The star of the north. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1849-1866, 1859-12-21
Beauties of the Rhetoric OF Everett.


The Hon. Edward Everett has delivered
another of his matchless oratons. The oc
casion was the Inauguration of the Webster
Statue, which furnished theme on which
he lavshed the wealth of his genius. We
would gladly publish the whole Grafton il
we had space, and we must be content
with presenting gem or two:
"What citizens Of Boston, as he accom-,
panies the stranger around our streets, gui.
ding him through our busy thoroughiares,
TO our wharfs crowded with vessels which
! range every sea and gather the produce OF
every clmate-up TO the dome of this capi-
tol, which commands as lovely landscape
as can delight the eve or gladden. the heart,
will not, as he calls his attention at last to
| the statues of franklin and Webster, ex.
claim Boston, takes pride in her natural
position, she reioices for her material pros
perity; but richer than The merchandise
stored in palatial warehouses, greener than
the slopes of seagirt islets, lovlier than this
| encircling panorama OF land or sea, of field
and hamlet, of lake and steam, of garden
and grove, is the memory OF her sons, na-
tive 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 and the services they
have rendered these are our jewels
these are our abiding treasures"
Yes, your long rows of quarried granite
may crumble TO the dust; the cornfield in
yonder villages, ripening to the sickle, may
like the plains of stricken Lombardy few
weeks ago, be kneaded into bloody clods
by the maddening wheels of artillery this
populous city, like the old cities of Etaura
and the Campagna Romano, may be DESC
lated by the pestilence which walked in
darkness, may decay with the lapse oftime,
and the busy mart, which now rings with
the joyous din of trade, become as lonely
and still as Carthage or Tyre, as Babylon
and Nneveh, but the names of the great
and good shall survive the DISSOLUTION and
the ruin; the memory of the wise, the brave,
the patriotic, shall never perish. Yes spar
ia is wheatfeld Bavarian prince holds
court at the foot of the Acropolis; the trav-
elling virtuoso digs for marble in the Ro-
man Forum and beneath the ruins of the
temple of Jupiter Capitolieus but Lycur.
gus and Leonidas, and Ml,iaders and De.
moslhenes, and Gotta aud FULLY "stiIl 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 shall have perished
they shall "still live" in memory, so long
as memory shall reverence law, and honor
Patriotism, and love Liberty.
n Il Il X 4
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 10 her nurtering
Boston, is there name which shines with
brighter lustre than his? Seventy two
years ago this day the Constitution of the
United States was rendered TO the accept
ance 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 unfold its principles, assert
its purity, and 10 promote its duration?
Here, then, under the cope of Heaven
here, on this lovely eminence; here beneath
the walls OF the Capitol of old Massachus
etts here, within the sight of those fail
New England villages here, in the near vi
cinity Of the graves of those who planted
the germs of all this palmy growth here
within the sound of sacred bells, we raise
this monument, with loving hearts, TO the
Statesman, the Patriot, the Fellow-C Citizen
the Neighbor, the Friend. Long may il
guard the approach of these halls Of coun
Gil; long may it look out upon prosper
Gus country and it days OF trial and disas
ter should come, and the arm of flesh
should fail, doubt not that the monumental
form would descend from its pedestal, &c
stand in the front rank of the peril, and the
bronze lips repeat the cry OF the living
voice-"Liberiy and Union, now and iorev'
er, one inseparabep'
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