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Tho Past Young Man.-A Sermon.
BY REV. DANIEL C. EDDV, D. D.
i'uvoKRiis vii. 7.—" A young man void of un-derstanding."
We often hear of the " Fast Young Man "
i lose ihre-j words meet the eye almost every
day, as we read the public journals; they fali
on Our earn as we enter the counting house,
or walk along the street. The term "a fast
>cn:ig man," is a very significant one. We
. apply it generally to him who is breaking
■iway from restraint*, defying by his reck-lessness
the common sentiments of the com-munity,
and displaying an uncommon haste
in learning vicious habits, and becoming ac-
•j.minted with depraved men. It is a term of
reproach, and courted only by those who are
• V"j\i of understanding."
We all love to see a "fast sailing ship,"
•-;■'• ding her snowy pinions to the gale, and
riding out to sea with all sail set. We love
to see a " (ant horse" pursuing his way, and
distancing all competitors. It is creditable to
a ship to be a fast sailor. 8be will have
larger freight, aud more passengers will
crowd her decks. It is creditable for a horse
to bo ufast racer; it will increase bis value,
and lead his owner to guard him with greater
care. Hut with ufast young man it is not so.
Nobody sets a higher value on him, on ac-count
of his fast proclivities.
It is to the case of "The Fast Young Man,"
that 1 this evening invite your attention
\\ H live in an age of progress. Men eat fast,
work fast, travel fast.'a.id live fast. A man's
life ii- measured by tho speed at which he
goes, and steam seems to bo the prop.'ling
power in all the movements of our race. It
Would bo well if progress was confined to
learning, freedom, science and art, and the
things whirb elevate in this life and fit for
the life to come. It would be well if pro-gress
was the attendant of such things only
as make men wiser, happier, and more like
God, But it is not so. There is a progress
downward as well as upward; progress in
crime, shame and ruin. Men go to de-learning,
to feel thus
error,
Bl.raction by steam ; hasten to ruin at rail car
speed. The age which furnishes new inven-1 and mother
turns in science and art, gives increased facil-ities
for crime, and good men are not the
only ones who become more carious and
cunning as the years roll on. The wicked
are inventive ; they bring to tbiir aid all the
genius and skill of the age to famish facil-ities
lor doing wrong. The complete ruin of
a man occupied some time, years ago. Half
a century back in time, demoralization work-ed
slow. It was a long process generally,
to hunt a man down from bis integrity to de-stroy
his manhood, to imbrute bis whole
nature, and make him the abject slave to
lust and passion. But as the world has ad-
Vanecd, and men have become more shrewd,
•lie work of ruin has gone on with greater
speed, and has been done more surely and
around home. And if borne bo what it should
be, there will -be no place there for the out
gush of unholy desires, and tho outbursts of
malevolent passions It will be a spot where
vice does not intrude, and into which the
destroyer will seldom dare to penetrate in
pursuit of bis victims.
But home is too dull for the fast boy.—
There is no smoking, no swearing, no ob
scene conversation allowed in that r-anctu
ary, and he wishes to be away as much AS
possible. Its very purity will send him out
when once his own ini'id is tainted with
impurity, and what should be its chief at-traction"
will drive him W seek the society
of strangers. And where will tho fast boy
be found ? When home loses its attraction
where does he go? What company does he
seek? You all know. He is found on the
corners of tho streets, lounging on fences,
in the doorway of churches, going in and
out of religious meetings disturbing the
worship, hanging around rai-road depots,
whistling and swearing at political meetings,
trotting through the mud in torch light pro-cessions,
following military companies, loafing
about firemen's musters,—anywhere, every-where
else but at home.
Thus boys are laying the foundation for
all the bad habits which so often cluster
around and disfigure youth, and which make
the worst and m<>st degraded of men. Some-times
parents encourage this by sending
children out to all the night performances,
concerts, lectures, and exhibitions that can be
found, teaching them to dance, introducing
them to the theatre, and paving the way
to shipwreck and ruin.
And when home has become distasteful
to the lad, when the countenances of father
and mother have no charms, when the sis
ter's voice has lost its music, when the fire
side has been robbed of its beauty, and the
home sanctuary has no magic, then the
young man is on a lee shore; one of the
main anchors is gone, and be has taken
tho first long plange in the downward career
of the fast young man.
2. Ho is fast in finishing his education.
There is only one season of our life when
a systematic course of education is secured.
A man should learn life long, and goon in
the improvement of bis mind until he dies;
yet within a very few years, at the com-moncement
of his life, is laid in systematic
study the foundation of what he afterwards
acquires. But the great mass of young
men are in fevori-b baste to finish their
school-days, and get out into the world.
On an average our boys do not acquire one
third of the education they might, but hurry
away from school into stores, or to trades,
while schools and school books are thrown
to persons still younger It is natural for
the boy who does not know the value of
but that his father
who have seen so much more
of life, who know so much better than he
does tho value of education, should allow
hirn thus to break away from school at so
early an age, is passing strange. The lad
who is anxious to shorten his school-hours,
get away from the restraints of his teachers,
is pursuing a course that affects his whole
ljfe. School-hours lost are never regained,
and many a men bant, to-day, bewails and de-plores
the misguided fondness of the parents
who allowed him to have his own way, and
leave school before be had secured sufficient
education for the business purposes of life.
