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THE OREGON" ARGUS.
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BY WILLIAM. L, ADAMS.
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ADDRESS
W 1 1 LI AM L. ADAMS,
At Uclhil, Polk County, Oregon, oil tle
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ORBOOKfCITY, O&EOOW TERRITORY, SATURDAY, JULY 21, 1858.
NO. 14.
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Ladies and Gk.ntlkmk.i,
Friendi and Fellow Cilbrni : I)rmil
mj t'J congratulate you upon the fiivomble
mispices under which you are Assembled.
Human liberty, scienc?, nnd Christianity,
which constitute I lie happiness, tlio dignity
nnd glory of man, lmve very appropriately
met to-day lo join hands nnd hold n com-
moil jubile, upon ono uf the most beautiful
prairie of tlic noblest territory of I lie great
est nation tlio world ever saw. What more
Appropriate day for such n meeting, and;1'10 'ort'' ,0 lno burning sands of Mexico,
for such a union, than the anniversary of muJ '"'"S llic '"rests, ami plowing the Gelds
which hn shone so brilliantly in the henv.
cut fir more than tcventy years, continue
to climb the vault with increasing lustre,
pouring a blaze of light into every dark cor
ner of the world whero oppression locks bcr
rusty rnnnmlct on human limb, or shall it
become cclipsrd bo blotted from the hcav
cn, or go u'ewn forever, at that of other re
public ha gone, nnd iVsve' tlio world a fi.
Did demonstration of the problem which tins
so lung puzzled the statesman, ns to the
po'sibility of maintaining, for any length of
time, a democratic form of government !
TT f.Mrtir Ait'tynna wtt fiMtitfl titfft natnlld.
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puiut upon soino one of these lofty snow
capped peak in view, nnd with a telescope
embrace in our horizon every neighborhood
that composes a fractiun of our vast national
f.nnilv, scattered from the frozen regions of
niicli a nation's birth !
Seventy-nine times has the sun male his
yearly circuit through thu heavens since on
nation was born, nnd just seventy. nine
times hnvo the descendant of our rovolu
tianary heroes unfolded to the breeze, on
thy -lib day of July, the St irs and Stripes,
tho sight of which always makes the warm
blood gii-.li quicker through the true Amer
ican Ili'art.
S.-veiity-one years have elapsed ince that
(lag w.n reeognizi'd by the nations of the
world as rightfully waving overn free ami
independent people, and on just as many
recurring unnivoraries hao the members
of this vast national family gathered around
a common board, with warm hearts and
friendly greetings, to feast together, and
talk over the occurrencesthat immortalized
otir ancestors, and attended tho birth of a
irti m which wo are proud to claim ns ours
nn J the. bl ;singi of which wo are all unx
iou to perpetuate.
"ecuunni ireii'.nc., party im-ling, aw:
personal divine.! ion are here all forgotten
wlid! we meet together, oil nnu grand na
tional union platform, lo rejoice over our
l.bei-iies, and offer np the incense ofour pu
rest devotion to Uini who holds the destinies
of nations as in tho hollow of his band,
Such an occasion ns has brought us tngeth-
er to-day affords n theme sullicieiitly grand.
interesting, and diversified for the exercise
of tha talents of earth's mightiest orators,
philanthropists, statesmen, and divines.
The past history of tlio bloody at niggle
which wrested from the hand of despotism
the charter of our liberties, the charade
and history ofour free institutions in the
blessings tli v have conferred upon us, and
their influences upon other nations, togeth
er with tin kind of substantive basis upon
which they were reared, the means by which
they are to be perpetuated, and the relation
which we sustain, ns a nation, to tho only
rightful Sovereign of the uuiverse, affords a
tliemo traiii-ccndently interesting to the
tallest orator, and ono well worthy of the
yearly jubilee of just such a nation as ours.
,1 have not como here to-day for the pur
pose of treading over the ground which has
been so often passed over by those who have
preceded me. I have not come here mere'
ly for the purpose of bringing afresh to your
minds the stirring occurrences which make
up tho history of tho eight long, gloomy
years which followed tho declaration of In
dependence. Tho circumstances of those
tragical scenes, through which our rcvolu
tionary fathers passed, are all vivid to your
minds.
We are all conversant with tho toils, suf
ferings, and privations through which our
ancestors most cheerfully passed in order to
bequeath to their posterity the rich legacy
of human liberty, which wo this day enjoy.
