The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1867-04-25
Henry vincent's lectures

Henry viaeent's lecture. &
Mr-vincent lectured 10 our city on
w dnesday stvesdng, thaS17th inst, to a
Llargs andAatkntixe aadience al Phillips
Hall The subject was john Wyclife,
what he taught and what he did, and
wasdelivefed in his peculiarly grand and
interesting style. Throughout the whole
discourse, tAselnracter of Wyclifs wss
made subordinate to--sae gsasral pro-
gress of the age aud tae. great principles
involved in struggles of the times. Not
only were the life and the labors OF
Wyciiffe presented, but tl,e uprising m
der Wat Tyler was graphically described
and the PROCESS Of constitutional liberty
in England. the dawning of the
Reformation, thro' the prosecutions of
the papal power, thro' the contentious in
the time Of the eighth Henry, in the
glorious reign of Elizabeth. under the
Stuarts, into the gigantic Struggle be-
tween the Parliament and King Charles,
in the days of the Commonwealth, in
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| the second James, to its final and perma-
nent establishment In 16s6.--was re
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The subject Of the second lecture, on
Ehursday evening, wasgss ohm Milton"
| The character of Milton except as
| great scholar and divine poet. is not
familiar to The American people In this
lecture, his long and honorable career as
statesman and citizen was described.
The lecturer portrayed the beautiful boy;
the successful student, defending repub
| licanism against the attacks of his fell
lows and the frowns of his preceptors:
| the traveller in classic lands returning
TO his country at the first sound Of civil
war; the defender of the cause Of the
people, the faithful secretary of Crom-
we'll and author of the magnificent state
! papers which gave dignity to the Com
monwealth then at last, his party over
| thrown, his friends fallen beneath the AK,
! him self smitten with blindness, a price
/ set upon his head, he retires to seclusion
1 and occupies his last days in debating,
those grand conceptions which render
his genius immortal. In closing, the
lecturer INDUCED in the hope that the
English speaking race on both sides of
the Atlantic may soon realize the ideal
of Milton, and having put away all fool
ish pride and fatal prejudice, vie with
each other only in the love of liberty and
the administration of justice.
In the third lecture, a concise history
Of the rise and progress of the Liberal
| party from 1916 to the present time was
given, Much Of the lecturers personal
experience was also narrated, particularly
his participation in The efforts to estab-
lish an unstamped press, in tie Chartist
agitation, his arrest, trial and imprisen-
ment He related many anecdotes illus
trative OF, English lie, and of the char
acters OF, the men with whom he had
/ come in contact. 80
The following resolutions were offered
by II. j. Hayward, Esq, and were unan-
| imously adopted:
/ Resolsed, That we respectfully tender
! to Henry Vincent, our cordial thanks for
his profound and eloquent lectures deliv-
cred to the citizens of Richmond.
Rcsolped, That in his friendly visit, and
in his carne EST labors in behalf of civil and
religious liberty throughout the world,
we recognize spirit OF enlarged philan-
throphy, of enlightened Christian benev-
olence, cheering to the age. We desire
to tender to him, and through him to
John Bright, John Stuart Mill, Prof.
Goodwin Smith, and others of his distin
guished coadjutors our earnest regards
and thanks in memory of the upright and
disinterested position they SO nobly
maintained towards our Government
throughout our struggle with the most
inexcusable and gigantic rebellion the
world ever saw. as1
The lecturer called for three cheers for
liberty throughout the earth, which were
given with great enthusiasm.