Go into the counting house and the store,
and how many cases do you find in which
business men are entirely dependent on their
Their own education has been neg-elf.-
ctively. Men of science have invented j leeted, and now they are at the mercy of
in-•iniifs to tunnel through gigantic moun- '
tains; they have discovered various pro-c.
sacs for breaking am' working bars of iron;
they have agents lor draining marshes, turn-ing
the course of rivers, and bowling out the
t •• tents of the sea. Ho there havo been in-vented
machines in tho moral world, to tun-liei
tbroi gh characters that men deemed im
pregnible; process for breaking tho heart
their lured men.
Some boys are unwilling to stay in school
even until they are old enough to go to a
trade, or be put into a store. They beg and
tease until the indulgent parent takes them
out of school, and they are allowed to spend
one or.two years i,, indolence, learning noth-ing
but bad habits, and earning nothing but
a luture ot infamy. Take a boy from school
I •• n .raining the i>reast ot man of all its I at the age of twelve or fourteen years and
p n,rou.s lmpul8e#j alii fi|lin? up (h;> w„ste | ]et |)im d OM d ^ J^ nothing
*. . the most ruinous passtens and lusts; j as possible, and in nine eases out of ten von
eencieu Tor turning the affoctions into new have ruined your son. mad- an unprincipled
B.«rrtM, away from home, away from truth, rude, vagabond boy oi him, and stamped
B . ;. from God, into channels tho banks .of upon him habits that he will never
. .... II ,r « U'IIU nuve oecome so prevatoi
Thai it would be »«. bold and open in its
That it would dress itself in st
v
Who .would havo thought, a century ago
the hellish device:, to ruin men? Who
il i have imagined that crime in high life,
I w life would have become 60prevalent?
ad
such
m I-1,ilicence and arm itself with such power ?
1 propose to take up at this time, the '• fast
young man," and follow him through his
childhood and youth, until his course is run,
and his race is finished. As I glance from
scene to scene, your own minds will furni-h
illustrations, for you will remember instances
of young men, who havo squandered their
property, wrecked their characters, killed by
cruelty their parents, and destroyed them-selves.
Many of yoj will not be obliged to
go beyond your own circle of acquaintance,
or the limits of your own store and work-shop,
to find " fast y Jung men."
Coming then at once to the subject, I remark:
1. The last young man is fast in getting
aicay from home, aud beyond the wholesome
restraints of the Jireiide. This disposition is
often manifested very young in life. The
child as soon as he cau talk fluently will begin
t'» exhibit a desire to get beyond the reach of
his parents, and when the boy reaches the
age of ten or twelve years, he has in many
instances learned to spend bis evenings away
from borne- Where ho is, the parents do not
Know. Ho is somotimes at the shop of
a neighbor, especially if that neighbor has
•round him in the evening, sitting on the
beads ol barrels, on the counter, or around
The Btovea half dozen frolicking young men;
or ho may be loungiDg around the door of the
theatre* seeing the crowds as they pass in ;
or he may be sotting up pins in the bowling
alley at six-ponce an hour, or watching out-mde
some dancing establishment, listening to
the excruciating music, or the sound of tho
harlot s ieetas they patter upon the elastic
floor. v
outgrow.
d from school, and
before him, he has
i the career of the
Soon this ripens into a desire to be am,wa,y.
fi in home altogether, sad the fast boy, for
is nothing more, wants to go to a trade,
or into a city store, where he will be under
t.o e of the- restraints of home. Now why
Home should be one of the most
And when be has escape
has a year ol indolence
taken the se.ond step i
fast young man.
3. He is fast in forsaking the sanctuary.
This is the third step. He has broken away
from school, and now he forsakes 'he sanc-tuary,
where bis father long |la„ worshipped.
Attendance upon the sanctuary is one ol the
most effectual safeguards ol the young. When
a man breaks away from church services,
and the restraints ol the bouse of God, be
generally goes last to ruin. The Sanctuary
is doing more to-day, to prevent this country
from becoming a besotted r-nd brutalized
Sodomite country, than all the laws made,
all the moral and benevolent societies formed,
and all the books, tracts and newspapers
written and primed. The house of God
does more to roll hack the tide of crime,
check the unbridled license ot sin, than any-thing
else. But the young man gets an idea
that it is all folly to go to church ; ho is the
son of a sainted father, who has gone up to
heaven; of a mother who yet lives to pray
for him, and weep over bis waywardness,
but he thinks it beneath bis dignity, a sort
of libel on his manhood, lor iiim to go to
church, where he hears nothing of the drama,
the dance, business and speculations. So he
stays at home. The sacred church bell often
wakes him from bis morning nap; the fore-noon
is spent in reading some silly, insipid
stories, yellow-covered romances, or flash
papers of American manufacture, or in
drinking down the vile slime of Eugene Sue,
George Sand and Alexander Dumas. Tho
afternoon is spent in riding, walking, sailing,
or roving from church to church, the next
thing to nothing, and in the evening he visits
his friends, or falls into an evening lecture,
as ho has come here to-uight. This is the
Sabbath day history of hundreds of our
young men. The best and greatest men who
havo ever lived have loved the bouse of God,
and few have been the names that have lived
with fragrance through the changing years,
that were„OOt borne by men who respected
the Sabbath and attended the sanctuary.
