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selhshness. The vital principle of di-
vision of labor has not only :, an stiff od

! new race to Introduce a new idea into |
he world except by means of the cudgel. !
70 say that a nation is in the way of |
is contradiction in terms,
md system Of human culture whose |
is the rise of one race |
On the ruins of another is farce |
and lie. Yet this is the type of civilza-
ton which Jefferson Davis represented;
it presents a field for staiwart manhood
and heroic character, and, at the same
time, for moral obtusenesss and refined
These striking contradictions
OF character always arise when people
seemingly become convinced that the OBJ
ject Of the world is not civilz tion but
TeutOnic civilization. Such type is by
no means wholly evil Or fruitless. The
world has needed, and will need, it's
Jefferson Davises; but such type is in
complete, and never can serve it's best pur-
pose until checked by its supplementary
IDEAS Whence shall these come? To
the most casual observer it must have
occurred that the rod of empire has in
these DAYS turned toward the South. In
every southern country however, destin-
ed to play part in the world of to- NOR
row in southern North Am 4rica, South
America. Australia and Africa, a new
nation has more or less firm foothold.
This circumsta. ce has, however, attract
ed but incidental notice hitherto, for
wherever the negro people have touched
civiliz alton their rise has been s1ngularly
unromantic and unscientific. Through
the glamour of history, the rise of a ma
ton has ever been typlfied by the strong
man crushing ont an etfete civilization;
that brutality buried aught else beside
Rome when it descended golden haired
aud drunk from the blue north has scar
cely entered human imagination. Not
as the muscular warrior came the negro,
but as the cringing slave. The Teuton
met civilization and crushed 1.-THE
negro met civilization and was crushed
by it. The one was the hero the world
has ever worshipped, who gained un-
thought of triumphs and made uu-
thought of mistakes; the other was the
personifcation of dogged patience bend
ing 70 the inevitable, and waiting. In
the history of this people we seek in vain
the elements Of Teutonic deifcation of
self and Roman brute force, but We do
find an idea of submission, apart from
cowardice, laziness or stupidity, such as
the world never knew before. This is
the race which, by its very presence,
must play part in the world of to-
morrow; and this is the race whose rise
contend, has practically illustrated ali
idea which IS at once the check and com
plement OF the Teutonic strong man. It
is the doctrine of the submissive man
given to the world, by strange coinci-
dence, 10y the race of whose rights Jeffer-
son Davis had not heard. What then is
the charge made in the conception OF
civilization by adding to the idea of the
strong mau THAT Of the submissive mani
| L. is this The submission Of the strength
OF the strong to the advance Of all
not in mere aimIes sacrifice, but recog
nizipg the fact that "to no one
type of mind is gwen to discern the
totality o. truth" that civilization can
not afford to lose the contribution of the
very least Of nations for its full develop
ment that rot only the assertion of The
| but also the submission to the thou is
the highest individualism.
The Teuton stan Is to-day as the cham
pion of the idea Of personal assertion
the regro as the peculiar embodiment O.
the idea of personal submission; eithe
alone tends to an abnormal development
toward despotsm on the one hant
which the world has just cause to fea
and yet coverily admires, or TOWARD
slavery on the other which the world de
spises and which get is not wholly de
spicable. No matter how great an
striking the Teutonic type of impetuou
, manhood may be, it must receive tn
cool, purposeful "Ich Dien" of the AT
rican for it's round aud full development
In the rise, then of negro people an
, development of this idea, you, who's
nation was founded on the lofties
! ideals, and who many times forgot thos
l ideals with strange f0rgetfulness, hav
more than sentimental interest, NOR
than sentimental duty. You owe del
$ to humanity for this Ethiopia Of the Out
3 stretched arm who has made her beaut,
patience, and her grandeur, law.
1 After the exercises, the Alumni bal
? quet was held. Rev. PHILLIPS BRooK
offered prayer, and then this class son
0 was sung:
i Fair Harvard.
!. Fair Harvard thy sons to thy jubil
thrOng,
) And with blessings surrender thee o'e
n BY these festival rites, from the age tn
d is past,
To the age that is waiting before
y o relic and type of our ancestors wort
y That has long kept their memory war;
First flower of their wilderness, star
d their night,
i. Calm rising through change and throus
"a storm.
y When, as pilgrims, we come to revisit t.
is halls,
te To what rapture the season gives brit
~ Thy shades are more grateful, tiny su
- light more dear,
VI Than descend on less privileged earth
a. Once more at thy shrine our prayers
IL renew,
1T TO thy children the lesson still give,
no With freedom to think, and wit patier
~, to bear,
ol And for right ever bravely to live.
u Of course I did not get into this d
r.. ner but [ have read the speeches. Th
al We're by such distinguished men as Pr
an IDENT ELLIOTT, Gov. BRACKET, 10
n. QUINCY ADAMS, SETH Low, BISHOP ,
W. TER, Col CHAs. r. GOODMAN, REV l
m MAN ABBOTT, ALEXANDER AaAssIz. Tn
~. are very bright and l wish that I
od CHRONICLE were big enough to pr
- them ALL
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