Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1878-10-10
The President at MontpeIter.

! ocnurz, attorney Generai DeVeES and others
visited Montpelier. Orange county. Va, the
! homestead of Madison, yesterday They were
| welcomed at Orange Court House by ex-Lieut
H,,a Coy Thomas hon and at Montpelier by Col. John
addresses the President responded as follows:
Ladies and Gertlenen:-1t is great graft
Of Madison. You have heard the beautiful
address just delivered by the nearest Suryiv-
ing relative OF James Madison-a man whose
name will be held in grateful remembrance by
the lovers of liberty and stable government as
/ long as liberty and constitutional government
exist on earth. Madison, having so linked his
name and memory with the best law-the con-
StltutlOn-the world has ever known his fame
is forever safe. He began the work of the for
nation OF the constitution. and in the couven-
advice contributing to that result After the
constitution was framed by the convention it
was for him to persuade the people to adopt it.
great struggle as to whether that common
wealth should ratify the constitution and it
aS ahfge th que 60 m 6ne respect and
| son and the influence of his counsels that this
| question was carried in the Virginia conven-
into effect as member of Congress-, as
member of the Cabinet, and as President
OF the United States. After the close of
party conflicts. he survived for many years
an interested spectator of passing events
DISTINGUISHED men of his time Were glad of
the opportunity 10 get at his feet aud hear his
words OF wisdom and patriotism. In my re-
marks at Orange Court house today 1 called
attention TO an estimate of this country by
Hlr Gladstone, which do not think too hi gh.
| IT. Is contained In an article written by that
| distinguished statesman, entitled kin Be
yond the Sea, in which he says: " The Ameri-
can constitution, So far as 1 can see, is the
| most wonderful work ever struck OIL at a
| gwen time by the brain and purpose of man
III nas $. mad century OF trial under the pres
| sure oil e&igencieS caused by an expansion uu-
| eXampled in point of rapdity and range and
its exemption from formal change, Though
not entire, has certainly proved the Sagacty
OF the constructor and the stubborn strength
OF the fabric" We may well honor the name
ard memory OF the man who did so much for
The present and future of our country. In
view OF this beautiful scene. the magnificent
range of the Blue Ridge, this verdant lawn
ara hospltable mansion, here at the home of
Madison. We may surely say that if the advice
and patriotic purposes of this great man had
been observed, we should have been saved
iram civil strife, and in the past, so in the
in the administration of affairs of our country
that cannot be settled by a recurrence TO
the principles of Madison-princples which
inculcate the submission OF all sections.
States, communities and citizens to the Con.
stitutlon and laws of the land. The bottom
built will always afford us the means OF ad-
Justlng all our difficulties. 1, however, have
no fears. Questions fraught with danger may
recur, and we may sometimes be disposed to
look ON the gloomy side, but let us all hope
that, with the model Constitution to guide us,
the worst that can ever befall us is over.
|
that have already transpired, and the scenes
through which we have already passed. My
fellow citizens the President has to aid him in
called Cabinet Ministers. These gentlemen
assist him in finding the way to escape from
dif1iculties. Most fortunately for the Presi-
GENT, he is permitted to put some share of his
| uoubleS on some body else and the one that
put the most troubles on is the Secretary of
the Interior. He has sort of omnibus depart
ment and am i'm doubt what department anv
matter OF business belongs to, send it to the
Interior department The Secretary has
charge of public lands. pensions, Indians and
everything that nobody else has. l now
present to you General Carl Schurz Secretary
| OF the Interior.
Secretary Schurz made a brief and ap-
prOprlate speech, and was followed by A+tOr
ney General Devens and the party sl5;e-
! quently visited various points of Interest re-
turning to Washington in the evening.
THE MISSING MINE BooKs-The Ci0ber Tsrs-
| grdmS.-lt has already been mentioned tha at
Detroit. Michigan, on Tuesday last. in the ex-
animation of Thomas Harland. the lawyer of
! hon. - j. lldeD, VINO was on examination
before Y. ): commissioner on the charge y
ielonlously abstracting certain books of III.
New York mine in Michigan used aS evidence
in the case of the United States against Sir.
Iilden IN regard to his income returns. Mr..
Key to the dispatches, which the commits
sioner translated. The New York Tribune
publishes these dispatches and in comment
two of them are from Mr. Hariand. one to
Geo. W. Smith, No. II wall street" and the
other other t to & Geo: W: Smith, No. Is Gramerey
answer to Mr.. Harland is unsigned. The Tri
bune states that Mr.. Smith was Mr. Tildens
private secretary before he became governor,
tidential clerk when Mr.. Tilden was i'm Albany,
and is still, it believes, in his employ The
n. Irib1ne claims that the cipher used in
used IN The Gramerey Park Far 'nd dispafehes sas ss
OF 1876 about the presidential election.
maa 1ransatlens OF which i! has just published.
lated by the commissioner. is dated Mar
] quette, Michigan, Sept y, addressed to Geo.
W. Smith, L Wall street, and reads: rs there
York iron mine books from which Wetmore is
. giving testimony? Must act at once, ii at all.
I 10 TINS s came e, the unsigned answer, dated New
! why the books shoudnot be replevined" And
to this Mr; Harland answered under date of
Sept; Sept: =; - Have finished here with success
had been read Mir. McCloskey agent of the
mines, testified that Mr.. Harland declared
that II ne had known of this wild western way
of serving writ of repievin he would have
hesltated about entering upon the undertak
ing. MIR. Halland, conducting his own case
then asked to have the case against him dis
! missed without going into defence, upon the
ground that the prosecution had not made out
case sufficient to warrant his being held for
trial He asserted that he did not expect or
understand that the books were to be carried
Of by force. The commissioner took time to
consider Mr.. Harland's application
THESE SENTENCES are from a recent ser
mon by SpurgeOn on great disaster: This
calamity was permitted and controlled by the
overruling hand of God THE calamity was
sent with particular purpose 1T is difficult
to understand why God permits evil, seeing
that He is always master of the situation but
| it is quite certain that there is much moral
| evil and great physical evil which God per-
mitS, and which He could, if He liked stop
! He might have Interfered to avert this diSas
! ter; but it was His plan that things should be
| as they are, and this plan was carried out un-
der the shadow of the Fall" "They had to
die some day, and they might as well die one
way as another" IF God were TO mterpoSe
to prevent such calamities, that of itself would
involve many evils
GEN. GIDEON j. PILLOW, of Mexican war
nOtOriety, and brigadier general in the con-
federate service, died Tuesday morning, of
congestion. at his place at the mouth OF ST.
Francis river, Arkansas.
! CANNIBALISM.-Five Wesleyan missionaries
were recently murdered and eaten by the
Bush natives near the Malicola coast, New
! Zealand Eighty of the tribe were killed by
/ the traders and coast natives in retaliation.
THE Association for the Advancement OF