The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1859-09-28
Beauties OF the Rhetoric OF Everett
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Beauties OF the Rhetoric OF Everett
The Hon. Edward Everett has delivered
another of his matchiess orations. The oc-
casion was the Inauguration of the Webster
Statue, which furnished theme on which he
lsvished the wealth Of his genius: ohio
What citizen of Boston, as he accompa lies
the stranger around our streets, guiding
him through our busy thoroughfares, TO our
wharves crowded with vessels which range
every sea, and gather the produce of every
climate,-np TO the home Of this capitol,
which commands as lovely landscape as
can, delight the eye or gladden. the heart,
will not as he calls his attention at last to
the statutes of Franklin and Webster, ex-
claim-a Boston takes pride in her nstura.
position, she rejoices in her beautiful en-
virons, she is grateful for her material pros
perity but richer than the merchandise
stored in palatisi warehouses;, greener than
the slopes of sea-girt islets, lovelier than
this encircling panorama Of land or sea, of
field and hamletof lake and stream, of gar
den and grove, is the memory Of her sons,
native and adopted; the character, services
and fame Of those, VINO have benefited and
adorned their city and generation. Our
children, and the schools at which they are
trained. our citizens, and the services they
our Abiding Iase our eweis-these are
Yes, your long rows of quarried granite
may crumbie to the dust; the cornfelds in
yonder fillages, ripening to the sickle, may,
like the plains of stricken Lombardv few
weeks ago, be kneaded into bloody clods by
the maddening wheels ofsrtillery this pop
ulous city, like the old cities of Etruria and
the Campagna Romano, may be desolated
ny the pestilence which walkethin darkness,
may decay with the lapse Of time, and the
busy mart, which now rings with the joy
Gus din of trade, become as lonely and still
as Carthage or Tyre, as Babylon and Nine
veh, but the names Of the great and good
shall survive the desolation and the ruin !;
| the memory of the wise, the brave, the pat
riotic, shall never perish. Yes, Sparta is q
wheat field Bavarian prince holds court
at the foot Of the Acropolis; the travelling
virtuoso digs for marbles ia the Roman
Forum and beneath the ruins of tie temple
of Jupiter Capitolius but Lycurgus aud
Leonidas, and Miltiades and Demosthcnes,
and Cato and Tully -",till live :" and He
still lives, and sll the great and good shall
live in the heart Of ages, while marble and
bronze shall endure and when marble and
bronze have perished, they shall "still live '
in memory, so long rs men shall reverence
Law, and honor Patriotism, and love Liber.
yl -
! 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 q
/ brighter luster than his Seventy-two year:
ago this day, the Constitution of ;he United
States was rendered to the acceptance oi
tie people by George Washington. Vino
of all the gifted and patriotic of the lant
that have adorned the interval, has dom
more to unfold its principles, assert its puri
lty, and to promote its duration?
Here then, under the cope of heaven
/ here, on this lovely emihence; here, beneath
the walls Of the Capitol Of old Massachu
setts; here, within the sight of those fai
New England villages; he:e, in the near vi
cinity Of the graves of those who planted tn
germs of all this palmy growth; here, with
in the sound Of sacred bells, we raise thi
monument, with living hearts to the States
man, the Patriot, the Fellow Citizen, tb
Neighbor, the Friend. Long may it guar
the approach to these halls Of council; lon
may il look out upon prosperous country
r and, ii DAYS of trial and disaster shoul
come, aud the arm Of fesh should fail, don't
not that the monumental form would de
scend from its pedestal to stand in the iron
e. r,nk Of the peril, and the bronze lips repes
{ the cry of the living voice" Liberty an
= Union. now and forever one and inseps
: rable,' if -H-