Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1869-08-05
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We are willing to acknowledge that
the Hon. Daniel W. Voorhees,, oflnd., is
a brilliant orator, q gentleman Of excel
lent legal abilities and varied attain
ments. He is ga bright aud shining
hght" in the Hoosier State, and en-
pbatically a leader, a Saul among his
brethren, of no mean stature or metal,
and none will be more ready to confess
it than his old Wing and Republican an.
tagonists on many a w%ell-contested field.
But we fear that the rank and file ofhis
party will and their faith in his fealty
to their principles somewhat shaken by
q portion of an address delivered July
l24th, at Indianapolis, on the occasion OF
the laying of a coruer-stone for a new
building, to be occupied BY the Sentinel,
of that city.
In his address, he advanced ideas
which indicate that his own mind is be-
coming imbued with some Of the influ-
enees at work in molding the character
ofthe American people. While be still
adheres to his idols, and among them
slavery, he out bravely and nobly
in defense Of the newspaper. II was
the boast Of Henry A. Wise, a luminary
always shining for the good Of his par.
ty, that there was not a newspaper in
his Congressional District. What his
people lacked Of intelligence from other
quarters Of the State or country, he was
accustomed to give them secondhand,
in those wordy and windy haraugues for
which he became so famous. This was
policy. They were to believe him, aud
nobody else, nor were they to seek in.
formation through any other channel.
As with the region ruled BY Wise, SO
it could be ~truthfully said ofsome others
where the Southern leaders held sway.
To keep their voters in ignorance was
to keep themselves in power ; to have
enlightened them through the columns
Of an Independent and honest press,
would have ruined beyond hope the
demagogues who aimed at their own
prefsrment over the PROSTATE faculties
Of their followers. They well knew
that education is the mortal enemy oil
servitudc, either of body or mind, and
that wherever it obtains, error and op.
preston must disappear.
Mr.. Voorhees, has fought like a gallant
soldier, long and stoutly, in the same
cause, and by the sido of these same old
champions of ignorance and slavery,
but it is a cheering sign at last to see
him come out brarely in advocacy Of a
more extended circulation Of light and
knowledge through the daily and weekly
press Of the land. It may look incon.
sisten. to the eyes of his friends, par.
ticularly when he has bitter words for
the government and eloquently talks oil
the "good old times" when his party,
by the aid of slave-holders, was in the
ascendancy; but then We can afford to
let that pass.
The following is q specimen Of fine
oratory on the occasion mentioned. We
subjoiu tho following extract:
The Universities of the world stand like
lighthouses on the ocean Of time, inspiring
men with faith and hope and yet the print.
ing press has more Immediate contact with
the public mind, and leads it with = more ir-
resistible magic than oven the proudest insti-
buttons Of learning in this or any other coun-
try. The daily press, in modern days, thrusts
each morning a book into the hands Of the
people-into the hands Of the child at its
fathers hearthstone-into the hands Of infan-
| cy AMI Of old age. It is the leading teacher
in forming the thoughts Of this active age-it
is the president Of the mighty university Of
public opinion.
This is a period Of great mental activity
an age Of wondeu. The practical sciences
have given us communication, one with an.
other ; we have belted the earth with 4 talk
ing cable we have realized, and but yester.
day, the vast dream Of Columbus, who stood
for twenty years IN the coast Of Spain, point.
ing to a highway to Asia, by way ofthe West
we have swept across this continent with
more than an eagles flight. During the past
simmer we have opened that swift highway
that Columbus foresaw by the inspired ligh,
Of science, must sometime exist. In connec'
ton with these gigantic enterprises, you are &c
credit the press and acknowledge how much
they are dependent upon IT'S agency ant
power. They spring from the great thought:
Of great men, and those thoughts find theii
way to the masses, and arouse them to &C
ton, to carry them out by means Of the prin
ter's profession. The profound conclusions
Of the wisest minds-the deep results o flong
toiling years, find an immediate communities
ton, and an easy solution to the popular
mind in the daily columns Of the press Of thu
nineteenth century.