, 1881-03-04

iiJ uIIos iHSuiIeu III lIe Witt o!
events demanding instant action, the
question of the moment is, Shall We
pull together now and here to speed
our craft safely through? More in
the future than we suspect depends,
| doubt not, on our present con-
scientious individual ard co opera
tive effort.
The ranks of the bad are to be
broken and routed, and those Of the
coed closed up and strengthened, by
intrepid enforcement Of law. Hap
py would it be for Port Townsend
and this sub. district, this territory
and nation, were every lurking place
of guilt laid bare and crime left
shelterless to day. A pair of white
gloves would then be mine, and an
excuse to return TO your homes
yours. There would be no angry
litigation at this term. In the com
munity the spirit OF strife ard insub-
ordination would be quite unnerved.
Society would experience an un-
known relief and rejoice with long
delayed delight.
Not till the forces of evil are smit-
ten with terror and dismay, and the
forces of the good are made to feel
at liberty and in power, is the com
monwealth arrived at the gateway of
true peace, or the prospect of per
manent peace fair. Evil hearts
must sooner or la!er be pressed to
unconditional surrender TO the Lead
er of the good. A dilemma must be
offered them. Radical reform OF
eternal restraint.
But this situation has not yet come
IN this territory or nation. Under
God, you and l are set in our re-
spective spheres of office to make a
brave push for it. There is a law
given us to enforce and TO the ex
treme OF our opportunity and iurs
dictlon we can with His aid enforce
H. Inas is what each of US has ,l
UNFAIRLY sworn TO do. Highest of
all motives is conta:nened in that
oath of ours. Esteeming it possible
to have the mightiest, wisest and
purest of beings intimately associa-
ted with Us to accomplish our poIiti-
cal aims, we have each publicly called
Him 10 our side. Retreat from that
association now were insulting and
fatai. Embrace 'he aid you have
invoked, gentlemen, aud uso it for
the good of the people you serve.
am willing, gentlemen, to be re
garded as the le4st of that political
school, well known and honored in
the early history of our country and
not yet extinct, who believe that
God takes an interest and hand in
me affairs OF our country, and that
He-hlgh above any great man OF
the hour-is, ana delights to be &C
knowledged and welcomed as being,
the peoples greatest and truest
friend. So believing, SO speak.
Nor am | alone in utterance. "Oh."
cries Robert g. Winthrop, in closing
his centennial Grafton at Boston,
ION, if we could lift ourselves TO a
loftler sense of our relations to the
invlsible-if in surveying our past
history, we could catch larger and
more exalted views OF our destinies
ard resPonsibili.ies-if we could
rea'ize that the want of good men
may be heavier woe to a land than
any want of what the world calls
great men, it would
go far toward fulfilling some thing
oi the grandeu. of that accepta-
BILE year which was announced by
higher than humaa lips, and would
De the auspTcious promise and
pledge of a glorious second century
of Independence and freedom for
our country. For, if that second
century is TO go on safely to its close,
or Is to go on safely and prosperou.
~ at all, there must be some renewal
OF that old spirit Of subordination
and obedience to divine as well as
human laws, which has been our Sc
curlry in the past. There must he
ialth IN something higher and better
.han ourselves. There must be a
reverent acknowledgment of an an
seen, but all-seeing, all controlling
Ruler OF the universe. And
ihe last phrase to pass my lios at
TINS hour, and TO take its ebanee for
remembrance or oblivion in wears to
come, as the sum and summing up
ot ali can say To the presen, or the
future, shall bo-There is, there
can be, no independence ofI
God; in Him as na
ton, no less thai in Him as individ
uais. we live and move and have
our be'ng;' G"D SAVE OUR AMERI
CAN STATEs!" Putting in practice
ourselves that patriotic prayer, let
US, while we pass to the de ais of
our duty, yield ourselves willing in
s'ruments in the divine hands, to he
used however obscurely in it's fulfill |
ment.
Everything formally requisite for
the transaction of vour business. is
to be found prescribed IN Cbanters
XIV d XIV of the Territorial Crimi-
nal Code. A copy of the Laws ofI
1919 Will be furnished you upon re-
tIrlng, from which before taking nm
anything else you will read aloud
the chapters named. Cases such AZ
are there Indicated 81 -.