Nashville patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1858-1860, 1859-09-24
Beauties of the Rhetoric of Mr..
Everett.

Everett
The Hon. EDWARD EVERETT has delivered
another of his matchless orations. The oc-
casion was the inauguration of the Webster
Statue, which furnished theme on which he
lavished the wealth of his genius. We would
gladly publish the whole grafton if we had
space, but it would fill two pages of our
paper and we must be content with present
ing gem or two:
What citizen of Boston, as he accompanies
the stranger around our streets. guiding him
through our busy thorougbfares, to our wbarfs
crowded with vessels which range every sea
and gather the products of every climate
up 10 the dome of this capitol. which com
mands as lovely landscape can delight
the eye or gladden. the heart, will not as be
calls his attention at last to the statues of
Franklin and Webster. exclaim-t Boston
: takes pride in her natural position, she re-
joices in her beautiful environs, she is CRATE
full for her material prosperity; but richer
than the merchandise stored in palatial ware
houses, greeDer than the slop,s of sea-girt
islets, lovelier than this encircling panorama
of land or sea, of field and hamlet. of lake
or stream, of garden aud grove. is the MEM
DRY OF her sons. native and adopted; the
character, services and fame Of those, who
have benefited and adorned their day and
generation. Our children, and the schools at
which they are trained. our citizens aud the
services they have rendered these are our
jewels,-these are our abiding treasures"
Yes, your long rows ofquarried granite
may crumhle TO the dust; the corn fields in
yonder villages, ripening to the sickle, may,
like the plains of stricken Lombardy a few
weeks ago, be knesded into bloody clods 10y
the maddening wheels of artillery: this
populous city, like the old cities of Etaura
and the Campaigna Romano, may be desola-
ted by the pestilence which walketh in dark
ness. may decay with the lapse of time, and
Z the busy mart. which now rings with the
/ joyous din of trade, become as lonely and
| still as Carthage or Tyre. as Babylon and
| Nineveh, but the names of the great and good
shall survive the desolation and the ruin; the
memory OF the wise, the brave. the patriotic
shall never perish. Yes, Sparta is a wheat
field; Bavarian prince holds court at the
| foot of the Acropois; the travelling vlrtuoso
| digs for marbles in Roman Forum and be-
| meath the ruins of the temple OF Jupiter
| Capitolinus; but Lycurgus and Leonidas- and
| Demosthenes, and Cato and Tully "still live;"
! and He still lives. and all the great and good
shall live in the heart of ages. while marble
and bronze shall endure; and when marble
and bronze have persisted. they shall ''still
live" in memory, so long as men shall rever-
ence Law, and honor Patriotism, and love
Two hundred and twenty-nine years ago
this day our beloved city received from the
General Court of the Colony the hOnOred
name of Boston. On the long roll of those
whom she has welcomed to her nurturing
bosom is there name which shines with
brighter Iustre than hiS2 Seventy-two years
ago this day the Constitution of the United
States was rendered to the acceptance of the
people by George Washington. Who of all
the gifted and patriotic of the land that have
adorned the interval has done more to I'M
fold its principles, assert its purity, and to
promote its duration.
Here, then, under the cope of Heaven !;
here on this lovely eminence; here, beneath
the walls OF the Capitol of old Massachusetts;
here. within the sight of those fair New Eng
land villages; here, in the near vicinity of
the graves of those who planted the germs of
all this palmy growth; here. within the sound
| of sacr, d bells, we raise this monument with
| loving hearts, to the Statesman the Patriot,
the Fellow Citizen, the Neighbor, the Friend
Long may it guard the approach to these
halls of council; long may il look out upon
a prosperous country, and, if days of trial
and disaster should come. and the arm of
flesh should fail, doubt not that the monu-
mental form would decend from its pedestal,
to stand in the front rank of the peril, and
the bronze lips repeat the cry of the living
voice-"Liberty and Union, now and forever,
one and inseparable"