The echo of tho roar of cannon, which shook
Bunkor.s Hill and the heights of Yorktown
Jias, in imagination, hardly died away among
ithe gorges and caverns of the lofty moun-
laios we see all around us. The names and
daring deeds of tlioso illustrious warriors
are enshrined in the memories of their off
spring, and will be forever.
. The peculiar charaactor of the govcrn
, meat under which we live, and tho manner
in which it has distributed, broadcast, its
blessings among all classes of our citizens,
in every longitude from tho farthest Atlantic
capes, to tho rjitremo promontories ofour
own Pacific, nud wc could behold tho flag of
otiret.uiilry waving over the assembled mul
titudes of just ns many districts, met togeth
er for thii same purposes that you are con
vencd to-day, wo should linvo abundant
proof of the proposition that our free insti
tutions are as eternal ns tho everlasting h
that surround us.
I refer to the fact that vou nro assemble
for the purpose of promoting the cause
education in your vicinity. You have met
to lay a foundation for the education of your
offspring, and such a foundation forms the
substantive basis upon which rests tho stu
pendotir. fabric uf our free institutions. For
this reason I have congratulated you up
on the favorable mispicis under whie
you have met, and for this reason you liav
already had the assurances of my conviction
that if this laudable desira and f ffortas equa
ly permeates the citizens of every section of
our groat country, wo have the strongest
proof h'lat our liberties can never bo wrest
ed from our hands. Thcro never was
intelligent nation enslaved. There never
was a nation where intelligence was univer.
sally diffused among tho masses of the peo
pie, that boed its neck to the yoke of
drspnt.
In all the experiment that have ever been
made, in tho history of governments, to es
tabli-di repubpes, not a single parallel, as to
the materials out of which it was formed
in bo found to our own. The Constitii
lion, which is ihe charter of tho liberties of
a republican people, must bo formed undi
the i m mediate eye of the masses who are to
bo governed by it, nnd there must bo asuffl
eietit nniotint of intelligence among the
masses, in constructing that instrument, to
make it sufficiently conservative to guard
against an improper di legation of power to
tltosp who mlo under that constitution
Unless the people are sufficiently informed
to understand thu nature and limits of tho
owcrs conferred jipnn tho heads of the va
rioiis departments of the government, by tho
wisest nnd best cons' ituiion that can bo do-
vised, so that they may bo always alia to
understand when ambitious rulers arc en
deavoring to transcend the limits of lliat in
strument, there is no security for the con
tinuance of free institutions among such t
people.
The history of tho downfall of nations,
who have failed in their experiments in en
deavoring to establish republics upon some
sort of a permanent basis, proves that their
declino was not so much atiributablo to de
fects in their original charters, as to a dispo
sition on the part of rulers to usurp authori
ties not granted in their constitutions. The
people not being sufficiently educated to un
derstand the nature and powers of their own
governments, and their rights and privileg
es under them, have gradually witnessed
their liberties, one by ono, wrested from
their hands by ambitious, official dema
gogues, until, under the pretended sanction
of iheirottu constitutions, they havo found
themselves reduced to tho most abject rule
of despotism, with the only consolation of
being Vol J by tyrants, that their condition
was the legitimate result of placing the
reins of govcrument in the hands of the peo
ple. Such consequences have always fol
and more than realized the most sanguine j 'owed efforts for establishing and perpetua-
cxpectations of its founders, in the brief pe
riod of its existence, Lave been sufficieu'.Iy
.dwelt upon by others.
ting republics among nations who were not
sufficiently enlightened to understand the
genius of their institutions enough to guard
iue great subject which most interested : aghast an unwarrantable assumption of
those who sealed with their blood the testa- power by their rulers. Such at present is
nieot which transmitted to us the institu-i die condition of most of the nations of Eu
tions they S) dearly purchased, was, the rope. It is extremely doubtful whether
moans of perpetuafaig the government. j tbere be a single Kingdom or Empire in En.
