The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1892-03-02
CLEvELAND'S SP EECH.
.Sentiment IN our National 7 I.ife''-A Lesson
from the Career OF George Wash
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sentiment N our Ns1IlOuSI Aceeo2
from the Career OF George Wash
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Ann ARBoR, MICH, February o.
Ex-President Cleveland: accompanied
by Ex-Governor Campbell, of Ohio,
Ex-Postmaster Don NJ. Dickinson, Of
Detroit, W. T. Bissell, of Buffalo, Cleve-
lands law partner, and Richard Wat
son Glider, editor Of the Century Maga-
zine, arrived here at 1l.45 froE Detroit.
The city was gaily decorated in honor
of the distinguished party. Fully 1000
students of the Tully University were
gathered at the depot, and greeted the
party with blare of tin horns and with
the University yell.
Mayor Doty met the party as they
alighted from the train and presented
Mr.. Cleveland with the freedom Of the
city in silver casket. The Ex-Presi-
! dent replied with few suitable words
of thanks, saying that of all of the off,
CSS uIO uSA0 LIZ AiStA SoJNySN
none more than that of mayor.
President Angel, of the University,
was then presented, and procession
was formed of the Ann Arbor and
Ypsilanti military companies, students
and prominent @citizens of this and
other count nd marched through
the principa> eets.
After lunch at President Angel's
residence, the party proceeded to Uni
versity Hall, where ats o'clock Cleve-
land delivered an address on the sub
ject of Sentiment in our National
Life.n
CLEvELAND'S ADDRESS.
Mr.. President, Ladies and Gentle
men: Among few holidays which the
rush and hurry of American life con-
cede to US surely no one Of a secular
character is so suggestive and impress
sive as the day We celebrate on this oc-
casion. We not only commemorate the
birth of the greatest American who
ever lived, but we recall as inseparably
connected with his career all the events
and incidents which led up to the es-
tablishment of free institutions in this
land of ours, and eliminated in the
erection of our wondrous nation.
The University of Michigan, there
fore, most appropriately honors herself
and does fitting public service by es-
pecially providing for such an observ-
ance of the day as is calculated to turn
to the contemplation of patriotic duty
the thoughts of the young men whom
she is soon to send out to take places in |
the ranks Of American eitizeaship- 49, .--,-
hope it may not be out of place for
me to express the qualification it affords
me as member Of the legal profession
to know thatthe candidate oft these exer-
cises has been committed to the classes of
the law department of the University.
There seems to me to be propriety in
this, for 7 have always thought the in
fuences surrounding the practice and
study of the law should especially in
duce patriotic feeling. The business
Of the profession is related to the en-
forcenent and operation of the laws |
which govern our people, and its MEM
bers, more often than those engaged in |
other occupations, are called to a par |
ticipation in making these laws. Be-
sides, they are constantly brought to |
the study Of the fundamental law of
the land and familiarity with its his
tory. Such study and familiarity should |
be sufficient Of themselves to increase !
a mans love of country, and they GER
tainly cannot fail to arouse his venera-
ton for the men who laid the founda- |
ticns of our nation sure and steadfast in |
a written constitution, which has been |
declared by the greatest living English |
statesman to be 'the most wonderful |
work ever struck off at a given time by |
the brain and purpose of man"
WASHINGTON AND THE CONSTITUTION.
Washington had more to do with the
formation of the Constitution than our
enthusiasm for other phases of the
great work ne did for his country usu-
ally makes prominent. He fought the
battles which cleared the way for it.
He best knew the need of consolidating |
under one Government the colonies he |
had made free, and he best knew that
without this consolidation a wasting
war, the long and severe privations and
sufferings his countrymen had under
gone and his own de:oted labor in the |
cause Of freedom, were practically in
vain. The beginning of anything like
public sentiment looking to the for
nation of our nation is traceable to his
efforts. The circular letter he sent to !
the Governors Of the States, as early as
the close of the war of the Revolution,
contained the germ ofthis Constitution,
and all this was recognized by his
unanimous choice TO preside over the
Convention that framed it. His spirit
was in and through it all.
But whatever may be said of the ar
gument presented in support of the
propriety of giving the law classes the
management Of this celebration, it is
entirely clear that the University her,
self furnishes to all her students most !
useful lesson, when by decreeing the OBJ
seryance of this day she recognizes the
fact that the knowledge of books she
imparts is not complete fulfllmeut of
her duty, and comedies that the educa-
ton with which she so well equips her
graduates for individual success in life
and for business and professional use
fulness, may proftably be supple
mented;by the stimulation of their pa