Weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1858-1865, 1859-08-31

will utilize SCIENCE ana stamp It's pages WIN ace'
mcnts as glorious as those Of Newton Make edu-
cation universal hut do not attempt an extravagant
! system Texas is not prepared for system OF
wealthy pauperism like that of the West Point
academy. 1t is seldom that genius can obtainsan
entrance there unless it lis backed by wealth ana
influence You need not look there for It; but
among the sharp keen eyed boys of the country,
who are Knocked about by adversely, you Will md
it. Look at Maury. | found him boy without
patronage or funds. I got him commission IN the
navy. lie has gone onward and done justice to my
friendship No man in this age has contributed more
to practical scencc-none has received more honor
for his scientific achievements not only IN our own,
but in foreign countries You may rear these Insti-
| tutions-you may tax the people to support them
for the benefit of the few-but the masses OF the
people will send out the men like Franklin ana
Maury. Make primitive education as free as posi-
ble Then build ND your home colleges like those
we have now Let them be accessible to the young
men of the country. Many who now attend them
work or teach school six months in the year in ord
or to be able to pay the tuition and board OF the
other six That's the way to get education-work
for it. A man then knows the value Of it. These
colleges will not be full of pampercd simplctons;
but men of mind will go from ther:. 1t is useless
| to attempt to make a man of mind You cannot
| make mind. You can improve it. You cannot
convert puddle duck into an eagle. You can make
an educated fool but you cannot educate fool into
man of genius. Those who wish to make such
experiments should make them at their own expense,
| not that of the people. As look around upon this
| audience, many of whose faces have been familiar
to me- in connection with the scenes | have here
witnessed ! cannot keep down the thought that
among those whom | have been wont to see but
who are now among the dead soon shall be num-
bered Here first located myself in Texas. Around
my heart still fingers the recollection of thousand
kndncssess have experienced at the hands OF the
| people. Their generosity, their friendship, have
cherished and shall never cease to look back upon
Nacogloches without those feelings which are akin
to home. This may be the last time shall address
You. Lifes sand is running fast and is almost out.
Ere long it will cease to flow, and | must take my
last look upon earth. If can behold my country
still happy and the liberties of the people secure
if can the end of sectional strife and harmony
restored, shall be content. | am to leave num-
progeny to share with yours the good and evil
that is to come For myselr, hare no aspirations
beyond the present. My path through life has been
stormy. l would have sunshine and peace at Its
close. For posterity have many anxious thoughts
As men who may either entail blessing or misery
upon their children, let us I've faithful to the trust
imposed upon us. The feelings of father actuate
me when impore you to preserve the liberties
entrusted to your keeping If the country prospers
they will be benefited, if disaster comes they must
suffer. The same results will accrue to yours Let
me exhort you, them to stand by the constitution
| and the Union. Contidc in one another in the hour
of danger. Rely upon yourselves when demagogueS
would miSlead you. Maintain those reserved powers
which essential to preserve your liberties against
Capitalization, and they will withstand the shock of
centuries
THE LAEIES-GOD BLESS EN-.
! Ladies', know that politics arc always uninter-
csting to You. yet believe you have in the general
result abiding interest. 1t is always gratltica
! ton to me to behold my fair country women in as
! semhlages like these 1t is guarantee that their
husbands and fathers and brothers men of intel
ligcnce and refinement, who appreciate their mental
capacities, and desire their countenance in their
| undertakings. Your presence exercises calming
| influence upon those antagoniSmS, which are too
often engendered in the heat of political contests.
All parties desire your approving smile, and there
! fore all are encouraged by your presence | know
that in the direct administration of political affairs
| You have share but yet, rcignng you do,
supreme in the realm of love, your influence often
! controls the destiny of nations. WOmanS .Ove is
! the great lever which rouscs man to action. The
! general, he plans the stratcgctic combinations
which to ensure victory, looks forward to re-
! compcnse dearcr than the lanrcls upon his brow !;
the soldier as he trndgcS along on the weary march,
or mingles in the scenes of the battle field even
! with death around him. forgcts awhile the carnage
and turns his thoughts to the fond girl he left be-
hind him; the mariner, tempest tossed driven by
the rude waves, sings mcrrily aoft he thinks of
the little cottage by the shore, where his wife and
! dear ones await him; the statesman, as he devises
amid deep and painful thought, plans of government
! which are to tell upon his own and his country S
! fame, never loses sight of the joys which await
! him when cabinet councils are and he enters
! the portals of home; the sentinel. as he PAGES his
weary watch loves the moonlight tramp, that he
may look beneath its rays at the dear mcinento of a
mothers sisters love- Over man, in all his
relationships, the influence of woman hangs like a
charm. Deprive us of your influence which digni-
fcs and stimulates US TO noble deeds, and We be-
come worse than barbarans. Let it be ours, and
we brave the lannon's mouth or face danger in ten
thousand forms. You stimulate all that is good
You check in us ignoble purposes You have also
an Important influence upon posterity The early
impressions which the child receives from you out
lives all the wisdom of later days. Sages may rea-
son. and philosophers may teach, but the voice
which VIC heard in infancy will ever come to our
ears bearing mothers words and mothers coun.
sells. Continue to instil into your children virtue
and patriotism. Undue them with proper vcnera
ton for the fathers of liberty Learn them to love
their country, and to labor for its good the great
end of their ambition Bid them proudly maintain
our institutions. Point them to the deeds of their
ancestors. Make these their escutcheon, and bic
them hand it down to their children as free from
stain as it came to them DO this, ladies, and YOU
influence will not he lost in the future. In thu
language of the poet it will still be said:
| Woman is lovely to the sight,
As gentle us the dews Of evcn
As bright mornings earliest light.
! And spotless US the SHOWS Of Heaven.
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