New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1875-04-16


of which the student writes and the library assists our
chief attention Ia challenged by them. Contemplating
them lose sight, comparatively, of the instruments
which had made their outline familiar, forgetting the
processes before the vitality and the OF the facts to
which these had brought 1t Ia with as with the
traveller who TO remember the ship which carried
him the when he eads the streets OF the dis
tant town. watches s unfamiliar manners, hears the
dissonance Of its strange speech and looks with sur
prsed delight its religious civil architecture; 30
We in front OF the great events the signal actions the
mean ilustrous characters to which the historical
narrative has borne forget for the time the narrative
ITSELF only remember the intellectual grace which
nodded its lines, the strength OF proof which confirmed
its conclusions, the buoyant movement with which it
bore us across intervening foods Of time.
TIE ANNIVERSARY or A GREAT GRAFTON.
We stand, as people, in presence Of a commanding
past and shall continue 70 do in succeeding Of
National experience. One centennial anniversary
dear the thoughts every lover Of English eoduenee
and American liberty has passed already; and you will
pardon perhaps, pause upon that because has
suggested the theme which would offer some re-
marks.
1t was just 100 years ago. on the ODD Of March last
that Edmund Burke delivered in the British Parliament
that speech Cancellation with the Colonies" which,
Of ITSELF would have justified the fame OF any speaker
The profoundest political and legislative wisdom
presented in it with perspicuous clearness, and
enforced with an eloquenee WHICH Burke himself
never surpassed In and majestic utterance he
cited the circumstances which had led him SEEK with
mpssoned ardor TO promote the reconciliation Of the
Colonies to the Government of Great Britain and to do
this by repeating the acts of Parliament against which
sistanee had here been aroused and by adjusting future
legislation the plan Of getting an American
England had got its American empire by securing to
the Colonies the ancient and inestmable English priv
ieges. The speech is OF familiar to you yet
rapid indication of its compact argument
reveals pOem or the touch Of even an unsked crayon
may set before us the Outreach Of q landscape.
The circumstance to which he first referred the
rapid Increase OF the colonial popatOnan increase so
swift and continuing that in his words state the
numbers as high as you WILL while the dispute continues
the exaggeratiOn ends. - Your children do not grow
faster from infancy manhood than they of the coones
spread from families 10 communities and from villages TO
nations The second circumstance which impressed his
mind the Of the colonies; out Of all pro-
portion beyond the numbers Of the people, in respect TO
which fiction lags after truth, invention is unfrutf
and imagination cold and barren" OF their
expanding agriculture he said "FOr
time past the Old World has been fed
from the new the scarcity which you have felt would
have been desolang famine If this child Of your old
age, with true hial pety, with Roman charity, had
not put the full breast Of its youthful exuberance 10 the
colonies especially of the whale fishery he spoke in
words whose fame ID cOeXtensive with the English
the perseverance of Holland the activity of France OF
the dexterOus and firm sagacity Of English enterprise"
and this by people who are STILL as t were but in the
grise and yet hardened into the bone OF manhood"
still more important, however before his view, than
rcuure or their commerce, the temper and eharaC
ter " the people who composed them in which love of
freedom appeared TO him the predOmnating feature dis
tiugushing the whole The people OF the colonies were
descendants Of Englshmen. They were, therefore
not only devoted to liberty but to liberty according TO
English IDEAS" and 40 they were fundamentally Opposed
with all the force OF nmemoria tradition 70 that tax
ON
lovers Of freedom had always fought Their POPULAR
forms Of government through provincial assemblies,
reiin cave m this civil inaeuce eomnIete eecf The
people" he Sid "are Professionals, and Of that kind
which Ia the most adverse to all implicit submission OF
on tba iI NJ rasstanne IL "a The 5issdene ~
dissent and the professionalism Of the Protestant re-
hgon" III this We're not strictly trne IN the southern
ihnnrt vat ne snt ~ lihertv vas berc onIv bgher
and laughter than in Others because they had multi
tude Of slaves and where this is the case he affirmed
- any part OF s wOru mos Wao arc iree are oy lar
sne most proua ana Jealous OF sner Ireedo Inc
REGION rS iortes ~ ana lenders M
20 Sc6 he s,6 az a tSo a sde
them, contributed 10 thelr untractaole spirit III led
tneIn NOT IKE more Simple peoples, 10 Judge OF an III
but anticipate the evil and judge of the pressure Of
the grievance Dy the badness OF the principle" Ihe
lasi cause Oh tne alsoDedlent sprlt IA Ine colonies 70
which he called the attention or parliament was laid
nueness of their situation the 5000 miles Of ocean,
forever intervening between England and them.
ah thcoo NlochlhS Nv
erty had grown up in the colonies now unalterabe by
fear fasify pedigree OF this fierce people and per-
suade them that they not sprung from nation in
whose veins the blood OF freedom circuates.
think Is nearly little in power change their
publican religion their free descent And the
education OF the Americans is also the unatera
BILE bottom with their religion" while all these moral
difficulties could be gotten over, the remains,
You cannot pump this dry, and long it continues
its present bed long all the which weaken
thority by distance will continue"
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