The question that most interests us to-day rope which could long perpetuate a demo
L". libs!! the p!r tar of cir political brp, forn rf gov resent, if ih present
convulsions, that aro now upheaving their
social fabrics, should result in breaking tho
arm of tyranny, and placing the sccptro of
political power in the hands of tho popu
lace. It is said that he that has learned the
art of governing himself, U a greater hero
than tho warrior who lays tho cities of an
empire in ashes. It may, with equal truth,
bo affirinod that none but an educated mind
over yet fully learned the sublime nnd diffi
cult art of self government. If knowledge
be the only pwcr by which a man can ob
tain tho mastery over himself, of won! trani-
cendant importnnco that those who control
n nntion tl'ould possess, in n largo degree,
this power of know!::1"? ! "d bow futile
must bo the effort to establish or n;.'"tain a
popular rulf, when a majority of tho nation
is immersed in ignoranco! The hktory of
all time has shown that in every popular
government that ever rose, reigned, or fell
tho machinations of demagogues have been
powerless, unless blindly supported by an
ignorant, though honest, populace j mid tho
samo history will bear me oit in the' asser
tion that tho most dangerous foes to repub
licanism nro generally found umong a class
of people who confide their power, as politi
cal sovereigns, to the control of party leaders,
Such an anatnoly as a highly intelligent
man, with an honest heart, following n party
when wrong, hns never yet been seen.
unprincipled pauizan, though somewhat cd
ucatcd, may follow his party, when wrong,
from snifter motives, and an uneducated
though honest man, may follow his party
to tho destruction of his government, from
his inability lo discover his error.
Our revolutionary fathers asserted an ax
lomatic truth when they nflirmed that the
"permanency of our free institutions rested
upon the virtuoand intelligence of the poo
pic." They knew full well that as long as
their offspring were qualified to judge of ihe
superiority of our free institutions over those
of tho old world, aud were nblo to steer tho
ship of state clear of all foreign tangling nl
hances and unfriendly influences, and suc
cessfully resist encroachments upon their
rights, by tho unwarrantable assumption of
power by ambitious rulers at home, the gov
ernmeiit could never be destroyed.
We en joy, fellow citizens, tho privilege of
citizenship in the most exalted and, perhaps
powerful na'ion in the world, in a govern
nieiitr created solely by and for tho people
nnd resting with all its mighty weight nf re
sponsibility upon our shoulders. That
weight of responsibility has increased, and
will continue to increase in a direct ratio with
heenlargemcntof our territory, the increase
ofour numbers, the growth of our agricul
ttiral, manufacturing, and commercial inter
ests, which are yearly rendering our munic-
pal arrangements at home, and our diplo
matic intercourse abroad moro complex, and
consequently requiring moro wisdom to
meet the exigencies of the times by a prop
er and wise legislation upon our domestio
nnd foreign policy.
Our education ought therefore to keep
paco with our growth,-nnd the increase of
our burthen of responsibility.
"knowledge is power," is an old and trite
adage, and it is just as much a law of nature
that educated mind must govern the world,
as that tho centrifugal force of tho heavenly
planets is held in equilibrium by the gravita-
ng powers of the orbs around which they
revolve.
Viewing education then in tho light of a
rand political auxlinry, as the corner stone
f civil and religious liberty, how appro
priate the day, how apropos to tho occasion,
the position you occupy as patrons of a pub
ic institution for training your offspring
for the discharge of their duties to you, their
titles to society, to their country and the
orld.
Whilst I have kept so prominently in view
e importance of education, considered in
the light of its political influence, I would be
r...r . .... ..
mi irom oeing unncrsiooo, mat tuo lilting
ofour offspring to become honorable mem
bers of our political confederacy, embraces
all, or even the highest objects of a popu
lar education.
him adrift with an outfit, for coasting along
lira borders of an ocean as illimitablo as
eternity. With such an outfit, and such an
introduction to tho fields of investigation, he
may sit down supinely in some friendly cove
and amuso himself for threo score years and
ten by caiting pebbles into the ocean occa
sionally gazing ofT with his telescope from
some adjacent promontory vpon the broad
expanse that stretches out before him, nnd
finally die an ignorant man. (I speak now
of the scientific and intellectual department
of education.)
Or, forsooth, if he happens to le ono ?!
natures favored goniuto, who lovo lo "ride
on the storm nnd direct the whirlwind" and
nnd as Pollock says of Byron, he "stoops to
pluC? ll'O loftiest thoughts," or if ho pos
sesses tho tafcii! that enables him to turn
to account tho discovor!c of genius, and
Atlas like to carry nev. diseovcreu orldson
his back, and if ho has tho energy to puh
these powers to the utmost, he may thus
improve his allotted time, and die with no
more, claims to the nanio of an educated
man, than n cold, dashing, blazing, eccen
tric comet would have, to tho distinction of
a fixed, luminous, warming sun in tho
heavens.
