Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1889-05-01

Gated the rights of humanity, ard on ih'
pillars of national independence laid th'
foundation of great republic"
I Twice invested With the supreme nagis
tracy by the unanimous voice of fres
people, he surpassed IN the cabinet tht
glOries of the field. ard voluntarily resign
ing sc.ptre aud sword, retired 10 the shade.
of Nount Vernon.
Msgnanimous in youth, glorious through
life. great in teath-his highest ambition
|, was the happiness of mankind, his noble.l
| victory the conquest of himself
Tonight it Is our duty TO look back over
The eentury's growth, and TO reflect upon the
path The Republic has been following for an
hnnired vears-trOm the period of President
Washington. to the times OF President Harri-
son-'rom the Inauguration of the ruler of
ihirfetn States, whose Prs silent was it,
stalled in office here 80 msny wears ago. by a
paraie OF 800 soldiers. TO this mag idcent
Centennial Gel, braton of the event by forty.
tNo States. aud procession of 80 coo troops
Let us then, With grateful emotion, greet
the memories of the men whose profound
knowledge enabled them TO construct a gov
eminent of States. which in turn. BY their
II presen atives, encircled the States them
selves by National Constitut onal girile.
The rights of The S'stes, and the powers
of the General Government we're defined
80 tina, III. security of the States is the
safety of the Uni0n, and the safety of the
mon is the security of the States.
Upon yon Star Spangled Banner each
Stare IS a star 50 simi ar in appearance sni
right of p-t SERGE there, that no man in this
.piel dId audience can go 10 IA 4ir beds of
blue ard point out the star that represents
ici'sIa. from that rpprt senting the great
Empire State IF Ne~ York.
In the great dome above, the heavenly or
BITS may differ III magnitue. motion and
periodic revolution but the paths are fixed
sad their laws immuiable. The State.
differ in size. in commercial prosperity, AMI
| ms! say in their periods of rerointtoa but
thf laws of the United States are the same
for each, and their motions. though in some
of the States at times eccentric. must al
ws1s be equal, if We desire 10 preserve in
tact cur American Co stella ION. Should
the oeGtra body, the light of which con,t
| tues day, and its absence. night. around
which the earth and the planets revolve. a9i
by which they are held in their orbits, AMI
from which comes light and heat,
DO move as Brother Jasper
of kchmoad, SAYS. and, moving too much
narei lnto the orbits of the planets eternal
ehs>s would follow: or, should the planets
! lepart from their routes ani break well
knaan laws. eternal ruin would result.
| The Republic of to-day should he the Re
public of the fathers-the United States OF
| 1859, under oar present dis siugui-he Chief
| Magistrate. will then be the United States OF
! lsil and 1883 when the scep're of power
Was in the hands of William Henry iarri-
son. and a George Washington.
| May it so continue. AID may the contest
hereafter, between the States be, for the
| 1romotion f commerce and civilization, the
| progress of agricultural and ma ufscturioy
wealth and the development of the aria and
sciences, while each ) ate il liboring at the
-sm' time 10 promote the common glory of
the tnited States. Then may hear the
| harmonious invocations from ~ heart,,
a>ceraing TO our fathers to l. sweeping into
the heavens and rising above the stars. that
S'ate ,hi.l not lift up its sword against State,
| neither shall they know war any more, and
that the reign OF peacp, union and fraternity
| shalt be rs lasting as the home of the stars
| As eter al as the foundations of the everast
ing hills-anI in vour harbOr h. re. may
| Liberty enlghieniug The world" Join the
s'elllHg anthem, aui proclaim to her sub
j"c;s tveryw here, that the problem of free.
POPULAR and Constitutional government, has
been solved upon the American Continent.
Our Federal Cons tuition"
| Hon. Charles J. Fuller spoke as f5llows-
| Our Fed raj Constitution h cons imnatioH Of
al t"Iner ~ liiieii wi-io; the rus Of The ss"nt;
| tie guide for all coming naiiou,.-G GEoHGE BAN
CROFT.
| 1t was, indeed, a consummitinn, the result
not simply of the psTticu ar exigeucv, bat of
| that gradual growth which. having its roots
in the past develops into ;hc product that
endnres The men Of the c,nventio knew
| that the realization of ideals is the work %
| time, and whatever speculstive views of
government or of freedom they entertained
| ta-l did not attempt to carr, them in *
| preston to their logical conclusions. They
had conf ence that the general principles
/ they accepted a. Fundamental, being De clar-
ed. might sasoly be relied on to work out the
practical ends desired. They were fs-
milar with the leagues. the confedrracies
AMI the couNeils of the ancients; the as
suciatons of communities of more modern
| times; the great steps in The progress of
| + gl.>h liberty, from Magma Chatta 10 the
| Act Of Settlement and still more thorough
| ly sith the experience of the colonies aud of
the states, of the New England confedera
non, tha various Congresses, and the con-
federation of the United States. part of
which they had been, while years of keen
/ discussion of the sci' nee of government ami
of Al lent devotion to the cduse of liberty
/ hal stored their minds With d ictrines an
4 led them for their great task. To
! WashiugtIns prophetic eye tn glories of
the future had long been unveiled, ID pendent
for realization upon the success of states
manship in the work of construction en-
tered on at his suggestion, ard carried 10
completion undsr his direction HIS fun
antiripaions he was not called on to di.-
! cl la md alt e
his mird was eNemp!ifed in his we'll known
exclamation. Let Us raise sta' dari to
| which the wise and honest ear re aair; the
/ ev. nj is in the hard of God Under such
guidance, in that temper. with that reliance,
the work went forward 10 its elimination in
this masterpiece of polit cal science. The
great English statesman declared 1t 1.-The
| most wonderful work ever struck OF at a
given time by The brain and purpose of man"
bur in its main f stures II tas much.proceeded
from progressive history" as any govern
mertal organism mankind has ever seen
Like the action of nature. tn forces ha
been long accumulafInZ before they bur-t
int. expression The careful division of
powers the checks ard halan 'es, the repre-
spn'a-ion of StAt,s and people tn safeguards
against the ex rcise of arbitrary will the i'm
M, nse power to protect and the p'weries,-
{
resnlts OF priOr eHperier C, whjlr h plan nt
. Governm n, ab'olut ly sovereign in its
own sphere, lesvrg the States without a
political superior in their VI. Vas the nat
ural outcome of the n.ct ssity of reconciilny
O. imperial sway over vast extent of cnuHtr,
to be- peopled by couirg myrads. with re-
ynbican rule resting on the 7. preseutatlye
7 system and the prti ciple of local government
for domestic purposes. No Rubicou needed
70 be or vas defined. to cross which vas
revolution, for a supreme Tribunal va-
part of the noble sch me. to which was com
miited the duty Of d-te ternining when Fedora
or State rtlpn exceeded tn" boundaries b.
shich each vas clrcumscTihed.
, For the d. xiblity of un~rtten constitn.
fi0rs there va. suhmt-ed here not merely
mode of alteration when sanctioned a. pre-
-cribed but through the simple generality ot
b the terms employ ed, an elasticity en4bir.
4, the fundamental law to develop with tbt
2 progress of the people, as the ineIorabi'
, l5gic of events inhlenced its provisions, d
n juficial Interpretation expanded them, not 81
as to impair the vital rule hut u permit it
. adaptation to the new conditions.
Thus keeping pace With the onrari swteI
of the empire which i,rende-ei possible, thi
matchess instrument vin1icates its title 4
immortality. The cons.rvative evolution