The house ot God has an elevatingtendt ncy-it
makes ttose who wait upon its hallowed'
services happy and contented in life; it blesses
Take two
e
will find, other things being equal, that the
church going family is the happiest; best
ordered, best educated and most contented
Take two young men, clerks in the same
store, apprentices in the same shop, of equal
culture, and tho one who goes to church will
have a nobler mind, a truer, better character,
more respected and beloved by those around
him, and more trusted by his employer There
may be exceptions, as there are to all rules,
but this you will find to be a general prin-ciple.
But the fast young man will not go
to church; if he does it is half a day to some
place where what is called liberal Christiani-ty
is preached—so liberal that it does not
include repentance tor sin, faith in Jesus
Christ, salvation by grace, a new heart and a
right spirit. He breaks away trom the Puri
tanical creed of his fathers, and shuns the
place whero his sins are reproved, his con-science
aroused, and i.is judgment convinced
of the folly and wickedness of bis course.
And when he comes to this, ho is again out
at sea, he has cast off all moorings, and is on
the broad ocean.
4. He is fast in learning bad habits. Bad
habits are an indissoluble fraternity. A man
never long had one bad habit, and only one.
One bad habit will breed a thousand more,
and it a man has one single bad habit to-day
be will have more to-morrow. The course
of the fast young man in forming bad habits,
you see illustrated every day. He first be
gins with smoking, a habit which if not posi-tively
sinful, is surely leading young people
to habits that are sinful, useless and expensive,
troublesome and debasing. It often forms
in a young perspn an appetite for strong
drink, and is a species of indulgence which,
though it does not intoxicate, loads to dissi-pation
and sorrow. The mere expense of
smoking should lead a young man to avoid
it. 1 was advising a young man the other
day to take a seat in the sanctuary. Ho re-plied,
'• I would like to; I always went to
church till last year, but times are so des-perate
I cannot afford it." " Do you smoke ?"
I asked. " O, yos," was the reply. " How
much do you smoke I" " Well about two
cigars a day—one after dinner, and one just
before retiring at night.'' " What do cigars
cost? " About six cents a piece, and on Sun
days I smoke two or three extra, and of
course 1 am obliged to give away two or three
every week." " Well," I said, " let me
reckon:—two cigars every day, and two
given away, and two used extra on the Sab-bath,
amounts to nine hundred and thirty-six—
theso at six cents a piece would come
to the snug little sum of $56.10; more than
enough to hire a whole pew in the house of
God." He says be smokes two extra cigars
on the Sabbath day; that is tho effect of
staying at home, and having nothing to do,
or going to a club-room, or armory, or en-gine
house. Well, let him lay aside the
money for those two extra cigars, and he
has the sum of 86.24—enough to secure
him a most eligible seat in the sanctuary.
Suppose a man keeps on smoking thirty
years, indulging bis useless habit all that,
tim-, what a fortune ho loses! In that time
his cigars cost him 81,684.80, besides all
the lost interest on such a sum.
From smoking, the fast young man learns
to swear. Now and then a horrid oa'tb will
roll out, at moments when the cigar is not
in his mouth. Without fear, be will call on
the name of Jesus in derision, or challenge
tho Almighty to blast Ins soul forever. I
dare not repeat the sinner's language. You
have heard him curse his family, himself,
his friends; you know hew his profanity
slips out at all times; you are shocked and
amazed at it. I can see bow a man can
love to smoke, make a chimney of his
throat, and a smoke pipe ol his lips; I tan
see how a man can love to drink a social
glass; but how an intelligent, man can swear
and curse I do not under tatid. Why, I should
as soon think ot committing suicide ! What!
call on God—the God who is able to do it—
to blast my eyes, to damn my soul, to send
mo or my friends to hell! What a wreK h a
man must be to call on God to do any ot
these things ! And yet hundreds are doing
it every day ol life. Is it gentlemanly?
No! Is it brave? No! Is it musical? No!
Is it polite? No! Is it decent? No! Is it
sale ? No!
Then the fast yyoouunngg mmaann 1learns the way
to the theatre. He hears his associates talk-ing
about he drama, and actors, and pnma
donnas, and benefits and stars, and all these
things. And he goes, night after night, and
swallows down into his soul the polluted
dregs of the stage. Now and then he is
obliged to blush and hide his bead for shame
at the wantonness of the exhibition; now
and then he eels mortified at the coarseness of
the comedy, but he gels used to it, and every
night he sits in the pn or in the box, having
his soul hardened, and his once pure heart
corrupted.
He then finds the way to the low dancing
hells, sinks of pollution,that in Pagan Rome
would have been shut up as plague spots,
leprous slains, only to be blotted out lor the
public goid. He is now a fast young man
in full blossom. An immense ring flashes on
his finger; a pin of great magnitude rests
on a solid ruffle; a sword cane, lewd com
; unions, bad books, and a ruined character—
these are all his.'
