The Democratic press. (Eaton, Preble County, Ohio) 1860-1865, 1863-11-26
EXTRACTS FROM AN address
TO TIE
Students Of Michigan Unlversl|
Lon. @. Z. ValEIndighanl'
AT WINDSOR, CIV.
ny TIE


Notwithstanding the very inclement wealth
er on Saturday, larI body of students Of
the University of Michigan came down on
the morning train for a formal visit to Mr..
Vallandgham. They proceeded to Winsdor
at eleven o'clock where large dining hall
Of the Hirons House had been set apart for
the meeting. The hallwas crowded.
k Mr.. Vsllandigham was addressed on be-
half Of the students by Mr.. G. A.! Buskirk,
At the conclusion Of the address Nr. A. $.
'McAlister, Chairman the Delegation; In,
troduce Hor c. L. Vallandlgham, whL
thanking the stude Is for the com?linen of
a visit addressed them a, e. lows
| thank yoa young gentlemen, for this
visit | hank You air, especially Mr.. Bus
kirk, r.r the combkmrnts so handsomely
expressed o6b5laIf Of your fellows. The
appla Se ofthe young is the highest praise.
They speak tho language Of the coming gen
eration, and anticipate the iud lment OF pos
terity. To that judgment, if it so be that
my name shall chance TO live IN the record
Of these times, long since appealed; and
meantime am content to abide the scrutiny
which must precede it. Without further
personal allusion, therefore, in reply. allow
me to pass the subject; and if it be in my
power, thus to change visit of ceremony
into one perhaps no. altogether without
profit .s
You nre students Some of YOU stll rur
sue your classical aud scientifc studleS
others prepare Yourselves for a .rof; ssioua,
pursuits all Of you are eager to rush inieI
the great world and be men. Yat, in d
little while, when you have borne It's Lufiet
ings with lusty sinews, not one Of you but
will exclaim with sigh
"Ah happy years, who would not be boy
again.
But in the battle oflife there is no retreat;
and the brave spirits among you will press
forward, AMI the weak falter and PERISH and
just in proportion as you are disciplined ev-
ry way, you vii! be ready to meet whatever
fortune may hetide you Redeem the
time. 1hereisno injunction more suggestive.
So many days, years you have in pawn to the
Almighty Maker Of heaven and earth; and
and these only are reckoned redeemed,
which are spent profitab'y either to the body
or the mind Youth is not the season for
case or pleasure but for labor and self.
denial. Whoever has practicod these vir-
tues when q boy and in early manhood,
will at forty, sonnd in mind and in body,
fid the lawful and virtuous pleasures OF lie
full OF sweetness. Horace was right
Multa tult fecitque putr.
The more ingenious among you incur an
other and widely differing hazard. You have
endurel heat and cold; have refraned from
lust and vine have abjured pleasure, or
rather have found it in labor and study
Your vigils have "outwatched the bear But
youthful ambition is eager and imptlient
II sees nothing but Fame's Proud Temple,
and forgets that it shines aiar. 1t sees not
the long and wearisome eauges Of hill and
valley, of forest and rock, of thicket and
jungle which lie between the goddess and her
worshippers. Il counts every moment of
delay and difficulty on the way, asa moment
lost. There is indeed false goddess whose
fame is'rear and easy Of access. Hard byis
the altar of Mammon Fraud, Fasehood
and Violence are their joint sybils and priest
A tumultious crowd ofidolatrous and abject
worShprrs tlruny around But Noorrty is
OF Fame, nd her devOtecs sooh peri h.
Not such let YOU amMiion b.
In Ot' .er th, ! be net mi. aken.-
You are not ab14t to iin,sil your ul,rN.-'
When you take leave Oi the University, you
bat begin them. No man ever attained great
and enduring e,u ,nence. W. thout s,udy-nO
always OF books. Men Of action nave not
leisure at all times for bucks. But they are
students nevertheless, OF the men aud things
around them; aud books are but the written
records Of men and things remote or ol the
past But tney nave this advantage that
wnslever tley record, has passed rhrougn
tng alchemy VI Tue y:eat minds by whom
lLey were written.