The daily morning journal and courier., 1894-07-05
THE FOURTH AT WOODSTOCK
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the Druids held their mystic rites and hceremonies: with the open sky for our
 canopy and the fragrance of roses 10 Dear our senses heavenwaTd. We meet
 lon this th nations birthday. to rekin-
 de with speech and song the divine tfire of patriotism and To venerhte the I1iag which is the emblem of our disni-
 bty and power. What other spot on lAmerican soil has done so much as tthis 10 keep alive the patriotic spirit, funless 1t be Bunker Hill, made clos kuuent by the oratory of Webster and
 An Everett and q thousand times more |so by the blood of the patriots who
 fought there with Putnam and War tTen and Prescott and Stark? Or Fan l-euil Hall. hallowed by the tones or n
 Wendell Phillips and T William Lloyd Garrison pleading for three million slaves freedom, which they were des-
 rined to receive at the hands Of Abra-
 ham Lincoln?
 From this platform spoke Ulysses $. tGrant, the unconquerable hero. whom
 death alone could conquer-vlctorious leader of "the boys in blue" who 'shares with the immortal Lincoln the lcrownng honors of the greatest war twhich history has ever known. On Ithis consecrated soil stood Rutherford tB. Hayes, most sterling and chivalrous iof men and the best friend in the White House which the country has
 ever had of the great principles of civil Ieervice reform. Under this leafy bow fer has spoken with clarion voice and tmighty eloquence, that true, typcal
 Amerioan, renowned the world over for
 his magnetism, his brilliancy and far .Seeing statesmanship - James G. Blaine, of Maine. Only year or two
 ago there spoke here, too. In accents
 which were heard by the whole coun-
 try, that illustrious son of Ohio. whose
 name Is so intimately associated with
 leading principle of one of our great spolitical parties-William Mckinley, tgovernor of Ohio.
 And so this galaxy of stars might be .indeflnitely extended-John c. Ere mont, first nominee for president of the young republican party; our great "war-governor," William A. Bucking- ham; John A. Logan. "the soldiers friend" General Armstrong. ''the h. dian's friend;" John sherman. author i, of the resumption of specie payments;
 our own gallant Hawley and wise and | honored Platt; the inimitable Depew; ' in education, McCosh and Low; in the 1 ology, Storrs and Cook and Cuyler; in ! literature Holmes and Miller and ! Stoddard; and many other men and women whose names are household words to the people of two continents: 1 who coming here year after year on Mir. Bowen's hospitable invitation, have Erecounted deeds and uttered thoughts ] which have had much to do with the meking of our history and have helped i to make it in the right way. All hon. or, then, to the wise and far-seeing originator of this idea, whose success 'ful example has encouraged others, es specially in the newer and far-distant states. As is written in the epitaph to LSir Christopher Wren, the architect of ISSt. Pauls cathedral If you seek his funonument, look about you"
 | With MT. Bowen's permission and at s31is request, I am permitted to make
 some mention to-day of the eminent fjudge and distinguished statesman, re- gently passed away, who was to have occupied place in to-day's pro- ,.gram, which in his stead has been yassigned to me. a near relative and dear friend. It seems the more ap- ! propriate that l should notice in this 'connection the Hon. William Walter EPhelps, inasmuch as in him were per Esonified many of the unselfish ideas kand much of that steady and uncom- I:promising devotion to public affairs, hneed of our country to-day.
 Born of distinguished Connecticut Fancestry and inheriting from the kins- tman who bore his name as clerk to Ol- liver Cromwell at the trial of King fCharles the First, an ever-present love kof liberty and a high respect for law, EJudge Phelps never ceased, from his Sboyhoods days to his fatal illness, fortnight ago, to give to his country's eneeds whatever in him was greatest and noblest and best. Receiving as syoung man much wealth; entitled to l4he highest social position. he yet 'ftrained himself as faithfully to life e,of industrious and useful work as if he tswas dependent upon it for his own 'ssupport and that of his family.
 i Above most men, he had love of f what was great and beautiful and
 grand. His very presence, his bearing +and his language, was an inspiration , for those who met him to bear their tproper share in whatever opportunities fell to their hands to make their i. homes, their states and their country ibetter for their being and living in it. To those who knew this chivalrous and 1 talented man personally, and their tfname is legion among the pubic men of aall political parties-I see here to-day t.Heveral, especially the Hon. MT. Grow and Senator Platt, who have been inti- mate with him-I need not say that beven beyond his high ideals and bril- @iant accomplishments, they loved and srespeoted the man himself realizing as sno words of mine can tell you, his kunique personality, his intense individ- ialality, his indomitabl Will-power and tthe cheerfulness and humor which he Wrought to minor events and even cares. Only at rare intervals does
 genius of this sort appear on the hori- ,zon of our daily lives.
 What signal successes he won in Congress and as the nations represen- tative abroad in two of the most exclu- sive courts of Europe, the papers have lately told us and the record is written in the hearts of a grateful people, Not alone Americans, but Englishmen yand Germans, have recognized and have not ceased to speak of the bril-