Then drinking follows, and the child of
tears and prayers soon becomes a mean,
loathsome, carcase; reeling, bloated, stagger-ing
down to perdition. Gambling and licen-tiousness
bring up the rear, like two gaunt
demons riding upon death's pale horse, driv-ing
before them a willing victim down to
hell.
The only way for a man to be Bafe is to
have no bad habits ; they breed like frogs in
Egypt. The play horse, the circus, the danc
ing hall, the brothel, the gambling hell, the
tap shop, are all on one line—a sort of electric
circle; the keepers have hold of hands ; they
are all parts of one infernal system. The
flashy, foreign actor who rides in his carriage,
and who fares sumptuously every day. may
not be willing to speak to the keeper" of th
obtained somowhere. There are three ways
of getting it—gambling, forgery, embezzle-ment.
I think I hazard nothing when I say
that our young men, who become dishonest
are not naturally so; tnoy have not that bad-ness
of heart that would lead to this, their
reasonable expenses are but small, and they
ought to live within their means. Their bad
habits do the work ; the theatre, the ball-room,
the cigar shop, and the social glass demand
money, and it must come. It is not any in-herent,
natural dishonesty, but the demand of
these bad habits. This is what leads to so
much dishonesty. The young man is not so
much to blame as the tempters that hav-spread
the snare, and hung out the biit.
1 would not encourage a miserly disposi-tion—
let a young man enjoy as he goes along
in life, but aside from all the reasonable en-joyments
how much is spent for the mere grat-ification
of lust! Who support all these
gilded saloons? Who pay for tho stained
glass doors, and mammoth lanterns that hang
out over them ? Who supports tho circus
clown, with his spotted face and heart ? Who
support tho rumseller, the stuge actor, the
dancing master? Young men who havo
widowed mothers in the country ! Young
men who think they cannot afford a seat in
church ! Young men who cannot see how
they can lay up a dollar for the future!
They are supported by young married men
whose palo wives sit up late for them and
whose childien are poorly clothed! One
half the money thus squandered would light
up the old age of that kind mother with
smiles of hope; would make that wife and
child free-hearted and happy, would get you
stocks in banks, or depositsin saf. institu-tions,
and save multitudes from degradation
and ruin, and mane them ornaments of
virtuous society.
• 0. He is fast in getting through life to the
judgment It is often said we shall not die
until our time comes, but the Bible assures
us thai the wicked shall not live out half their
days. Not a few people kill themselves by
their bad habits and vices. Look at a young
man who drinks. In former times a man
could drink year after year, but now he dies
in five or six years. He formerly drank pure
liquors; now ho swallows a decoction of
poisons.—log wood, prussic acid, and similar
ingredients. Look at him! Day by day-death
does its work upon him until his blood-shot
eyes, and bloated visago and staggering
tread proclaim him a fi- subject for delirium
tremens. His frame is bowed, his constitu-tion
is ruined, his h art is corrupted, his
conscience seared, and he drops into tho
grave without having lived out half his days.
I need not specify the ways is which man may
vorA-himse.f to death, eat himself to death,or
drink himself to death, but thousands are
destroying their beautifully formed bodies,
their wonderfully gifted minds by brutish,
sensual indulgence, worthy only of fiends and
devils.
And soon they will find themselves before
the great judgment scat to answer for all the
wrongs done here on earth, for the misspent
lime and abused privileges. And it will be
found that they have been fast in getting
there. They have dashed down the barriers
of prudence, reason, conscience, and revela-tion.
They have overleaped obstacles, and
been impeluous in their haste to arrive at the
terrors ot the day of doom.
Is there a fast young man present now .'
By "fast young man," I mean one who has
broken away from home, left the sanctuary,
cas' aside the Bible, and has become a Book-ing
swearing, sabbath breaking.theatre-going,
reckless young man. Let me speak to him
as a brother, bound to the same judgment!
Let me appeal to him to behold the beauty of
nature; the excellence of a good moral and
religious life! Let me ask him how he
will stand in thai awful day when God shall
reveal himself from heaven as judge. So >n
it will come; soon you will stand beiore tho
great white throne ! How will you look then
upon wasted life—for wasted" it will be if
you spend it as I have now described. Let
me ask you. brother man, what will be your
emotions wln-n the great shepherd divides
ibe sheep from the goats.
slave to appetite and lust 1 Let me tell him
he will e me to sorrow here, and to ■BROW
hereafter. The fast young man will stop at
last; he koHl stop, and think, aye, and pray-too
I Whore? "Where?" do yon ask! At
the judgment scat; before tho great white
throne! ;
You hire heard of the gulf stream—" a
vast andfrapfd ocean current, issuing from
the basic, of the Mexican Gulf and Caribbean
Sea, doubling tho southern cape of Florida,
pressingtforward to the north-east, in a line
almost, parallel to the American coast; touch-ing
on thje southern borders of Newfoundland,
and at s4me seasons partially passing over
them ; tjence '-vitti increasing width and con-fusion,
tlaversing tho whole breadth of tho
Atlantic! with acentral direction toward the
British Isles; and finally losing itself by still
wider diffusion in tbe Bay of Biscay and upon
the long line of the Norwegian coast. Its
temperainre ishoatod, and the vessel that gets
into it k- liable to be drifted from her course."
