Burlington free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1827-1865, 1861-01-04
c.pr sCUuRZ,s LECTURE.

the great campaign, tHeh hai"4y 'S'
made a noted name entirely unnecessary, IN
order to a bearing. 1t was widely copied
and read. and thenceforth anything from
Carl ScuuRzue failed TO attract attention
and produce al effect. Throughout the cam
paign he was one of the ablegt and most in.
dustrious Republican workers, speaking not
only to his countrymer, the Germans Of the
great West (among whom he is very popular
and infuential,) but to great audiences
OF Americans, in city and country. And
he now shares with Kossuth the rare
fame Of g man of foreign birth and eluca-
ton who can address ca American audience
with command Of the language and gen
eral effect equal to that of our best orators.
Less artistic and elegant in his rhetoric, be
is more correct than Kossuth in his use of
English idioms, and his pronunciation is re
markable-whole sentences frequently show
ing not a trace Of foreign accent. This CON-
mand Of the language has been wholly &C
quired during bis nine years residence IN
this the country Of his adoption. His quiet
delivery in the lecture room, our readers viii
understand, gives little idea Of his power
when upon the stump, when reused by
stirring subject, and undertaking 10 move
and carry with him great audience. We
had the pleasure IF hearing in the wlSwam at
Chicago, his spirited and imprisoned reply
to the motion Of David WilmOt, to strike
out from the Republican platform the
fourteenth-the anti w-nothing-section,
and can assure cur readers that Mr.. SchuIz
is a true orator, as well as profound think
or and student Of history.
The Town Hall was crowded, Tuesday evening
with a cultivated and intelligent audience.
At eight O'Clock, Mr. SEIZURE was introduced
bv LIEUT.. GOV. Underwood. The lecture
was broad and philosophical discussion Of
the character Of american C.c'lizotion-the
dangers which threaten II, and soma of the
remedies therefor. The examples Of the
Nations Of Antiquity, in which as civiiiza-
tion advanced liberty declined, leads us, said
the lecturer, to ask il the progress OF civil
cation is really incompatible with the growth
of liberty. Must We be rade and brutal in
order to be free and ESQ, what is to be the
result OF the grand experiment now IN pro
gress on the American Continent. Like
moral causes viii produce ike effects
and if our Republic rests on the same found
alton as that Of Rome, it will share the same
fate. Mr.. SchuTz proceeded to describe the
character Of the ancient Republics, showing
that education and power were confined 10
the wealthy few. The higher the civiliza-
ton the greater vas the distinction between
the classes. the ignorant masses were the
tools OF tie rich and the demagogue, and
while asserting their power, they did it ~
pulling down those above them, not by ele-
waiting themselves. The upper classes sank,
but the lower classes did not rise Thus an
Gent civilization failed because it failed an
educating NE masses for Liberty.
How is it with the American Republic
Planted On virgin continent, enjoying
field Of acton such as no other ever possessed,
entering, too, into the heritage Of wisdom
and experience which the ages have treasured
;or it, to which all times and Gil nations con-
tribute, this Republic, as it is or duty to
see, contains within it the elements Of decline
as well as those Ct success.
The lecturer proceeded to show the differ
ences between the two forms of society o5-
tablisbed by the early founders Of the Re
public--th the Aristocracy Of Virginia and the
Democracy Of Plymouth Rock. The Pnri-
taus were the first TO establish th@ universal
education, by which alone, though there
may be other means Of taking the sovereign
V from tho hands Of tyrants, can the soyey-
eighty be placed il the hands Of the People.
The lordly proprietors Of the South brought
their aristocracy with them across the ocean
it did net arise from the system Of slavery,
but it found in it congenial element. At
the North. the Democratic principle did
away with slavery. At the South, slavery
prevented the supremacy Of the democratic
principle. From these two sources two cur
rents have flowed, one Of social distinctions
the other Of social equality. The question
which Of these shall impress its character on
our Institutions has already agitatcd the
country for fifty years, and i, is now the is
sue OF the day
The favoring effect of tie Northern eli
mate in developing the hardy virtues the
rroductiveness of Northern intellect ard the
comparative sterility Of Southern mind
the awkward r-cdicament Of tho South.
obliged to exclude ideas from without for
the security OF its slave property, and pro
dncing none Of its own, were touched upon
in turn.
The secession movement las Its
origin in the feeling % the part Of the slave
holders that their aristocracy will be over
wheimed by the progress Of democratic ideas.
unless tLey reconstruct the government in
TO its protection.
MessEs. Rhett and Keitt have made and
announced the discovery that the chief END
o. government is the protection Of property
and in order to the protection Of their pscu-
liar property they propose to make gov
errnent suited to it. The means to this
wlIi be tho combining Of all power 10 the
wealthy landholders, the maintenance OF |
great estates hy entails and laws of prime !
gen'ure' q State Church (as a model for
which Mr. schurS recommended the Russian
Church. or the Church OF England and
& stau@i : army. If the secessiorists sbopid
sue, eu4 II securing degree OF durability in
ti,.ir lstitutioBe-which would denend |
parity tee availability of their resources
a Id materials, and partly On the compassion
ana !o.bsarance of other nations de-
gree Of activity and productiveness might be
rIsioIcI 10 The Southern intellect.
TIE lecturer next defined the doctrine Of
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