Dayton daily empire. [volume] (Dayton [Ohio]) 1850-1865, 1863-11-19

Versity.
Notwithstanding the very Indictment wealth
er on Saturday, n large body OF students OF
the University Of Michigan came down on the
morning train for formal visit to Mr.. Val
landgham. They proceeded TO Windsor at
eleven o'clock, where the large dining hall
of the llrons House had been set apart Tor
the meeting. The hall WIS crowded, there be-
ing present. in addition to the students, sever
al prominent citizens Of Detroit.
Mr. Vallandigham was addressed on behalf
Of the students by Mr. G. A. Buskirk This
address was eloquent aud patriotic. We re-
gret that want Of space prevents its publica-
ton. At the conclusion Of the address, Mr.
A. S. McAlster, Chairman Of the delegation,
introduced Hon. C. L. Nallandgham, Who
thanking the students for the compliment oi u
visit, addressed them as follows;
/ thank you, young gentlemen, for this visit
thank you, sir, especially, Mr. Busklrk Tor
the compliments so handsomely expressed on
behalf OF your fellows The applause Of the
Young is the highest praise. They speak the
language Of the coming generation, aud autic-
ipate the Judgment of posteriiy. To that
Judgment, if itsO he that my name shall chance
to live ia the record of these times. | long
since appealed, and, meantime, am content to
abide the scrutiny which must precede 1t
Without further personal allusion, therefore,
Ia reply, allow me to pass to another subject;
and, fit se in my power, thus to change a
visit OF ceremony, into one perhaps not alto
gether without profit
You are students. Some Of you still pursue
your classical and scientific studlesi others
prepare yourselves for professional pursuits :
all of you are eager to rush into the great
world, and be men. Yet in " little while,
when YOU have borne its bul1etings with lusty
sinews, not one of you but will oxclaim with a
sigh
"Ahl happy years, who would not be a boy agsinr
But in the battle Of life there is no retreat,
and the brave spirits among you will press
forward, and the weak falter aud perish and
lust in proportion ms YOU are disciplined every
way, you will be ready to meet whatever Tor
tune may betide you. REDEEM the time. -
There is no injunction more suggestive SO
many days and years you have in pawn,o the
Almighty Maker of heaven and earth; and
those only are reckored redeemed, which are
spent proftably either to the body or the mind.
Youth is not the season for case or pleasure;
but for labor and and sefdeuial, Whoever
has praetised these hardy virtues when boy
and in early manhood, viii, at forty, sound in
mind and body, find the lawful and viriuous
pleasures of life, full OF sweetness, Horace
was right:
AIul,a tulit ierltque Pucr.
The more ingenious among you incur an
other and widely differing hazard You have
endured heat and cold have RETAINED from
lust and wine; have abured pleasure, or rath-
er have found it in labor and study, Your
vigils have 'outwatched the bear But youth
ful ambition is eager and impatient 1t sees
nothing but Fames Proud Temple, and for
gets that it shines aiar 1t sees not the long
and wearisome leagues OF hill and valley, OF
forest and rock of thicket and Jungle which
lie between the goddess and her worshipers.
1t counts every moment Of delay and difficult
ty on the way, as moment lost There is,
indeed, false goddess whose fame IS near and
easy OF access. Hard by is the altar OF Mann
mon. Fraud, FalsehOod and Violence are
their Joint sibyls and priests A tumultuous
crowd of ,idolatrous and abject worshipers
throng around. But Notoriety is not Fame
and her devotees soon perish Not such let
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
not that which is run after But to obtain
this you must learn early that most difficult OF
all lessous--ro LABOR AND TO WAIT. AT twen
ty you think forty an old age At forty, if you
have disciplined your minds and not 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 and give
you less concern. You will feel that there is
life time yet before you; and if you are OF q
strong will and brave spirit and worthy OF q
name to live, your past failures and defeats
| you will regard then as hut probation disc
pne, and, indeed, as so many sasur
ancas OF final triumph. Press on but not in
haste. The Master of Rayenswood chose q
wise motto and not inapt coat of arms
| bull head, aud ~ bide my time
In one other thing be not mistaken You
are not about to finish your studies, Wher
you take leave of the University, you' but be
gin them. No man ever attained great anC
enduring eminence, without study-not always
Of books. Men of action have not leisure a
all times for books. Bnt they are students
nevertheless, of the men and things arounC
them; and books are but the written records
of things and men remote or ofthe past Blu
they have this advantage, that whatever they
record has passed through the alchemy of tn,
great minds byw whom they were written. And
moreover, in them we study men and thing
divested of the preiudioes, the bigotries, anC
the selfinterested influences of that which il
present in time or near in space. Especially
is this true of history--the most amplifying
liberaliziBg in its effect upon the mind an,
soul, ofal studies He who remains "a bigo
in anything has read history to little purpose
And he who would comprehend the presen
aud discern the future must give his day
and nights to this study. Prophecy uninspir
ed, is but history anticipated Read histor,
and learn that the patriot the hero the states
man ihn nrntnr uhnn unm rnuarnnrn or nd.