The Wyandot pioneer. (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1853-1868, 1857-01-22

rhe new Constitution was adopted in the
all OF 1851, and six months later, the old
State House. as If unwilling to survive
he old Constitution, perishe6 by FIRE.
OF the stone tablets which were insert.
ed in the wall over each door of entrance.
two have been preserved. The inscrip-
tions upon them curiously illustrate the
honest manliness and straightforward
principles of the Pioneers.
The inscription over the western en-
trance was this:
General good the object of Legislation.
Perfected BY knowledge of mans wants. and
Natures abounding means, applied by estab.
fishing
Principles opposed to monopoly"
Over the southern and principal en-.
trance were inscribed several lines by the
poet Of the Columblad, perhaps copied
from that very patriotic but most un.
readable epic, the sentiments of which
will be admitted to be excellent, whatev-
er may be said Of the poetry:
Equality Of Right is Natures plan,
And following nature is the march Of man.
Based on it's rock of right your empire lies,
On walls of wisdom let the fabric rise;
Preserve your principles their force unfold
Let nations prove them, and let kings behold
EouAL1rY. your first firm grounded stand.
Then FREE ELECTION then your FEDERAL
HAND,
This holy Triad should forever shine,
Of Gam orAi of all n iUhf Divine
Greed Of all schools, whence youths by mil
lions draw,
Their themes of Right. their decalogues Of
law,
Till men 81 all wonder Tin their codes inu-
How ware were made, how tyrants were en-
dured
1t seems that our sturdy Fathers tho''
that the word Federal was liable to
misconception for they caused it to be
erased by painting over it the word +" I'm
ion." In process of time, however, the
paint washed off--what warning
this to politicians land the word " Fed
eral" reappeared as originally engraved
With the old State House and the oIi
Constitution, terminated an epoch in The
history of our State, to which her child
rem will ever look back with patriotic
pride. Even now there seem to pass be
fore me the forms Of the noble men who
made it illustrious. There moves Put
nam, honored with the confidence O
Washington there Harrison, magnani
nous in thought, and heroic in deeds
there, Worthington. the friend OF Jetfer
son there Burnet, wise in Legislation
and upright in magistracy; there the
honest and unsel6sh Morrow; there
Vance, faithful to every trust; there the
generous and eloquent Lytle, too early
lost; there the accomplished Hamer, spa.
red by the sword, but felled by disease in
foreign land there Morris, the fearless
tribune of the people there Sherman
exchanging, before life's noon. the ermine
for the shroud there Hitchcock, clear in
judgment and infexible in integrity and
there-but must break of the cnumera-
ton. Time would fail me where to at.
tempt to enumerate even half OF those
whose elevation Of character, purity oil
purpose, sagacity in council, and vigor in
action distinguished that period. Happy
shall we be if we prove ourselves worthy
successors Of such men.
The foundation Of the New State House
was laid by Ex-Governor Morrow, in the
presence of a vast multituee of spectators
on the 4th day of July. 1889. Its build
ing was hardly begun, when in 1910
the General Assembly arrested the pro
gress of the work. 1t was resumed ir
s48, and under the auspices of success
sive Boards of Commissioners, is now sc
/ far advanced that the two Houses of AS
sembly the Supreme Court of the State
the officers Of the Executive Department
and various Boards charged with specia
functions in the public service. can he ac
commodated within its walls. The Libra
ry Room, the Rotunda, the Dome. and
some other parts of the edi6ce remains tc
be finished.
You, sir, have spoken Of the structure
and will not venture to add anything &c
what you have so 6tly said.
| And now what OF the future? shall
not attempt to fathom it. I prefer rever.
emily to commit our destinies through the
coming time to that Providence which
has hitherto watched over us for good
Endeavoring honestly to conform our leg
islalion and administration to his eternal
laws, we may confront its dangers with
out fear. We need not doubt that faith
full adherence to the principles which
have brought us to the elevated position
we now occupy, will advance us to more
conspicuous heights. Let these massive
walls, then, stand amid future generations
and testify to them Of our devotion te
truth, to justice, to liberty.
| That they may SO stand and so testify
may we not fitly join in the noble invoca
ton of the illustrious man by whom the
corner stone OF this ediice was laid: "May
the lightnings Of Heaven which seattle
and the whirlwind and storm which pros
trate the work of man. pass by and spare
this House. erected by a mighty people
and consecrated to social order and con.
stitutional government. And may the
counsels oftruth and justice and public
virtue preside in its halls may discord
and faction be put far from them and
may the free and united people who rear.
ed it, whose temple it is, watch over and
cherish within its walls the form and spirit
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