New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1862-02-24
CEI, EBRATION BY THE SEVENTH REGl-
ME\r

An entertainment was given al the Academy OF
Music by the 7th Regiment, National Guard Tor me
benefit Of the Volunteer Fund. In the afternoon tne
Rev. f. c. EVER OF California delivered On o'''i'n
on THE Obligations Of Mankind 10 Was peiuaGI
h.pe audience. The Grafton showed the pehe"'T |
effects which resulted from the Crnsades, vac
beneficial effects of upon literature 'toia.
q simulant and tonic upon al II nation 3 GU,
AID that ss literature was nations expression "
was the first 10 be revyi6ed, exalted ana ,a.
He paid high tribute 10 the memory o. ".,her.S
too speaking in glowing terms OF t'e Itch lis
blee-inps Which he and the struggle Ni'p -, nj.
name Is insepsrably bound have COME tlosno
sontius N, ona mon the world. Mr.. t., IN cioss,
sa,d. There il an era in national exis'euoe 49, ~;
this day, of which, though ciea' 10 , O00 wears
propheiic mind did not Dream III VIC - 81 N. !
tef,re Christ The world was IN It's hIht gy''' po,ne
60 a. Tia Great nations were cllies' honie,
A,Lers Carthage Jerusalem, Babylon, Occupy sne
,soes of bistory. In the OJJ years 10" .iOsre %
rw,rd hss been III the second cycle OF hationai my
Ia orea, nations have been States. France; austin,
SO England Italy Prus-ia--those. al tIst class
pnwers tweu occupy the pages oil us history
Ru, il needs 40 prophetic eye 10 see ina, tbe'e a.
seeming 10 the world is third cycle OF nanolhi ne
Cod, n HE developments, never repeats nins .hou
$, - advances. A cycle in which ns nations email
a. he rs at first cities shall not lie as at secono'
e,tes but shall be truly great countries, a"or. wv
t,ueptal In their proportions and power r,ano "a
England end Austria and Prussia, ana i'''S a"N
Grsin and HOLLAND and Denmark, and Germany 'occu
together territory VI i,',V''V' non III
possess together "A population oil ioy'.ooSvo. w.. IN
Eo,tbern. Middle Southern and Western States eA-
elu,iye of the Territories and Of the Paec are 9o
cupyipp to-day 10000 square miles, anu ~ wv
raiio Of increase whereunoer they have grown e'
speedily within the lifetime OF many OF our smso,
haired men. from three 10 thirty millions, how many
decades would THE country require 10 10 On n?n'
thirty 10 one hundred and sixty miilons "uo,'
ex,lIsive Of her Siberian possessions, oecules
r;tory of 100000 square miles; ana now uiao}
decade. will she require 10 increase ber siA', ~:
Hons no one hundred and twenty Inc postipiI'y
~ snch trnlv gigantic powers-equal each OF 'he,i
% Ill the Oeat States together Of the second cyoe
- na,onai Ee-.is for the present only 10 De lounu
a. ,,so ;os,ances in the W orld Russia and America
W ars Lnt Infants az yet, for the new and thifu
rxcs ia bu, dawning But though infants they
stand az peers of the grown men OF western E III
rome. TAprlausel And true 10 the purposes Oh 'ne
fnure in Inc birth of this new progeny OF hatiopS,
one of the brothers is in trouble, whether IN 'ne VII
man or AZ Manassas lis twin IL stirred with ntefee'
and frslernal anxiety. Applause Eighty years IL
a. nothing TO such country. Thus 1ar We nave a.
a nation been struggling, not so much TO i've ~
gel successfully into existence. 1be loea OIL S S
1;obts of Secession and OF small countries as nrs
elias, Powers belongs TO cycle OF the woild w9icl
is now closing. ZAP lause.l Sir, there Is you y
Heaven And the great question TO De oeei1ep nov
and by war IT, is Of this new progeny oi 'ne W
tiops OF the future 10 be successfully DOrh' OF
II TO be strangled in the birth by western european
ian and the past Applause. Rising 10 tne %, ulg
rity of her destiny in the future Americans WIZ nc
let Washington's America die. Long appi"u'e'l