Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1892-10-27
<fing a crown OF
steps in the per-
~aturity upon the
latest and prondest
20 bid a welcome to

utn claims Lincoln, the inn
an, Tor its own; the North has
to reject Stonewall jackson.
ypical Puritan soldier of the
var, hrlts own! Nor will 1t! The
time is coming, is almost here, when
hanging above many a mantel-board
in fair New NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
many a cottage in the sunny SOUTH
shall be seen bound together in ever
lasting love and honor two cross
swords carried to battle respectively
by the grandfather who wore the blue
and the grandfather who wore the
gray"
The orator closed with a welcome
TO mankind at the Worlds Columbian
ceremonies.
Chauncey NJ. Depew, of New York,
spoke in part:
This day belongs not to America,
but to the world. The results of the
event il commentaries are the
heritage OF the peoples OF every race
and cline. We celebrate the
emancipation OF man. The prepar-
alton vas the work of almost count
less centuries, the realization was
the revelation OF one. The cross on
Calvary was hope; the raised on
San Salvador was opportunity. But,
for the first, Columbus would never
have sailed; but for the second, there
would have been no place for the
planting, the nurture and the
expansion of civil and religious
liberty. Force was the factor in the
government of the world when Christ
was born, and force was the sole
source and exercise of authority both
by church and state when Columbus
sailed from Palos. The spirit of
equality OF all men before God and
the law, moved westward from
Calvary with its revolutionary
influence upon old institutions, to the
Atlantic ocean. Columbus carried it
westward across the seas. The
exhibitions of arts and sciences, OF
industries and inventions, of educat-
ion and civilization, which the
republic of the United States will
here represent, and to which,
through its chief magistrate, il
invites all nations, condenses and
displays the flower and fruitage OF
rhfs tra nSaa,laat rN;ranla
1t was a happy omen Of the
position which woman was to hold in
America, that the only person who
comprehended the magic scope of his
plans, and the invincible quality of
his genius, vas the able and gracious
Queen of CASTLE. Isabella alone of
all the dignitaries of that age, shares
with Columbus the honors of his
great achievement.
The mighty soul of the great
admiral vas undaunted by the
ingratitude of Princes, and the
hostility of the people, by imprison-
ment and neglect. He died as he was
securing the means, and preparing a
for the rescue of the Holy
at Jerusalem from the
/ nfldel. He did not know, what
time has revealed, that while the
mission of the crusades, OF Godfrey
of Bouillon and Richard of the Lion
Heart was a bloody and fruitless
romance, the discovery of America
was the salvation Of the world. The
one was the symbol, the other the
the one death, the other life.
The tomb of the Saviour was a mar
row and empty vault, precious only
for its memories Of the supreme
tragedy of the centuries, but the new
continent was to be the home and
of the living God.
The rulers OF the old world began
with partitioning the new. To them
the discovery was expansion Of en-
pire and granduer to the throne.
The nations or Europe were so
completely absorbed in dynastic
difficulties, and devastating wars,
with diplomacy and ambitions, that
they neither needed nor heard of the
growing democratic spirit and intelli-
gence in their American colonies.
To them these provinces were sources
Of revenue, and they never dreamed
that they were also schools of liberty.
II the people of the old world and
their defendants had not possessed the
portunities offerded by the New
their emancipation, and mankind
d never experienced and learned
e American example, instead of
ing in the light and glory OF the
nteenth century conditions, they
Juld still be struggling with
ediaevaI problems.