Morning journal and courier., 1882-06-27

! of New York city, on America, the Home of the Nations" The speaker on opening referred to the remarks of his predecessor, the class orator of a year ago, on the strength of our national government and then referred | to the assassination of Garfield, the national grief and the worldwide sympathy at the blow and to the strength as shown by what ! had transpired. The speaker then eulogized ! our nation and institutions In this vindication | of liberty combined with government and in I the attitude of the nation is affected the best interest of the race. With impassioned { words the speaker dwelt upon the spirit of the Pilgrims, our boundless resources and our relation to the world as an asylum to which all men are drawn. The national his- tory of India, of Rome and of China were reviewed and contrasted with America,-the former unsatisfying, the last the realization of the golden dream of lovers of humanity. Following this line of thought came perhaps the finest part of the oration. The speaker said
 We come back to our own land Is this to be fourth in the series? ne taking within our doors this large assemblsee of races Shall we bs sn othered
 like Rome or stratif@d like Hndoostan and China in 8 way that makes national unity impossible and cnauges Ie 10 stagnatlon Mna' IS noH our pros greater than that which destroyed Rome imperial
 state, and made Indias nation2l unity impossible h. only going on, but going on at an increasing ratio Can we endure sut h a stra n is 1t Safe?
 Sand lot agitators Say "No' Their covetous coward ice takes alarm the presence of a few thonsand hunger stricken MongoIian immigrants of cheaper habits thau their own. 1.-The Chinese must go." A Congress is found weak enough to pats and Presl
 delt is found not strong enough to veto laws aganst their coming. Have the men in high places forg1t-
 ten? Have they faith in the historic oens of the
 Republtc? No faith in the Republic itself and those
 grand forces at work to diereDtiate it from her
 e1gn matter wi bout detriment or disaster? If these
 forces shall work may not the great Republic set
 wide her doors facing the setting not less than the
 'Narrows'-apd bid the natiors swarm in till the
 continent is full |?
 Blu what are some of these greater forces Tho
 nest eminent British statesman living has pointed
 out the fact that nation occupies wider area of
 uninterruptedly continuous territory than has made
 the home of auy other pc ple But over against that
 have this tm of immense and .pid int ercon- munication, which serves to create remarkable tional unity Our people not divided by distance: ither latitude or 10 gltude separates tn m The whole country is bound and strapped togeth not by rivers and mountain ranges only. but by bands of iron and coils of steel thr ugh which plays the cleo
 tricity of common life and of common interests. ty sprea s everywhere What to Rome was 'he "Ap- plan Way" with its short three hundred and fifty leading out from the capital to the provinces bending power compared with that unparall led de-
 
 ing nat1nn one Settlers and immigrants go to
 he far iIteri depths or to the outer extremties, rounding hem, brought to them borue in npon them
 They ibibe it's spirit hey cannot escape it's pr g.
 -lce They come under it's powerful spell
 Closely connected with his is that haoit of general if not universal inter ,arri which is cOmminR blood By the second or third generation an Irish uan disappears into the common American stock The German, Swede, Russian, Frenchman
 talian spani4rd, drops language, at least in b child. It is out o place in the new home, with the
 test come to ba nterwOyen by the finer and strong threads of the family Ties of blood multiplied extended across the continent sectional diff-r ences parti 'an strifes are sotened Bonds of sym pathy created. Division al ng the lines of caste i made impossible. The Nations unity is intensi- fled It becomes one great family and is held togeth- er by what is stronger than steel.
 Another of these greater forces to which have re- ferred is the form and spirit of our govsrnment-1ts fair aud equal distribu ion amoug the wh people Whatever rights, responsibilities benefits belong to it, these theirsand theirs alike in whatever lass they born and In whatever part of the md tn y live We have no subject cl sses; no subject 'proViL ces to plot conspiracy and mediate revolt
 We have conquered regions allotted to proconsuar avarice and governed by ir esponsible tyranny Our all "American citze !" The fresh landed nlmi grant is put into imt diate training His ,tnralt copy of the Go stttution become his pocset Testa- ment! Responsibility nourishes manhood; equal
 membership in the body polite for the native born and the naturalized when laid by those who ,g framed this government It.. was strongly & all our later history. The storms of secession and rebellion broke over the nation, but could not shake 1t from its undations. The union of these St ties sands to-day in the strength of an impartiay dis tributed government. The number of the States in 8, but each addition swells the previous strength. Texas loosens from Mexican thralldom and grvitates to the Union to take her place on equal footing and bring her strength Dakota fills with eign elements, and wh' she enters the sisterhood will the less be to us for glory and defence. quest of arns but inyes ed from the frs with full share in self government. Their children feel tho fo ha Tho rof Ina fhor
 having the deep interest in her welfare and participating as proudly in her onward march those parts of the nation from it's side? then, have subjected or oppres ed provinces because have erhood of equal States, people of self governing freedom from b rder to border, sharing and sharing alike in that government of freemen, the rights and having the rich results in peace, security aud nat" welfare, we feel addi tionally assured of our future"
 The oration was well received and both poem and oration--are they not to be found at Beers, worthy contributions to the Yale undergraduate literature of 1882? The bril- liant scene at the chapel formed a picture fair and imposing. The class of '82 was arrayed in all it's glory and environed and encompassed by sea of fair faces, while be- fore them was the honored president of old Yale and no longer in the distance to the mental vision were the sheepskins for which four years of enduring toll and vicissitudes (see class histories for the latter) had been spent. Hearts moreover beat fast with hops to learn the decision from the presidents lips as to the laurel wreaths to be bestowed in the shape of prizes, and fond mothers and sisters waited with like suspense for the an nouncement. There were grave and rev erend seniors there too, who could not resist | the impulse to share in the interest of the | occasion with their remote successors the l class of '92 and there were dignifed sons of ] Yale who object to being chased with any | other than Young Yale, though with whitene