There are in moials two gulf streams—one
draws up to heaven, and tho other down to
woe. On which are you floating—the!
mistaken, fatal stream, or on tho broad, deep
river of life?
How many Are mistaking all that is pure,
noble, elevated, and divine! It is not fast
habits that matte a man—O no!
"A truthful soul, a loving miad,
J'ullof affection for its kind,
A spirit firm, erectaod free.
That never basely bends the knee,
rjhat will not bear a feathers weight
Of iSlavery's chain for small or great,
rhat truly speaks from God within,
t never makes a league with sin;
claimed to the people of Illinois from the
stump, that this Kansas .Nebraska bill, to tbe
support of which he cajoled tho South, was
tho best abolition measure that CnutW
could pass. Ho is a bold ambitious, re klem.
talented demagogue, without any fii ed prin-ciples
of true statesmanship. Ho opposed
tbe Lecompton Constitution because it was
necessary to secure his re-election to tho Son-ate,
and upon the same condition ho would
have supported it with all English's shame-less
profligacy. He has beon nominated by
the tree State wing wholly upon his Squat-ter
Sovereignty heresy, and this recent and
daring innovation he and his faction are stri-ving
to interpolate into the Constitution, or
rather to establish it as a groat primary prin-ciple,
overriding the Constitution itself. This
sectional, reckless, political adventurer will
not get -in electoral vote in a slave State, and
he should never have been thought of in con-nection
with the Presidency.
But the seceder's faction have done even
worse. The men who led the seccders from
the Charleston Convention have been for
years open and avowed disunionists. But
the movement of the South Carolina in that
direction last Winter, met with so stern a ru-buke
from the States to which she made her
treasonable appeal, as to bring them to a
more cautious policy. Some years ago they
sought to inacgurate a disunion movement
under the guise of a Southern Commercial
convention, but it received no support except
from a few restless spirits scattered over
the Southern Atlantic and Gulf States. Kven
John Brown's laid did not enable them to
proselyte many to the opinion that dissolu-tion
was a remedy for any existing evil.—
Their numbers were tco few and too local for
an open strike. They must have other States
i to take positions with South Carolina ; or, at
, any rate they must enlist a strong party of
| sympathizers in all the Slave States. Their
I efforts to produce these results had failed, and
therefore they must change their tactics.—
i - | Their session from the Charleston Convention
2J^^79^n^f^n9^^Sg^^A^^'^^»^^^9K»i but was intended
^^'/.^^^^'n the right! to lead to disunion; but even the movement
ini the line of human improvement, | there, disguised as it was, did not gather
•lopmeat, towards enough of diffusive strength. Kentucky and
Tennessee stood firm, aud tho Demoiistra-llrnt
snaps the fetter* despots make.
;Vnd love I the truth for its or
' -WD sake,
liat wor^hipsGod, and Him alone,
And bow* no wuere but at His throne;
laat trembles at no tyrant's nou,
A soul that fears no one but God;
And thus can smile at curse or ban;
That is ibo soul that makes a man "
My 3;oung friends—Be men.' The world
is calling for men. The church is calling for
men. Il '
direction
in the course o
heaven,,towards God.
Letter from Hcyn. Garret Davis, of Ken-tucky.
MERITS OV THE PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES—HIS
FOR BELL AND EVERETT.
ter from Hon Garret Davis,
ply to an invitation to bo
PREFERENCE
The following le
was written in
tion ot Sympathy from most of the other
States was not sufficiently encouraging. The
bulk of the Convention re-assembled at Bal-timore
and Douglas is nominated by a
largo majority, of the ent ire body, including
a large traction of the Kentucky delegation.
There was a second bolt which was joined by
present at a im ting held in Louisville to as many of the Kentucky delegati
ratify the nomin tion of Bell and Everett.
PARIS, July 4, 1860.
George !>. Preni- -e, Ktq., and others :
Your notice voted for Douglas, and another fragment ol
; it was suspended like Mahomet's coffin, and
could fall nowhere. These bolter g . into a
GENTLEMEN :—Your'notice inviting me to
««"P»rate Convention, and nominate as their
be present and to participate in the proceed- candidate tor the Presidency John ('. Breek*
ingsof a public meeting, to take place yester- inrigde, the idol ot the mass of the K mucky
Demcoracy ; and his nomination is ratified
by all the fire eaters, who had repaired the
second time to Richmond, and who refused
to go to Baltimore. Mr. Breekinridge ap-proved
the screes on, and received the immi-day
evening in Louisville, to ratify the nomi-nations
for the Presidency and Vice Presi
dency, made by the Convention ot the Con-stitutional
Urnoff Party, at Baltimore, was
duly received. 1 could not be with you, but
there wus no actor thoro, who is mo're devo
led and Steadfast to our great cause and its
I peerless representatives, Jobs Bell and Ed-ward
Everett, than I am. And now, on this
j anniversary day'of the Independence of our
I country 9 again griedge to "the Union, the
Constitution, ar?d the Enforcement of the
Laws." it.d to the able and fit statesmen nom-inated
tr upholdHhem, all I have of heart and
J eason ! I!
