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 CORRESPONDENCE. 
 
 University of Pennsylvania, 
 
 Philndeliihia, Noi'eviher 21sf., 1851. 
 Dear Sir: 
 
 At a Special Meeting of the Board of Managers of the Society of the Alumni, 
 held in the College Hall, on the 20th inst., we were appointed a Committee to 
 tender you the thanks of the Society, for the eloquent and instructive Oration 
 delivered by you on the 13th inst., and to request a copy of the same for publication. 
 
 In communicating this action of the Board, permit us to express the hope that 
 you will accede to their request. 
 
 We remain very respectfully yours, 
 
 Horatio G. Jones, Jr., 
 Clark Hare, 
 William H. Crabbe, 
 John B. Gest, 
 Caldwell K. Biddle. 
 
 To THE Hon. Henev D. Gilpin. 
 
 Philadelphia, November 22d, 1851. 
 
 Gentlemen: 
 
 In compliance with your request, I transmit to you, the Address delivered before 
 the Society of the Alumni on the 13th instant. Allow me to take this occasion to 
 express the real gratification afforded me, by being enabled to participate, in a 
 manner so agreeable to myself, in the proceedings of a Society to which I am 
 attached by many pleasing recollections. 
 
 Very respectfully yours, 
 
 H. D. Gilpin. 
 
 To Messrs. Horatio G. Jones, Jr., Clark Hare, WilliaAi H. Crabbe, 
 
 John B. Gest, and Caldwell K. Biddle, Committee. 
 
OFFICERS OF THE SOCIETY OF THE ALUMNI, 
 
 ELECTED NOVEMBER 13, 18S1. 
 
 President. 
 Henry Reed, LL. D. 
 
 Vice Presidents. 
 
 Isaac Hats, M. D. 
 Hon. Henry D. Gilpin, 
 
 Hon. Geor(!e Sharswood, 
 Charles E. Lex. 
 
 Corresponding Secretary. 
 James R. Ludlow* 
 
 Recording Secretary. 
 John M. Collins, 
 
 No, 128 Walnut Street. 
 
 Treasiirer, 
 Horatio G, Jones, Jr., 
 
 No. 47 South Fifth Street. 
 
 MANAGERS, 
 
 Hon. John M. Read, 
 Joseph Carson, M. D., 
 Rev. John W. Faircs, 
 John William Wallace, 
 Hon. J. L Clark Hare, 
 John Neill, M. D., 
 Henry D. Gregory, 
 J. L. Ludlow, M. D., 
 S. Keen Ashton, M. D., 
 David J. Johnson, M. D. 
 
 John B. Gest, 
 William H. Crabbe, 
 Samuel Wetherill, 
 Caldwell K. Riddle, 
 William Rotch Wister, 
 A. Hewson, M.D., 
 G. H. Robinett, M. D., 
 J. S. Z. Sellers, M. D., 
 A. C. Durbin, 
 A. G. Baker. 
 
ADDRESS. 
 
 Associates ! Alumni op the University op Pennsylvania : 
 
 We meet in these venerated halls to recall the 
 cherished associations of our youthful days. We are 
 pleased to acknowledge, with grateful recollection, a 
 debt here first incurred, which subsequent experience 
 has served only to augment. We come to bear our 
 testimony to the infinite usefulness of that wider 
 scope of instruction in science, in letters, and in 
 moral and intellectual cultivation, which we gained 
 in the days here passed. We desire to offer, if it 
 be of value, our aid in sustaining and promoting 
 the welfare and fame of an Institution, to which 
 we are bound by a sympathy never extinguished 
 in a generous heart. The air around us breathes 
 tranquillity and peace. The associations of the 
 place, the scene, and the object of our assemblage, 
 excite emotions and revive remembrances tinctured 
 by none of those shadows which the hopes, the fears, 
 the chances, and the toils attendant upon the race 
 of life we have been obliged to run, may have cast 
 upon our pathway. We have been widely separated 
 by accident and necessity, and the scarce perceptible 
 influences of passing years. Our pursuits have di- 
 verged farther and farther into the ever-varying 
 
8 ADDKESS. 
 
 channels, whither the prospects of fortune and fame 
 have led us ; or the allurements of passion and 
 ambition ; or the current of fortune, good or bad, 
 that could not be, or has not been, resisted. But to 
 this spot we come — are pleased and happy to come 
 — w^ith a spirit as unworldly as that in which the 
 chosen people came trooping, year by year, to their 
 holy mountain, and to the brook that flowed fast 
 by the oracle of God. Nothing allures us but the 
 love of letters. No associations are revived but those 
 of rivalry and toil in the search of knowledge and 
 truth. Tully, in the most busy periods of his active 
 life — when apparently absorbed by the labors of that 
 forum, to which he was forever called by those who 
 believed that fortune, and even life, were to be 
 rescued from every peril by the magic of his tongue; 
 when engrossed by the ceaseless duties of the 
 highest public stations, and annoyed with the rival- 
 ries of political intrigue — twice revisited the scenes, 
 far distant from Eome, where in youth he had 
 studied the lessons that prepared his bright career. 
 Twice did he seek, with a fond heart, the little isle 
 of Khodes, a rock scarce seen in the blue waters 
 of the Mediterranean, but of world-wide fame from 
 the schools in which his own unrivalled eloquence 
 was trained. Twice did he repair to Athens, where 
 he had imbibed the spirit of that pure philosophy 
 which he transplanted and made to flourish in the 
 ruder soil of imperious Rome — where he had revolved. 
 
ADDRESS. y 
 
 in groves and porches once trodden by Plato, those 
 thoughts that taught him there was nothing so 
 strongly to he coveted as active virtue and deserved 
 esteem, for which suffering, and exile, and death 
 were to be cheerfully encountered — where, with an 
 eye that seemed almost to have caught some rays 
 of a diviner light, soon to be revealed, he pierced 
 the darkness that shrouded the life beyond the grave; 
 and recognized, with confident belief, the unity, the 
 design, the benevolence, and the providence of God, 
 "by whom and from whom all things were." As 
 Tully sought and lingered at those scenes ; and in 
 his letters and his converse recurred to them as 
 objects which he "deeply loved;" so do we come 
 hither, in the strong assurance that we can indulge 
 no emotions more natural and just than those which 
 fill the heart, when they who have been long sepa- 
 rated, meet voluntarily on the spot, where, in by-gone 
 days, they prepared themselves for the struggle and 
 duties of life. 
 