When we talk about an. educated man,
fifllco of regulating the conduct of this rhor
nl horo, that ho spent his life in visiting tho
prisons of Europe, binding up tho broken
hearted, and searching in every nook and
comer of that vast continent, for objects of
commisscration in the persons of the widow,
the fathorless and tho oppressed, over whom
he might bend and drop the tear of sympathy,
whilst with a soft hand ho wiped the briny
drop from other faces nnd oured tho oil of
consolation into their bleeding hearts I
W hich think you, presents tho purost
bound " Man's origin,' his Dtrt, nnd Wf
relation to lbs invisible unierst, tpiritaaj
and material, together, with bis nliitmU
destiny, are all matters, although mometf
tously important of which tht hoary bad4
sage in the school of natural philosophy,
is as profoundly Ignorant as the tavaga
who thinks Ihe ken of bis unassisted vistem
is tho natural boundary of the universe.
Man's moral aspirations just us naturally
draw him towards eternity for a field of ex
plorntion, and for an object of veneration,
as his intellectual faculties entice Lira into
the flowery labyrinths of nature's mysteries,
or Lis natural appetite leads biro to tht
cooliug fountain to slake Lis thirst. The
moment Le begins the pursuit of moral
science, ho commences opening know
ledge of Lis relations, fo other worlds and
other than material i) stems, s a creature
uf something moro than a morn?Qt. He
commences climbing tho ascent to that
lofty position from which Lo fell, and be
begins to feel a divine attraction drawing
specimen of a truly educated man, tho war
rior mounted ou his bloody car, nnd like n I " a golden chord, and "blading him
mnd man tfriv'us his furious steeds right back," (as religion Indicatos) to tho only
(hroiich whole armies finhtmz for their of "H real attraction, the great mor-
hearth-stones nnd leaving, in smoking cities in& vitalizing principle tiiat sits enthroned
"How empty learning, and how vain ia art,
But it m:ndt the life, and guides the heart."
AYhat are wo to understand by an educa
tion ?. Whatever, in our examination we
may find it to be, we shall find it not to bn
merely the acquisition of the science taught
in the schools. Colleges and institutions of
learning, although indtspensabH, as a
means, have never yet been able to lay any
thing more than the foundation of intellec
nal culture. They merely form the habit
of thinking, introduce the student into the
portals of nature's bilden sreaas, sad set
we embrace tbo whole man "body soul an
spirit." Or in other words we mean to say
that the work of education is never com
plete, short of man's developement as
physical intellectual and moral being.
Man, tie noblest temple that tho A!
mighty ever reared, like tho Jewish edifice,
is just tbrco stories high. The physical
mnn constitutes the basement story, the in
tcllectnal man tho niiddlo department, and
tho moral man, or upper room, is the finish
ing climax of Gods last best effort at crea
tion, which scaled him with the imago o
his author and caused the ''morning stare to
sing together," and nil the angelic "hosts of
heaven to shout for joy."
Man's authorship,- was au exercise of the
powers that launched the universe into bo-
mg. Xiis education, which constitutes the
developement of his pyhsicnl intellectual
and mornl powers, in his efforts to adopt
himself to tho universe around him, is com
mitted to Lis own bunds.. In this sense,
and in this alono is man said to bo the ar
biter of his own destiny, Man although a.
Ilcrculcs in physical power, with reason do
throned, and Lis moral sensibilities blighted,
isamero brute in human form, nnd although
developed to the highest degree as a physi
cal intollectual being, with darkened moral
perceptions, ho is little less than a blazing
comet darting through the universe, with
an irregular orbit, emitting no fructifying
or lilo giving principle of heat, an object
simply of astonishment and fear whose
final disappearanco from tho starry vault
is no serious inconvenienco to tho benighted
taveller and little deplored by thoso who
chronicle tho events of tho times. Of such
characters, perhapsrwe may note a Byron, a
Danton, a Robespierre, a Boiiaparto and a
Payne. Such men may be prodigies in
physical and intellectual power, and bo no
more entitled to tho distinction of thorough
ly educated men, than a building having a
good foundation and complete to tho second
story, but roofless and affording no shelter
from the driving storm, would deservo tho
name of a travelers' inn.
