Pioche daily record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1872-1876, 1875-07-13
OUT OF PLACE.

OUT OF PLACE.
On the LIST instant tho University oil
held its fiftieth annual COM
of exercises. This institu-
ion was founded by Thomas Jefferson
rho desired to have the fact recorded on |
bis tombstone, together with the author
shin of the Declaration Of Independence,
AZ a part OF the inscription thereon
He classed the two as equally
important, and the University certainly
has fulfilled It's illustrious founders most
expectations. Tho commence
msnt exercises this year were marred by
the dclissrsse r. IN, address sby- GaaeEaa
John S. Presson, a. gentleman ofrmext'
purity Of character and moro than ordi-
nary eloqusnca Of expression. He took
occasion Of the hour and place to utter
some sentiments which, however truth
full and important shoy might seem TO
him, had better been left unsaid. To
GLASS Of graduating students, with the
glow Of enthusiasm in their frames and
the fire OF ambition warming every
hearts throb, should be given words oil
counsel, phrases of encouragement,
thoughts OF victories to win, OF troubles
to overcome, OF obstacles to BIO sur
mounted, and Of the public success and
private feeling Of fulfilled duty which is
the usual award Of well-spent lilo. In
stead OF those cheering words-the last
they will ever hear as students in that
University were given funeral
d,rge, q sad retrospect Of political trou-
bles and reverses, and an ill-timed ap
peal to the very chords Of feeling tina,
should be left untouched. The General.
in his address. takes the absurdly weak
ground that it is impossible for the North
and South to ever take action as united
people. or, forgetful OF past conflict, rise
to mutual dignity in common pros
perity In the future. On this head he
says: "You may assign to them the
closest territorial proximity with all the
forms, modes and shows OF civilization,
but you can never cement them into the
bonds OF brotherhood. Great Nature
in her supremest law, forbidsit." Grea
Nature don't do anything OF the kind
Nature and Mature laws may be searched
in vain for any evidence to uphold suct
q narrow and defective theory. The in
terests OF the Northern manufacturer ant
the Southern producer are nationally
identical. No narrow sectional animos
ity, no pride OF ancestry or remembrance
Of past glory or pre-eminence shout,
cause the commonwealth Of Virginia, tn
Mother Of Presidents" or any othe
State to hold back and decline participa
ton in the glorious future that await
our country. Again the General says:
But, comrades and brothers, here W
are to-day, after our fifty years, on
country the skeleton of nations, and her
around rs the CHASTITY sepulchre; il nc
the scorn, at best the object of the fruit
less pity of our fellow men; the onl
heritage we can bequeath to these child
rem, the opprobrium of their birth, tn
woes We suffer and the insults they ca
not avenge. Here we stand this day
the beaten, defeated, degraded strul
glers after the existence Of liberty, on
lances broken, our shields battered an
our banners draggled in the dirt an
filth Of the earth. And there, brothers
joint heirs of jefferson, we will be, III
gazing stock Of nations, 30 long as OF
liberties are judged by other mems col
sciences.
This is about the most dispriting an
impotent statement OF alleged facts thu
We have read for long time, Can it /
that the Wanted chivalry and worth
sense of honor and manliness for while
Virginia was SO long noted has descend,
to this pitiful whine of accepted ru
and desolstion2 To brave men sure
dering on battle field is due a lar
amount of respect and certain share
admiration intermingled with feeli
of sorrow, even this, from their opp
nents, but when ten years after, m
brave and gallant on the field though
may be, and a model of courtly gra
and polished manners. when such m
makes such statement il awakens
tue minds of all outsiders feeling
contempt. There is work to do in /
present, and there are hopes to cheri
for the future. The work is to tax
part in the active business of the d
and push away the misty memories |,
cloud the mind; the hope ia for an
divided spirit and national prospect
This viii never be comprised by nj,
defamation to college graduates. an
is to be regretted the echoes of the
ternal reunion of Bunker Hill shout,
SO rudely disturbed by the doleful Ian
tations and representations of C
lottesville.