Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1872-07-03


Jet thoroughly, stating 1t was akin to true
chiFalry; unlike il, Perhaps, In waiting It's
ltfappiDgs and garnishni8nts; unlike I most
| as its characteristics are most wanting In
the stern and stalTart MIXTURES of utility.
The speaker said the good old Saxon
| word pluck brought over by Our English an
cestry, and ever esteemed ey them = a
brighter jewel in The national crown tnsn
the most radiant gem that sparkles III I'd"
| diadem of their lady sovereign, CIV 3
nearer being its synonym than any o.lef
word in the language. Sell rellaDc5. s:.f'H
estness and fixedness OF purpose courage,
both physical and moral, sg sense. OF
jasticeWith a profound revs7snt Ior srtlSl'
virtue and religion, were the Iu4llIles c .,l
bining In manhood. The speaker SAC ga
nations, like individr ais. we're ahecteo y
this spirit of marhood, and there were
ep)chs in q nations life when the spirit
proponderates. ,zi,en the fresh new blood
flows into tb Oh veins, and the totterlng
old man becomes the buoyant, bounding
athlete. JIp standard Of the nation ad-
vances " % irresistible force TO the four
)rners The giobe, the wings of commerce
Whit e YER sea, It's Internal resources null
tinI, 7r5,;J ID. TnOis and becomes coT7lu
&c III II abount az plenty. its population
liz aeses to run,i over and safety from
ule.,.p a i F1arS il planting colonies III
every Ans. En- the manhood of Oliver
Cromwell taus ut the English people ''the
might that slumbers in peasants arm"
they wer N insular people with contract
ed iIyular views. Spain and Portugal, even
Geneva and Venice had outstripped her on
the sea and Van Tromp with "Broom"
at his prov swept her from the ocean. The
energy of manhood was as the new blood
to the old veins, and England now tracing
back each line of her prosperity to the days
of Cromwell as the titled noble traces his
descent from the time of William the Nor
man is the proldest, most prosperous and
powerful nation Of the earth. In the Ian
guage. of one of her sons, too true to be ar
rogant "The morning reveille of her drum is
heard around the globe and the sun never
sets upon her empire" Look at France
beautiful, brave and blightedF France. Under
the Louis she too had become the old man
tottering TO a nations grave, when the pale
faced bright eyed boy of Corsica waved the
sceptre of manhood over her land and the
old man became the bounding athlete, for
whose gymnastic feats a continent was
too small theater. When the
horse boy of the Inn let go the halter and
the whip to seize the reins Of empire and
the sceptre of monarch, the fitting guerdon
of his sole asserted manhood-then merit
became the measure of fame and manhood
imperiously asserted its rightful sway.
Look again at Deutschland, an insignif-
cant nation of fishermen; but somehow
manhood found its way there; a nation is
wrested from the hungry sea and the waves
like obodient slaves made the cruisers of
commerce so rich that their white crest
caught its golden gleam and nations I'M
known to cOtemporaneous geographers saw
with amaze the "Broom," heretofore the
emblem of feminine rule and rage, but now
become the standard of nation, the i'm
perious mistress of the sea. And
our own land the last darling offspring of
young manhood's loins alas somewhat shorn
of its strength, but still the courted ally of
a Gar, and even proud old England shakes
bis phlethoric purse and is ready to pay up
damages.
Such said the speaker are some of the
results of the assertion of manhood by
nation or a people en- nadSSe.
Manhood was exemplifed in
the lives of mechanics-the cunning
artifeers who forge all the weapons with
which the battles of labor are fought, sh p
ing and fashioning matters into whatever
form the voice of utility may demand, and
from whose workshops go up notes and
tones that swell into an orchestra, the mus
ic of which Handel might envy and Beetho-
ven feebly initiate.
Again, it prompts deeds of arms that at
one blow strike the letters from the limbs
of nation, or, piercing the STROUD of ig-
norance, lets the light of christian civiliza-
ton into the tombs Of the living dead.
Again, we see it mount the rostrum, and
throwing the light and the learning of its
own grand spirit into the darkness and ST.
lence of despOtism, a nation of freedmen
wake up ir day, transformed by the pow
er of its wonderful alernbic from nation
of cringing, begging slaves.
We see it as it gives its watchful days and
wakeful nights, till by its discoveries the
old sea has tongue and voice other than
the sea shell bears, and with it, continent
speaks to continent in familiar discourse.
The speaker concluded by again well
coming the Alumni to the halls of their
alma Mater, browning his fare
well with graceful tribute
to the moral worth and loneliness and lofty
influence Of woman, whose sphere, though
not gross nor common, he deemed far
nobler in its duties and elevating in its re-
suits than are wont to be believed.
THE ANNUAL TOAST
to the "Orator of the Alumni" was, "His
experience realizes fully the hope of his
youth" 1t was drank at the "Alumni
FEAST and aptly, 1 might say grandly, re-
Piled to- ,
There have been two balls here during
the week, and # more charming angels of
society ever assembled, l hardly think any
one has eve- seen them.
The attendance has been large" than ever
known before and the condition of the in
stitution is most excellent aud prosperous.
Resolutions were adopted by the society
expressive of the deep and profound sorrow
caused by the death of DR.. Socrates Maui
pin, late Chairman Of the Faculty, and also
action was taken relative to the same in con.
nection with the memoir, now being pre-
pared, OF the learned and distinguished
linguist DR.. Gestner Harrison. remain,
ever, GEN. MAC.