The University daily. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 18??-????, 1888-06-13

power and pray for its assistance
Even the great parties are made to-
bend the supplement knee. Victory
is 80 sweet that it must be had even
if the country is surrendered to its.
worst enemy. The saloon is ever
ready to support aspiring politicians,
but does it in such a way as always
to make itself the stronger, and SO.
gains growing influences in our po-.
| litical affairs
With such a power to guide us and
control us, what may we expect?.
Only increasing corruption in poll.
tics and ultimate disunion.
Let rs hurl this presumptuous fac
tor from its place Of prominence.
The work i'd vast, the cause noble.
If we remove this evil, a great crisis
will be successfully passed through,
and the beauty and grandeur Of our
future political growth will solicit.
the, invitation and evoke the admira-
ton Of the world;
MR.. CoRBLEY.
Mr.. Corbley's essay was a model
Of smothness and beauty. Its rhet-
ORIG was almost fauItless, but it was
scarcely as well connected or as log
ical as that Of Mr.. Snider. He stuck
closely to his subject, and the Right
to Differ was kept constantly before
the nearer, with Mr.. Corbley as it's
able defendant. While he discussed
the principle in the abstract, he APP
| piled many happy illustrations, in
one of which he championed the
rights of the ladies, and struck some
sledge hammer blows in favor of CO.
education. He made a reputation
and concluded as follows: r.
| Young men who will sacrifice all
selfish interests when the magnani-
nous spirit of humanity is antagon-
lied, step to the trout Of duty, and
contribute with all their energies to
the promotion Of the interests Of the
race, and the cultivation of those
principles of morality and.patriotisn,
which, catching their inspirstie1
from the immortal God, and leavins
at an Unreasonable distance below
all lesser groveling personal inter-
ests and feelings, animate and
prompt to deeds of self sacrifice, of
valur, Of devotion, and Of death it
SELF s,E I'M.
| These are the young men who are
the pride of a nation, whose lives and
| deeds reiterate the immortal words
Of TIC. - : :" ~.
~ sOratiOn. IL,
| i MR.. McGRATH II" .- p, y
is natural orator. He is perhaps
the first preparatory student who
ever had the honor to be elected to
such prom nent place on contest
and this, tod, in three months after
entering the University. But before
he had spoke en- half dozen senten7
ces, the audience voted that his So
ciety had m ade no mistake. The
following is "a brief synopsis of his
| Grafton: ...#.
| Four hundred years ago this con-
tinent was d Unknown to the inhab-
| itants Of tn old world. Govern
ment and Religion were unknown
save those of a degraded and des-
potic character. It is true that the
Aztecs and Peruvians had made
some progress in civilization, but
! that civilization in which Gamma
balism and human sacrifices are
:Ipracticed is unworthy of the name
and proves the truth of the asser-
ton. "That Christianity is the only
true civilization" The delusion
which led the early mariners to our
shores-Was the. hope Of finding a
land where the diamond and ruby
sparkled from the heather temple,
and where the streets Of the cities
were paved with gold. Such were
the ideas which dazzled the visions
of Cortez and Pizarro and induced
| them to undertake the conquest of
! the Empires of the Incas and
Montezumas, such were ideas which
IUuuCEQ DG I1EOH W lC1us HIS IOuldH-
tice expedition through Florida,
searching for the fabulous fountain
/ of perpetual youth.
| More than 4 century was suffered
/ thus to pass, and not until Relig-
ious discord had deluged Europe in
| blood, did the people think of plant
ing Colonies upon our soil These
| Colonies advanced SO rapidly, that
they were soon able to throw down
the yoke of foreign despotism. Let
Greece point with pride and admir-
alton to Thermopylea and Salamis,
| England to Trafalgar and Waterloo,
| but upon the hills of Massachusetts,
and among the sWamps Of the Pedee.
America can point with equal pride,
/ to the valerous deeds Of her illus
/ trious sons. The Revolution being
/ ended the important problem of gov
eminent presented itself to our peo-
pie. Profting By the ruins on the
| banks of the Nile, the Tigris, and
the Euphrates. the American states