New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1866-07-30
MONDAY MORNING, JULY 30, 1855.

The BURNING OF WILLIAM AND NARY Coz
1EGE N Virginia From very eloquent speech
delivered BY John Tyler, Jr., Of the eX-Presi-
dent at Williamsburg, Va, on the 4th of july we
select the following passage in reference to the
burning Of William and Mary College during the
war:
AS the result of the measures taken in 1859, the
college buildings were again erected in 1860, and
it's library and apparatus we're again renewed but
only again To be buried in dust and ashes in 1862,
not by accident, as twice before nor as the neces-
SHY Of war, but by troops acting as vaRdals and
lncendiaries, without orders We know the mo-
tiYes through which they did the deed, and this
we know, g They knew not what they did.'' In
censate fo0lsi knew they not the torch they here
applied lighted the citadel of republican free
dom, and created bonfire Of their own char
tered rights and liberties? TO the soldiers of
Pennsylvania belongs the honor, or infamy, Of the
act, and it is for Pennsylvania to say whether she
will appropriate the honor, or repudiate the in
fanny. Z i due to the memory Of George Wash
1ngt0n, the leader Of the armies Of american
Independence, the presiding officer of the eonven.
e ton that adopted the Constitution, and the in
augurator of the government of the UnitedS Estates
il is due 70 the memory Of Thomas Jefferson, the
author Of the declaration of American indie
pendence, and the Trainer Of the bill establishing
religious freedom; it is due to the memory 81
Of Peyton Randolph, the first president of the
Continental Congress that met to assert American
privileges and principles; it is due to the memory
Of John Marshall, the great interpreter and ex-
positor of American laws and jurisprudence it
rs due to the memory of host Of sages, war
1lors and heroes, identified with the struggle
american nationality; it is due to The
memory of four Presidents Of tile United States,
and numerous statesmen OF the highest order, who
devoted their lives TO the prosperity and glory of
the country; it's due to the memory OF ali the
past Of history associated not with William and
and Mary alone3 nor with Virginia alone but with
the entire Union, and all the people in it, from one
extremity to the other, that restitution shall be
by the State OF Pennsylvania, or the government
AZ Washington. Were the halls of this old uniyer-
sity less sacred tp the American cause than those
which stand In Philadelphia? And what State
people OF government would live under the igno!
miny OF having wantonly fired the g Hall of hide
pendenee, whether in peace on whether in war |?
But gentlemen, let this be as il may, there is an
omnous saying Of other lands
4 Rhfle stands the coliseum, Rome sian stand;
When fans the Coliseum, Rome sallft
es9 s IN Rd shall bs IN gloom
So with William and Mary College and American
freedomthe fall Of the one Isl ominous Of the fate
Of the other. 0nsprings of the revolution of 1888
and parent Of that of l776, the principles Of
liberty VIII remain in oblivion 50 long as this old
University remains ia ashes The last viii be the
evidence of the first. Let her fall then; not be
unto DEATH but unto resurrection. Let her NOS
perish beneath the baneful seepre Of the East but
ARISE again under the benignant star of the West,
like the Phoenix of Memphis and the Pyramids
launched on tireless wing upon a new cycle of re-
volging glory. The country demands another race
q heroes and Of statesmen nursed at The fountain
from w4ichopr great ancestors drew immortal life.
z Leave shame and infany to pursue the wretches
mat laid her low. Cursed be the tongue and pal
sied tle arm that would remove her from her al.
elent foundations. Herel even here letherdeep-
toned *bell ring out to the future Al I'd fire naif
throughout AZ the corners of the earth 10 ali the
sons Of men summoniug her disciples to tbe
altar ct which our fathers swore Here! even
the tree Of liberty that it may be wateFed in her
oeaseiess care, and every Leaf he gathered 70 grace
her sons, to illustrate the annals u America ma
shed undying honor upon the name and history Of
Virginia =
lhe Inscription mon the old bell Of the college which va
cast one hnlfaa and and is pre-
served and m use though much njuredb the fires to
has been new three times subjected reads toows
1et ihr be proclaimed throughout all the corners Of the
GARTH 90 all tie Of Nothing clearly