The Cadiz Democratic sentinel. [volume] (Cadiz, Ohio) 1854-1864, 1863-11-25


6 many days and years you have in pawn t
the Almighty Maker OF heaven and earth
f" and those only are reconed redeemed, whjcl
, are spent profitably either to the body o
the mind. Youth is not the season for cas-
0 or pleasure; but for labor and self denial.-
Whoever has practiced these hardy virtue
: when boy and in early manhood, will, q
! forty, sound in mind and body, and the law
) fnl and yirtuous pleasures Of Life full ofsweet
ness. Horace was right:
Multa tulit feeitque puer.
The more Ingenious among you incur am
other and widely differing hazard. Yor
have endured heat and cold ; have reirained
!, from lust and wine: haze a6jured pleasure
/, or rather have found it in labor and study
Your vigils have "outwaiehGd the bear ~
r But youthful ambition IS eager and impa.
tient. 1t sees nothing but Fame's PROUD
Temple, and forgets that it shines ahr. L
{ sees not the long and wearisoms leagues o
hill and valley, Of forest and rock. Of thicke
and jungle which lie between the goddess
and her worshipers. 1t counts every mo.
ment OF delay and difficulty on the way, as
q moment lost. There Is, indeed, false god
dess whose fame is near and easy OF access. :
Hard by is the alter OF Mammon. Fraud
Falsehood and Violence are thsir joint sibyli
and priests. A tumutuous crowd Of idola
irous and abject woIshipers throng around
But Notoriety is not Fame, and her devotee,
soon perish. Not such let your Ambition
be; but rather that which Pope and ailel
him, Lord Mansfield, proclaimed "the pur.
suit Of noblc enss by noble means" and
/ yours, too, that popularity which follows
not that which is run after. But to obtain
this you must learn early that most difficult
OF all lessoRs--To LABOR AND TO WATT Al
twenty you think orty an old age. At forty
il you have disciplined your minds nnd not
abused your bodies, you will fnd yourselye.
younger but far wiser than you are to- day
and the hour ofyour death will seem more
distant and give you less concern. You will
feel that there is LIFETIME yet before YOU
and If you are Of a strong will and brave spir
it and worthy OF name to live, your past
failures and defeats you will regard then as
hut probation and discipline, and, hoard in
deed, as so many assurance Of final triumph.
Press on! but not in haste. The Master oil
Rayensw God chose wise motto and not In
apt coat OF arms-a bnlls head, and, ~ bide
my time"
In one other thing be not mistaken. You
are not about to finish your studies. When
you take leave Of the University you but
begin thom. No man ever attained great
and enduring eminence, without study.-not
always OF books. Men of action have not
leisure at all times Tor books. But they are
students, nevertheless, oil the men and things
around them; and books are but the written
records of things and men remote or ol tho
past But they have this advantage, that
whatever they record, has passed through
the alchemy OF the great minds by wh1n
!hey were written. And, moreover, in them
We study men and things divested Of the
prejudices, the bigotrles, and the self inter
csted influences Of that which is prcsent in
time or near in space. Especially is this
true Of history-the most alnplifyirg, liber.
alizing in its effect upon the mind and soul.
OF all studies. lie who remains a bigot in
any thing has read history to little purpose.
And he who would compi ehend the preson.
and discern the future, must give bis days
and nights to this study. Prophesy unin-
spircd, is but history anticipated. Read his
tory, and learn that the patriot, the hero
the statesman, the orator whom you revcr.
erence or admire in the pages OF Plu.
tarch or Livy, or Of llume, Gibbon and Ma.
caulay, was reviled and prosecuted in his
own day, and suffered death, it may have
been, at tho hands Of the men of his own
generation. Ponder. too the wisdom OF Mo.
SOS, who, before the pleasures and honors OF
the Kings court, preferred rather the Rod
Sea and iorty years IN the wilderness, and
death and an unknown grave, that he might
become great law,giver and the founder OF
q rev religion and Of powerful people.
Most of you, young gentleman have read
the usual coarse Of "ancient classics" 1t is
tho fashion OF our times to decry this study.
But aside from the perennial pleasure thro'
life, which he receives who seeks these pre-
cious fountains, their practical value also
will not be questioned by him who reflects
that our whole language, and especially our
scientific nomenclature, is derived largely
from the Greek and Latin. and that our en-
tire literature is pervaded blythe spiritof these
clossics and full OF quotations and illusions
drawn from thcm Cicero's magnificent eu.
logy upon the studies which Archas taught
is not at all exaggerated when applied to the
Grecian and Roman writings which have
come down to us. II the modern sculptor
study the Appollo, Belvidere and the Dying
Gladiator, why shall not the modern student
these wonderful creations out from the solid I
marble? But most valuable as the mere dis
cipline may be, it is not enough that you
content yourselves with the usual course now
prescribed IN school'or the college. These
writings must be study, more or less, thro'
life. Let not any say that be has "no time"
There is always time and way, for what,
ever a strong willed, diligent man may
choose to undertake What is most wanted
is judicious economy OF time, and wise
division OF it in the multiplicity OF employ
ments, SO that but one thing shall be done
al g time. .t,.. rl....
A majority oil you, yourg gentleman, are
preparing yourselves for professional pur,
suits. Whoever would become Christian
clergyman, let him preach the evangely Of
Bethlehem. Let him confine himself to his
legitimate duties and aspire to be the most
faithful and exemplary of the men OF his
calling.
Whoever would practice surgery and me
dicine, let his ambition be to reach as nearly
as possible, or to excel. the requirements and
skill OF the great men who, in ancient and
modern times, have been the ornaments of {
that profession. The novun, organum OF
medicine romans to be written. and he who
is to write it has not as yet appeared. Why /
should he not be an American? Why not ,
adorn the University OF Michigan? II
And you young gentlemen, who prepare
Tor the profession of the law, will have q no ,
bier thester to act in than any who have
gone before you IN the United States. Out |
ol the terrible revolution which now convul. q
'es every part OF our unhappy land, will a. i
rise questions OF constitutional and statue c
law, ofpersonal liberty, OF private right, of l.
property, OF life, grander more numerous, d
more infinite in variety, and more perplex f