 To say that I am honored in being chosen to 
 express these feelings, for those who love to remember 
 they were nurtured in these halls, is to do less than 
 justice to the spirit with which I have come to the 
 performance of my pleasing duty. I am carried back 
 to the day when, surrounded by my young com- 
 panions, I here bade adieu, not without sorrow, to 
 those who had led us, not more as guides than 
 friends, to the opening portals of busy life. Un- 
 
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 spotted are their names, and to us long memorable! 
 Alas, not one of them now remains again to meet 
 me here, again to receive the tribute of my unchanged 
 respect. I remember, too, how, after years of absence 
 had rolled by, I came here once more, summoned and 
 welcomed by another youthful band, struggling with 
 the same enthusiasm, in the same arena, for the same 
 honorable prize. But now I come not, as on those 
 occasions — not as one participating in collegiate strug- 
 gles, or seeking to impart to those yet engaged in 
 them, something of my own subsequent experience 
 and reflection ; I come to meet those who before me, 
 as my companions, and in later days, here entered 
 on the search for truth; and for whom, as much as 
 for myself, I am to interpret those thoughts, which, 
 as they rapidly retrace the retrospect of our lives, 
 lead us to acknowledge influences here planted, and 
 principles here formed, that, as they may have been 
 followed or neglected, have since largely affected us, 
 for evil or for good. 
 
 If it be to the severer toil of maturer years, that 
 we must owe perfected knowledge in that line of 
 labor, of science, or of thought, to which inclination 
 or necessity may have drawn us ; yet who will deny 
 that, from the abundant fountain of various and 
 diversified instruction, which he owes to his days 
 of collegiate study, he has found that streams of 
 information and acquirement have flowed, whose in- 
 fluence has not been less useful and refreshing, 
 
ADDRESS. 11 
 
 because apparently less necessary and direct? For 
 myself, I look back in vain for a single branch of 
 intellectual inquiry, that I can now desire to have 
 dispensed with. After many years devoted to one 
 profession, I come forward, a willing witness to the 
 blended happiness and utility conferred on all suc- 
 ceeding life, by those who have directed the opening 
 mind to all the channels of moral and intellectual 
 exertion. 
 
 Do not let us think it were better to limit or 
 contract them ? "With what could we wisely dis- 
 pense ? What avenue of the young heart, opening 
 to receive its store of intellectual truth, would we 
 heedlessly close in the presumptuous anticipation 
 that it will not minister to its future usefulness or 
 happiness ? Do we think that it possesses not capa- 
 city to receive it? Believe me, it absorbs with 
 delight all the streams of knowledge, as the earth 
 asks for and absorbs the genial rain. It is this 
 that it pants for. It is alive with anxious search- 
 ings for it. Glancing, in its young eagerness, from 
 heaven to earth, and from earth to heaven, it seeks 
 to turn to shape all the things that are yet unknown 
 to it, and unwise were we, rudely to thwart its 
 ardent aspirations. 
 
 There is no one science — there is no one range of 
 inquiry or of thought — that does not aid and illus- 
 trate every other. I ask you to remember that the 
 names made most illustrious by the unerring judgment 
 
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 of time, for contributions the most brilliant in one 
 branch of science or of art, belong to those who have 
 ranged over the whole circle of knowledge, and loved 
 to store up rich treasures of observation, apparently 
 the most foreign to those studies which have seemed 
 to engross their exclusive devotion. 
 
 Do you think that the severest labors of scientific 
 research cannot be aided by voluntary wanderings into 
 the airy regions of fancy, and the expanded field of 
 reflections and duties, moral and divine ? Look at 
 that illustrious sage, who, standing not merely un- 
 rivalled, but almost alone in the long vista of many 
 centuries — without predecessors to guide him — with 
 few facilities of communication — with no aids, now so 
 various and abundant — yet has made and recorded 
 investigations so patient, minute, diversified and ex- 
 tensive in natural history, in astronomy, in mechanics, 
 in anatomy, in meteorology — nay, into the whole 
 field of practical, physical inquiry, that they might 
 well seem to have formed the sole object of his study — 
 to have required and exhausted every moment of his 
 occupation. But was it so? Far from it. He pored 
 over, with a love no less intense, the creations of ima- 
 gination ; he studied with his whole heart the fabled 
 pictures of human passion^ — the wrath of the son of 
 Peleus, or the woes of the line of Pelops — as if his 
 inclinations and his taste had never dwelt on things 
 more practical or true than such as float before a 
 poet's eye. Will you say that the Stagyrite sounded 
 
ADDRESS. 13 
 
 less profoundly the depths of science, abstract or ex- 
 perimental, because his mind gathered new inspiration 
 from the glowing pictures of Homer and Euripides ? 
 
 Who is it that, beyond all intellects that the world 
 has witnessed, developed, through the application of a 
 severe and abstruse anal3^sis, the grandest secrets of 
 the universe ? Whose life, whose thoughts, whose 
 studies, and whose ambition, all seemed devoted, with 
 undivided energy of purpose and inclination, to prob- 
 lems the most difficult in mathematical science — to 
 researches the most exclusively directed to the laws of 
 physical nature ? Need I name the illustrious Newton ? 
 Yet at the very time when that great mind was 
 evolving, by means so purely abstract and scientific, 
 the truths which his immortal Principia disclosed, it 
 was engaged, with a zeal scarcely less ardent, in study- 
 ing, vindicating, and explaining various doctrines of 
 revealed religion. I allude not to that summary, so 
 eloquent and sublime, with which, as he closes his 
 great work of scientific analysis, he anxiously records, 
 in language ever memorable, his humble and confident 
 recognition of the existence, attributes and power of 
 the Supreme God, made apparent to us by the wisdom 
 and excellence of all he had contrived ; whom — and I 
 use his own language — we admire for his perfections, 
 and, as his servants, reverence and adore. But I refer 
 to those essays in which he brought together his erudi- 
 tion, argument, piety and faith, to explain the mys- 
 
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 teries of Hebrew prophecy, and to cast their light on 
 the records of Christian revelation. 
 
