The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1874-06-13


among the southern States Is great. 'leiier.
SON torcsaw the shock. The University OF
Virginia he founded IS the best help against
these mischiefs. Virginia has excellent
schools and colleges comparatively; has hgh
>choolsaud good free schools; hence her very
Great rcs, onsbility. She must be the ban
ner State of education. Twice the cry has
been "Vircinis to the Rescued" Once she
responded through Washington and the he.
,oes of the first war Once she responded
through Lee and the heroes OF the seeonu !,
| war. Again it is Virginia to the Rescue! :,
| What. felIow-alumni shall be her answer
We rcjoce that much has been done III the
ten years Of suffering.
| But greater crisis is now here. Colonel
| Venahle thinks that the work must, as be.
fore. be done by a combination OF State and
private action. Education is not now q
luxury, but necessity.
TO every man he said What have you
done in the work of the great crisis? Your
| fathers founded these great schools of ECU.
| c,tion Have you increased the cause:
lu) Professional men should through lie
| keep up their liberal culture. co. Tbs
power Of association must be used. g..
| Southern institutions must keep in direct IN
| terc0ursc with the great foreign institutions
:" But may be asked" said Coloncl ven
able, what prospect is there that the men
of Virginia will thus give and llbor Tor pre-
serving their higher culture aud CIVILIZATION
when they have lost so many rights All
can say is the necessity OF effort has been
demonstrated. Dependency must be ban
i.hed. Christian men may lose property and
s5qhts, but be had never yet seen how they
could lose their duties. Let none feel as
though the sun had set upon its last day
Utker DAYS of brightness followed night.
| There is consolation in the thought that the
| forces CT modern progress sometimes work
their rcvcpgcS with surprising rapidity. For
| instance, twenty years ago he had stood III
| Paris and seen the silent Emperor review
Il vast army. II one had predicted as that
vast river of disciplined men flowed past
the man Of stoid face and iron will that
| Prussia was 30 soon 10 realize her passionate
| dream of German unity, land be able To crap
PIE with thar monarch and make him the
prisoner Ct Sedan, he would have been
| deemed 4 madam. SO, IN Berlin, he had
seen the present Austrian Kaiser /. riding at
the head Of Il PrusSiGn regiment Of cavalry.
| That very regiment has since helped, at
! SdG0,c1, to crush the Austrian power. He
saw another noble Hap>burg Prince walking
armilI.ilm with the King Wilhelm. TINS
was the haXimiiau Of Mexico, whose tragic
passage from the halls of the Montcz,imaS to
the Slaughter of QucretarO you all rcmem-
her. In Turin, he had stood in the vault of
| her cathedral ard seen the PiedmouteSe lay
inr their furereal wrcaths upon the tomb of
the good Charles Albert, dead of a broken
| heart under the disasters of Ndcdrd, while
a. tpH f,t If.ilr
| But nov lis son is crowned king of all
Ialy, in Rome the land is guarded, despite
| Pope and kaiSer, by free Italians, and the
cypress upon the grave of the good king
!. covered with the Wreaths Of victory.
When he went to Vienna he saw in her
streets the Scowlng Hungarian, wearing the
livery ard bearing the nuSket Of his con-
Queror. But now, the Hungarian pervadcS
the streets Of that capital an clatc freeman.
| The oppresSor has been compelled 10 en-
! franchise his conquest: and Austria and
| Hungary, two sisters, pursue together the
career Of liberty and progress. Let us then
| he true to ourselves and TO Virginia, 80 that
| il Providence has in store any restoration
| tor us we may be found not unworthy Of it.
TO you, my Youngest brethren Of the
alumni who launch out to-day into life, l
HIVE u WI VI Stott IhASl uIo SpOt Sohh-
| gel. You enter active life in u season Of pc
cuiar responsibility and temptation. The
poverty of despoicd land is Il temptation.
The example of the corrupt otlice-seekcr is
to weak virtue temptation. See 10 it that
you breast these evil influences manfully.
And there is but one compass that can show
you the way through them-tbat OF Chris.
iiaa morality"
THE ALUMNI SUPPER.
DR.. Hoge presided in bis most inimituble
|'style, and made IN Introductory address of
very happy humor.
The first toast was:
lima Mater-the nurse and foster mother
of the fame and greatness of the Old Do
mnion. Responded to by Rev. Il. w.
Hooper.
Tie second, TO Virginia, was to have been
responded TO by DR.. Hoge, but he yielded to
introduce that venerable classical scholar,
who has contributed so much to the history
of Virginia. Hon. Hugh b. Grigsby, Of Char
| Iotte, who responded to the toast, q" Waiver.
lev, or sixty years since" which was. after
an Interesting narrative of the early history
| of the WaverIv novels, changed to clamp.
den Sidney sixty years ago."
Its condition and surroundings then were
committee will succeed in securing this learn
| ed gentleman TO make the historical Grafton
at tue centennial.
Sd. The Graduating Class--True sons of
| the old college, to whom she points as her
| TO the ancient legend, Per aspera dd 0strd.
| This was responded to by MIR. w. Ii.
Woods, Of Kentucky.
4th. The Legal ProieSsion-At once the
offspring and just pride Of academic learn
ing.
William Writ Henry, Esq, descendant
of the greatest lawyer, replied very appro.
pristcly.
9th. The Joint Interests of Religion and
! Letters in Hampdeu Sidney, like the" Swan
on st. Mary's Lake, floats double swan
and shadow" BY Rev. DR.. II. C.. AleXan.
der, of the Seminary.
9Th. The Endowment Fund May it
cease to be shadowy and become substantial.
| Every alumnus in the land should have
| heard the appeal made by the clarion voice
| of Colonel L. Slanhope Flournoy. Let every
son do something to help the committees
and canvaSsers elected for this great work.
7lh. The University Of Virginia, the noble
| guardian of learning and talent. Re-
sponded to by Professor Colonel G. s. Vena.
| BILE.
Sth. The Orators of Commencement OF
1874. By Colonel w. r. Berkeley.
9th. The British Settlers in Virginia
They are welcomed by county which bears
the signature of an English prince and by a
college which receives its title from two Eng
| iish patriots. The perSimmOn bough is
| wreathed with the thistle, the shamrock,
and the daisy.
10th. The Board Of Trustees: Wise and