For some years past the Democratic Party-has
arrogantly fatmmed to be tho national
party, whilst it fas constituted oflwoincon
gruous sectionallactions, the ieaders of the
Nor''
to
•• IVhen the judge descends in light,
Clothed in majesty and might ;
When the wicked c|uake with fear.
Wbere. 0, where wilt thou appear ?
I can do no better in concluding than
cite you to a few illustrations of fast young
men. Our first shall be one from Scripture.
A man became rich, and he said to his soul,
"Soul, thou hast much goods laid up, take'
thine ease, eat, drink and be merry." But
God said onto him. " Thou foal, this night,
thy soul shall be required of three." It
was plain language, but such as might be
addressed with perfect propriety toth u-ands
of young men who are living aione for
pleasure. He had made merry fast, and now
he determined to live fast, have a sumptuous
table, have rich feasts, ride in a carriage, boa
leader of fashion. But the great voice of
God from on high, said—"Thou fool, this
night, thy soul shall bo required of thee "
You know how such a man would die- yon
know what sounds would haunt his dying
bed, and you know where he would go to
when the last hour came. Yes gou know '
The second case shall be from later days—
a name well known to you as one of the most
gifted young men of his times-Edgar Alien
P«.e, wl o debaunched himself; shocked his
friends, and destroyed his soul, by his rapid
reer of dissipation. Red ,ia, m ' ,„
then one befog deadly hostile to Slave-ry,
and the leaders of the South, its fiery sup-porters
and propagators, and present and
prospective Dirunionists. Though the head
n en of the two factions have long known the
principle aud ultimate designs of each other,
they have heretofore held their subalterns by
"thecoh-sive power o! the plunder" and their
masses by senseless shouts for party victories, them, and in,percept:l
to a united action, when there was no con- and deeper involved, m
inanity of principles among them. Each
class adhered for present spoils and office,
and from a vague hope that somo chance
would give them the denominating pow-er
Bui their respective camps had be-come
so crowd( d by accessions of free cap-tains
and mercenary soldies, men who have
neither fixed principles nor fidelity to any
cause, bit. who fight for pay alone, and who,
will desert the greatest and most s-icred cause
for higher pay than they are reccving, that'
it beeamp impossible to satisfy or to lull the
impatient craving tor spoil- ot thei
legions. The veil with which this
r hungry
heteroge-
' " m or,modernD m eracy, basso long
covered itself, is at length, rent
strife, and reveals its Northern an
nation of both bodies of ths seceders, and thus
he and bis party are hitched on to the South-ern
car ot disunion, now neing driven to the
devil by the political Jeba Yancey. I do
not believe that Mr. Breekinridge and his
Kentucky friends mean disunion at this time:
but those with whom he and they have uni-ted
their fortunes certainly do. His nomina-by
a fragment of tho Democratic Convention
produced within him a feeling of revulsion.—
Circumstances and his own assocciations ur-ged
him to accept, and be was too feeble to
resist their force. He has declared in his ac-ceptance
that he approved tbe secession; and
that he would "not meanly refuse the nomi-nation"
of his friends, the seceders. The same
considerations that have brought him to act
thus far with the disun;<nists, will b ar him
along with them to then ultimate ends. It
is a common case for sinister men, who have
an enterprise of mischiel and wickedne-s, to
allure better men to take the first step with
to become de -per
they iose the pow-er
to extricate themselves from the foil Mr.
Breekinridge and his friends are embarked
with the Southern Disunionistfl in the same
stormy sea ; and their own safely as well as
loyally to the Union and their country, re-quire
them at once to ..ndon the ship and
the enterprise. He is as much a sectional
candidate as Douglas, ad will not get an
electorial vote in a Free State.
Mr. Breekinridge is a gentleman of good
talents, of fine manners, and of easy and
graceful elocution. His habits are indolent,
and his attainments and thoughtsscperf jial.
He is cool, cautious and selfish, and \ et a
line bonee companiion.. HHee hhaass been a prae-by
intestine ticing lawyer tor fifteen years, frequently a
md southern j candidate for popular office, and a member ot
segmeno*engaged in an "irrepressible con-j the State and National Legislatures, and
ihL^lifi- principles and objects j where are his evidences of intellect or sn.tes
which «nnot live together, and Stephen A.! mansbip? Echo answers. What has he
1 ('- Breekinridge are the j ever done, or said, or written, to carry his
nuTnr, .d'-«'P»"«o Read that mans
history, and you see the wreck of a splendid
intellect, the awful ruin of a mighty soul
lou see that intellect steeped in dissipation
you see that soul given over to passion.
And another we have in him whose eyes
were closed by a harlot on the hanks of
Pacific, the author of " Dow's Patent
morjs." who began his downward career bv
burlesque,pg t|)t! |u,us,. „f Q^ U(| fR-preaching
of the Gospel. He wt...
step by step until the light of a n-biu
was quenched, and he di-d as the fool d.elh
ihearmsof loathsome pollution, the com-th
Sei-
'01
and tne
went down
m• nd
theatre tickets one light per week 150: oc-casional
balls and cotillon parties t£&, and
■ thus on to the end ol the catalogue. And
j many of our fast young men havo very small
on •. he earth; all Sh^V"^ I Slta -KLW^MOU ZT'&ETS ! faefvoun £Z " M "* ^^l "2 h"*1'
' ".:"|,n..lnU81C.and W7- *." * I- ho'7 ! ■-■»•. -do by side, and let one attend the ! y^onTmloT- " ^ ** "Ch "^
r stay away, aud you ■ frugal living.
