Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1870-04-14
Madison COFrrsptndencc.
o MADISON, ..Aprif 9Th, 1870.

lines Of Warasworth. and you have it;
an Is the first mild day Of March, il4
Each minute swe,t,r than before;
The red breast sings tom the tall larch
Thet stands bcsde osr door"
Like all tyraDts, King Frost is 10th to
loosen his firm grip on our beautiful
lakes; but the sun, his old-time enemy,
has girdcd on his armor, and taken their
part. aud will soon undoubtedly de-
liver them from his bondage to smile up
on, and risk aud gamb0i with the winds
Of heaven. luf
The Madisonians were very well en-
tertalned with good home lectures this
winter, mos, prominent among which
were those of Lutte Taylor, OF la Crosse
| Leader, on Margaret Fuller OssoIi Re
is. FaIiows, of Milwaukee, on Idols DR..
20. Wluht, Of OcOnonowoc, on =" The Old
and the New; Rev NJ Dudley, of Nils
waukee, on Constantinople; Right Rev.
Bishop Armitage, Of Milwaukee, ON Ori-
entail Life. ltwoud pay your Assocla
tiou to en.aee any OF the above for next
winters course, But as good II feature OF
the winter entertainments rs any was
the meetings of the Young Peoples AS
ISOLATION, --readngs, essays, addresses,
of the course was delivered last Monday
evening, by President hadbourne, of the
University, on the Wisdom of Youth
and the Wisdom of Ago y lie SAID we
hear IL great deal about the folies of
youth, but very little about its wisdom.
Nevertheless youth had plenty of the lat.
ter, and some OF the former Except in
matters Of morality and religion he ad-
ysed the young TO follow their own in>
chnations, and not take counsel OF the
timidity Of age, He had been some
what successful in life, but all the
success he ever had he owed to hav-
iDg followed his own youthful inclina-
tons as against the advice Of the old, -
The wisdom Of youth was that Of almost
unerrlns intuition, the wisdom of age,
that of experience, and that generally
but IN one direction. Old people SHOOK
their heads ut what they term Innovations,
impossibiiities, The young take hold
with u will, and the thing is accomplish
ed While on this subject bs was res
minded OF his own experience as Il mem
Der of the faculty OF Boudoin College,
east. 1t was felt by some that there was
room and great need 0t reform in the
management and discipline of the col,
iege Three gray-heuded members Of
the faculty opposed the reform move
ment strenuousiy ut every step One
was to change the early hour OF prayer,
and not have the students wading through
deep snow curslng az they went and
cursing II they returned After the
meeting OF the faculty one remarked to
him that they conld not hope Tor re-
torn until certain events transpired. -
And what were ,heyY Three impresSire
tanesats Now, to digress, Professor,
and yet not to either, that makes me
think of the story OF the couple that
parted, and were again united on con.
dltious proposed by the woman, to-wit
That IL epeclhc programme Of her du-
ties should be written and agreed to, so
that 1T would avert al possible misunder
standing in the future. IL was DONE
she was to cook ne meals, wash the
dishes, make the beds, &c. Her duties
were al prescribed and laid down in black
and whl,e They we're crossing q river
on ~ narrow foot log bridge one day );
down, splash went the man in deep
water, and the stolid answer from his
better half to his jntreaties for help was,
vt is not down in the contract it is not
on my paper 30 many old and middl.
aged persons of Anticipated notions, un>
less this or that private or public refor.
matory movement IS on their paper, it
must bc lrOwned down and killed.. " HON
the cap fits let them wear it,
The truth of the above remarks has
been very observable, Messrs. Editors,
in the political history Of the United
States, especially in the las sixteen
years The old Democratic party lifted
It's hands in holy horror at the (to look at
them from the stand polnt of the presently
conservative measures Of the young Re-
publican party in relation to slavery
years ago. No reform of the latter was
down on the paper of the former. Still
with the energy and vigor of youth the
latter pushed forward and carried tri,
umphnntly measure after measure of
great and vital reforms, feeling that truth
and right, God and humanity" (f you
will,) were on its side, and that 'ti
Truth crushed to earth will rise again"
And how bravely itmet at every stage
Of its progress the incessant opposition,
oboQuy and derision Of the Democratic
par ty to this very hour of its greatest
triumphs the proclamation of the 10Th
Amendmcnt-the keystone, if am not
mistaken of the American Ark of Free.
dom, Where liberty dwells, there is
my country ~ ".f
Before closing this somewhat rambling
letter, it will do no harm may be to touch
on home lcgi slatiye matters. As sure
rs you are born, "a we say, there has
got TO be three or more impressive iu-
MORALS ~ oI soma pryiur, av,lC ., W.