Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1858-07-14

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brought out variety of famous people SpseSass
Fsrs made BY RUFUS Ghoate. yard Everett Goy.si
Banks VIM LLOYD Garvison aud his f0llcwersi Jonla
Holmes was the city orator President bucnanans
Senator Crittenden and RoeE @. ~ inthrop wrote
letters and the proceedings OF the day were gener-
aHy enlvened by = prodigious display OF military
spiendor, fsntastical parades Of fast young men,
regatta 4 double balloon ascension, &c. The city
orator. Mr.. Holmes, made cruel hit at the Carrie
sonian school of professional philanthroPsts IN the
course Of his Grafton. He remarked: ssss
"There are among us men who live upon alarm
and terror who fatten upon public tumut and find
no peace in the still movement OF ordinary political
life Take away their power of disturbance, and
they would die from wantot means OF living, or
come as their proper destiny is, to inhabit the mad.
house or workhouse. There is no meaner animal
than the protsssed philanthropist, who, under the
pretense Of feeling for public and political wrong,
gathers to himself good living and always leaves
the objects of his charity as they were and soherd
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
philanthropists, who work like rats in the dark, and
60 MOVE h the selfish politician above ground,
sroy dhe united essential PoRRlglp dy oolshiy DE-
States: Perhaps such vermn 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 bit of personal remini'
scence:
GAS long as was in public life, was a member,
as you know, sir, of that old Wing party to which
you have referred-the national Wing party pol
itcal association, sir, am sure you will grant, Of
which no one need be ashamed. The prostraton of
my 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 a while,
at least, from the field have been forced in some
degree issues and if felt the slightest in
clinaton, (Which do not) with the partial restora
ton of my health, to return to public life should
be deferred from it by the fact that between the
tremes of opinion which distract and threaten to
convuse the country, find no middle path to prac-
tical usefulness which friend of moderate counses
is permitted to pursue. Statesmanship, as 1t soas
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
ternal improvements its great industrial interests,
and the relations of the Government to Indian tribes,
has almost become an obsolete ea and political
life has assumed almost exclusively the form Of
tional agitation. Into that dreary and proftless
agitation have no heart to enter"
Mr.. Everett added:
"For myself, have found in every part of the
country generous traits of character and WELL
understood capacities of progress and hopeful augu-
ries of good; and taken in the aggregate, they are
the abode of population intelligent, prosper
ous as moral and religious any to be found on
of each which should like to annihilate; if could
WELD magician's wand, would sink it to the
tire. 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 IS the prolific source of most
of our troubles. If we could get rid, sir, of Bum
combe, and if We could bring back the harmony
which reigned on 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
sent their supplies of and of rice to feed their
furnished brethren in Boston; when Jefferson and
Adams joined hands to draft the great Declaration
if could live to that happy day, would, upon
my honor, sir, 60 to my grave as cheerfuy as the
tired and contented aborer goes to his nightly rest
shall, in the course of nature, 60 to it before long,
at any rate, and wish no other eptaph 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:
"There were many reasons, individual as we'll as
zens of Boston in the commemoraton 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 scere 1t necessary he could still return to he
Those localities he never passed without emotion
Although subsequently admitted to the profession
of the law-of which the orator of the day was so
distinguished an ornament-hs memory still reoert-
ed iM pleasure to the days hich he passed in those
aoorksnops for there with those who were associated
with him, were passed many of the happiest hours
of his life"