 Will you say then, that to train the mind to experi- 
 ment and analysis ; to fit it most surely for the bril- 
 liant discoveries or useful application of science; it 
 were better to withdraw it from the dazzling attrac- 
 tions of imagination, and to turn it aside from studies 
 which are conversant, not with external nature and 
 its laws, but with the silent workings and judgments 
 of the reason and the heart ? How can I answer you 
 so conclusively as by examples such as these ? 
 
 Again. Do you think that the active duties of busy 
 life, in stations humble or distinguished, are best per- 
 formed by him who wanders not into the paths of 
 intellectual occupation ? Man's history and expe- 
 rience establish the reverse. It was by the power 
 and spirit of his poetry, which through life he never 
 ceased to cultivate, that Solon of all Athenian law- 
 givers the most practical and popular, first won and 
 secured the notice and confidence of his country. 
 Through that period, by far the most important in 
 British history, in which those influences were deve- 
 loped and established that have afiected, beyond all 
 others of modern times, the destiuy, the progress, and 
 the social and political institutions of our race, what 
 mind and pen discussed, with unequalled vigor and 
 eloquence, the rights and duties of the ruler and the 
 citizen ; through nineteen years, vindicated, in every 
 
ADDRESS. 15 
 
 aspect that changing events and times demanded, the 
 cause of civil and rehgious freedom ; tore aside the 
 veil, with a fearless hand, from monarchical and 
 ecclesiastical corruption and social dissoluteness ; 
 upheld, through that long struggle, with an energy 
 that never flagged and resources of thought, learning, 
 intrepidity, enthusiasm, eloquence and lofty and 
 conscious virtue never elsewhere combined, represen- 
 tative government, diffused and enlightened education, 
 freedom of discussion and the press, the responsibility 
 of the magistrate to the people, and the principles, 
 in society and government, that are essential for the 
 protection of the rights and liberty of men ? They 
 were the mind and |)en of him, who also from these 
 labors, seemingly so worldly, soared on seraph wings, 
 and claimed nor was refused his place upon the 
 Muse's hill, side by side with blind Moeonides and 
 the Mantuan bard. 
 
 Among statesmen and patriots he, to whom, in our 
 own history, we assign with common assent, the praise 
 of untiring and useful attention to public duty ; who 
 for half a century constantly devoted to it his intellect 
 and his time ; whose character and conduct were in 
 all things singularly practical and industrious ; is the 
 sagacious philosopher who, amid various speculation 
 and experiment in the regions of science, disclosed to 
 us the phienomena of that subtle fluid which has since 
 become the most wonderful of physical agents. 
 
 In these our days and in this our land, which 
 
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 derives prosperity and progress — perhaps beyond all 
 other causes — from those channels and ties which 
 lessen the toils as they promote the intercourse of 
 men, little do we pause to think to whom we owe the 
 invention, so simple yet so complete, which raises over 
 lofty hills and carries into the deepest valleys, the 
 stream which yields to and obeys the dictates of 
 science, in seeming opposition to the laws of nature. 
 Doubtless we believe the curious invention to be the 
 product of an intellect devoted to applications of me- 
 chanic skill. But it is not so. As the traveller in 
 Italy wanders through galleries that exhibit the gifted 
 efforts of the painter's art ; as he seeks in palaces, and 
 churches, and convents, those pictures which bring 
 before his eye features of more than human beauty, 
 and portray incidents and scenes of interest the most 
 intense; he pauses over one which delineates the 
 event, most memorable in the history of our race, 
 when the divine Saviour, meekly awaiting his cruel 
 fate, assembles his disciples around him, and, as he 
 soothes with inspiring promises their sad forebodings, 
 and as he allows with heavenly tenderness the youth- 
 ful apostle whom he loved to rest upon his bosom, bids 
 them to repeat the sacred festival in remembrance of 
 him. Little does he who gazes on that picture, think 
 that the creative genius which has made this scene to 
 exist before his eyes, was constantly engaged in acts 
 and improvements of practical utility, and, among 
 them, sagaciously contrived the plan which has made 
 
ADDRESS. 17 
 
 the mountain torrent and the sluggish stream easy and 
 subservient avenues of commerce. 
 
 He who stands in that edifice the most glorious and 
 vast that religion — among the unnumbered structures 
 which it has spread through every age and country 
 — has ever devoted to the object of its adoration, 
 cannot fail to have wondered at the mechanic skill 
 which has reared it with such unerring accuracy of 
 architectural precision; but does he think that the 
 mind which arranged and combined a mechanism so 
 intricate, that the hand which gave to the artificer 
 plans so minute, were those of one to whose soaring 
 imagination we owe conceptions that seem not to 
 possess an element of worldly study ? He who dared 
 to raise high into the air that massive dome, in the 
 confidence of mathematical exactness, was he who also 
 could conceive and embody in marble which almost 
 lives, the form and features that express the inspira- 
 tion and reverence of him to whom were delivered, 
 amid the thunders of Sinai, the recorded mandates of 
 Jehovah. 
 
 Ah, no ! believe me, practical usefulness and energy 
 have never been, can never be, thwarted or diminished 
 by the cultivation of genius or taste ; by giving free 
 scope to the widest range of intellectual pursuit ; by 
 opening every avenue through which thought, however 
 various, shall bring its treasures into the recesses of the 
 heart. The practical and the ideal are not antago- 
 nists. They minister the one to the other. In the 
 
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 composition of our wonderful nature, the great Creator 
 has given us the blended faculties to cultivate, profit 
 bj, and enjoy them both. Do not let us separate 
 them. Let it rather be our aim — for ourselves through 
 life, for those cast upon us for guidance or assistance — 
 to further our own and their usefulness ; to foster and 
 augment their and our own happiness, by seeking, as 
 much as may be, to unite with practical — nay, if you 
 will, with worldly skill and success, the deep thoughts 
 which soothe, and elevate, and sink into the heart, 
 and even those brighter sentiments which play around 
 and cheer it. 
 
