The New York herald., 1866-02-13

ancient Egypt on that fearful night when there
was not house where there was not one
dead The nation wept for him. After being
gazed upon by myrads Of loving eyes, under the dome OF
this magnificent Capitol the remains Of President
were borne In solemn procession through cities,
towns and villages, all draped n the hablinents OF sor
row. the symbols and tokens OF profound and heartfelt
gref TO their final resting place in tho capital OF his own
State There he sleeps peacefully, embalmed In the
hearts OF his countrymcn. The Senate and House OF
s nave .noughl proper " s s ,h
birthday Of him whom We mourn. has properly been
selected An eminent citizen distinguished by MS iabors
and services in high and responsible public positions al
home and abroad whose pen has instructed the present
in the history of his country, and done much to
transmit the fame and OF that country 10 future
ages-the Hon George Bancroft-w now deliver dis
course. (Appause)
Mr.. Bancroft, who was sitting between Senator Foot
side and Representative washburne Of Illinois,
on the other, then and delivered
THE GRAFTON.
SENATOR'S REPRESENTATIVES or AMERICA
That God rules In the affairs OF IL as certain as
any truth OF physical science. On tho great moving
power which Is from the beginning hangs the world OF
the and the world OF thought and action Eer
nal wisdom marshals the great PROCESSION Of the ma
ons, working patient continuity through The ages,
never halting and never abrupt encompassng all
events In its oversight, and over efecting It's will,
though morals may slumber IN apathy or oppose with
madness Kings are lifted up or thrown down, nations
come and CO. republics flourish and wither dynastics
pass away like tale that is told; but nothing Is by
chance though men In their Ignorance of causes may
think So Tho deeds OF time are governed, as we'll al
Judged, by the decrees OF eternity Tho caprice OF
neeting exisences bends TO the mmovabe omrpotence
which plants It's foot on all the centuries, and has
neither change OF purpose nor repose sometimes,
like messenger through the thick darkness OF night
II steps along mysterious ways; but when tho hour
strikes for people for mankind TO pass into new
form OF being, unseen hands draw the bolts from the
the mind OF for the coming revolution those who
plan resistance find themselves in conflict with the will
Of Providence rather than with human devices and all
hearts and all understandings OF all the opinions
and Influences the unwilling wonderfully attracted
and compelled 70 bear forward the change which be-
obedience 70 the law OF universal nature
than submission to the arbitnment OF man.
GROWTH or the AMERICAN REPUBLIC.
In the fullness Of time republic up in the will
away before this child Of the ages could bo born From
whatever there of good In the systems OF former
past her warnings With the deepest sentiment OF
faith fixed in her inmost nature, she disenhralled
hgon from bondage TO temporal power that her worship
might be worship only In spirit and In truth. The
wisdom which had passed from India through Greece
with what Greece had added of her own the jurspru
dence OF Rome, the medieval municipalities, the Teu-
tonic method of representation the political experience
OF England the benignant wisdom OF the expositoS
Of the law Of nature and Of nations In France and
Holland all shed on her their selec,cst influence She
washed the gold OF political wisdom from the lands
wherever IL was found she cleft from the rocks she
CLEANED among ruins Out OF all the discoveries Of
statesmen and sagcs, out OF all the experience OF past
human life. she compiled perennial political philoso
ply, the primordina principles OF national ethics The
wise men OF Europe sought the best government In
mixture OF monarchy, artocracy and dcmocracyy and
America went behind these names extract from them
the vital elements OF forms blend them bar
moniously in the free commonwealth, which comes
nearest 70 the illustration of the natural equality all
men She entrusted the guardianship Of established
rights 10 law, the movements OF reform 20 the spirit of
the people, and drew her force from the happy
C liation Oh both
rgRRrroiuAL EXTENT OF nw REPrnIc
Republics had heretofore been limited IN small can
tons cities and their dependencies America doing
that Of which the IKE had not before been known
the earth believed by kings statesmen be pos
sble, extended her republic continent Under
auspices the OF liberty took deep and ned
the land; the hills covered with shadow its
boughs wero like the goody ccdars and reached unto
both Tho fame OF this only daughter of FREQ
dom went out into all the lands OF the earth from ter
rnornnuss on TINE coxsnqrxsurs ov sIIvxnf ~
Neither hereditary monarchy hereditary arrstnc
rhcy planted itself soil the only hereditary
condition that fastened itself upon was saryitude.
