The morning news., 1892-03-18

How swiftly in the succession of our days. a
stupTepe SUD- crisis In our individual fortunes, or
Lna. which seemed so, drifts of and away, as
we take up the next days toll and the next
ana the next. How it drifts off TO a dimin-
lsneo proportion In the sum OF things, and takes
at iengtn In the aggregate Of our larger ex-
perience its rightful place, with no longer an
UNDUE emnence among the milestones OF our
hte Journey. [Appause
a, now swiftly, too. the generations pass, so
. .nas growing nation, pressing forward fore
most Ia the fles of time TO long renown, IL
glanclng backward when a century has drlfted
away, may almost regard that enthusiastic
patElotism with which. year after year. 1t has
csieorated our successful separation from the
parent empire by the war Of Independence, as
We regard the rushing of summer wind
tnrou2h all the boughs of thrifty forest. up
ent oak.
Our later four years war; which already has
drlrted away TO the distance of more than
Quarter % OF century. with its passions, its
grlets, It's devastations, its divided patriotic
PRIDE, Is taking on the same historic haze, the
same proportonate and iuster elevation amid
tne nooisr monuments Of our common inherit
Ahce as a nation, and of our kindred ancestries
as new commingled race IApplauss
In that war you had staked your all; and the
s, oesoIn ON OF devastation had swept away almost
all the visible resources OF civilized life
But how much greater than all which had
perisned or your Inheritance and possessions,
was that which survived.
You kept your indomitabIe hearts, With the
peacemakers strength OF Abraham Lincoln lost
70 you and to us; with carpet bagging vultures
swooping down upon your capitals; with labor
alsorganized for time; with no reinforcements
Dy 1mnigration; without assistance for wears
from northern or foreign wealth. you kept your
own lndomitable hearts. Applause
You created out of rains, winds, fields. forests
so ana mines all the visible resources Of civilized
You have reached a surprising rank in the
products peculiar to your soil. You are de-
vel1ping new products and a higher culture,
w 4Fn AnanNu
dlties OF price. You are shifting southwark the
future centers OF the greatest coal and iron
production OF the world. [Applause You
have constructed anew, greatly enlarged and
vastly cheapened your railroad transportation.
You have enticed the prosperous and tho culti-
waited with the health Of your climate and the
charm Of your manners. You are command
ing capital to profit by your enterprise.
You are establishing the solid foundations of
more abundant prosperity than you had ever
ksnown. which may ye5 outstrip competition
from any equal area between the great lsxes.
tho two seas, and the gulf.
These stupendous victories Of your peace are
daily dwarhnR your proudes5 achievements in
war. lAppause.1
south and by tha north alike, eye to eye, to
nave been the necessary tlux to fuse our divided
patriotic pride into a common patriotic pride
and to draw on that secular change which at
last, as have lately said transmitted an insol-
uble political problem into q soluble social
problem. [Applause.l
IOuE now prosperity Is lnCOnCeStablo proof of
the growing success OF that solution
That parental separation of which I smoke
ana It's recession to the far past that latter eco
nomic crisis In the nations life, which is like.
wise speeding TO the dark backward and abysm
of time, how less and less will become their
em!nence from every successive summit of the
future progress Of these, our United States
Applause
True democracy has survived. The peoples
rule has survived. Next November will wine
away its latest interruption. [Cheers.
On. OR more perfect union" indestructible in
Itself and no less indestructble in its constitu-
ent parts, has survived. Applause
Our constitution has survived, almost seam
less, quite u1impaired in fabric and supreme in
authority. lRenewed applause.1
Our individual freedom has survived. to which
the whols substance, form and authority Of all
this political framework are merely ministrant
So, let us thank the God of all mercy and
grace, that now there is yelling up from the
deep exhaustless fountain Of human fellowship
that here and throughout our land there Is
ever yelling up and Overlooking from the pro-
found, mysterious sources Of our common an
cestry or kindred birth and blood our common
or kindred Inheritance, for uncounted ages, of
the slow upbuilding powers that blend the
hearts, mould the minds. knit domestic bonds,
ana consolidate and ameliorate the social
structures OF the advancing foremost races of
mankind, that fraternal affection and fraterpaI
peace, OF which our federal union is O political
type-its justice their sanction its liberty thar
law.
This form OF government of ours represents
an 1mperishable union of Indestructible
states 1t is union of independent sovereign
ties. 1t has beea lkened to the ocean because
II Is united like the sea, divided as the waves ="
[Applause.l
It's strength is based upon the virtue, the In
telligence and the patriotism of great people
people imbued with the spirit Of liberty, a
people actuated by the noblest ambitions and
the loftIest sentiments. people who fear no
foreign foe, who brook no insult, who tolerate
no invasion Of their rights and a people who
love the free institutions of this land Of ours
lApplausel
Our union is a union of hearts. Of affections.
OF aspirations, OF interests, of purposes. Of ef-
forts and OF destiny. It may be truthfully as
serted that the hopes of the civilized world are
involved and centered in its success. It is the
grandest and the best government on the face of
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