 Do you tell me that in so doing, we divide the energy 
 and distract the purposes and aims of future life, which 
 we should seek rather to concentrate ? If experience 
 can answer you, the pregnant examples I have given 
 afford a conclusive reply. But were it otherwise, with 
 what justice do we narrow intellectual inquiry, pre- 
 sumptuously assume to limit its field, and mark out in 
 advance a course which it shall of necessity pursue ? 
 With the ample page of knowledge unrolled before it, 
 the eye of intelligence best singles out the object of its 
 devotion; nor can we foresee through what channels of 
 exertion it will most contribute to its own enjoyment, 
 or best perform its part in the business and duties of 
 the world. How often in the rash endeavor may 
 generous energy be repressed, and the genial current 
 of the soul be frozen! How often has it thus been 
 forced to struggle for and attain, with late success, the 
 
ADDRESS. 19 
 
 chosen objects of early aspiration ! You may contract 
 the sphere of youthful research ; you may shut out the 
 rays which, with inconsiderate presumption, you think 
 can impart neither radiance nor warmth ; but are you 
 well assured that, in so doing, the current has not been 
 turned awry, and success and perhaps happiness un- 
 wisely thwarted, if not altogether destroyed ? 
 
 I look around me, and I seek in vain to discover 
 that branch of knowledge in ignorance of which we 
 could desire to have entered on the theatre of life. 
 Surely we cannot say those hours were misspent which 
 have unlocked for us the stores of genius or knowl- 
 edge, hidden in other languages than our own. Is it 
 possible that taste can be better formed than from 
 models which all ages have united to approve ? Is not 
 the early mind well imbued with philosophy and moral 
 truths, so simple and direct, as those which have come 
 down to us from the time-honored sages of Greece and 
 Rome, and with a love of those principles of social and 
 political freedom that breathe through all the pages of 
 their history ? Can the imagination and the heart be 
 better warmed and inspired, at the period of their 
 greatest freshness and susceptibility, than by examples 
 of virtue, in public and domestic life, which the con- 
 current judgment of centuries has held forth as most 
 worthy of imitation? Though future occupation may 
 have made it needless to retain a minute knowledge of 
 the languages of antiquity, yet I venture to affirm that 
 there exists not one who remembers how they first 
 
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 awakened his tastes, his moral impulses, his love of 
 freedom and his admiration of actions marked by en- 
 nobling virtues, that will not acknowledge and rejoice 
 that he imbibed them, in youth, at the shrine of clas- 
 sical antiquity — that shrine upon which genius, in 
 nearly every form, has cast its abundant offering. 
 Weak and vain were the effort to depreciate or deny 
 the contributions, so varied and so rich, which suc- 
 ceeding ages have added to the stores of genius, of 
 knowledge and of virtue; yet three thousand years 
 still leave the divine tale of Troy, in the general judg- 
 mentof cultivated intelligence, and in the spontaneous 
 sentiment of those most keenly alive to poetic beauty, 
 without a rival in the varied and matchless excellences 
 of the poet's art. When you have studied with dehght 
 the breathing forms of dignity or grace, which the 
 chisel of Michael Angelo or Canova has created from 
 the cold and senseless marble, you are content, in proof 
 of your strongest admiration, to compare them, in 
 generous rivalry, with fragments rescued from the ruins 
 of the Acropolis, or dug from beneath the buried palaces 
 of Rome. In vain, through the long ages that have 
 glided by since sage philosophy descended to the low 
 roofed house of Socrates, do we seek for lessons of 
 thoughtful virtue more pure, ennobling or cheering 
 than those he taught, among all that uninspired intel- 
 ligence has, with brightest aims, imparted to mankind ; 
 and even now, as in the days of TuUy, the truths most 
 needed in the intercourse of men can find a stronger 
 
ADDRESS. 21 
 
 sanction from his name. When in annals more or less 
 remote, and even in these our own eventful times, we 
 behold the struggle to wrest from the power of hoary 
 despotism the inherent rights of men, and with them 
 to gain the just and sole security for their permanent 
 welfare, can we forget the glorious efforts for the same 
 great ends which enchained our earliest sympathies, 
 confirmed our judgments, and fixed our own future 
 purposes, as we traced them, with eager hopes, through 
 the varied history of those republics which first pro- 
 claimed them and contended for them, as the basis of 
 political institutions. And throughout life, in pondering 
 on the characters of men, and recalling those deeds 
 which have best exhibited their patriotism, their 
 courage, or their disinterestedness — which have best 
 illustrated the virtues most frequently required by 
 social life, or best serve as beacons to point out the 
 vices and follies from which we should protect it — do 
 not those names rise spontaneously to our memory, 
 which have been preserved in the records of Grecian 
 and Roman story ? With them we compare the names 
 and actions of those most revered in our own history; 
 and we desire no better proof of their title to the 
 favoring judgment of their country, than that they 
 may justly rank with them. Do I err in believing 
 that these are influences which will be acknowledged, 
 without dissent, by all who recur to those studies of 
 youth which were devoted to the literature of Greece 
 and Rome? Do I err in saying that they are influences 
 
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 on subsequent life, among those to be most anxiously 
 coveted and secured? 
 
 Will you withdraw from the inquiries of the student 
 the wide expanse of scientific investigation, and force 
 him to confine them within some limited sphere which 
 you deem more appropriate to his future pursuits ? I 
 will not say to you, in reply, that it is scarcely possi- 
 ble but that, in the accidents of life, every branch of 
 science may prove to be of practical utility; for it is 
 not this circumstance that alone, or even mainly, im- 
 parts to such studies their principal value. But I do 
 say to you, that he who has to pass through life, 
 where, at every step, the truths of physical nature 
 are forced upon his notice, without having his mind 
 instructed upon their main outlines, principles and 
 relations — upon the leading facts which elucidate and 
 the great laws which regulate them — has indeed made 
 himself to wander, voluntarily blindfold, along a path 
 which he might have found " so smooth, so green, 
 so full of goodly prospects and melodious sounds on 
 every side, that the harp of Orpheus was not more 
 charming." He rudely casts from himself pleasures 
 that Nature gladly offers him; he closes up springing 
 fountains of pure and grateful emotions; he blunts 
 the keenness of intellect and narrows the scope of 
 useful illustration ; and while he wraps himself in the 
 vain belief that energy has been strengthened and 
 success attained, by singleness of purpose and of aim, 
 
ADDRESS. 23 
 
 he has but deprived himself of resources that would 
 have augmented both. 
 