Such a man, in his career may nfford
somo sublimo spectacles to nn astonished
orld, in tho ccentric devolopcments of his
masterly powers, but as longns he fails to
touch the chord of sympathy in tho hearts
of his fellows, to strengthen among his kind
e love for virtue, and in the bosoms of his
earthly brethren the God like principle of
goodness tbo object of his mission into the
world is entirely thwarted. Ho presents
about as incongruous a spectacle, as that of
aproud and noble but misguided ship, riding
forawhile on mountain waves among frown
ing reefs, and finally dashing herself to
atoms, and quietly settling down in the deep
yawning chasms beneath her. How does
the history of a Bonaparte or an Alexander,
who perhaps never shed a tear of sympathy
over the vast ruin they were the means of
accomplishing, and who in their ambitious
strides aftr glory, waded through the blood
of millions of their subjects, and Lad their
hands a thousand times washed in tho team
wrung from the hearts of myriads of widows
and orphans they had made, now beseeching
for protection, how I ask does the history
of such men compare with that of a Howard,
who as to physical and intellectual cultiva
tion might have been inferior to these
heroes with garments dyed in blood, but
and plains covered with tho dead, abundant
footprints of an incarnate demon, or a philan
thropist following in Lis train to repair the
dreadful breach he has made, and bending
ll his efforts to ameliorate the sufferings, of
the ui)fuiluT,t wretches, who have been
visited by such a fcC:,fC8 as an ambitious
conqueror t
I need not pause for a reply from suei' an
intelligent audience as I sco around me. :
Your hearts have already yielded the truo
response, and you will also bear me out in
tho assertion that when our children are
educated sufficiently to judge cortcctly
between the comparative merits of the war.
rior, aud the philanthropist or in other words
to estimate men by their real moral worth,
tho day will have passed nway when mili
tnry skill shall bo thought to be tho highest
qualification for a public officer, and when
the power of lending tho people merely by
the attraction of unmeaning party names will
have passed from tho hands of political dem
agogucs. Keal education then, fellow citi
zens, consists in a full and proper develope
ment of the moral inlcllcctual nnd physical
powers of the whole man. A child who is
born with tho genius of a Milton, and the
fine sensibilities of n Mclanctbon, if Lo ever
rises through a cultivation, of theso faculties
to a position Lo ought to occupy, must pos
sess a constitution of nowerful bhvsicu
vitality. Uulesa the growth of Lis educa
tion as to bis higher faculties, is kept pace
with by the substantive basis on which they
rest, Buch a promising gcuius instead uf
overreaching tho full measure of . the
stature of a great man, will disappoint tho
hopes of his friends by relapsing into a punv
imbecility and like a slender stalk of wheat
that yields to the pressure of its own load of
grain, will find himself prostratod in his in
tellectual efforts, beyond tho hope of rising
to any considerable distinction.
Tho first step then in tho courso of ed
ucation which claims tho attention of the
pnrentorgunrdian is, to lay a proper founda
tion for intellectual culture by inuring his
offspring to tho toils of manual lubor. This
however is a department which in these
western wilds, among a majority of pnronts
receives already perhaps moro than its full
share of attention. Our fellow citizens need
no exhortations from us upon this subject.
Such a thing as a perfectly educated man
the world has never soen. Such a devclopo
ment is tho work of Eternity. And you
will see from tho positions that I have taken,
that tho perfection of mora character ulonc
puts tho finishing touch, to the true scholar.
In this view of tho case, t0w mnnv of what
tbo world has cala great nnd wise, nro far
from meriting tho appellation. To what
extent the moral faculties must be disciplin
ed, before a student should rccoivo Lis di
ploma, wo have i.ot taken upon ourstlf to
in tho centre of the highest Leavens.
The bible is the only text book from which
thii branch of our education can be thor
oughly learned. Christianity, therefore, caps
the climax of all true science, nnd puts on the
finishing touch, to an education that comes
ns near being perfect as mortals with limited
perceptions may expect to attain to. And
this leads me to the enunciation of my pro-
jmtun. Be not startled, fellow citizens,
nor decT? 0,0 upcratitio when I affirm
that there never truly great and thor
oughly educated man fri tlie ouivcrse who
was not a Christian. I do not mlftB nar
row minded sectary, nor a man possessed of
the "form of godliness, yet by Lis works de
nying the pow er thereof.'' The truly edu
cated individual of whom I speak is a philos
opher of (no highest school, aud of the most
profound research. lie stands apon an cm
inonce ns much higher than that occupied
by the philosophers of Greeco aud Rome as
tho tallest peak of the Pyraiinces is loftier
than a molehill, and Lo embraces a hoizon as
much more expansivo than theirs as the ken
of vision of him who stands apon some lof
ty eminence is more comprehensive than
that of him who looks up from tho bottom
of a well. Such an individual, however be
may be esteemed by the would be great and
learned of this world, is w ith us the beau
ideal of a truo philosopher, and of an educa
ted man. He occupies n position just as
near a higher order of intelligences as one of
Adam's sous ever climbed lo since the fall,
and ono from which ho looks down through
a ma.y distance to pigmy tnonarchs sitting
on worldly thrones,
1 said in my Introduction tint you wert founj- .
