Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1863-11-28
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THE PATRIOT AND SCHOLAR.
Address Of Hon. C. l.. vallandIg ham to
the Students Of the University, Novem-
Der l4,lls68s I
lrren lhe palrall Htse prss., Nov. is.l

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| 2 From the pslroil Free Press, Nov. ISL
| Notwithstanding avery inolsment weather
on Saturday, q large body Of students OF thl
University OF Michigan came, down on th'
morning train for formal visit TO Mr.. Val
llandigbam, They proceeded TO Windsor al
eleven O'Clock, where the large dining hall Of tht
Hlrops house had been set apart for the meeting
The hall was crowded, there being present, II
addition to ths studente, several prominent oil
zen, Of Dshot. .y,f NJ %. q lrp.I
Mr.. vallandigbsm was addressed on behsl
Of the students by Mr.. g. A. BuskiIk. ThiI
address was eloquent and patriotic. We regre
that want Of space prevents Its publication. {;
AZ tha conclusion Of she address, Mr. A. 9
McAlisteT, chsirmsn Of tho delegation, intro
duced Hon. G, L, ysllsndlghams who, thank.
| Ing The students for the compliment of visit
addfeased them as Follows. g trsI
Ithsuk you, young gentlemen, for this visit
thank you sir, especially, Mr.. Buskirk, for
the compliments 60 handsomely exptes,ed on
behalf Of your felloWs. The applause of the
young 10 the highest praise. They speak the
language of the, coming generation, and anti
cipate the judgment Of posterlty. To that
Judgement, IL IL 90 be that my name thsll
chance TO live Id the record of theas times,
long since appealed, and meantime am content
to abide the scrutiny which must preoede IT,
Without fur;her personal allusion, therefore,
In reply, allow me to psss to another subject:
and If IL be in my power, thus to change visit
of cermony into one perhaps nos altogether
without profit. ...
You are students. Some of You still pursue
your classical and scientific studies; others pre-
pare yourselves for professional pursuits; all Of
you are eager to push into the gieat world, and
be men. Yet, In little while when you have
born ils buffe,ings With lusty sinews, not one
of you bus will exclaim with sigh: cu
"Aht happy years, who would not be boy
again" iS'
But In the battle of life there is no retreat,
and the brave spirits among you will prees for
| ward, and the weak falter and perish; and just
In proportion ss you are deoIplined every way,
you will be rea1y to meet whatever fortune may
betide you. "Redeem the time" There ls no
Injunction more suggestive. So many days and
years you have In pawn to the Almighty Maker
Of Heaven aud Earth; and those only are reck.
oned redeemed, which are spent proftaby either
| to Che body or mind Youth is not the sossoi
for ease or plessu but for labor and self.de-
NAL. Whoever has practlced these harry viz
tues when boy and In early manhood, viii, at
forty, sound in mind and body, fnd the lawful
and virtuous pleasure Of life, full OF sweetness.
Horace was right: g
Multa tulit fecitque quer.
The more ingenious among you lno9r ano.h,
dured heat and cold; have refrained from lps,
and wine; have ablured pleasure, or rather have
found IL In labor and study. Your vigils have
"outWatched the bear" But youthful ambition
10 eager and impatient. IL sees nothing but
James proud temple, and forge.s that It shines
afar. II sees not the long and wearlsome
leagues Of hill and valley, of forest and rock,
OF thicket and jungle which lie between the
goddess and her worshipers. Il counts every
moment Of delay and difficulty on the way, a.
Q moment lost. There is, indeed, false god
dess whose fame is rear and easy OF accsss
Hard by is the altar Of mammon. Fraud,
falsehood and violence are theirjoint sibyls and
priests. A tumultuous crowd of idolatrous and
abject worahipers throng around. Bat notorIey
10 not famo, and her devosees soon perish -
Not suoh lot your ambition be; but rather that
which Pope and after him, Lord Mansfield.
proclaimed "the pursuit Of noble ends by noble
means," and yours, too, that popularity which
follows, mot that which isru after Bat to obtain
this you must learn early that post difHcutt
OF ell lessone-to labor and 10 wait At TWEEN
~ you think forty an old sge. At iorty, II you
have disciplined your minds and MT abused
your bodies, you will find yourselves younger
but far wiser than you are to-day; and the hour
OF your death will seem more distant end give
you less concern. You will feel that there Ia
| life time yet before you; and II you sre OF q
strong will and brave spirit and worthy Of
name 70 live, your past failures aud defeats
you will regard then as but probation aud dis-
oipline, and, indeed, 40 40 many assurances Of
hnal triumph. Press on! but not In haste.-
The Master Of RavensWood chose wise motto
and not inaps coat Of arns-a bull q head, and,
~ bide my tme."- I't 20.
In one other thing be not mistaken. You
are not about to finish your etudles. When
you take leave Of the University, you but be-
gin them. No man ever attained great and
enduring eminence, without study-not always
Of books. Men Of action have no, leisure al
oil times for books. But they are students
nevertheless, Of the men and things around
them, and books ere but the written records Of
things and men remote or Of the past. Bot
they have this advantage, that whatever they
record, has passed through the slcht nv Of the
great minds BY whom they were written; And,
moreover, In them We study men and thipgs
divested OF the prejudioes, the blgotries, and
the Helf-interested Influences Of that which ID
present In time or near in space. Especially
10 this true Of history - the most simplifying.
libefailsing in its effect upon the mind and aoul,
Of all studies. He who remains bigot in
anything has read history to little purpose. -
Aud he who would comprehend the present and
discern the future must give bic days and tights
10 this study. Prophecy unlnspred is but his
tory anticipated. Read history, and learn that
the patriot, the hero, the statesmen, the orator
whom you reverence or admire 10 the pages OF
Plutaroh and Livy, OF Of Hume, Gibbon and
MdCsulsy, wss revlled and persecuted In his
Iown day, and suffered death, Il may bsye been,
at the hands OF the men of his own generation.
Ponder, too, the wisdom of Moses, who, before
the pleasures and honors Of the Kings court,
preferred rather the Red Sea and forty years In
the wilderness, and death and On unknown
grave, that he might become great Law gives,
and the founder ofa new religion and Of .
powerful people. sr .ofo3t .s,ee 3lY.ta
Most Of you, young gentlemen, have read
1.-The usual course Of "anrient classics" Il is
the fashion Of our times to decry this study.
But aside from the perennial pleasure through
life, which be receives who seeks these precious
fountains, their practical value also will not be
questioned BY him who reflects that our whole
language, and especially our scientific nomen-
clatute, IL derived largely from the Greek aud
Latin, and that our entire literature 10 pervaded
By the spirit Of these classics, and full Of quo
tations and sllusons drawn from them. Clcero's
magnificent eulogy upon the Studies which Ar
ohias. taught, 10 not at ell exaggerated when