 Early and accurately to have learned the great 
 truths which pervade the wide circle of the sciences, 
 is to start upon the race of life lightened of a thou- 
 sand errors and illusions that could hardly fail to 
 check its progress, and beckoned onward by pros- 
 pects, on every side, that cheer and accelerate it. 
 The observation of external nature is, to some degree, 
 necessarily forced upon us all. He cannot shut it 
 out who chooses to devote himself to the labors of the 
 forum, the restless pursuits of commerce, the patient 
 toils of agriculture, or the intricacies of mechanic art ; 
 nor he who bears his ministering aid to alleviate 
 suffering or to ward off death; nor he who, in dis- 
 charge of a yet holier trust, seeks to justify the ways 
 of God to men. The courses of the stars are not 
 hidden from him, nor the grateful influences of the 
 heavens in their appointed seasons ; and shall he not, 
 as he witnesses them, acquaint himself with those 
 laws by which science has removed from them every 
 vestige of superstition and of fear, and made them to 
 lay open bright celestial paths, by which we may ad- 
 vance farther and farther into regions that display the 
 wonders of an infinite creation ? Organic life is ever 
 before him, in all its countless forms, from his own 
 wonderful structure, through successive varieties of 
 intelligent being, down to the plants that ofttimes 
 seem almost to unite with it. Even the rude masses 
 
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 of unorganized matter offer their sermon, not alone to 
 the pensive enthusiast who pores upon them, exempt 
 from public haunt, but to every one to whose involun- 
 tary notice, the fragments of rocks, scattered across his 
 path, disclose the secrets of creation and the evidences 
 of endless forms of animated existence. And is it 
 possible for him who finds these heavens above and 
 far beyond him, and around him this wonderful world 
 alike breathing and inanimate — all pressing themselves 
 upon his notice -, becoming, whatever his occupations 
 may be, the objects of his observation; of necessity 
 engaging his reflections and even affecting the actions 
 of his life — is it possible, that he should not desire and 
 seek to imbue his mind with the laws and the truths 
 in regard to them which science has collected and 
 arranged ? Will the chosen end of his efforts be better 
 reached by indulging a sullen ignorance in regard to 
 them ? Or will he not rather confess that the rills of 
 knowledge, gathered from all her countless springs, 
 serve but to fertilize, for every purpose, the intellect 
 over which they flow ? 
 
 And if this be so in regard to those studies which 
 fill the mind, at the outset of life, with the treasures 
 of classical learning and varied instruction in diver- 
 sified science; how much more has the whole of its 
 subsequent course given us occasion gratefully to recur 
 to those early teachings, by which we were made to 
 understand and love the political institutions of our 
 country, as best fitted to promote the social happiness 
 
ADDRESS. 25 
 
 of our fellow-creatures ; and those also — yet more im- 
 portant — which planted and confirmed in our hearts, 
 never to be shaken, the principles of religious truth ? 
 
 Who is there who has not rejoiced that, when he 
 came into the intercourse of his fellow-beings, he was 
 already trained to perform his duties towards them ; 
 and had learned, by reason and study, justly to appre- 
 ciate that form of government under which we live, 
 and which we are required to protect and to obey. 
 His patriotism, so planted, has not sprung from a 
 devotion that is indiscriminate and servile; it is not 
 to be shaken by every gale with which delusive theory, 
 or selfish ambition, or ungenerous rivalry, or blind 
 enthusiasm may assail it ; nor will it be weakened by 
 the timid misgivings that would shrink before insolent 
 detraction, or suffer principle, truth and progress to be 
 trampled beneath the slow and heavy footsteps of mis- 
 applied example or antiquated authority. While the 
 demands of active life engage his energies and occupy 
 his time, he yet knows, and feels, and exercises his 
 rights and duties as a citizen. 
 
 So trained, he calmly and confidently upholds in 
 their full scope and spirit, the adopted institutions of 
 his country, firmly assured that they best recognize 
 and protect the rights and freedom of men. With 
 the great statesman, who ever aimed to administer 
 them in the course pointed out by enlightened reason 
 and comprehensive philanthropy, he has learned to 
 believe that government to be the world's best hope 
 
26 ADDRESS. 
 
 in which man is trusted with the government of him- 
 self; which protects the equal rights of every one, of 
 whatever state or persuasion, religious or political; 
 accords to him public honors and confidence from 
 his actions and not his birth ; leaves him free to regu- 
 late his own pursuits of industry and improvement ; 
 watches, with a jealous care, the right of election by 
 the people and acquiesces in the majority of their suf- 
 frages; arraigns abuses at the bar of public reason; 
 and guards the freedom of the person and the press — 
 thus leading a people to that state of peace, liberty 
 and safety from which false political institutions have 
 so often, and, alas ! do still, so generally exclude them ; 
 but which we may, with him, hope and believe will 
 yet come, through social and political progress, "to 
 some parts of the world sooner, to others later, but 
 finally to all." 
 
 And taught to look even beyond these principles, 
 which are the just elements of every social compact, 
 to those peculiar relations and ties which the circum- 
 stances of our own country have fortunately created, 
 he has learned to regard and feel himself to be one 
 of a brotherhood united together by a bond which it 
 is his duty and happiness to preserve in a just, frater- 
 nal and forbearing spirit. So taught, he cherishes in 
 the recesses of his heart, the admonitions of him whose 
 councils he remembers with deepest reverence and con- 
 fidence ; and, in all the business and active turmoil of 
 his life, " the disinterested warning of a parting friend," 
 
