Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1877-10-26
VOL. L. NEW SERIES. VOL. XIII.

| in some commercial circles, are admired,
and wherever the masses all push" for them
selves we find them. These are honored, II
| successful. whether connected with scrupul-
business or not. Why, il is a thousand years
since the Norsemen came up Boston harbor,
Bryant says. Whether that be true, 1t is
| not necessary for me to decide. What
know, is, that the cormorant Norseman yet
shadows the land with his wing. We are de.
scendants of the old Morse pirates. 1t was
as pirates that our fathers first appeared,
sailing the great German ocean, on robber
| voyages. We have even vet tInge OF our
| forgotten ancestry. And the American can
eliminate is producing a Latinized tempera-
ment and with the Latin temperament al
ways comes finesse But have far more
yigor than the Italian or the Greek. our
great tradition a race is that We love hon
esty. The American does love honesty in
his bones. II there is fair play. very well
but We are in favor of success The ostrich
buries her thin head in the sand and thinks
her whole body covered. Great is the Ameri-
can eagle equally great is the American
peacock but greater is the American os-
trich.
Mr. Cooks peroration was filled with beau
tiful imagery. He represented allegoncally
the angel having charge of America, stand
ing above the continent, his wings shadowing
both ocean shores and there was about the
angel multitude whom no man could num-
Der, from all nations, tribes and countries,
and their voices were as the sound of many
waters, and there were thunderings and
lightnngs but the fact of the angel was
above the brightness of the hghtnings. and
the majesty OF his words above that of the
clouds. Then up to this angel he represent
ed as coming one after another, four differ
ent sets of statesmen and scholars of the
past. The first proposed to GO on earth and
teach the diffusion of liberty ; the second.
the diffusion of intelligence the third, the
self respect OF ownership the fourth, the
diffusion of conscientiousness. But each
time the angel said "Go, you will be effi-
cient, but not sufficient" And each time
when the angel finished speaking, there was
heard from under euigrant wharyes, in
crowded factories, under Wall street. and i'll
the business alleys of great cities, the laugh |
ter of the black angel. At last the angel |
arose and lifted up his far-reaching hand to |
the heaven of heavens and said, 80! Not !,
in the first three but only in all four of these
leaves from the tree of life is to be found |
the healing of the nations the diffusion OF |
liberty. the diffusion of intelligence, the diff
fusion of property, the diffusion of con-
scientiousntss. You will be more than very
efficient, but not sufficient" listened said
the speaker and under Plymouth Rock and
the Universities there was no sound. But
under the emigrant wharves. and crowded
and under Wall street, and in busi-
ness alleys of great cities l heard yet the
black angels laughter but with the laugh
ter there came up from beneath, now, the
claak of chains. Then | looked, and the
whole ornament above the angel was as ii it
were an azure eye. And into 1t the ten
times ten thousand gazed ; and |
saw that they stood in the palm of one hand
of Him into whose face they gazed, and that
the axle of the world stood upon the
finger OF another palm, and that both palms
were pierced l saw the spirits of the states
men and scholars, which had gone forth, and
they Joined hands with each other and moved
about the globe and | heard
voice. after which there was no laughter
- y ou are efficient but / am sufficient"