The Monmouth inquirer., 1889-05-02

zens of America, have perfect right to IN
auire of your lnightly servants, have you
been true and faithful to your oaths during
the past centurys Making due allowance ZOE
the usual infirmities of human nature au-
swer emphatically, yesl
Fortunately, we are not compelled to look
back into Grecian, Roman or European his
tory for illustration.
Washington himself was the best type of a
citizen soldier this world has yet produced.
AS boy a surveyor of land; as an aide to
Gen. Braddock, and an explorer as far west
as was then prudent, he was educated in the
best possible school Of soldier He read
much, he thought more, always shared the
labors and dangers of his command, sympa-
thized with them in their distresses and
wrongs, and during the war of Independence
and after was always their advocate with
congress and the people.
Steel, steam, electricity and nitro-glycerine
have revolutionized the navies of the world,
have banished from the high seas the ma
jestic line-of-battle ship, the handsome frigate
and speedy sloop, and in their stead have
substituted monitors and steel clads, real
monsters of the most uncouth patterns, so
that were Nelson and Collingwood, John Paul
Jones and Stewart recalled to earth they
would find themselves strangers ON their own
decks. The world will go ahead, and I have
abundant faith that the heroic youth of our
navy will keep well abreast in these modern
Inventions and should the occasion arise they,
too, will prove equal to it, as they have ever
done in the past.
Therefore, let me conclude with what
might have begun and finished with:
''The army and navy forever
Three cheers for the red, white and blue.''
Governor Fitz Hugh Lees Remarks.
HIS ExCELLENCY, THE PRESIDENT OF THE
UNITED STATES, Mr.. CHAIRMAN AND GENTLE
MEN-The Inauguration of George Washington
as the first president of the United States is the
event in American history we are celebrating
tonight 1t so happens that am at present
the governor of the state in which he was
born, lived and is now sleeping his last sleep
so quietly and calmly that no sound will ever
awake him to glory again Owing to that
circumstance, and from no merit of mine,
feel have been honored by the request to
make response to the toast just read.
The national crown which binds the brows
of the states is indeed brilliant with the mill
tary and civic deeds of his splendid career;
for "called by his country to the defence of
her liberties he triumphantly vindicated the
rights of humanity, and on the pillars of ma
tional independence laid the foundation of a.
great republic"
Twice invested with the supreme magis-
tracy by the unanimous voice of free peo-
pie, he surpassed in the cabinet the glories of
the field, and voluntarily resigning sceptre
and sword, retired to the shades of Mount
Vernon.
Magnanimous in youth, glorious through
life, great in death-his highest ambition was
tha hapDinacc of r1ankind hic pobIact xo+orv
the conquest of himself.
The republic of today should be the repub-
lie of the fathers. The United States of 1889,
under our present distinguished chief magis-
trate, will then be the United States of iS41
and 1888, when the scepter of power was in
the hands of William Henry Harrison and
a George Washington.
What Chief Justice Fuller Said.
Chief Justice Fuller, after a brief but COM
prehensive analysis of the constitution, con-
cluded by saying: "This matches instru-
ment vindicates its title to Immortality. The
evolution that characterized it
has enabled it to pass the century since its
birth with its machinery, no cog or wheel
still noiselessly and easily working;
to receive direct amendment to absorb the
results of frequent construction, and to
emerge from the civil war, drawing new
vigor from the strain to which it had been
subjected"
Senator Daniels Remarks.
Senator Daniels remarks were an analysis
of the senates position in the framework of
government and he held that, as the repre-
sentative of the equal powers of the states it
formed the keystone of the governmental
arch. M
Mr.. Evarts responded to the toast 'sThe
Judiciary In the course of his address he
said that the form Of judiciary formulated by
the trainers of the government challenged
the admiration of philosophers and statesmen
in every nation that understood its mechan-
ism
Hannibal Hamlin, sole surviving ex-vice
president of the United States, spoke on sThe
Presidency"