New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1888-04-08

tended Known throughout this country wherever Amer
lean history IS known wherever value constitutional
liberty they familiar household words 70 the men
who are assembled here. They In important
respects distinguished above all the other great enact
ments which lie the foundation Of human societies
The founders Of the Northwest and trainers OF the
ordinance meant to put its great securities beyond the
reach OF any hckleness change popular sentiment
unless by revolution which should upheave the ounda
lions Of social order itself They made the six articles
Aruces OF compact between the original States and the
people and States In the said Territory to forever re-
main unaterable unless by common consent, They
were 70 have the force which the philosophers OF that day
attributed to the original social compact to which they
ascoed the origin Of all human society Three parties
the original States the States and the people made
ue compact This compact 10 attend these commu
hities forever unaerable By consent OF all
three under whatever constitutional arrangements
they might come There is the highest contemporary
authority for the opinion that articles would
De affected BY ordinary constitutional changes in the
States.
1t is one of the fortunate circumstances his
tory that the vote In the Continental Congress sub
s'antiay Unanimous Without accompaniment OF the
Oruhihce the Constitution OF the United States itself
would have lost half its value. 1t was fitting tho
whole country should share in the h,nor OF that act which,
In later generation. determine e fate Of the whole
country.
We would not forget to-day the brave men and noble
women who represented Connecticut Rhode Island and
New-Hampshire in that band Of pioneers. Among them
were Parsons, and Megs and Varnum, and Greene and
Devo and True and Barker and the Gmans Connecticut
made little later her special and In rortant contribu
ton to the settlement OF Ohio. But Virginia and Massa
chusetts nave the right to claim and receive q pc
cullar share Of the honor which belongs this oc-
clsion. They may well clasp each others hands
anew as they survey the glory of thelr work
These two States-the oldest OF the ssterhood-he
State which framed the first written constitution, and tho
State whose founders framed the compact the May
flower the State which produced Washington, and tho
state which summoned him 70 his high command the
State whose drafted the Of Independence,
and the State which furnished leading advocate the
floor the mother Of John Marshall and the mother OF the
President who appointed him the State which the
General and the State which furnished number
OF soldiers the RevoutlOn the State which gave the
territory Of the Northwest and the which its
first settlers-may well delight remember that they
share between them the honor OF the authorship OF
the Ordinance Of 1887 when the reunited
country shall erect its monument at Marietta let
10 bear side the OF the founders OF Ohio,
the other the Of Jefferson and Richard Henry Lee,
and Darlington and Grayson. side by side with those Of
Nathan Dane and Rufus King and Manasseh Cutler, be-
meath the supreme OF Washington. Representatives.
OF Virginia and Massachusetts, themselves in
representatives Of the sections OF the country which
lately stood against each other in arms they will bear wit
that the arrangements OF four years have ober
aed the common and tender memories Of centuries
After the Grafton of Senator HOar delivered,
ex President Hayes made brief address, spirited
and eloquent. He was followed by Bernard Peters,
Editor Of Tho Brooklyn Times.' IN graphic sketch
OF the German pioneers. A recess was then taken
for dinner and at l. 30 a salute of 100 guns was
fired, and all the bells of the city rung I'm
honor of the MaytowePs landing 100 years ago. Tho
Invited guests were taken TO the armOry where they
were served with a luncheon.
In the afternoon several overflow meetings
neld In the churches, while at the City Hall j. Ran.
doph Tucker made an Grafton. He was followed
by the Rev. DR.. f. f. Hale.