Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1892-02-25
CLEVELAND IN DETROIT.
His Address on Sentiment in Our
National Life"

Delivered Before the students OF tho
Michigan University Mt Ann Arbor--
MIR. Cleveland Presented with the Free
dom of the City in "A Silver Caskct.
ANN ARBoR, Mich, Feb. 22.-Ex-
President Grover Cleveland, accom-
panied by Ex-Governor Campbell of
Ohio, ex-Postmaster-G General Don NJ.
Dickinson of Detroit, w. S. Bissell of
Buffalo, Mr.. Cleveland's former law
partner, and Richard Watson Glider,
editor of the Century Magazine, arrived
here at 11.45 a. nj. from Detroit. The
city was gaily decorated in honor of the
distinguished party. Fully 1000 stu
dents of the university were gathered at
the depot and greeted them with the
blare of tin horns and the university
yell. Mayor Doty met the party rs they
alighted from the train, and presented
Mr.. Cleveland with the freedom of the
| city in a silver casket The ex-presi-
| dent replied with few suitable words
of thanks, saying that of all the offices
which he had held he had enjoyed none
more than that Of mayor.
President Angel of the university
was then presented, and n procession
was formed Of the Ann Arbor and
Ypsilanti military companies, students,
and prominent citizens of this and other
cities, and marched through the princi-
| pal streets. After lunch at President
Angels residence the party proceeded
to University Hall, where, at o'clock,
| Mr.. Cleveland delivered an address upon
the subject of Sentiment in Our Ma.
tional Life" lie said:
| The elements which make up the senti-
| ment of people should not be counted as
amiable weaknesses because they are not at
all times noisy and turbulent. The gentle
ness and loneliness of women do not cause
| us TO forget that she can inspire man to
deeds of great ness andheroism; that us wife
she often makes mans career nobler and
! grand, and that as mother she builds and
fashions i'll her sons the strong pillars of a
state. SO the sentiment of people which
| in peace and contentment decks with
flowers the temple of their rule may in rage
and fury, thunder at its foundation. Senti.
ment is the cement which keeps in place the
granite blocks of governmental power, or
| the destructive agency whose explosion
| heaps in ruins their scattered fragments
The monarch who cares only for his SOW
| eregnty and safety, leads his subjects to
forgetfulness Of oppression by pretense
of love for their traditions; and the ruler
who plans encroachments upon the lib
|
under the apparent sanction of their senti-
ment. Appeals to sentiment have led ma
tons to bloody wars, which have DESTROYED
| dynasties and changed the lines of imper-
ial territory. Such an appeal summoned
our fathers to the battlefield where Ameri.
can independence was won, and such an
| appeal has scattered soldiers graves all
over our land, which mutely give evidence
oil the power of our government and the
perpetuity of our free institutions.
L have thus far spoken of peoples
sentiment as something which may exist
and be effective, under any form Of gov
eminent, and in any national condition
Put the thought naturally follows, that il
thls sentiment may be SO potent in coun
tries ruled by power originating outside
Of popular will, how vital must its exist
ence and regulation be among our country
men, who rule themselves and make anc
administer their own laws. In lands les.
free thnn ours the control of the governed
may be more easily maintained if thost
who are set over them see fit TO make con
| cession to their sentiment; yet, with ol
without such concession, the strong hanC
OF force may still support the power Il
govern. But, sentiment is the very life
blood of our nation. Our government wa
conceived amid the thunders that echoed
All men are created equal" and it wa
brought forth while free men shouted
~.
The sentiment of our fathers made up O
their. patriotic intentions, their SINGER
beliefs, their homely impulses and the
noble aspirations entered into the govern
ment they established; and, unless it i
constantly supported and guarded by
sentiment as pure as theirs, our scheme o
popular rule will fail Another and
different plan may take its place; but thi
, winch we hold in sacred trust, as it origi
mated III patriotism, is only fitted for pi
ulotic ana honest uses and purposes AM
can only be administered in its integrit,
, ana Intended beneticence, by honest am
, patriotic men 1t can no more be save,
nor faithfully conducted by a selfish, dis
] honest and corrupt people, than stream
! can rise above its source OF be better an,
purcr than its fountain head.
None OF us can be ignorant of the idea
[ which constitute the sentiment under
1 lying our national structure We kno,
, they are reverent belief in God, sin
cere recognition of the value and power a
moral principle and those qualities of hear
winch make d noble manhood, devotion
1 TO unreserved patriotism, love for man
2 equality, unquestioning trust in popula
a rule, the exaction Of civic virtue an
I honesty, faith in the saving quality q
universal education, protection of fire
: and unperverted expression of the popula
, VIII, and an insistance upon strict a,
!. countability of public officers as servant
;, of the people.
These are the elements of American ser
. timcnt; and all these should be foun
!, deeply imbedded in the minds and heart
Of our countrymen. When any one {
= them is displaced, the time has come wbe
q a, danger signal should be raised. Thei
absence among the people Of other nation
a however great and powerful they ma
:, be-can afford us no comfort nor reassu
4 ance. We must work out our destiny. M
% aided and alone, in full view of the truti
z that nowhere so directly and surely i
n here does the destruction or degeneracy ,
= the peoples sentiment undermine u
e foundations of governmental rule.
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