Holmes County farmer. [volume] (Millersburg, Ohio) 1857-1926, 1863-12-03
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From the Detroit Free Press.
The Patriot and Scholar
"a d d r E s s
Or
c. L. VALLANDIGHAM,
TO THE
students OF the University,
November IA, 1858.

Notwithstanding the very inclement
weather on Saturday. large body of
Students of the University of Michigan
came down on the morning train for
formal visit to Nj. Vallandigham. They
proceeded to Windsor at IL o'clock,
where the large dining hall Of the Hi
rons House had been set apart for the
meeting. The hsll was crowded, there
being present, in addition to the students,
several prominent citizens Of Detroit.
Mr.. Valandigham was addressed on
behalf of the students by Mr.. G. A
Buskirk. This address was eloquent and
patriotic. We regret the want of space
prevents its publication. At the conclu-
sion of the address Mr.. A. S. McAlis-
ter, Chairman of the Delegation, intro
duced Hon. g. Il. ValIandigham, who,
thanking the students for the compliment
of visit, addressed them as follows :
| thank you, young gentlemen, for
this visit. | thank you, sir, especially,
Mr.. Buskirk, for the compliments so
handsomely expressed on behalf of your
fellows. The applause of the young is
the highest praise. They speak the Ian
guage of the coming generation and an
ticipate the judgment of posterity. TO
that judgment il it be so that my name
shall chance to live in the record Of these
times, | long since appealed; and, mean
time, am willing to abide the scrutiny
which must precede it. Without furth.
er personal allusion, therefore, in reply
allow me to pass another subject and
if it be in my power. thus to change (
visit Of ceremony into one perhaps no
altogether without profit.
You are students. Some of you stil
pursue your classical and scientific stud
les; others prepare yourselves for pro
fessional pursuits; all of you are oagol
to rush into the great world, and be men,
Yet, in little while, when you have
borne it's builetings with lusty sinews,
not one of you but will exclam with Il
sigh,
" All happy ycrrs, who would not be boy
again"
But in the battle of life thero is no re
treat; but the brave spirits among you
and perish; you now but prepare your.
selves for a life Of action, and lust il
proportion a, you are disciplined every
way, you will be prepared to meet what
over fortune may botide you. &" Redeem
the time" There is no Injunction mor
suggestive, SO man, days and year
you have in pawn to the Almighty max
Ia. Al s...I
are reconed redeemed. which are speu
pr ftably either to the body or mind. -
7 Youth is not the season of ease or pleas
urc; but for labor and self-dcnial. Who
ever has practced these hardy virtue
when a boy and in early manhood, will
at forty, sound in mind and body. fin
the lawful and virtuons pleasures of iii
full of sweetness, Horace was right
Multa tulit iecitque pucr.
The more ingenious among you incu
another and widely differing hazard
You have endured heat and cold hav
restrained from lust and wine; have all
jured pleasure, or rather hav
found it in labor and study Your Wig
lis have &" outwatched the bear" Bu
youthful ambition is eager and impatient
1t sees nothing but Fames Proud Tenn
pie, and forgcts that it shines alar. !
seems not the long and wearisom
leagues of hill and valley, forest an
rock, of thcket and jungle which lie be
tween the goddess and her worshippers
1t couuts every moment Of difficulty an,
delay on the way, as moment lost
There is, indeed, n false goddess who's
fame is near and easy of access. llar
by is the altar of Mammon. Fraud
Falsehood and Violence are the jubilan
sibyls and priests. A tumultuous crow
of idolatrous and ablect worshipper
throng around, But Notorioty is nc
Fame, and her devotees soon perisl
Not such let your ambition be; but rath,
that which Pope and after him, Lon
e Mansfield, proclaimed tho pursuit
noble ends by noble means" aud your
too, that popularity which follows, NJ
that which is run after. But to obtai
this you must learn early that most di
ficultof all lessons--to labor and to wal
, At twenty you think forty an old ag
At forty. if you have disciplined yo,
, minds and not abused your bodies, yo
will find yourselves younger but far wis
= than you are to-day; and the hour
Al your death will seem more distant an
give you less concern. lou will fin
that there is lifetime yet before You
| and if you are cf strong will and
brave spirit and worthy of name
live, your past failures and defeats yo
will regard then as but probation an
d discipline. and, indeed as so many a
:: surances of final triumph Press on
4 but not in haste. The Master of Raven
wood chose wise motto and not ina
coat of arms---a bulls head, and 81 hi,
my time"
In one other thing be not mistaken
- You are not about to finish your studio
When you take leave of tho Universit
you but begin them. No man ever a
tanned great and enduring eminenc
without study--not always of books
, Men Of action have not leisure at |
times for books. But they are student
al al nevertheless. of the men and thin
so around them; and books are but the wr
" ten records Of things and men remote
OF of tho past. But they have this adva
tage, that whatever they record. has pa
>. scd through the alchemy of the gre
minds by whom they were written. An