The Cairo daily bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1870-1872, 1871-06-14
THE BULLETIN.
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once. bulletin BuiIding,
washington Avenue.
LIGHTNING.
HONOR TO ONE OF IT'S TAMERs.

TIM MORSE STATUTE Ar NEW YORK
SPEECHES BY GovEBNOR HOFFMAN,, TIL
| POET BRYANT AND MAYOR HALL.
The American, Franklin, captured ib'
lightning, and Morse. another American
harnessed III and now, before Morse hal
passed to his account, his fellow-citizen.
ire doing him honor and hailing his n. one
OF the few immortal names that we're no,
born to die. A statue erected 10 his
honor in Central Park, New York city,
was unveiled on the 10th inst. in the pres
ence OF fifty thousand of his countrymen.
| Gov. Hoffman presided and made brief
Introductory speech; and, after the cere-
rnony Of unwilling the statute, introduced
the poet, Mr.. William Cullen Bryant, who
delivered the inaugural address
Mr.. Bryant said there are two lines in
| the poems Of DIR. johnson on the vanity
| OF human wishes, which have passed into
proverb-
| .aee nations. slowly wise and nearly iu.t,
Toturled merits raise the tTdy bu g.
II is cur good fortune TO escape tie CEN
sure in these lines. We come together
| on the occasion Of raising statue, not to
the buried, but to living merit TO ~ great
| discovercr who yet sits among US u wit
ness to honors which are but tho first
fruits Of that ample harvest which his
memory will gather in the long train Of
| seasons vet 10 come. Yet we cannot con-
grutulate ourselves on having sel an ex-
ample of alacritv in this manifestation OF
public gratitude. If our ilustr Gus friend
10 whom We now gladly pay these honors,
L.I 81. r
men, We should have EorrowfIlly laid
them on his grave.
Mr.. Bryant then gave at some length
an account Of the life Of Prof. Morse, and
continued as follows
1T may be said J. know, that the civ
ilized world is already iull OF memorials
which speak the merit OF our friend and
the grandeur and utility Of his inven-
ton In every telcgraphlc station j. such
a memorial every message sent from one
Of these stations 10 another, may be count
ed among the honor. said 10 his name ;
| every tclcgrsphic wire strung from poet
| TO post, as il huns in the Wind, IntIrmurs
his eulogy every sheaf Of wire Iaid
down in the deep sea, occupying the bot
| tom Of soundless abysses To- which human
| sight never penetrated and carrying the
electric pulse, charged with il. burden of
| human thought. from continent to con-
tinent, from the old world 20 the new. i, a
testimonial TO his greatness. But our
| national instincts are not satisfied. II il
not the name of the benefactor merely il il
| the person that We cherish. and we re-
quire, whenever It is possible. visible
presentment Of his face aud form to aid
US in kee ing the idea Of Ii worth before
our mind. We insist upon see
ing the form of tina, brow be-
meath which mn active restless,
creative brain devised the mechanism
that was 10 subdue the most Maynard Of
| of elements TO the service Of man, and
made it an obedient messenger we require
70 see the eye that glittcred with a thou
sand LOFTY hops when the grea. discovery
was made, and lips that curlod'with smile
Of triumph wh.n it became certain tina,
the lightning Of the clouds would become
tractsble to the most delicate touch; We
demand to see the hand which first strung
the wire by whose means the slender cur.
rents of electric fluid were taught the al.
phabet Of every living language the hand
which pointed them to the spot where they
were 10 inscribe and leave their messages
All this we have in the statute which has
| tlis day been unveiled 10 the eager gaze
| of the public; and the artist has so skill
fully and faithfully fulfilled his task rs TO
safety those who are the hardest to please,
and the most intimate friend. of the orig
inal. Long may II be, my friends, very
long, before any such resemblance of our
ilustrious friend shall be needed 10y those
who have the advantage of his scqusin,-
| ance to refresh his form and bearing as i,
| exists in their minds. Long may we keep
among us what is better than the statue
the noble original. Long may he remain
among US in healthful and serene old age
Late, very late, may He who gave thC
mind to which We owe the grand discov
cry TO day commemorated, recall it to Hi
more immediate presence that it may be
employed in higher sphere and in still
more beneficial activity
At the conclusion of Mr.. Brynnt's az,
dress, Hon. A. Oakley Hall, mayor Of New
York, received the statue, and said
~ lthough Morse lives, New York en-
shrines him. She commentaries him a.
the scientific associate of her departed
Fulton, whose statue must before long
front yondtr observatory heights, over.
looking the rivers first conquered b,
steam. One middle state loves to remem
Der how her citizen, Franklin, modestly
passed the portals of the temple of electri
cal science a southern city, how her cti
zen, Whitney, developed the cotton en-
pire; a western city, how her citizen, Me-
Cormick, presented to agriculture its grea'
est boon, and adjacent cities gratefully re
call how their citizens, Morton and Jack
son, blessed humanity, and how Elias
Howe lightened the toll of the poor. Th'
genius Of these Americans changed the ut
mosphere Of social life which now is no
in any respect the same as it was 10 elder
generations of this union. Their geniu
blessed food, raiment and locomotion, bu
New-Yorkl chooses more proudly an'
gratefully the thought that the genius o.
her citizen, Morse, put nll thos
in ven,ion into worldwide service
and Is in fact bringing 'ogethe
all the people who were dispense
at the tower OF Babel. The city OF New
York pledges herself to the donors VIII
make her trustee, to guard with pride thl
statue of her honored citizen-of him VIII
indeed achieved eminence among her art
lets, and won respect and love in her sC
cial life, before he was awarded thos
special honors which the civilized worl
now renders him and which this days Gel
. emonies have so appropriately emphasizes
A letter was received from presider
. Grant regretting his inability to DO pre-