Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1868-07-30

JUICE BARRET's ADDRESS At DART
MoUTu.-The address of Hon. James Bar
rett Of Woodstock before the Phi Beta
Kappa Society of Dartmouth College on
Thursday last is highly complimented
| We give an abstract OF it taken from the
Boston Journal. Prayer was offered by
Rev Benjamin Labaree, d, D., of Ando-
Yer. Mass, after which the Grafton. was
given by Hon. James Barrett, of Wood
| stock, Vt, of the class Of 1898. His sub
ject was The proper relation of Ambi-
ton and Duty to Character, in men de-
voted to the learned professions and call
iugs, and in public fife" The speaker
handled his theme in an able, mastery
and eloquent manner. The following is
the abstract alluded to-
1t may be stated with sufficient practi-
| cal accuracy that the spirit, the man Of
the individual, under his conditions of
| existence, makes known its nature and its
worth through the medium of his visible
practical life Diligence does not charac-
terile Incidence Great attainments are
not made by idlenrss Great achieve
ments are welded to the efforts of great
abilities. In organized society certain
standards become established, with refer
ence to which, as among themselves, the
relative merits Of men are adiudged, and
! their respective characters determined in
the forum of human Judgment. With re-
ference to this fact men III great measure
form their purposes in life, and put forth
their efforts to accomplish them. And
herein ambition and the various moving
and modifying influences atteding each
individual man, find scope and operation
producing for him the detail and sum
total Of his part and portion in the drama
Of life.
To he able and successful in given
calling does not necessarily imply Il bcne-
fcent and a worthy man. In proof Of this
may be cited the example of Lord Bacon
Bolinbroke, Thomas jefferson, Aaron
Burr, Miraheau, Thomas Paine, Fielding
Lawrence Sterne, Sheridan, Burns, Byron
and many others. To be a g0od states
man or legislator, a go0d minister, or law.
yer, or doctor, i'll the larger or more com.
! preheusive sense. implies the being a g0od
man. Only by combining the best quail
ties of heart and life with those that more
particularly and exclusively pertain t
professional and official ability and worth
be secured.
The necessity of doing is the corrclative
of the faculties with which man is en-
lowed, and the fact of doing is the only
alternative against death. DO or die" i,
the behcst. Work or starve" is the law
They who have won in this life have left
enduring monuments Of themselves along
the course of the worlds history A young
man mayinherit the paternal name as wei
as the paternal estate, but a fathers hOnor'
he canno. inherit. The son may rejoice
in them, but not az his own. In genera
men are recognized and acknowledged fol
Just what they sh0o themselves to be.
The modest leather dealer of Galena
who, with undistinguished rank, had
J graduated in his youth at the Nationa
Military School, when dutifully he prof
; Tered his services to the military authori
ties of his State in the early days of the
Great Rebellion, was indifferently re
; garded by those who were securing helT
in organizing the hosts of Liberty and
Union. Three years of progressive de.
velopment and terrible ordeal brought
him forth as the alone man adequate t
the desperate necessities of the nation IL