Daily State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1863-11-20
Patriotic Sentiments Eioqucotiy Ex-
pressed--Address OF Hon. Clement
a.. vaiIsndigham to the students OF
the University OF michigan, ut
windsor ws nov -


From the Detroit Frec Press.
notwithstanding the very Indictment weather
o. saturday, large body Of students Of The Uni
verify OF Michigan came down on the morning
train fos formal visit 20 Mr Val!andigham.
They proceeded 70 Windsor al II O'Clock. where
the large dining han ~ the Hir0n- House had
been set apart tor the meetu. The hall Wa
crowded. there being present. IA addition to the
students. several prominent citizens OF Detroit.
Mr. ValIandigham was addressed on behaIfof
the students b. Mr. c. A Buskifk This ad
dress WIS eloquent and patriotic. We regret that
want of space prevents its publication At the
conclusion OF the address. Mr.. A McAhster.
chairman Of the delegation. inuOdacef Hon y.
l.. Vallniigham. who. thanking the stuients for
the compliment of a visit, addressed them as fol
lows:
/ thank you, young gentlemen. foe this wit.
thank you, sir, especially, Mr.. Buskirk. for the
compliments 50 handsomely expressed on behalf
OF your fellows. The applause OF tire yonng Is
the highest praise. They speak Ire language OF
the coming generation. and anticipate the iudg-
ment OF posteriiy. To that Judgment. II il be so
that my name shall chance TO live ia the record
OF these times, long since appealed and mean
time am content to abide the scrutiny which
must preceie IL Without further personal allu-
sion. therefore. in reply, allow me TO pass to an
other branch of the subject. and If il be in my
power thus to change visit of ceremony into
one perhaps not altogether without profit
You are students. Some Of YOU stll pursue
your classical and scientific studies; Others pre-
pare yourselves for professional pursuits; AL Of
you are eager to rush into the great world and be
men. Yet. in a little while when you have
borne its bufletings with lusty sinews, not one OF
YOU but sill exclaim with sigh
"Ah. happy years, who would not be boy again.
But in the battle OF life there j. no retreat. and
the brave spirits among you will press forward ,
and the weak falter and perish; and. Just in pro
portion YOU are disciplined every way, YOU will
be ready to meet whatever fortune may betide
you. Redeem the time." There Is no injunc
ton mole suggestive. So many days and years
You have IN pawn TO the Almighty Maker of
heaven and earth and those only reckoned
redeemed which are spent prohtaby either to he
body the mind. Youth l. not the season for
e,,e or pleasure. but for hbor and sell denial
Whoever has practced these hardy virtues when
boy and IN early manhood, will, at forty, sound
IN mind and body find the lawful and virtuOus
pleasures of lie full of sweetness Horace was
right:
"iiulta tulft fecitque puer."
The more ingenious among YOU. incur another
and widely different hazard. You have endured
heat and cold have Ieiraiucd from lust and
win, have abjured pleasure. or rather have found
il in labor aud study Your vigils have "out-
watch,d the bear" But youthful ambition is
eager aud impatient. liz sees nothing but Fame's
Prond Temple. aud iorgets that it shines at'r
1t see not TIE long aud weariSOme leagues oil bill
and valley, ct forest and rock, of th.Ckct and
Jungle which lie between the goddess and ner
worshlpeis IL counts every moment OF delay
and difficulty oil the way Is mOment lost.
There j.. indeed, false goddess whose fame is
near aud easy of access Hard by IL the altar of
Mammon. Fraud, Falsehood and Violence
their Joint syhils and priests A tumultuous
crowd Of idolatrous aud abject
shippers throns around But notorety
is not tame. and her deyotees soon
perish. Not such let your ambition be; but
rather that which Pope, and after him Lord Mans
field. proelamed 1.-The pursuit. of noble ends by
noble means,' and yours. too, that popularity
which follows, not that which il run after But
Ia obtain this. YOU must learn early that most
difficult OF all lessous-to labor and 10 irau At
twenty YOU think forty su old age. AT forty, if
YOU have disciplined your minds and not abused
your bodies, YOU will fud yourselves younger but
far wiser than you to day; and the hour OF
your death will seem more distant ant. give you
less concern. You will feel that there is life
time yet before you; and il YOU are OF a strong
will and brave spirit and worthy of name TO
live. your past failures and defeats you will re
gard them as but probations and discipline. and.
indeed, many assurances of final triumph
Press Oh, bit not IN haste The master OF Rl-
venswood chose wise motto and not inipt coat
of alms-a bulls head, and 81 bde my time"
In one other thing be not mistaken You are
about To finish your studies When You take
leave OF the University, YOU but begin them
No man ever attained great and enduring emf
nence. without study-uOf always of books. Men
of action have not leisure at all times tor books;
kutt haV str rartk 10 a-g Of no ,nft
and things around them. and books but the
written records OF things and men remote or of
the past: but they have this advantage that what
ever they reeori, has passed through the alchemy
oil the great minds by whom they were written;
and, moreover IN them. study men and things
Invested OF the prejudices. the bigotreS, and the
self interested influences Of that which is present
ia time or near in space. Especially j. This true
of history--the most amplifying libealizing
in it, effect upon the mind ard soul.
eff all studies. He who remains hgot in any
thing has read history to little purpose. Aud he
who would comprehend the present aud discern
the future. must give his DAYS aud nights To this
study Prophecy uninspted is but history an
ticipated. Read history and learn that the patriot.
the hero, the statesman, the orator whom YOU
reverence car admire in the pages of Plutirch and
Livy, car OF Hume. Gibbon and Macsuley. was
revile aud prosecuted in hi> own days and sut
uehll. htNthttll. NJ lns uailuS OF tne
men ot his own generation. Ponder, too. the
wisdom 0i Moses, who, before the pleasures and
honors of the Kings court. preferred rather the
Red Sea and forty years IN tie wilderness, ana
death and an unknown grave, that he might be
come great law giver. ana the founder OF n new
religion and OF a powerful people.
Most OF you, young gentlemen. have read the
usual course OF ancient classics . IL - the
fashion OF our times 10 decry this study But
aside from the perennial pleasures through ite
which he receives who seeks these precious
fountains, their practical value also will not Ice
questioned by him who reflects that our whole
language, aud especially our scientiir nomen
-latnre. il derived largely from The Greek and
Latin aud that our entire literature j. pervaded
b, the snlut OF these classics and full OF QUO
tatious and illusions drawn from them. Cice
ros magnificent eulogt upon The studies which
Archias taught. i not 40 all exaggerated when
applied to the Grecan and Roman writings
which have come down 90 us II the modern
sculptor study the Apollo. Bel,idere aud the
DYING Gladiator. Why shall not the modern
student learn the language Of the men who
chiseled tAsse wonderful creations out from
the solid marhley But mos, valuable as the
mere discipline may be. u /. not enough that YOU
content yourselves with the usual course now pre-
.cribed IN school or IN college These writings
masi he q study more or less. through life. Let
not an, say that he has mo time j." There j. al
aavs time and q way, for whatever strong will
ed diHgent man may choose 20 undertake
What most wanted j. y judcious economy Ut
time and i. wise division al Il IN the multiplicity