at period OF his ie WoH ne uao
nroasred or What he had done or make sue IelH
80 Inconsistency across that far record with winch
i i tars,-and with thousands like him W1o began
tSe scbisveme1t for liberty while liberty vac 10 her
early fermentation-and the last man siOue atiou2
tho1ssads who stood firm, and WHO sscilrgso IoI ~
sva,ythire dear 10 man, except manhood: lnAI usne
,vs EaI is associated with the name oi WssbngI9n ID
tbe annals OF our American liberty ana couu. !.
good omen snce 90 large portion OF our T1i1tu OF
enigrsAts and for years must oeaIu {. ~ -, 90
~
Revolutionary heroes that there is scarcey nslou
on earth that cannot point TO some distinguished eincer
and soy "That man was my kioarea ~h1 helP1 49, ~
fathers in the achievements OF tncse Hults Wi4oh nc
I1ter come 10 Inherit" and 80 II sooulo 20, INC
fstbsrs vera united in their achievements ior I'D
erty. and their sons participate 10 the Dessing.
And now, fellow citizens, IT may seom thaI t1o
living of corner stone OF an ssmoTy IS sCatc5J ~
tbsms even upon the day Of our National lndepend-
epoe to exercise the thought or cal out t0e
of nas in my pfofession but not my proies5on but
fbe nature Of the man is the thing / was man
before was q minister [Cheers feel, therefore,
fiat IL is as lust that should speak some words COZ
genial 10 such an occasion 6s any otner man WIN
ctiz sship in this city. II might seem bad susplJe
thai free library should give place 10 an ermory but
n ia all rght if you will remember thai toe library
iteeIf was too s.raitened, and was removed other
where and the building became appropriated to gen.
eral civil parpose5 and finally 1t was Abandoned even
Cor that There is nothing, therefore, sacrlhced oy
GOOD learning or information to the sPrlt oi arms
Morsoyer take it 10 be thing well to be oLsdereo
b ma tbsf We are go unlike the Oldsn cities with tasir
belssguered walls. Our walls ere here. Cnes oil
pood and cheers,l Ours are movable wsI5 peoes
fran walls; wherever there is an enemy, theIe -
wall prnsde OF the living breasts OF AYeg cIHens.
IRrayoi and cheers The Olden cl.les hs'e
wslIs Win defenses, with furnished posts and
rtsdes but no poets have except those the father
and mother atteud and the children defend lcaesrsJ,
and our armOry is not place wnere palo soI-
dery ooneregse TO put down The rlsng spirit OF Tree
dom and ooeroe the obedience of unwilling citlzens.
There ueyer was more peaceful place than our cty
armories the citizen soldeIy can here shoR l1e PFC
turesque sspect Of war ard dong the Vevet Rat VIII
out apy risk TO Themselves or 10 others. -suGhter
and oheers Build then these peaceiul castles OF ndo
lenoe for our citizen sCdiery let them nave nome III
our midst showing the difference between our arnoc
Iies the marked difference between tne nee cl1les "
nations abroad But let me take occasion IN the erec
lion of this building TO speak to you Of bosr srmories
which oag have been building up; for we have armo-
ses all along our streets; wherever hGd father
and childY6n there
citadel there is the best drilsergeant, the best sol
ders The family yrtuous, well educated, these are
our arnories all along our streets. lCnes Oh g0od
good Wherever you fnd honest, intelligent labor,
labor not forced not back-scsrred labor, but those
whose headswork which snmstestheir handst work
with their brain more skliuly atterward and cheer
fully to achieve their own personal Independence py
their labOr-tbese men are our arnOres, theso ni7"
with Intelligent heads and sctive industrious nahos
these men are our defenses and our srmores. hgan
there areOur schools, where every man no InaVI III
how poor he s in money II ne s only iea heariI 0nr
drea. osn have access. Good good; neat oui
son, sot the scholars son; there are no favored
classes, but they take IN chioIen oi al TO
T0ious beliefs and all nstonalltes, and OF all ranks
and conditions and teach them the common ideas oil
Americas citizenship these are our truest aImories
fbsar hearl these we have, and these are mpregna-
HE 4 might 20 ON TO our higher institutions 10 our
churches from whence we draw, as from q fountain,
the trues notions Of personal MANHOOD, OF personal
liberty and Of associated liberty, OF mental privileges
and rights and from whence our domestic arnoIieS are
fortified But will not call your attention further 10
the occasion Of this gathering, though still insist that
my friends asked me 10 speak at the laying OF cor
nerstope Of armory, and not at the celebration OF
our National Independence; beng crafty ne caugnt
me with guile" daughter aud cheers.l However,
shall do both having hammered the stone, saa now
hammer you with some patriotic sentiments. Laugh
Ter cheers and cries of go on. Onthe occasion winch
called the good citizens Of Brooklyn together 35 yesrs
ago, when that patriotic Frenchmsn came to lay the
corner stone of free library, this City brooklyn had
5000 inhabitants; who had that prescienee by which
he could have suspected such day as this II one
had dared TO cay then that in 81 years, more than
300 900 inhabitants would live on this side of the
river, he would have been deemed nj inmate Tor
private lunstc asylum. Laughter But what has
come to pass How has the population swollen How
has il augmented beyond the posi- oity OF anticpa-
ton And now, what Go we see in the place OF tnat
little village, that cosy reighborhood vlAgeF Inc
third city in this Union, Cries OF Good, good,
Hear, hesr. Not alone when you count aritnme.-
ically-for CITY requires men and women, ana not
men and women alone make city but the fruit oi
ther heads and the fiuit of their hsnds ther nStIu
tors their homes their industry, tnsl economy, go
TO make g city Of which men may be proud, ana OF
which they may boast And now behold this far and
beautiful city think that the sun in IFS course over
the earth shines not more beautiful city to-day
II may be that this is the snabe exsggerst'on OF
fond sos and Ibecause live here think II meet TO
praise the place of my own residence Nevertheless,
If am deceived, l am deceived for verify thlnk
there is not this continent site for city now IN
existence 30 beautiful snd so well adapted for forming
a large and permanent city. band of music coming
up al thIs juncture, Nj. Beecher stopped, saying:
zone at time; when there Is 80 mucn
brass shout modest men have TO keep sllence." j
II cannot be many years. for We may look forward as
well as lock back think it cannot be many years be-
fore there will be population of as many peopis living
in brooklyn as were 10 the whole Of America at the
time our American Independence was declared.
Brooklyn is destined to have population Of one or
two miEons only let her increase bu. few years
at the rate of increase for few years past our
streets will be extended beyond all present suspicion,