Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1889-05-01


doubt and struggle. burst forth In the bright
light OF independence and liberty and become
-Our Peopie''-free. determined and conn-
dent, challenging the wonder OF the universe,
proclaiming the dignity of man and invoking
tie aid aid favor Of Almighty God. One hum
dred years have passed. We have announced
and approved 70 the world our mission and
made our destiny secure.
We point To the scattered graves of many
thousands # our people who have bravely
died in defense of our national safety and
perpetuity, mutely bearing testimony to theiI
love OF country and an invincihle living host
stand ready to enforce our national rights and
protect our land. Our churches, our schools
our universities and our benevolent institu.
tlons which beautify every town and hamlet
and look out from every hillside testify to the
value our people place upon religious teach.
ing, upon advanced education and upon deeds
Of charity.
Let us then have abiding faith in s.Ou1
People" Let petulence and discomfort with
popular action disappear before the truth that
in any and all circumstances the will Of the
people. however it may be exercised, is the
law OF our national existence.
But there is danger, / fear. that the scope OF
the words Oar People" and all they import
are not always fully appreciated. The rich
merchant or capitalist in the centre of wealth
and enterprise hardly has a glimpse OF the
dusty blacksmith at his forge, or the farmer
in his fields. and these In their turn know but
little of the laborers who crowd our manu-
factories and inhabit their own world of toll
or of the thousands who labor in our mines.
II representatives of every elemenseof our
1opulation and industries should be gathered
together they would find but little Of purely
selfish and personal interest in common, and
upon a superficial glance but little would be
eeen to denote that only one people was repre-.
sented
This centennial time, which stirs our pride
oy leading us to the contemplation of our tre-
mendous strides in wealth and greatness, also
recalls to our minds the virtues and the I'M
selfish devotion 10 principle of those who saw
the first days of the republic. I1sE there now
&c revival of our ioT0 ior sAe principles
which our country represents; let there be at
this time a new conservation to the cause OF
freedom and equality. and a quickened sense
of the solemn responsibility assumed before
the world by every man who wears the badge
"Our People"
The future Deckons us on. Let us follow
with an exalted and ennobling love of the
country and with undaunted courage. Though
clouds may sometimes darken the heavens
they shall be dispelled, and the rainbow of
Gods promise set clearly in the sky, and shall
read beneath 1t, blazing in radient characters
the words, sOur People,"
4. The States-Fitz Hugh Lee, gov
ernor of the state of Virginia.
Sentiment: Daughters Of liberty born amid
the throes of revolution, thirteen clinging to
the Atlantic bosom have become forty-two,
reaching to the Pacific. The century leaves
them as it found them, an indestructible
union Of indestructible states-William Writ
Henry.
5. The Federal Constitution. Melville
w. Fuller, chief justice of the United
States.
Sentiment: The consummation of former
political wisdom, the trust of the present age,
the guide for all coming nations.-George
Bancroft.
6. The House of Representatives.
z. The Senate - John w. Daniel,
United States senator from Virginia.
Sentiment: An elective body dependent
upon no prerogatives of royalty, church, or
descent, able in its statesmanship, wise and
practical in its legislative and exclusive func-
tions, the most distinguished of all legislative
bodies and bulwark in defense of cur free
institutions. Hannibal Hamlin.
8. The presidency = Rutherford B.
Hayes, ex-president of the United
States.
Sentiment: May the good people of these
United States never weary of searching for
second Washington to fill the place.-John
Quincy Adams.
8. The judiciary William M. Evarts,
United States senator from New York.
Senator Evarts. in his response, dwelt upon
the peculiar feature of American institutions
presented by the supremacy of the judicial
power as compared with the legislative The
written constitution superseded the English
maxim that the king, the ruler, could do no
wrong. With us an ever present and ever
active energy of law qualities every act of
executive or legislative power.
10. The Army and Navy William
Tecumseh Sherman, general.
full duty in the creation, defense, enlarge
ment and preservation of our nation; but the
dignity OF our country requires renewed at
tenti0n to the farewell counsel of Washing
ton, SO that international emergencies may be
met without hasty and inadequate prepara-
tion.- Robert 7. Lincoln.
IL. Our Schools and Colleges Charles
w. Eliot, president of Harvard univer-
sitY.
Sentiment: Established by the wisdom and
foresight Of the founders Of our nation; the
support and stay OF civilized religious liberty;
they should be jealously guarded and fostered
as the dispensers of virtue and intelligence.
on which depend the welfare and perpetuity
of our republican institutions. Henry Dris-
Ter. ;
ls. Our Literature James Russell
Lowell.
Lowell on literature.
In the course Of his response Dir. Low
ell said:
Literature has been put somewhat low on
the list Of toasts. doubtless in Difference to
necessity Of arrangement, but, perhaps, the
place assigned to II here may be taken as
roughly indicating that which Is the general
estimation. ana vet lventure to claim for 1t
an influence whether Tor good or evill more
durable and more widely operative than that