The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1890-05-30

rivers, which, Ia lis slnuOus course
t7lhe sea, is freighted ever Yith
the tributes Of a naliou's love and
alteration. Applause.
In literature, 10 less renowned
than in politics and war, has The
brow Of youth been bedecked with
the brightest laurcls that earth
could weave. Al Il, ChallcIton,
though dead, had achieved literary
immortality. Shelly, who melted
the harsh cOnsonants Of English
into the sweet, soft music Of The
spheres, was but %, when be set
sail upon his last and fatal voyage.
At a, Keats had written the most
perfect odes IN the English lam
guage, and 10y 25 was sleeping
meath soft Italian skies, unmlnd-
full OF The melting melody Of the
nightingale, or the sweet odor Of
the modest yioIeDS that grew above
his peaceful grave. That once
proud king of poets, lord Byron.
had not leached the high noon Of
life ere he too had fallen INTO eter-
nal slumbera ut MesselGughi. The
voice Of Robert Burns,
who wove into poetry and song
every bloom that blows upon h:ga
moor, and every love and woe that
beats in highland heaIts, was
hushed in death ere the frost Of
forty winters had fallen upon the
chaplet OF his fame. Even our
blessed Lord and Savior was but
20 when, standing III sight Of the
eilded GomeS of Her0d's palace.
He preached that historic sermon
on the mount, and laid the fouuda.
ton Of the true religion, which,
despite the corrosive touch Of
time" and although it has seen
kingdoms and empires and repub-
lies arise in a power aud "A glory
that they proudly believed to be
eternal, only to go down into the
twilight AMI gloom to rise no more
forever, still lives on, pure and in
uptble-undestroyed and in
destructible.
This record OF history is not
given merely to excite your admi-
ration and kiudle anew your rover
ence for the dead but that we all
may see what duty eXacts Of Us, if
we woul,l prove worthy The proud
Eerilage Of this illuslrious anceS-
Try and Youths wondrous opporlu-
mites. There is no gift without a
duty. Opportunity and duty are
Inseparably linked together like
daylight and The sun.
Lives Of great men all remind
us' that We ought t. make our
lives sublime. Each gift from the
past but increases our obligation to
Dequealh in turn some gift to the
future.
The first act Of our forafarhers,
who came across the sea to tiHd a
cline in which lonur-
ure principles OF civil and reiig. F.
ms liberty, was to plant upon CON F..
;ecrated soil the tree Of freedom, |
hat under IT'S spreading branches .
he oppressed children Of all the .
nations of earth might lind an
abiding place aud shelter from the
storms Of despolic power. This
rec of their lenderesl care was
with their tears. warmed /.
with the lsrvor OF their prayers,
ind defended with sacnficiai blood. .
Though safe to-day from foes
it is threatened from in .
.idiuus enemies within. The can
,er worms Of avarice and cenlrali. |
ation are gndWing at lis vitalS
To defend and preserve It forever
nviolate is sacred duty, that we
I'VE alike 10 those who have gone
&C ore and are 10 come after us.
n the language Of the foremost
# the southern orators, who, to
he entire nations irraparablc loss,
low fills an unlimely grave, We !
re standing in the daybreak ol
he second century of this republic.
The fixed stars are fading from lie
Ky, and we grOpe in the uucer-
ain light. Strange shapes have /
ONE With the night Established /
yavs are lus,-new roads perpleX
nd widening fields stretch beyond
he sight. Behind The courts
moider the rioters torca and loan I
he gibbet OF the anarchists. Gov
rnmenl is The contention OF parii-
ans and the prey OF spoilsmen
Trade is restless in the grasp of
and commerce shackled !
With limitation" The cities are
wullen and the fields are stripped.
Splendor streams nom the castle
md squalOr crouches IN the home.
The univoT, al brotherhood is dis
and the people are hud
ling into classes. The hiss OF the .
.ihiii>t di~i urbs The covert and tie |
oar of the mob murmurs along
he highway. The wealth of the
ountgy j. protected in idleness /
q The expense of the comloris, :,
-ea, the very necessities of life TO
he lniling POOR. Was ever a more !
anomalous or unnatural condition I
to the gaze of an intelli-
tent peoplel Indeed, II Is as il /
one mighty mountain were resi-
ne upon its apex, while lis broad (
,sse was puised in mid heaven.
Responding iu the laws Of gravity, /
he supersiructure must some day I
opple 10 the earth, unless iis nat
lrai equilibrium be restored and I
maintained,
To whom does the country look
or the righting Of these wrongs
.rHsha cofufion of these nrnhlems /