ADDRESS. 27 
 
 which was planted in his youthful breast, is never ab- 
 sent from his memory. It has come to be, not a warn- 
 ing, but a sacred injunction "to cherish a cordial, 
 habitual and immovable attachment to our national 
 union j to accustom ourselves to think and speak of it 
 as a palladium of our political safety and prosperity; 
 to watch for its preservation with a jealous anxiety; 
 to discountenance whatever may suggest even a sus- 
 picion that it can in any event be abandoned; and 
 indignantly to frown on the first dawning of every 
 attempt to alienate any portion of our country from 
 the rest, or to enfeeble the sacred ties which now link 
 together its various parts." From his mind nothing 
 can obliterate the deeply seated conviction, that the 
 Union, which circumstances apparently fortuitous con- 
 tributed to produce, has been given to us as an ark of 
 safety over which ministering angels watch with out- 
 spread wings and guard from unholy violence. He 
 rejoices to behold that form and those principles of 
 government which best protect the rights and promote 
 the happiness of man, spreading wider and wider by 
 its operation and influence ; to witness the guarded in- 
 tercourse of strangers silently changed into the harmony 
 and friendly association of brethren and children ; and 
 to believe, and indeed the proof is before his eyes, that 
 there is a federative principle which may exist in the 
 political relations of our race, accordant with the teach- 
 ings of Christian love, so as to bring wide-spread socie- 
 ties of man together, by a tie closer than that of cold 
 
28 ADDKESS. 
 
 and distrustful alliance. And, looking back through 
 the progress and events of the last sixty years, at 
 practical results of that federative principle, so suc- 
 cessful and beneficent, he confidently hopes that the 
 world may yet see communities, whose limits none can 
 foretell, collected together beneath the protection of a 
 common and glorious banner, on which may be inscribed 
 in letters of light, "peace and good-will" among nations 
 as well as men — 
 
 See to the north where keener spangles shine, 
 Where spices smoke beneath the burning line. 
 Earth's wide extremes, that fostering flag display'd, 
 And all the nations cover'd by its shade. 
 
 And if it has been a source of confidence and consola- 
 tion, through succeeding life, that we were thus early 
 trained in our sympathies and our duties towards our 
 fellow creatures and our country, so that subsequent 
 events could neither impair them, nor were needed to 
 confirm them, well may we recur with emotions still 
 more grateful to our first and deep impressions of 
 religious truth. Ah ! who is there, however ambitious 
 or successful he may have been, who does not a thou- 
 sand times rejoice that the lessons of youth impressed 
 irrevocably upon his mind and his heart, a confident 
 belief in the existence of the divine Creator, a pro- 
 found and grateful sense of his attributes, a devout and 
 anxious reverence for his laws ; so that, in the glowing 
 language of Bacon, " human things have been unable 
 
ADDRESS. 29 
 
 to prejudice such as are divine; nor, from the unlocking 
 of the gates of sense, and the kindUng of a greater 
 natural light, has any thing of incredulity or intel- 
 lectual night arisen in our minds, towards the divine 
 oracles." What anticipations, nay what reality, of 
 success, which an undivided devotion to the chosen 
 objects of worldly interest or ambition might have 
 seemed to promise, could compensate for that firm and 
 resolute belief which has been fixed, by early convic- 
 tion, in the existence, power and mercy of the great 
 Creator. How often would the subtle ingenuity of ill- 
 directed intellect, the reckless impulses of passion, the 
 weak misgivings of ignorance, working upon a mind 
 only nurtured and early turned to the keen pursuit of 
 some single end of worldly success, combine to sever 
 the golden chain which binds the intellect and the heart 
 of every being to the throne of God. With what light 
 and cheerful steps does he walk along the devious 
 paths of life, who doubts not that they lead him onward 
 to a brighter world ; who knows that all seeming acci- 
 dents are directed by a superior intelligence which he 
 cannot see; that virtue has its sure and eternal re- 
 ward ; that the sufferings and sorrows of the good are 
 not without a certain and abundant recompense; and 
 that to him a heavenly revelation has assured that 
 endless day, which the Roman poet only ventured, in 
 his loftiest strains, vaguely to anticipate, when, in the 
 circle of completed time, every stain of human error 
 
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 shall be washed away, and a pure and ethereal spirit 
 shall warm and animate a prolonged existence ; 
 
 Donee longa dies, perfecto temjDoris orbe, 
 Concretam exemit labem, purumque reliquit 
 ^therium sensum, atque aurai simplicis ignem. 
 
 If I have thus recurred to and largely dwelt upon 
 that broader scope of study and acquisition which I 
 believe it to be the appropriate function of collegiate 
 instruction to supply; if I desire to see the aspirations 
 and exertions of youth lured and guided into the 
 widest paths of inquiry ; if I ask that busy life shall 
 be begun with minds over which letters and science 
 and social, political and religious truth have all com- 
 bined to cast their blended and enduring influence, it 
 is because I feel the strong conviction that we thus 
 most surely open the way to happiness and usefulness. 
 I am not, at the same time, insensible that in such 
 opinions I may differ from many — to whose wisdom 
 and judgment I might well defer — who shrink from a 
 system of instruction so diversified and general, and 
 would aim to limit and contract within a range more 
 narrow the early exertions of the intellect. It seems 
 to me, however, that if those social institutions are the 
 best which tend to diminish, as much as may be, among 
 the industrious and the good, inequalities that result 
 from accident or circumstances not dependent on 
 themselves ; which open to them all the wide arena 
 where none are content to recognize a forced inferiority 
 
ADDRESS. 31 
 
 of position ; where fortune and honors are to be sought 
 for, in every pursuit, by superiority among those whose 
 rights and opportunities to attain them are the same, 
 and where they are to be won from the general and 
 favoring judgment of the whole community of which 
 we form a part — not from the patronage of a govern- 
 ment or the assistance or influence of classes enabled 
 to bestow them by reason of peculiar privileges, power or 
 wealth; if such institutions are, as we believe them 
 to be, the best — then is it essential to seek to extend 
 to every one that aid towards his industry and success, 
 which may arise from the fullest cultivation of his in- 
 tellect and his heart; and, by the same means, elevate 
 and place upon a foundation the most liberal, that 
 enlightened judgment of the whole community which 
 is so directly to affect the welfare of all who form a 
 part of it. Education is not then a mere tool to further 
 the skill of the craftsman — a mere handmaid to hang 
 upon the steps of limited individual effort; it becomes 
 the most powerful of agents in the operation and pro- 
 gress of those social 23rinciples which are the most just, 
 enlightened, generous and beneficent ; it is a spirit that 
 beyond all others animates, fosters, protects and in- 
 creases the industry, integrity and intelligence which 
 those principles are calculated to develop ; it is a 
 weight that adjusts with the least possible error, the 
 scale by which their merit, success and influence are 
 decided and rewarded. 
 
