Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1889-12-19

uon Oh the IUUth anniversary OF the tnruguFh-
tion OF George Washington as President OF
the United States, in accordance with the
special action taken by the last Congress,
was splendidly and i'm pressively observed in
the national capital to-day, the chief justice
of the United States delivered the commem-
orative oration. The exercises were held in
the hall of the House of Representatives, the
President, members of the Cabinet and rep
resentative officers of the Government, and
representatives of foreign governments, be-
ing present.
CHIEF JUssIoE FULLER's ADDRESS.
In beginning his Grafton Chief Justice
Fuller said:
"By the terms of that section of the act of
Congress under which we have assembled in
further commemoration of the historic in
auguration of the first President of the United
States, George Washington, the 3Oth of April,
A. d. 1889, was declared national holiday,
and in the noble city where that event took
place its centennial anniversary has been
celebrated with magnifcence of speech and
song, of multitudinous assembly and of ma
val, military and civic display, accompanied
| by every manifestation of deep love of ooun-
try, of profound devotion to its institutions,
and of intense appreciation of the virtues and
services of that illustriou5 man, whose as
sumption of the chief magistracy gave the
assurance of the successful setting in motion
of the new government. washington" the
orator continued, had become first in war,
not so much by victories over the enemy or
by successes in strategy, as by the triumI his
of constancy which no reverses, no hard
ship, no incompetency, no treachery, can
shake or overcome. He had become first in
the hearts of his countrymen because the
people comprehended the greatness of their
leader and recognized in him an entire alb
sence of personal ambition, an absolute love
of country, of themselves, of mankind. He
had become first in peace by bringing to the
charge of the practical working of the sys-
tenn he had participated in creating on behalf
of the people, whose independence he had
same sagacity, the same patience, the same
sense of duty, the same far sighted compre.
hension of the end to be attained that had
marked his career from its beginning"
The orator alluded but briefly to the brill
liant war record of Gen. Washington, but in
= eloquent words portrayed the growth and
value of Republican institutions under the
administration OF President Washington.
Referring to the fear of arbitrary power
in respect to the Presidential Office, Justice
; Fuller said:
: "But no fear, no jealousy, could be en-
: tertained of him who had Indignantly re-
PEELED the suggestion of the bestowal oi
kingly power; who bad unsheathed the
sword with reluctance and laid it down witt
. joy; who had sought official position, but &C
cepted public Office as public trust, in de-
ference to so unanimous demand for his ser
vices as to convince him of the necessity
whose patriotism embraced the whole coun
try, the future grandeur of which his pres
. ence foresaw.
"Of the future greatness of the new ma
tion Washington had no doubts. He saw
as if face to face, that continental domain
which glimmered to others as through glas
. darkly.
u In referring to the international relation
existing between the United States and for
eign nations, Justice Fuller said: "lt is
t. matter of congratulation that the first yea
of our second century witnesses the repre-
sentatives of the Three Americas engaged Il
the effort to increase the facilities OF com
l. mercial intercourse. consulting the natura
'. course of things, diffusing and diversifyin
~ by gentle means the streams of intercourse
but forcing. nothing, success in which mus
knit closer the ties of fraternal friendship
~, and bring the peoples of the two America
. continents in harmonious control of tn
2. hemisphere"
a. The orator then went on to an exhaustlV
review of the constitution and the amen(
d, ments thereto, and cited the civil war as tn
N searching test of the wisdom and lastln
quality of our form of government.
III In brilliant peroration, the chief Justlt
said "And 80 the new century may be OF
tered upon IN the spirit OF optimism, tne ma
s. ural result, perhaps, of self conident
which has lost nothing in substance by. e'
perience, though it has gained in the moder'
tion of its impetuousity; yet in optimlsl
ks essential to the accomplishment of Rre'
ct ends; not blind to perils, but bold in tt
~ fearlessness of faith, whose very conscious
or ness of the limitations of the present, asser
III the attain ability of the untraveled world {
es still grander future. No ship can sail fo
ever over summer seas. The storms it HI
weathered test and demonstrate its abili
to survive the storms to come, but storm
there must be until there shall be no mo
ry sea.
ne "But as amid the tempest in which Of
to ship of state was launched, and in the tim
succeeding, SO in the times to come, wi
every exigency, cons tellations of illustrlo
men will rise upon the angry skies, to contr
the whirlwlnd and dispell the clouds by the
I'd potent influences, while from the clear u
re per sky the steady light of the great plan
marks out the course the vessel must pursu
and its shining on the sails as it com
h. grady into t he haven where it would be-"