St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-10-22

epic will be told with realistic
effects surprising the most splendid
and impressive achievements of the
modern stage. No one who has had
the good fortune to see the models of
this extraordinary work of art can have
failed to he moved by the union, which
it emDOdies, of the antique in history
and the current in life and thought. as,
beginning with the weird mendicant
fainting upon the hillside of Santa Ra.
Dlda, it traces the strange adventures of
GenoeSe seer from the royal camp of
Santa Fe to the sunny coasts of the
Isles of Inde, through the weary
watches of the endless night, whose
sentinel stars seemed set to mock but
not to guide; through the tracklesS and
ShOreleSS wastes of the mystic sea,
spread day by day to bear upon every
rise and fall Of its heaving bosom the
death of fair, fond hopes, tine birth of.
fantastic fears; the peerless and thrill.
ing revelation, and all that has followed
to the very moment that beholds us
here, citizens, freemen, equal share
holders in the miracle of American
civilization and development. Is there
one among us who does not thank his
Maker that he has lived to join in this
universal celebration. this jubilee of
mankind?
II am appalled, when l reflect upon
the portent and meaning of the procla-
nation which has been delivered in our
presence. The painter employed by
the kings command to render to the
eyes some particular exploit of the peO-
pie. or the throne, Knows in advance
precisely what he has to do: there is a
limit set upon his purpose; his canvas
is measured; his cOlorS are blended,
and, with the steady and sure hand of
the master, he proceeds, touch upon
touch, to body forth the forms of things
known and visible. Who shall measure
the canvas or blend the coiOrs that are
to bring to the minds eye of the pres
ent the scenes of the past in American
glory? Who shall dare attempt to sum-
mon the dead to life, and out of the
tomb of the ages recall the tones of the
martyrs and heroes whose voices, though
silent forever, still speak to us in all
that we are as nation, in all that we
do as men and women?
''The young manhood of the country
may take this lesson from those of us
who lived through times that did, in
deed, try mems souls-when, pressed
down from day TO day by the awful re-
sponSlbllltles and suspense, each night
brought terror with every thought of
the morrow and, when, look where, we.
where-that God reigns and wills, and
that this fair land is. and has always
been, in His own keeping.
The curse of slavery is gone. 1t was
joint heritage of woe, to be wiped out
and eXpiated in blood and flame. The
mirage of the Confederacy has vanished.
1t was essentially bucolic, a vision of
Arcade, the dream of most attractive
economic fallacy. The constitution is
no longer a rope. of sand. The exact
relation OF the states to the federal
government. left open to double COLI
struction by the authors of our organic
being, because they could not agree
among themselves. and union was the
paramount object, has been clearly and
definitely fixed by the three last amend
ments to the original chart, which con-
Stitute the real treaty of peace between
the North aud the South. and seal our
bonds as a nation forever.
The republic represents at last the
letter and the spirit of the sublime
declaration. The fetters that bound
her to the earth are burst asunder. The
rags that degraded her beauty are cast
aside. Like the enchanted princess in
the legend, clad in spotleSS raiment,
she steps i'll the perfection of her ma
tarlty upon the scene of this, the latest
and proudest of her victories, to bid
welcome to the world!
''All nations and all creeds be wel
come here; from the Bosphorus and the
Black sea, the Viennese woods and the
Danubian plains; from Holland dyke to
Alpine crag; from Belgrade and CAL
cutta, and round to China seas and the
busy marts OF Japan, the isles of the Pa
cific and the far-away capes of Africa
Armenian. Christian and Jew the,
American, loving no coustry except his.
own, but loving gil mankind as his
brother, bids you partake with us of
the.sS9 fruits of 400 years of Americait
civilization and development, and be-
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