New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1875-08-10
COLLEGE, COMMANDMENTS.

NAME STATE AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE.
.npREss By Ex-6ov. wAsHBURN ON THE LAWS
OF SUCCESS
,. sprsyAL CORRESPONDENT OF THE rIIBUSE.l
onoxo. Me-, Aug. 4.-This is commence
, week nj the Maine State Agricultural College, aud
ON. exercises have thus far passed of satisfactorily ms
,,pooa ex Gov Israel washburn delivered an grafton
- enc LAWS Of Success" before the students OF the
,,ueec and large audience. Mr. Washburn said among
other things:
~,,ng can be more true than Mr.. Dsraeli's PROPOSE
ton that a must understand himself ms Is IN IN
&c do what he should try to de- wha; trade occupation
az profession he should adopt until he has discovered
VI ~, Nc can do best The profession occupation once
aonted one the first and most important laws OF sue
thai which demands devotion mainly one thin2
s ar ratio that men have limit the scope of their
,sh,rs and confne themselves mainly To one tang the
20 increasc conqucsts in the realms Of nature
AUD intelligence are made and an advance IN e.,i1T n
,s o a single pursuit study. hut that he must have
ono that controlling.that dominant dea siiai eA
rtivtv There must be something with a man that If
@ last and grcatest-the central object of his thoughts
tbe m firing labor of tis hands
The greatest in philosophy literature science
ISns, thinsers have not been the widest The
men few hooks have been OF those no nav con
tpa arr those whom freedom and civilization owe the
LARGEST debt No revolution in opinions or csstoms X
acromnlshed by men who are Intensely III earnest
a Grand thought is not wrought into a nations life
except by who is so possessed by IL that ne can give
dceent hasptality to no other.
rrrvtye wears ago a southern statesman Of keen and
subtle intellect. OF trcless persistence ana OF lowering
and unsuitable ambition, fastened his mind to the dogma
of sovereignty and as an lndsienssne G 10 ne
YrccnfOu his section OF the country 70 the utiy anu
sVor necessity chattcl slavery He gave the uiidl
yird labor his life to the dissemination ot MS 0pln
ton on these questions. and wrought with such zen; ana
ski ia SINGLE ceneraIlon 'ncy pecae tnJ uon
inaut ideas the ruling party in the nation
The fundamental theories OF the founders OF the hopui
liz and we-uish converting Government; that rested
unor democracy cornerstone INTO inansn ana
aefr oil -archv based upon slavery While tine reNOlu
Ton was proceeding i'll its earlier stages under the IN
.,,ion and direction Of this unc0mprom!sing man, the
nolitical organizations of the country were unprt
narcd ~ make issue upon the doctrines "ho ne "d'
- vigorously and persiStfntiy lheuieauns nn -
hammer and with battlecry While the hOstS III olp
sion having many leaders and various elslsis anu anu
yafrrgr.s unable ny any concentrated ana ciec
tive rally 10 stay an '' M Ma WRIGHT and Mr.
owed themselves 10 be controlled by their parties, and
werc content struggle for the accomplishments Oh ItlF
special oIort for their promotion primary QUIZ 80 S
~ .aty their aSOrs, far as prdctsal icsts were
concerned we're unaHan1g; , a ana wod havc snr
o.edeh ~ r'yolItioniznG or destroying the GONcrl'
hut for the fact that at about me SAINT Il ~, ii
calhoun began To distil his doctrines mo le pu
,'tug Northern fanatic, he was almost uni-
Xrrsaly regarded, BEGAN counter agitation ny Hhea
--huildng wiser than he knew-hc was III bhS emu nu
or IN d-strov slavery, strengthen the Uuo by
nlacing N on the solid basis OF universal hDery "h
tlovd e,arrcon was emphatically man az ore lda
49, XT Calhoun and he quite persistent anu De
voted. Against oblOqu' rpr34ch, anu df,i"nor
zion. in spite OF personal arnglcd !" for long
and cruel to plant his ldca IN tne inl NH -
his countrymen BY degrees PARTY MAS sat OF f
slavery and the total inefeiency 81 the me;Slfs
that bad been employed for staying Its advances rms
,ar,v grew into that organization of our own day III
Shch an men who thought alike on this vital issue cane
IN oef together subortnating ali other questions 10 t
!, f IN lts earnestness and unity of purpose accom-!
,sh the work had so long been waiting to he done