Indiana State sentinel. (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1863-11-23


the University of Michigan, at
windsor, C. w, Nov. Il.
- j. From the Detroit Free Pressl
Notwithstanding the very Indictment weather
on Saturday large body of students of the Uni
versity of Michigan came down on the morning
train for a formal visit to Mr. Vallandigham
They proceeded to Windsor at 4 / clock. where
the large dining ball of the Hirons House had
been set apart for the meeting The hall was
crowded, there being present, in addition to the
students, several prominent citizens of Detroit.
Mr.. yallaBdigham addressed on behalf of
the students BY Mr.. @. a. Buskirk. This ad-
dress was eloquent and patriotic. We regret that
want of space prevents its publication. At the
conclusion of the address, Mr.. A. S. McAhster.
chairman of the delegation, introduced Hon @.
l.. Valandigham, who. thanking the students for
the compliment of a visit, addressed them as fol-
lows: ~
thank you, young gentlemen, for this visit.
thank you. sir, especially. Mr.. BGskirk, for 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. and anticipate the judg-
ment of pOsterity. To that judgment, If it be so
that my name shall chance 10 live in the record
of these times, long since appealed and mean
time am content to abide the scrutiny which
must precede it. Without further personal allu-
sion, therefore, in reply, allow me to pass to an
other branch of the subject. and if it be in my
power thus to change visit of ceremony. into
one perhaps not altogether without profit.
You are students. Some of you still pursue
your classical aud scientific studies; others pre-
pare 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 bufletings with lusty snews, not one of
you but will exclaim with a Sigh
Sab, happy years, who would not be a boy again!''
But in the battle of lie there is no retreat. and
the brave spirits among you will press forward,
and the weak falter and perish; and. just in pro
portion as you are disciplined every way, you will
be ready to- meet whatever fortune may betide
you. REDEEM the time" There is no inunc
ton more 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 prOftably either to he
body or the mind. Youth is not the season for
ease OF pleasure, but for labor and self denial
Whoever has practiced these hardy virtues when
a boy and 10 early manhood, will at forty, sound
in mind and body, find the lawful and virtuous
pleasures of life full of sweetness. Horace was
right:
'Muta tulit fectque puer!'
| The more ingenious among YOU, incur another
and widely different hazard, You have endured
| heat and cold; have RETAINED from lust and
wint have abjured pleasure, orrather have found
il in labor and study. Your vigils have "out-
watched the bear" But youthful ambition is
eager and impatient. 1t sees nothing but Fame's
Proud Temple, and forgets that it shines afar.
IL see not the long aud 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 ofdelay
and difficulty the way a moment lost.
| There Is, indeed a false goddess whose fame is
near and easy of access: Hard by is the altar of
Mammon. Fraud, Falsehood and Violence
are their joint sybils and priests tumu:uous
crowd of idolatrous aud abiect wor-
shippers 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 Mans
field, proclaimed "the pursuit. of noble ends by
noble means" and yours, too, that popularity
which follows. not that which is run after. But,
20 obtain this, you must learn early that most
difficult of all lessons-tO labor and TO toait AT
twenty you think forty an old age. At forty, il
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 ant give you
less concern. You will feel that there is a life
time yet before you; and if you are of 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, as so many assurances of final triumph
| Press on, bet not in haste. The master of Rl-
venswood chose wise motto and not inapt coat
Of arms-a bulls head, and II bide 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-not always of books. Mer
of action have not leisure at all times for books
but they are students, nevertheless, of the mel
and things around them, and books are but the
written records of things and men remote or oil
the past; but they have this advantage that what
ever they record, has passed through the alchemy
OF the great minds by whom they were written
and, moreover, in them, we study men and things
Invested of the prejudces, the bigotries, and the
sef-interested influences of that which is present
in time or near in space. Especially is this tru,
of history-the most simplifying, lberalizins
in its effect upon the mind ard soul
eff all studies. He who remains bigot in any
thing has read history to little purpose. And hi
who would comprehend the present and discern
the future, must give his days and nights to th:
study. Prophecy unnspired, is but history an
tcipated. Read history, and learn that the patriot
the hero, the statesman, the orator whom yoJ
reverence or admire in the pages of Plutarch anC
Livy, or of Hume Gibbon and Macauley, wa,
revled and prosecuted in his own days, ana suf
fered death, it may have been at the hands of tn,
men of his own generation Ponder, too, tn,
wisdom of Moses, who, before the pleasures anC
honors of the Kings court, preferred rather thu
Red Sea and forty years in the wilderness, anC
death and unknown grave, that he might be
come great law giver. and the founder of new
religion and Of powerful people.
Most of you, young gentlemen. have read the
usual course of "aDcieDt classics" 1t is the
fashion of times to decry this study Blu
aside from the perennial pleasures through life
which he receives who seeks these precious
fountains, their practical value also will not b'
questioned hy him who reflects that our whole
language. and especially our scientific nomen
clature, is derived largely from the Greek anC
Latin, and that our entire literature is pervadeC
by the spirit of these classics, and full of quo
tations aud illusions drawn from them Cce
ro's magnificent eulogy upon The studies which
Archias taught, Is not at all exaggerated whei
applied TO the Grecian and Roman writing
which have come down to us. II the moderI
sculptor study the Apollo, BeIvidere and thu
Dying Gladiator why shall not the moderr
student learn the language Of the men whit
chiseled these wonderful creations out from
the solid marble? But most valuable as tn
mere discipline may be, it is not enough that yo'
content yourselves with the usual course now pre-
scribed in school or in college. These writing
must be study, more or less, through life. LIE
not any say that he has mo time There is al
WAYS time and way, for whatever a strong will
ed, diligent may choose to undertake
What is most wanted is a judicious economy o
time, and wise division Of it in the multpcit,
of employment, that but one thing shall b
doue at time
majority of you, young gentlemen. are pre-
pairing yourselves for professional pursuits. Who
ever would become a Christian clergyman, lie
him preach the evangely of Bethlehem. Let hin