■ i fast young men seld'
-l-saying in religloa'shouWel^ 11:^^
m get rich
st II
Consequently, money must bo
you need other cases? You find them
m yonder prison, you see them reeling along
our streets—young men void of understand"
ng, who are deepening the woes of hu
lite, and ma'
1
who is
king soirow for eternity,
there such
i man
a young man here to-day,
contracting the bad habits I
enumerated? Void of understanding!
iave
A
chosen chieftains to bring the two segregated
hosts lo the onset. Each faction claims to be
the National Democratic Party and denoun-ces
the Other and its chiof as rebels.
It is due to the country that every party
which makes even a profession of patriotism
should present its best men for office. But the
Democratic Party has never acted upon this
principle ; and its recent disregard of it, and
by both of its factions, is as flagitious as at
any former time. Who is Stephen A. Douglas
that he should bo placed in an office tbat was
fashioned and vested with powers for men of
the mot Id of Washington ? Wbere are the
monuments of his statesman-hip t When has
he sho-vn a profound knowledge of and regard
for great constitutional principle? What
wise a d useful measures of legislation has he
devised, or supported with great ability, dur
ing his I .ng career in the two Houses ol Con-gress?
Ho proposed the Wilmoi Prov.ieo a-an
amendment to the joint res -lu.ion for the
admission ul Texas imo the Union. !1S ;0 all
country North ot 3r> decrees; and he repro-duced
ii in the bill esiahjisning the Territory
ol Oregon. He has often advocated tbe prin-ciple
of the MiHsoun Compromise line. Tjn
der the auspices of Mr. Cla\ , be supported
l the cotivnomise measure oi i860,and partic-ularly
a» a finality of the whole slave subject.
I Aud yet, in a few sfao>f years be repudiated
the principles of all these measures. He
stole Dickinson's thunder, and embodied the
repeal ui tbe Missouri Compromise in the
Kansas Nebraska bill; and thus eieated the
Blank Republican Party, and brought it a
born-monster, with teeming numbers and fa-natic
energy, into tbe field ot political con-flict.
Aud to sustain himself at home, he pro-life
and
phrases;
name to the next generation ? His
history can be embodied in five
"Lawyer," "Member ol tho Kentucky Lag'
islature," "Representative in Congress,"
"Vice President," and -Senator elect," and
there can be neither addition or amplitii at ion.
Discretion and luck have achieved for him all
this official elevation. 1 have not oaken into
the account that he was a Major in the Mexi-can
war, because he brought not one laurel
leaf from that service. But this doubtless
was for the wantof oppoi tunity, the w;ir be
ing over before he reached the field of opera-tions,
Haj. Breekinridge isanqneational lv a
gallantand chivalrous gentleman and soldier.
A few years ago luck promised to ooofi r the
crowning honor upon this young Fortunat us.
Old Buchanan like to have died at the Na-tional
Hotel in Washington, and Mr. r.rcck-mridge
b-ft for Ken'ucl.v without i>: h A n.
any of the P. ison As . Id Back did i i
I then began to soepecl that his lui k lad
abanded him ; and this suspicion has heen
confirmed by the fact that old Buck', from
being hi- enemy, has changed to be bis friend,
and is making stump speeches for him His
discretion, too has left him, or he never would
have accepted this nomination. Anil with
luck and discretion both gone, how can Mr.
Breckinridge's friends hope tbat he can ever
reach the Presidency?
But Kentucky had a Iletnorat who is an
American statesman of approval executive
ability, of broad national principles, of indom-itable
will, and of unbending integrity ; and
whoso public life would bo the only platform
which th. country would have required for
him—and that Democrat is James Guitbrie.
Had he been the nominee of the entire Con-vention,
he would have rarred Kentucky by
an unprecedented Democratic majority. Or
if that body- after assertaining its iabillity to
nominate Douglas and pres-rvo its unitv.'bad
with a view to form a union of national men
todoafeat Lincoln recommended(iuithrie :.., 1
Everett to tho support of tho American pe -
pie, not as partisans, but as statesmen of en.
larged views and eminent ability, and dovo
ted to the Union and every national interest,
they would have boaten down all sectionalism
and have been triumphantly elected. No Co-yede
Committee would have been required as
for Buchanan's Administration, to lay ban-to
the scorn of the world, the reeking and thor-oughcorruptionsof
the Government uudei the
administration of James Baebanaoj for he
would put the knife to tnem and cut all bfT,
scorning to be the ignoble tool ofany clique or
cabal ho would himself be President, tie did
not suit the Disunionists because with ail tho
power of the Government barked up by the
resistless Union hosts in every State, be
would crush her machinations and bring the
traitors to punishment on tho couimi-■ [on of
weir first overt act. li« was rejected by the
friends of Douglas because they know that he
held the Squatter Sovereignty doctrine ol
their chief to bean unconstitutional heresy-
He was umcceptehle to the treasury leeches,
because they had experienced thai be would
not permit them to fatten upon his spoil-.—
Obnoxious to both of the sectional wings,
and to the spoilsmen or tho Democratic Con-vcntioi,
Mr. Guthrio found but small favor
in it.
