New-York tribune., 1868-01-31
DJyyER TO WILLIAM CULLEN BREANT

esd President Of the ssooation the on. Edwards Iler
repont the Hop. Samuel T,den, Mr Cyrus @
bic aud many ether gentlemen. Aette!a were
read from BPh p Waldo Of ESSS.' Wn%s oGe Pce GeP 9GR
smith, Amasa Walker, and others The fresqent Of the
toast, which vas customary first i oFder The Chief
Magistrate; drank without commeI1. TIE next tOasii
Mr.. Field said, was one which wond 10 antlcipateu.
Their hoHored guest had abored through long life for
though ae had never held Office afGsTl he had exer.
csod in bis swn sphere power wfcl Office could not
give Aause The speaker W9fne now sn asn 'g Rsnt S
Loud chocrsl Mr.. Bryant then said .,,
Ma. PRESIDENT AND GgNTLENgS: An honor like TINS
[ef0t5s reg 5aIdW fT Know S 6o to maize + ttng terms Con
ferred is by whom sotmoch value and respect
and wAo possess in so high degree the esteem OF Their
felow.czons, cannot but feed ttat 1t would anpiy re-
ward services infinitely greater han can prrtehu 10
.ave rendeIe 10 any cause. What have done an Apply
ug he principles Of human liberty to the exchange OF
property between and man and between nation ana
to my own convictions wBhuut any attempt 10 reason
them away, and TO follow vilcrsover theS mlSht lsaI
trouble some poTpleXity ana bewderment some waste
,oY ingenuity, II | had ANY TO waste, and perhaps
no little reInOrse. Laughter ana cheers Anolhsr
Circumstance has made any task easy; i bad ony
some of the best thinkers Of the age-imparal, unpre
judced men, who had no obect IN view but the simple
discovery Of truth II was not difficult to walk IN such
path Grand and noble inteects held their torches
over it, aud | could not well step astray with Such
the world ls going The tendency OF enlightened pubic
opinion ali countries 20 toward tho freedom OF rue
There js no difficulty So swimming with the current
@ not The navigoflon was safe and let my boat float
with the stream, while others abCrousy ,ieu 20 Sth h
ought to 90. We shall have them all win us YET, MI
psiepta merry Geet of all manner of craft bound
fhe same easy voyage Applause Another ciTcum
stance which has made the task OF the friends or iree
fade more easy is the Involuntary admissions which the
protectionists make OF the faacy Of their system
capitalist in New-England. owning cotton or WOODEN
mills however his attachment to the protective s
tem has idea of employing any part OF hls eapi ~
raising wheat In the helds close 10 s S 's' nc nay nay
the expense to Inn ana ms WorReope Oh plnsihg
il from the distant West (" Nol lie brings IT from
thousand miles away ana SENDS Dack DIS laDilcs III A
change. at the very moment that ne Is prtoeuIlnE pro-
laws to be passed which will prevent u.s. the con
sumers, from buying iron and cloth and paper from
Europe, that we may as they say save te expese ol
freight When we make new acquisition OF territory
the new reg0n ON the contrary they itJoSe III u MIuca
market. This they did when Texas taken into the
California on the ground that all laws which
shut ont the trade Of that wide. region would now be re
dbect that we and the Canadians will then be longer
independent of each other In this they night IN tins
ever other objections may be made TO the acquisition OF
new territory the enlargement of our borders 10y head
dOn OF new and extensive provinces Is great CONNER
Si chanse Seu Of oonmodes bet% them and us per
| fectly free Yet there Is certain plausibllty in
! what the protecttonsts say when they talk OF
/ home industry and home market-a plausbility
| which miseads many worthy aud otherwise sensible
people in all other respects and whom as men
! i admire and honor There clever among them
who bring their side Of the question great array OF
facts, many of which, however have no real bearing
hat the sun makes a daily circuit round the earth, and
if there were any private Interests to De promoted by
the earth stands st while the sun travels around it.
Sec yourself" they would say viii you not believe
the evidence OF your own senses The sun comes mp IN
the every day before your eyes, stands your
west why you admit the fact when You say the sun
rises the sun sets; the sun is mp the sun down what
Gus what trash written by Sir Isaac New
toni" Cheers remember d & case IN pointIan
to the sgGet called in England an attorney Of The
70 he
tnre on astronomy in which some Illustrations were
sttorney was pcrpiexed and bowdered by this phos-
phy which was 50 new ~ to & n ec a1a 6e looked np
s law papers aud said: "The young mon says the ward
place sax and threy years and that plot preserves
the same relative poseet0n to the house that 1t had ax
wsrid turns round. It's vera exlfaordnar'." Great
hy fs nonsense about the earths revolving its axis
and If there were any real or imaginary pecunaTy adya
| whole army of his way OF thinking, many Of
them wiser aud better informed in other respects than
| be. Renewed laughter and cheersI Perhaps,
Mr.. President aud gentlemen, You will allow
me 10 make use Of another familiar illus
TO f himself from the ground by the wastbaud Of his
pautaloons Now if anything were TO be gained by it,
favor Of he possibility Of the feat One light say, You
can lift two hundred pounds your weight is but hund-
red and sixty power of grayatiOn equal 10 a hund-
red and sixty pounds keeps you down TO the earth iou
have Only to apply ply & IN ;,cd 1 1Tee ,e al % greater s
yOur walstband, therefore, with both hands and pull
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trial you must pull harder" All that might sound very
plaus6ly TO who had experience TO guide BIN.
the feat Of lifting Itself If from the soand by the
waisband, and for nearly half century with oc-
casonal short rclaxatiOns 0f the effort, prompted
by the return Of sense. When the
first pull made. and Intellectual, told to
try another and then another still more vigorous and
another and another; and what do We seel The
garment of which the wastband forms part torn 10
shreds and tatters, presenting what Pope alludng to
similar accident, somewhere calls "dishonest sight"
@ortying TO the pride Of philosophy i most true
that De raised from the ground the waist
band but he cannot do the feat for himself-anOlcr
out One strong man may raise another in this way and
be raised by him IN turn. In this there is
No man, even with the strength OF Samson
go into room by himself and endeayOr 10 per
form the feat alone without coming forth from the under
taking rags his neither garments full OF ghastly rents
inviting the entrance OF the January wind So nation
enrich itsefby excluding foreign commerce. the
perfect makes exclusion the certain il is to i'm
poverish itself. Mr. President and gentlemen. There is
great law imposed upon us by the necessities OF
dtion as members OF human society the law OF mutual
the interchange or benefits and advantages the
law Of God and nature commanding TO be useful TO
each other II Is the law OF the household IL the law
included under the same government and wei would
be for mankind II II were in an equal degree recOg
great community OF nations In their intercourse with
each other. We're that law to be repealed, the social
state would lose its cohesion and fall III pieces There
not pathway across the fields, not hghrOad, not a
gudepOst at turn OF the way not railway from city
10 city or from State TO State not sail upon the
in the shrek Of the locomotive IL Is muured i'm the
ripple OF waters divided by the prov Of the steamer.
The nation by which II dsregorded which endeav-
TO obstruct IL by artificial barriers against
tercOurse OF It's citizens with those of other countries
volts against the order Of nature and strikes its
Other speeches prolonged the fesviiy to a late hour
when the company dispersed.
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The annual meeting of the BROOKLYN Society