The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1881-10-20

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be first forever In oil American HEARTS, and
In thanking Ged that, after 30 many delays
and Announcements and trials, he was
privileged to ind on BIS native soil hum
dred years ago to-day the scene OF his most
memorable triumph.
BREAK THE BONDS or IGNORANCE.
Speaking "a one OF past generation, Mr..
Winthrop earnestly gave some common
place principles and cominoll-sense maxims
for the preservation Of Republican Liberty.
Among other remedies, universal education
was pronounced indispensable to avert the
greatest danger Of the future. Every
year, every day, OF delay increases the diff
fculty Of meeting the danger. Slavery
Is but half abolished, emancipation
is but half completed, while millions
OF freemen with votes In their hands
are left without education. Justice
TO them, the welfare Of the states In which
they live, the safety OF the whole Republic,
the dignity OF the elective franchise, alike
demand that the still remaining bonds OF
ignorance shall be unloosed and broken,
and the minds as well as the bodies OF the
cmancipated go free!
The orator, when he came to bis grand
pcrOraton, spoke as with the authority OF
the Past to the living Present. 1t was a
fitting close to a magnificent address.
hail you all, Fcllow-Citizens, as broth
ers to-day, and call upon you all, Is you
advance in successive generations, to stand
fast i'm the faith OF the Fathers and TO up
hold and maintain unimpaired the matchlcss
institutions which are now ours. You
are the advance guard OF the human race;
you have the future Of the world" said
Madame Dis Stael to distinguished Amer
lean, recalling with pride what France had
done for Us at Yorktown. Let us iii our
selves to full sense OF such responsibility
for the progress Of Freedom, in other lnnds
~ we'll as in our own. IL Is not ours TO
intervene for the redress OF grievances, or
FOR the establishment OF independence
elsewhere. ~ France did here, with
fleets and armies. But we can, and
must, interycne-and we are intervening,
daily and hourly, for better or worsc-by
the influence and the force OF orr eXaln-
pie. Next, certainly, TO promoting the
greatest good q the greatest number at
home. the supreme mission OF our Country
Is to hold up before the eyes OF all mankind
practical, well-regulated, successful sys-
TEN Of Free, Constitutional Governments
purely administered and Loyalty supported,
giving assurance, and furnishing proof,
that true Liberty is not incompatible with
the maintenance OF order, with obedience
to Law, and with a lofty standard OF political
and social virtue. We cannot escape from
the responsibility OF this great Intervention
OF American Example; and il involves
nothing less than the hope or the de-
SPAR OF the the Agesl Let Us strive,
/ then, 10 aid and advance the Lib
erty OF the world, in the only legiti-
mate way in our power, by patriotic fidel-
itv and devotion in upholding, illustrating,
and adjoining our own Free lnstitutio rs.
THE FUTURE.
There is no limit to our prosperity ana
welfare il we are true 10 those institutions.
I We have nothing now to fear except from
ourselves. We are One by the conigurs-
ton Of nature and by the strong impress
OF art. We are One by the memories OF our
fathers. We are one by the hopes Of our
children. We are One by Constltu-
ton and Union which have not
only survived the shock Of Foreign and
Of Civil War, but have stood the allegiance
OF almost all administration, while the
whole people were waiting brcathless, in
alternate hope and fear, FOR the issues OF
/ al eXccrablc crime. We are One-bound
( together afresh-by the electric chords OF
sympathy and sorrow, vibrating and thrill
ing, day by day Of the liyclong summer,
/ through every one OF our hearts, for our
bascN wounded and bravely-sullcring Pre-
/ misunderstanding us all down OH our knees
/ together in common supplicatiOns for his
/ life. and involving us all at last in COM
/ mon flood OF grief at his death oh, let
/ not the influences OF the great ailllctlon he
/ lost upon us for the century TO come, but
I let Us be One, henceforth and always, IN
mutual regard, Cancellation, and affection
/ 600 on. hand in hand, o States, never
/ 10 lie disunited BE the praise and the he
roic song OF oil posterity! Join your IN
yincible might 10 do worthy snd Sodllke
deeds And then But lwill not add,
/ rs John Milton added in closing his inim-
/ table appeal on Reformation in England
/ two centuries and hall ago" A cleayinS
curse be his inheritance to all generations
who seeks to break your Union!' NO
anathemas shall escape my lips on TINS
/ zuspicious day. Let me rather invoke, a.
| deyoutly and fervently do, the choicest
and richest blessings Of Heaven on those
who shall do most, in all time to come, to
preserve our beloved Country in UNITY,
PEACE, and CONCORD!
At the conclusion OF Mr.. Winthrop ora
ton the "Star Spanglcd Banner" was
splcndidly sung by the chorus, accompanied
by the Marine band, OF Washington.
Centennial Poem.
James Barron Hope, Of Virginia, deliy-
cred his Centennial poem with fine effect.
The following are the opening and closing
verses
Prologue.
Ful-burnishel through the l0ng-reVolTing years
RiSs peaceful burrows where 4 crop Of Spears
once stood i'm Wars array
And We, like those who on the Trosd's plain,
See hoary secrets wrcnched from upturned sods
Who, In their fancy he.r re;ound sS>lh
The battle-cTy Of Gods
We now,-this splendid scene before US spread
Where Freedoms full hexametcr began
Restore our Epic. which The Nations read
As far its tiunders ran.
Mere visions throng on People and on Bard
Ranks all a-glltler IN battsl!On's m2ssed
And closed around NJ like plum-ei guard,
They lead US down the Past
I sec great Shapes in vague conf ision march
Like giant shadows, moving vas sna Sow
5rncath some tOrch-lit teinpirs mighty arch
Where long professions 40.
I 1 see these shapes before me, al unfold,
/ I,uf meier csu 4 I them on the lofty wall;
Nor tell them save as she OF tn-dor tuld
What she beheld to Saul.
TIIR DEAD STATESMAN.
/ I soc his shape WHO should have led these ranks
/ T. AHFIfID STE whose presence had evoked
/ ~ stormy ripturcs Of 4 Nations thanks
Ills chariot stands mlyoked!
! I-nvokcd and empty, and the Chariotcer
| 10 s.u,e's * banded arms has hcHclOng rushed
! Ending the gloTics Of his grand carer,
Willie an the world stood hushed.
The thunder of his Wheels 10 done. but he
snst,ined by patience, fOriiiude. and grace
] A Chri.flan Iicro-frum the struggle free
Has won the Christians race!