Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1865-09-22
Racy characteristics.


On the 25th ultimo, the annual festival
of school children took place in Boston.
Twelve hundred children constituted o
grand choir whose singing elected raptur-
ours applause. Speeches were made by
several gentlemen, among whom was
Wendell Phillips, from whose address we
take the following remarks:
BOYS, YOU will not be moved to action
by starvation and want. Where will you
get the motive power? You will have
the spur of ambition to be worthy of the
fathers that have given you these opportu-
mites. Remember, boys, what fame it is
you bear up. This old name of Boston.
A certain we'll known poet says it is the
hub of the universe. Well, this is a gen.
tie and generous satire. In revolutionary
days they talked of the Boston revolution.
When Samuel johnson wrote his work
against the American colonies it was Bos-
ton be ridiculed. When the King could
not sleep over night he got up and NUT
tered Boston" When the proclama-
tional pardon was issued the only two ex-
cepted were the two Boston fanatics
JOul 11duCOSh III SohA NuH lNf
plause.l But what did Boston do /: They
sent Hancock to Philadelphia to write his
name in the Declaration Of Independence
in letters large enough, almost. for the
king to read on the other side OF the ocean.
Boston then meant liberty. Come down
to forty or fifty years ago.. What did
Boston mean when the South went mad
and got up u new flag, and said they
would put it in Boston in Faneuil Hall?
1t was Boston that meant Liberty, as
Boston had meant independence. And
when our troops went out in the last war,
what was it that gave them their superb
ori,y! 1t was the brains they carried
from these schools. When General But
Ter was stopped near the Relay House
with a broken locomotive, he turned TO
the Eighth Regiment, and a private walked
out of the ranks and patted it on the back,
and said: II ought to know it, l made
it." When we went down to Charleston,
and were kept seven miles off from
the city, the Yankees sent down
a New Hampshire Parrot that would
send a two hundred pound shot into
their midst. The great ability of New
England has been proved. Now, boys,
the glory of a father is his children. That
father has done his work well who has
left q child better than himself. Tit Ter
man phrase is Lord, grant l may be as
well off tomorrow as yesterday No
Yankee ever uttered that prayer. lie al
ways means that his son shall have q
better starting point in life than himself.
The glory of a father is his children. Our
fathers made themselves independent some
eighty years ago. 1t remains for us to
devote ourselves to liberty and the welfare
of others, with the generous willingness
to be and to do towards others as we
would have others do to us. Now, boys,
that is my lesson to you to-day. BE as
good as your fathers unless you are better.
You have FOUR fathers example-the OPP
portunities and advantages they have ac-
cumulated-and to be only as good IS not
enough. You must copy only the spirit
Of your fathers, and not their imperfec-
tons. There was an old Boston mer-
chant, years ago, wanted a set of China
made in Pekin. You know that Boston
men, sixty years ago, looked at both sides
of a cent before they spent it, and if they
earned twelve cents they saved eleven.
He could not spare a whole plate, so he
sent a cracked one, and when he received
the set there was a crack in every piece.
The Chinese initiated the pattern exactly.
L~aughter.) Now, boys, do not initiate
us, or there will be a great many cracks:
Be better than we. We have invented
a telegraph, but what of that: l expect,
if 1 live forty years, to see a telegraph that
will send messages without fire, both ways
at the same time. If you do not invent it
you are not as good as we are. You are
bound to 60 ahead Of us. The old London
physician said the way to be well was to
live on a sixpence and earn ii. That is
education under the laws Of necessity
We can not give you that. Underneath
you is the ever. watchful hand of city cul-
ture and wealth. All the motive we can
give you is the name you bear. Bear 1t
Molly |