The Wilmingtonian. (Wilmington, Del.) 1882-188?, 1883-09-22

the memories OF all that was glorious and
ennobling in the histories of his forefathers.
Two thousand years ago Latin poet
sang:
"Coelum non amman mutsnt
Qui transmare currunt."
The sky they change but not the SOUL
Who sail beyond the sea.
The republic of letters has no boundaries,
but her citizens are freely admitted and
honored everywhere. From the walls of my
| study look down, the faces of Shakespeare,
Milton, Burke and Burns, and Goethe,
| Schiller and Humboldt, and Fenelon and
Voltaire and Marshall, Webster and Emer-
son, and hail them all, ''the Lords of
thought" to whom my homage and my
gratitude is due.
We catch the echoes of these grand souls
and thank Heaven for sending such men on
earth; nor pause to ask in what part of the
world they first saw light.
All that is noble and worthy of German
feeling, tradition and custom, l hope to
see incorporated with our American mode
of living, and / trust in their homes in this
country they will be kept alive by the Ger
| man-Amercans.
Do you not all remember the stirring
words of the poet Arndt; "Was list DIES
Deutscher's Vaterand2'
What is his land, the land of lands
Where VOWS bind less than clasped hands,
Where valor lights the flashing eye,
Where love and truth in deep hearts lie,
And zeal enkndles freedoms brand,
That is the Germans Fatherland.
That is the Germans Fatherland!
Great God! look down and bless that land,
And give her noble children souls
| To cherish while existence rolls
And love with heart and aid with hand,
Their Universal Fatherland.
To crown constitutional liberty in Amer
lea let us therefore gather the best and ad-
vance the worthiest and cultivate aspira-
| tions only for what is best and finest, nor
omit on occasions OF festivity like this to
blend and merge the home customs, the
sports and pastmes of older countries with
American lives.
And whilst the success and progress in
good fortune of many will gladden. our ewes.
there may also be disclosed to us the mis-
| fortune and distress of others. THE poor
ye have always with you, and the need
for systematic and thoughtful bencvolence
| to the helpless and unfortunate members of
society is ever present. To every class we
have our measure of duty; to the happy
and successful, hearty congratulation, to
the unfortunate, our sympathy and timely
| succor. ..
| And therefore. should we aid who need our aid
And freely give to those who need our giving.
Scorn the cold rule,
All barter, no bestowing,
| Let no false shame deter from open showing
The crystal spring runs clear though men behold
it flowing
congratulate the German-Americans in
| their selection of this State as their home.
| 1t has always been the home of brave aud
worthy people, and we can review our his
| tory from the earliest colonial periods to the
present day, with an honest PRIDE To es-
tabhsh our national existence, no state con-
tributed proportionately more freely and
| faithful than Delaware, and the bones of
| her sons have whitened almost every battle
| field in that great struggle for independence
from Long Island to Georgia. Among the
| sisterhood of the states of the Union none
| has been more steadfast in maintaining her
plighted faith to every obligation, financial
and political, nor has any exhibited greater
| fidelity to the letter and spirit of the bond
of our constitutional Union. No state,
however populods or wealthy, has a more
| untarnished record in the public service, on
| the field of battle, In naval conflict, or in
| rho halle of cnuneiI than n,r n,yn I,o.o
travelled far and wide over the vast domin
ion of our Union and have been filled with
admiration, gratitude and wonder at the
marvellous extent and variety of natural
| wealth and advantages it contains, but upon
| a fair survey of the entire field, considering
climate, soil, geographical position and
social condition, do not know in any quar-
ter of the globe filter home for honest and
industrious free men and women, than the
Peninsula lying between the Chesapeake
and Delaware bays.
Our conditions under which we may hope
to maintain this happy state of things are to
be honest, industrious, frugal and public
| spirited, approaching the blessings of civil
and religious liberty which are ours by in
heritance, and remembering that whatever
we hold of power or property, is held by us
in trust to be faithfully kept and transmit
ted to the generations WIN are to come after
i us.
This sums up the duties of our citizen
ship and adjuring you, each and all, to per-
form your full share of its labors, 1 now
leave you to the enjoyment OF your we'll
earned pleasures.
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