The Black Kepublican candidate is ajaj
honest man of fair ability; bat for some years
past he has been possessed of but one idea,
hostility to Slavery. Ho, and his coadjutor
for the Vice Presidency, are both residents
of a FrceState. They were nominated bi an
intensely sectional party, which with the ex-ception
of a few stragglers, is confined to
the Free States ; and in none of thcr.i does it
constitute tho majority of the people. The
only common bond which unites this party
is fanatical hatred of Slavery, or its hypocri-tical
simulation ; and if its candidate should
be elected, the Government would be admin-istered
with the purpose to imbue all its
branches, and especially the Supreme Canrt,
with Anti-Slavery fanaticism. That would
be the Polar star by which tho ship of the
State would be steered, and the Lord save
her from such a commander and from such a
crew, for whenever they run her upon the
Ami-Slavery breakers, she will be wrocked
and gu to pieces
Neither of these factions, with th" aid of
its chosen chief, could have formed the < 'oi»-
stitntionof the United States, for all there in*
lulled, statesmanship.spirit, and patriotism
are far below that great and iuapprecial .»
charter of a Government. Neither of them
can preserve the Union, for those whoexecute
that great office mast be enlightened by t!.'t
same sort ot intellect, augmented by the same
greatness ol soul which ruled when th ■ †COB*
stitution was formed. It i- the contracted !••!!
"pint of sectionalism which menaces tbe dis-solution
of the Union, and tbe chaotic rujnof
our magnificent political planetary system,
and, unless the national conservative men o:
every section and State bur*t from their par-ty
trammels and crush it out by plat-inn tru»
and able men in the office, ii will bring on tbe
catastrophe. There is now no reason whi-ttle
slave subject should awaken fanaticism,
or intense interest. North or South. In the
States when- it exists, no authority but that
of the State can interfere with it so long ;.*
tho Constitution of tho United .States roles.—
In the Territories north ot (he cotton n—ioti,
climate, soil and immigration exclude it no
inexorably as to require no aid by Congress-ional
or territorial legislation, and none which
they could give would force it there, The
country west of Arkansas, and inhabited bjT
Indian tribes, is the only theatre wbere the
Slave question can ever have a read and prac-tical
interest, and not even there so long :■■»
the tribes exist, and their rights are respected.
The whole question is settled by the logic ot
events, and not by the debates or legislation
of men. All intelligent men have long known
this truth, a id for years the slave subject \\*%
merely been kept in motion as :i political fool
ball foroontending dotuagogues and pariiaansa
It is high time lor it to be ignored in national
politics, and for the Presidency to bo stake I
upon other more appropriate and more im-portant
issues.
The \-<ry spirit of the Union and the Con-stitution
presided over the Convention that
nominated our candidates, and inspired it t »
select men fit and equal to the present needs
of tho country. "The Union, the ConatitO>
tion, and the Enforcement ol the Laws," was
tho short political croed of the great States*
man of Ashland, uttered when the dark ctondo
of sectional sin began to rise above the BOI>
con. It is comprehensive and oomplete
enough for every good and patriotic citisfo
from ocean to ocean. It forces the ark • I
American liberty, and who will not rally to
it? Of all the living, none than Bell and l'.\-
erett are more worthy to be its representa-tives.
They are both sintosmeii oi the Wash-ington
school, of great national ability, | .
profound retding in the science of got eminent,
and of thorough practical knowledge ol our
own. Their enlarge I policy, principles nud
patri -tism embrace and pervade the whole of
•'ur great country, and all its divei MI y ol soil,
climate, production and interest. Tbey are
not extremists, but tbey are moored in the
moderation of enlightened, matured, nalioi -
•il ani! philosophic statesmen.
the more genius, learning and
Hell the-more practical Statesmanship, si.i
ibe more nerve to meet and quell the storms
of disunion. But devotion to the Union,
fidelity to tbe Constitution, nnJ indomitable
purports to enforce the laws have become in*
■orp Mated with the intellectual ami moral
structure of b I h They are the m. n (lial
Clay, and Washington, and tho founders ol
our government, it now upon rarth would
support lor the office to which they hat e b ••.
named ; and I trust that the present gCneia-tion
ol our countrymen will have the wtsdi .:..
firmness and patriotism to forget all elw but
tbe imperilled condition of the Union and
the country, and summon Bell and Even II to
tho rescue." GARRET DAVIS,
Everett bus
eloquence.-<•
Mort DefaleatuMi.—The Postmaster at
New Orleans has proved to bo a defaulter I i
tbe Government in tho amount offoo.Oou an t
Major Sutherland Uuarlcrmastcr of the M.-
rmc Corps, has been struck from the roll of
the service for a default of fSO.OOO, In both
cases it is said the securities ore good.