lug an institution of learning in one uf the meet
beautiful locations that evor enraptured Ihe eye of
a p jet or painter. I have never yet soen s country
so fuvorablo to Intellectual pursuits, as the land
we have ehoeen fur our adopted home. The Im
pression that a view from some elevated position of
its beautiful valliee, ita meandering streams, and
li waving fields of golden grain, always niakos
upon the miud of him who loves to revel in a gar
den of nature's delighli, is, that It ought to be
emphatically a land of peace, a land of literature.
I have never aeen a country yet, where nature has
done so much in paving Ihe way for the sueoeaaful
education of our offspring, as the one in which af
ter many toils we Imvobeen permuted lo sit down.
We havo a mild climate, a puro and invigorating
atmoepliero, which are all conducive to tl;e most
perfect physical devclpr.cmenls, brdfa being eur
rounded with a mugnificuit and lovely scenery,
which cannot fail, to awaken the most ennobling
emotions, am', indelibly stamp their impress open
say. Jjut just hero I was about to rnnk
an assertion, and I believo that inspiration
will bear mo out in it. Ihnve somewhere
read in the only book of truo philosophy I
have ever seen that treats of mans relations
to hiskind,and to the universe, a sentiment
like this. "Though I havo the gift of pro
phecy, and understand all mysteries, and
all knowledge, and though I have all faith
so that I could remove mountains, and have
not lovo, I am nothing."
My proposition is so similar to that, that
I hope no ono who acknowledges tha au-
thencity of the book from which I Lave
quoted will call it in question.
All inductive science is drawn from a
study of the world around us. The volume
of nature alone unfolds its laws, and lliat
volume, although pored over for six
thou.-and years by all the sages and philoso
phers, who have grown gray in both hemi
spheres in fruitless pilgrimages into the un
fathomable carerns of nature's unexplored
those vrho aro reared nndor its influMos, We
have a roil that ubundonlly supplies the wants of
the physical man in return for a small amount of
labor, thus yielding a large per cent of our time
which ougjit to be devoted to intellectual pursuits.
The muuifieient hand of heaven lias filled your
granaries lo overflowing, your flocks and your
herds aro ulrcady ooveriug, the hills and plain
around you, iu short Ih kouutifui Giver of all good
has strewn your puthway all along with flowers,
and afforded you the most abundant "means for
bestowing upon your olT.pring, that which will bj
of infinitely more importance than all the wealth
of a Craaua or of a bolomon.
Your ultance appropriated in this laudable
uudertaking will be bread east upon the waters
which will return to you,a Increased an hundred
fold. In a pecuniary point of view it is better than
a deposits for your children in a savings' bank,
drawing compound intereHt. Intelligent nations in -
the h story of sll times, have been the only wealthy
ones. An uneducated and ignorant people, like
those of the South American governments, and
Mexico, although their whole domain may rest
upon btuennnta of solid gold, yet they arc n.sver
ahle to retain the wealth their own bands have
developed, enlightened nations always have ab
eotbed it, sud they aUayi will. Oar sons therefor
In a financial point of view are infinitely better off
cloyalered within the w1ls of a literory Institution,
tliSn delving in the mines of Ophir. Knowlodgs
on the otlier hand, when taken iu a mere) point
view, in ita relation to national propri:y and C
Ihehapplncttof him who pontucn it, baff.es sA th
rules of mathematical ft4'npntatioo to meaasso the
length and breadth of iu imporUnes. Ferrnll uvs t
close my remarks, by again e-igratuUliaf yets
upnn the truly au-pio.om sircomauness that aw. .
arcana bas never vet aflbrd! . ..f.r,,. I y" " heps, tha
' Uis eftjrtsyoa are now mairng in behalf el eda-
answer to the most important questions ever eatiou in this station of the country, wUI beerowoed
wh53 bighr faculties wer o aliv loth-ir ' m
ropounded to th.human family. Whence j
m I? Tfhit am I? And whither ami del.u'i. . - '