Nature works IN sincerity and Is ever true 20 its law
The bee hives honey, the viper distls poison tho vine
stores s juices and 70 do the poppy and the upas In
like every thought aud every action rpcns iis
seed, each In It's kind. In the individual man. and
still more In nation, just idea gives NE and pro
gress and glory; false conception portends disaster,
shame and death. A hundred and twenty ycars ago a
West Jersey Quaker This trade Of importing
slaves Is dark goominess hanging over the land tho
viii be grevous 10 posteriiy" Al the
North the growth Of slavery was arrested by natural
causes; In the region nearest the tropics II throve
rankiy, and worked itself into the organism Of the
rising States. virginla stood between tho two
with so.i climate ana re resources , demanding IRE:
Df the slave. She the land Of great Statesmen;
md they saw the danger Of her being whelmed under
lie nspg nood in time 70 struggle against the deusions
n ayarce and prids Ninety four years ago the Legsa-
lure Of Virginia addressed The n..- King, saying that
ISS trade Il ;.ssetss was ''of sroa. nhaManhy" Vas
opposed TO the security and happiness OF their con
uiituents would in time have the most destructive
duencc," and "cndanger their very existence Ann
The King answered them that upon pain OF his highea
dsplcasre the importation Of slaves should not be IN
any respect obstructed." "fharsaicd Britain" wrote
franklin In behalf OF Virginia Ito pnde tnysen n
pstng frcs single slave that happened land thy
wbl continue n whereby 4
many hundreds Of Thousands dragged into slavery
that sntaisd on their postcrity." "a serious vie~
of tha subject" said Patrick Henry In l773 gives Q
gloomy prospect 70 future time" In The same year
0eorge Mason wrote 70 the Legislature OF Virginia:
'Ins Law. o. impartial rroyidspce may aysass our
Continental Congress Jefferson, with the approval Of
Edmund Pendieon, branded the slave trade a piracy;
corner sons Of America Gan men are created equal,
:T,.|;ssS . 's@ss ss-:,sssss LOT O. =: :: s:%s s
Jsucy would in lisa have ccnsscr.,ed every p.r q
y that terdtosy 70 freedom In the formation Of the
vn ss Ss
pnce and forever and when The ordinance Of i7sI
introduced by Nathan Dane without the clause prohibit
Virginia W snd the south sss. hs CLAUSE II Jshorson was
restored and the whole Northwestern fertory-a the
territory ,hss iben belonged 70 the nAison~ rsssrved
pssrAm ov rHE NEE rrn nxvoLruos
Tho hope prevailed Virginia that The sbolision q
the slave trade would bring WITH " thc RfnduM nDon-
ton OF slavery; but the expectation was doomed 10
In supporting incpient measures foe
patton Jefferson encountered dinculties greater
than he could overcome; and amer vain wrcstnRs The
words that broke from him, II trembie for my ooun
Try when reflect that God is Just that HIS justice
cannot sleep forever" were words of despair II vm
the desire Of washingtons heart that Virginia should
remove slavery by public act; and ~ the prospects
Of general emancipation grew more and more dim be
In utter hopcessnes Of the action of the STATE did all
that could by bequeaihing freedom 10 his own slaves
Good and true had from the days Of lTTo thought
Of colonixnR the negro the home Of his anccxtorN
But the dea Of colonznto on thought TO incrcase
the dincuy Of emancipation; and IN spite Of strong
support, while n accomplished much good for Africa
proved imprscticable q remedy ~ home Madison,
Who In early life disliked slavery much that he
wished 10 depend s little a. possblc on the hbor of
savee,i Madison. who hold that where slavery erisa
'the republican theory becomes fslacsous' Madison,
who In the last years of his life would
the annexation OF rexas lest his countrymen should
nn 10 with slaves; Madison, who said slavery s tho