The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1889-05-01

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colleagues, through whose patient intel
lectull lsbors this Great Republic was
founded,
Tonight it is our duty to look back
over the century's growth, and to reflect
upon the path the Republic has been
following for IN hundred years-from
the period OF President Washington 70
the times OF President Harrison-trom
the inauguration Of the ruler OF thirteen
States, whose President was installed in
Office here so many years ago by parade
oil 500 soldiers, to this magnificent Cen
tennial Celebration Of the event by forty,
two States, and a procession OF $4,000
troops.
Let us then, with grateful emotion,
greet the memories Of the men whose
profound knowledge enabled them 70
construct a government OF States, which
In turn, by their representatives, encir-
Cled the States themselves by National
Constitutional girdle,
The rights OF the States, and the powers
oithe General Government were defined,
so that the security Of the States is the
safety OF the Union, and the safety OF
the Union is the security OF the States,
Upon your star-spaugled banner each
State Is star, so similar In appearance
and right Of presence there, that no man
in this splendid audience can go to their
beds Of blue and point out the star that
represents Indiana, from that represent
Ing the great Empire State OF New
York.
In the great dome above, the heavenly
orbits may differ in magnitude, motion
and periodic revolution, but the paths
are fixed and their laws immutable. The
States differ in size, in commercial pros
perity, and may say In their periods Of
revolution, but the laws OF the United
States are the same for each, and their
motions, though in some the States at
times eccentric, must always be equal, II
We desire to preserve intact our Ameri-
can constellation, Should the central
body, the light OF which constitutes day,
and It's absence, night, around which the
earth and planets reyolve, and by which
they are held in their orbits, and from
which comes light and heat, "Do move"
as Brother Jasper, OF Richmond, says,
and, moving too much, march into the
orbits OF the planets, eternal chaos would
follow; or, should the planets depart
from their routes, and break we'll kaown
laws, eternal ruin would result.
The Federal Head In our system OF
government Is the Sun; the States, the
planets; the first is regulated by dele.
gated powers-the second exercises all
rights not given to the first, except those |
specifically prohibited, II the States
break from their orbits and encroaCh |
upon the National Government disaster
and ruin iollows;if the National Gov
eminent invades the reserved rights OF
the States, calamity comes; so that OBJ.
seryanCe on the part OF both, OF this
Article 10 Of the Amendments to the
Constitution, assures tho liberties OF the
people.
The Republic OF to-day should DO the
Republic OF the fathers-the United
States OF 1850, under our present dis.
tinguished Chiel.Magistrate will then
DO the United States Of 1871 and 1850,
when the sceptre OF power was in the
hands Of a William Henry Harrison, and
a George Washington.
May It so continue, aud may the con.
lest hereafter, between the States, be,
for the promotion OF commerce and civ.
illzation, the progress Of agricultural and
manufacturing wealth, and the develop.
ment OF the arts and sciences, while each
State iS laboring at the same time to
promote the common glory OF the United
States. Then may We hear the harmon
Ious invocations from iorty.two hearts,
to our fathers God, sweeping
into the heavens and rising above the
stars, that State shall not lift up Its
sword against State, neither shall they
know war any more, and that the reign
Of peace, union and fraternity shall be
rs lasting as the home oil the stars-as
eternal as the foundations OF the ever.
lasting hills-and in your harbor here
may "Liberty enlightening the world"
'oin in swelling anthem, and proclaim
10 her subjects everywhere, that the
problem OF free, popular and Constitu.
lional government, has been solved upon
The American Continent.