 Can we doubt that we owe our own wonderful 
 
32 ADDRESS. 
 
 progress and happiness to institutions such as these, 
 united with a wide spread system of liberal education ? 
 Without such institutions, comparatively small must 
 be the benefit of general education, as an element of 
 social and political prosperity. It would end with the 
 advantage it might immediately confer on classes or 
 individuals who enjoy it ; but the sublime agency, by 
 which it directly affects and promotes the movement 
 and progress of the whole community, would not be 
 fulfilled. And, on the other hand, unless a widely 
 diffused cultivation of general intelligence were united 
 with such institutions — desiring and demanding, as 
 they do, the common participation of us all, to protect 
 and further them in their true spirit — it is not possible 
 that they could have advanced so steadily onward, 
 producing results so accordant with the hopes and 
 wishes of every friend of man. Other regions have 
 been blessed with skies and climates as genial as our 
 own ; earth has offered to toiling industry, soils not 
 less prolific ; man has elsewhere displayed an indi- 
 vidual energy, as well directed and as various ; the 
 great principles of civil and religious freedom have 
 been recognized and contended for by other nations 
 and races, as fearlessly and zealously as by ourselves — 
 and, indeed, under circumstances more adverse, and 
 amid trials more severe ; but for our happy country 
 has been reserved the blended influence of a self- 
 government the most extended and free, directly and 
 practically conducted by men among whom education 
 
ADDKESS. 83 
 
 has been most widely diffused ; and it is this cause, not 
 cUmate, or soil, or race, that has made us what we are. 
 It is the blessing of institutions that have long brought 
 to our whole people, with an equal hand, the right and 
 duty of self-government, combined with the opportuni- 
 ties, in general largely profited by, of widely diffused 
 information and knowledge, in morals, politics and 
 religion. 
 
 It lately happened to me to stand on the farther 
 shores of Lake Michigan, deemed but a few years ago 
 so distant, and scarcely known to us but by narratives 
 of early and undaunted missionaries, or by tales of tra- 
 vellers and traders, who had venturously embarked on 
 its lonely and stormy waters, or penetrated among the 
 red men that wandered unmolested over silent and 
 interminable prairies, where a thick and flowery herb- 
 age hardly yielded to their footsteps. As I looked 
 over the wide expanse of waters — far as the eye could 
 reach — the schooner's white sail and the steamer's 
 ceaseless wheel were spreading new life upon the 
 waves. As I turned to the prairie and the rolling 
 hills, agriculture was every where to be seen, running 
 its long furrow through the virgin sod, till distance 
 hid it from the view; cities, suddenly sprung into ex- 
 istence, were glittering in the cloudless skies ; all 
 around me were the hum of the mill, and the smoking 
 turret of the factory ; street beyond street was extend- 
 ing, farther and farther, the evidences of commerce 
 and prosperous industry ; and conspicuous, far above 
 L.e?C. ^ 
 
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 all, and seeming to animate and control the exhilarat- 
 ing scene, churches and school-houses rose on every 
 side, in number and size apparently, as yet, superfluous. 
 And who are those — strangers in costume, in appear- 
 ance, often in language — adding, at every moment, 
 their numbers to this crowd? They are emigrants 
 from old settled regions beyond the ocean, voluntarily 
 hastening to a country and habits connected by no 
 associations with the land of their birth ; yet they are 
 not melancholy exiles sadly deserting or driven from 
 their homes; they are joyous and happy — seeking, like 
 the patriarchs of old, a land of promise, where their 
 honest toil will be rewarded by prosperity that will not 
 wither beneath the oppression of institutions in which 
 they have no part ; where the religious faith, which 
 their conscience teaches and approves, will neither 
 be subjected to civil control, nor to the arbitrary in- 
 terference or privileges of some predominant church ; 
 and where their children may be so nurtured as early 
 to learn, and be made fit to exercise, in their fullest 
 scope, the rights of a citizen. Could I fail to see and 
 to confess that the magic powers by which changes 
 and effects so wonderful could be produced, were the 
 universal ballot-box, the voluntary church, and the 
 public school, uniting together to secure to every man, 
 and enabling him wisely to assert, his equal and just 
 position ; to participate in the functions of government, 
 limited and general ; and to exert the power which, 
 in a government so constituted, labor, virtue, and en- 
 
ADDRESS. 85 
 
 terprise confer? And, as my imagination and thought 
 carried me even beyond these scenes, so grateful and 
 inspiring, I seemed to behold, in the far distant vista, 
 similar communities every where extending ; nor could 
 I forget that, as they were to spread farther and 
 farther into the remotest prairies, there was a pillar of 
 light which would always go before their path — that 
 wherever they should rest, a provident forecast had 
 already prepared the spot,' in w^hich the school-house 
 and the college were to connect, with the form and 
 exercise of government, the dissemination and in- 
 fluence of social, political, and religious truth. 
 
 If we love the institutions of our country, as which 
 of us does not; if we believe them, indeed, to be the 
 w^orld's best hope ; if we are to preserve, nay, to 
 enlarge them, in their true spirit, as an example 
 and alluring beacon to hopeful and trusting men, 
 throughout the world; then must we all — union, 
 and states, and cities, and individuals — strive to 
 further the progress, in every form, of general and 
 enlightened education. Above all, when we behold 
 the school-house and the college travelling onwards, 
 and preceding the march of industrious enterprise ; 
 when we see them every where planted by hands 
 withdrawn, not without difficulty, from the pressing 
 exigencies of frontier life; when we recognize, at 
 every moment, the abundant reward they have con- 
 ferred; then, indeed, must those portions of our 
 common country, to which time, and accumulated 
 
36 ADDRESS. 
 
 population and resources have brought far ampler 
 means, apply themselves, with more than zeal, to 
 the discharge of this, the first duty which they owe 
 to the age in which we live, and to that beneficent 
 Providence which has conferred such blessings, not 
 for themselves alone, but that they may so appre- 
 ciate and use them, as to further the common wel- 
 fare of all our race. 
 
