Lynchburg daily Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1852-1861, 1860-07-10

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| Of cislised life.-thaugh surly no mean
achisyeinsak, rs by means the wbic q thr
y<ork allltted to the United States, snd thu far
tsrlraa With signal activity. intelligence ,asnd
s6eees@ The Founders = Aess'sa ana tne -
tkIar.. IL The basis ofasn1A geo8ssphd ex-
,sn.ses. "a with the i&se q ieensing nuabers,
thew have. In the very infafsy II their political
cri.tenre. successfully misued ~ higher progress
In a generous civilization. The mechanical arts
have bcen cultivated with unusual aptitude
Axvisu,ssss. ~Msssasssssea,~ csanssss.- -AAsiea:
,isn,, whether By saih " sesam. and rs ar. o
surprising skin. Great ipprovemsnis, haye been
made in all ,hsss branches II indus,fy. 4pd )h tts
eagerly adopted in Europe. A more adequate
pr"vi. IN hss bsss esss9s fpr p"puasr edleation
than in aimost any 6tAer eountry. bsi,e.e that
in the cities Of d ,s,on, New York, and PhIladel-
phin. more money in proportion TO the population,
!. rai.sd BY taxation lof the suppors Of cch,mon
school-, than in any other cities In the w"rid.-
There are more seminaries Ii the United States,
where a respectable scsdemiosl edacotldn can be
obtained, IN re i sdl mean IN proportion to the
reputation, than IN amy cshss eouatry except
Germany The Fine Arts have resched II high
degree Of excellence. The lasts for music l'rapld
" .nrealing in t,wn md country; and every
year witassscs predictions isem The pencil and
The chi.eT ~ Ameste~n seulpsovs asd paoters.
which would ad,.ra any gallery 10 the world
Our As,rouoassvs, MniirssnaAieians. katnralists,
Chemists. Engineer, Jufisis.. paldicisrs, His
torians, Potts, 1Ksveiiss. anA photographers,
have placed theusriess on n level with 'hose Ut
the elder world, : The best dictiunaries Of the
Ergli,l, Language aimee Johnson. Rre those pub
li,npi in A,nefica. Our Consultations. whether Of
the United States 0r 0f the separate Sta'cs. ex-
cude all public ovi-i"a for the maintenance Of
Religion. butin ~ part Of Christendom is it more
generously Supported, Sacred Science il pursued
M dill gently aud tile polpit commands a. high a
degree Of respsst IN the Unitsd Satee. as in those
countries where thu Church h pablicaliy endowed;
while the American Missionary operations have
won the admiration of The civilized world. No
whore. am persunded. are there more liberal
cunirihu,i"ns to philosophical and charitable OBJ
i1cts In word, there Is no branch Of the mech
nucal or hne arts. department. of science. exact
or npnch, no firm ofp.liss literature. on deecrip-
ton Of social improvement and re-ourccs nj com
maud, in which the prgressof tho U. s. has not
been -ntisfaciory and In some respeeta astonishing.
A. this moment Tho rivers and seas Of the globo
are nayigated with thss marvellous application OF
s,cnn M propcliing power which was 6rst effected
hv Fulton; the munster steamship. which has Just
reached our shores, rfiss At anchor in tho winter,
ia which the frat successful experiment Of steam
Navigation was mads. Tho harves,s OF the civil
new srnrer. widwh ilAad the journalism of Europe
are ,sip,nd on Amsricsn presses; thsrc are Rail
roads in Eur, 70 constructed by American Ensin-
Gers and travelled bv American locomotives; trnors
armed with Anerican Weapons. and shp"of-war
huill in American dork-yntds. Ia the f.c'orles OF
Europe there is machinery of Americn Invention
improvement; in their obscrvat"sies telescopes
of American r,ns rucion; AMI apparatus Of
American invention Gfr recoding tho celestial phe.
nomrnn. American contests with Europe the in
rrninction into actual OF the electric telegraph
and her mode OF operating 10 10 adopted through
out the French empire American aathors in al
most every department are found the shelves of
Eururenn libraries. Ii ia true. no American llo-
mer. Virgil. Dsnte. Crpernieus, Shakespeare. Ba'
con Milt n Newton, has risen On,the wUrI. These
mighty gcnuses seem b, he exceptions in the his
turv Of the human mind. Favorable circunlsnn-
do not produce them, nor does the absence
of favorable circumstances prevent their appear
rncc. Homer roee in the dawn Of Grec mn cul-
tur': Virgil faaished in the Court OF Augustus;
Dante uslered in the birth Of the NV Eurnpenn
c,ilznii n; Copsrnicna was reared in II Pplish
clhister: Shakespeare was trained in the green
room of a theatre: Milton was formed while the
elements Of English thought and life were fer
mcnting toward grent political and moral rcvo-
lu'i'n; Newton under the prohigacy Of the Rrso-
ration. Ages may clapsc before any country will
produce man like these; ns two centuries have
lnt II tits really II matter Ot reprOach to the
Untcd States TINT, in the comparatively short pc
r1'd Il / cir existence az reope, they llasn not
added another name "a this liustiious list (which
ls equally true OF all the other nations al The
cAr,ii.1 they may proudly boast Of one example Of
Me AMI character one career OF disinteres'ed ser
VIC, career of public virtue. one type of hu-
man excellence. Of which all the conntre. and all
tie ages may he searched in vain for the parallel.
| reed not ON this day need not,--sieak the
rccs,r>s unme. IL is stamped on yonr hearts, il
Il Ncns in yuur eyes, it il written IN overy pnge
1T Your history On the battle. fields Of the Revuu-
ton, IN tho monuments of yotr Fathers. on the
portals IT your Capitols. 1t 10 heard in every
lrrezc that whispers over the fields OF lnlerrn-
dent America And lie was all vurown liz
grow up on the sail nl Amerca; he was uurtured
NJ her bosom. She kved and trusted him in his
youth: she bonnrod aud revered him in his age;
nm. though she did net whit for death IL canun re
his name. his precious memory with ca h succeed
ing year, has sunk more deeply intn the hearts Of
hs country men t...t
But. u have already srntcd. it wns urged
against us IN the occasion alluded to, that with
Ia tho last sixty years the United States have de-
generated and that by u series Of changes At first
, apl arcntly inconsidciNbe. but all leading Ivy u
E'alual and steady progression to tho result, u
very diScredtable C ndtion Of things has been
brought about in this country. 7'7'
/ Without stating precisely what these supposed
changes are. this 'result is set forth in some.
what remarkable series Of reproachlul allegations,
D., far too numerous to be repeated in detail in whnt
remains Of this address. but implying in tho ny.
gresate, the general corruption Of the country, po-
litical. socia! and moral. The severity of these
3 rerroacnes is not materially softened by n few
t courteous words Of respect to the American reo.
/ pie. l shall in moment take for examination
two or three OF tho most serious Of these charges.
observing only at presentth prosperous condition
of The county, which have imperfectly tketcled.
and especially it. astonishing growth, during the