 Is it vain to believe, that by our own community 
 this will be joyfully and generously done ? Nay, 
 that from these halls, where we are now assembled, 
 enlightened intelligence shall always emanate, not 
 less widely or successfully than it has spread from 
 seats the most chosen of learning and of science. 
 Indeed, this, our duty, is imposed upon us in a 
 double trust — imposed, as it is hallowed, by patriots 
 the most illustrious in the annals of Pennsylvania 
 — her Penn and her Franklin. If we honor that 
 name which, first in the legislation of mankind, was 
 affixed to the glorious statutes that combined, in the 
 foundation of a State, universal suffrage, unrestrained 
 right of religious belief, abolition of privileges of 
 birth in property and in government, the exercise 
 of the popular will in the selection of officers civil 
 and judicial, and, indeed, the careful protection of 
 every political and social right; do not let us forget 
 that it was also affixed to the charter of a public 
 seminary. Before the primeval forests were cleared 
 from the site of Philadelphia, a school-house of rude 
 
ADDRESS. 37 
 
 logs of pine and cedar was already sheltered by their 
 boughs. If, indeed, our Commonwealth does regard 
 her founder — to advert to the language of his pre- 
 judiced and querulous historian — "with a reverence 
 similar to that which the Romans felt for Quirinus ;" 
 it may well lead us to recall an incident by which 
 that reverence was shown. When, after the lapse 
 of centuries, the little village on the Tiber had be- 
 come the mistress of the world, the straw-roofed 
 cottage of Romulus was still proudly and piously 
 preserved, beside the towering and golden Capitol, 
 and in the midst of temples, and arches, and columns, 
 the trophies of her boundless empire. If our little 
 school-house of logs exists not now, yet not less well 
 may our reverence be shown for the founder of our 
 republic, if the spot where in his day it stood, shall 
 be — as it needs but ourselves to make it — a home 
 of letters, and a centre from which education and 
 intelligence shall diffuse their happiest influence. 
 Nor let us less remember that, at a later day, he 
 whom, by common consent, we place, in the history 
 of our commonwealth, second alone to Penn, whose 
 philanthropy, wisdom, energy and public spirit, so 
 many of our institutions record, labored with peculiar 
 zeal to establish this, our College ; and when at last 
 the grateful task was accomplished, proclaimed in 
 his letters, page after page, his anxious interest for 
 its progress, his confident hope of its continued in- 
 crease and success. 
 
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 How shall we answer to the memories of these men, 
 so illustrious, if, after so many years gone by, the trust, 
 thus left to us by them, has not been faithfully dis- 
 charged ? If, while population, and commerce, and 
 wealth, and prosperity have increased, far beyond all 
 that their expectations could foresee; and our city 
 has gained a merited fame for works of charity and 
 domestic usefulness, it presents not a College that 
 might answer to the hopes of Franklin and of Penn ? 
 What can be more honorable than to follow in their 
 footsteps? What is more to be coveted than praise 
 which is won by efforts to render such an institution 
 worthy of its founders — worthy of the city it might 
 adorn, and the renown it might readily reach. These 
 efforts, it is true, may require from those of us who 
 are not without opportunity to make them, some of 
 that devotion — nay, even some of that personal labor 
 and exertion, which benefactors like Penn and 
 Franklin were always ready and happy to bestow 
 on works of public usefulness; but would they not 
 give to such devotion and zeal their abundant reward, 
 alike in the distinction brought to our city, and in 
 the consciousness of so great a benefit conferred on 
 a community of which we are a part? Nor is this 
 all. To such exertions, those around us are sure 
 willingly to respond. Generously will they second, 
 and abundantly w^ill they honor efforts directed to 
 objects so disinterested, attractive and beneficent. 
 
ADDRESS. 39 
 
 Do we not see college after college winning envied 
 distinction, not alone in states long settled, but in 
 those that are the growth of yesterday ? Do we not 
 witness their names, their schools, their discoveries, 
 and the zeal of those connected with them, already 
 made conspicuous in the ranks of letters and science ? 
 Are they not hailed with favoring notice among the 
 learned and observant of other countries, as well as 
 our own ? And does not the anxious question press 
 upon our thoughts — what is to be the station of our 
 own University among them ? The answer is at 
 hand. If it is true to the opportunities it possesses, 
 to its founders, and to the community of which 
 it should be the pride ; if its own sons, and those 
 intrusted with its care, are faithful to their mission, 
 then will it be surpassed by none in usefulness and 
 fame. 
 
 No ! when science and letters, and the cause of 
 universal truth are pressing onward, as they now are, 
 with all the ardor of our age, our college must not be 
 forgetful of its noble origin ; it must not be wanting in 
 the honorable contest; 
 
 Non Memmi clara propago, 
 Talibus in rebus communi deesse saluti. 
 
 When all around us, astronomy is disclosing new 
 secrets of the universe, and electricity is speaking from 
 pole to pole in the language of light, surely we will 
 not let it be forgotten that this is the college of Rit- 
 
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 tenhouse and Franklin. When trouble shall gather 
 around the institutions of our country — when the 
 sacred rights of man shall be endangered, or the 
 brightness of our fraternal bond is sought to be 
 tarnished — surely bold and conspicuous champions will 
 be found in the halls once governed and protected by 
 Morris and Hopkinson ; by IngersoU and Clymer — 
 names proudly enrolled on the two great charters of 
 American liberty and union. And if, amid the wild, 
 and fanciful, and dreamy speculations of these our 
 days, a voice is needed to call us to the plain and 
 simple lessons of virtue and revealed religion, is there 
 a spot whence it can better issue than that where the 
 venerable form of the pure and unaffected minister of 
 God, who fearlessly invoked his blessing, day by day, 
 on the struggling government of our country, has been 
 so often present, in modest dignity, illustrating in all 
 his actions, as far as erring man may do, the precepts 
 which he taught? 
 
 Associates ! Old companions and friends ! Children 
 of this our beloved college ! I know that you will not 
 be wanting to fulfil your part, in a mission so ac- 
 ceptable to you ; that to further it, your aid will be 
 and is most gladly offered ; that to such a call you 
 will never be deaf; and that, in the midst of private 
 cares and occupations, there is not one of you, who 
 will not be ready, in the spirit of Trebonius, to ex- 
 claim : " In an effort so worthy, I will be there !" 
 
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