Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1895-12-05
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PUBLISHED BY Notwithstanding 10 the
request, by resolution passed by Columbia
Council, Jr. O. U. A. NJ, at their meeting on
Friday evening last. we publish the address
made by Mr.. Chas. E. Cassell of The CLAIR
ION. ON the occasion of>the Flag Presentation
At Lows, on Thanksgiving Day, as follows
"Trustees, Teacher and Pupils of Logs
Public School:
To me this is specially gratifying occasion
and to all of US should prove to be most
auspicious event. fully realize that such
words are frequently used to preface an adj
dress, that the expression OF such sentiment
is ordinarily, more or less formal and miro
ductory, but ask it at your hands to-day
that you accept them at their face valuetha'
YOU accept them as being statement, MADE
in good faith. that come before you freed
from conventionality and form, fully intent
to execute a trust the privilege OF which is
of itself an honor and the sincerity with
which l shall attempt it's execution should be
permitted to count in my favor, as against
my inability to do even partial justice 10 the
occasion-I come before you, the representa-
tive and mouth piece OF an organized society,
a great and growing Order, that has for It's
object the broadening Of the sentiment OF
Fraternity into that of Nationally; that aims
to instil into its members and through them,
to disseminate throughout the ranks of Amer
lean youth, growing up, and OF American
men and women, principl es that shall serve
as moving impulse toward a broad and
liberal Patriotism. Not, however, mere
sentiment, not will-o'-the wisp enthusiasm,
that stiles one with feeling, without an all
sufficient explaining cause or reason, nut
which has been fully accounted for and made
patent and plain to every one-how and why
liberty loving America has ample and solid
grounds for the enjoyment and the expires
sion of an exalted National sentiment, for an
intense and fervid patriotism. And this all
sufficient reason shall have for its firm foun'
cation, an intelligent understanding of the
purpose of free people to maintain that
freedom and to augment the possibilities and
privileges of 30 precious an inheritance, by
the careful inculcation of sense OF duty, in
all that pertains to the welfare of the Faith
erland, in the upbuilding of a lasting regard
for her Institutions, loyalty to national senti'
ment, and love and reverence for every en-
blem and symbol of a great peoples Liberty
that Liberty that first amazed the nations
of the earth and which will hencetorth en-
blazon their path to freedom. And POW |
desire to make one point clear to all-that
this young giant in the fight for broad and
enlightened patriotism, this Jr. o. T. A, NJ,
which comes to you today, bearing as a gift
your country's flag stands, first, for the
Holy Bible, that inestimable gift from God to
man, to be the rule and guide ofhls faith that
wondrous embodiment of a religious phllos-
ophy, which, regardless Of the varied inter
probation placed thereon by creed or sect has
sufficed to redeem world from the blight of
an ignorant superstiton:-ths Order stands,
second, for pure and undefiled Americanism
and third, for the public school, that marrow
of the bone that sinew of the flesh that vital
izing spark that sets aglow the intellectual
life of the great American body polite. 1t
is to you then, Teacher-keeper Of the NOR.
ais and trainer of the intellect ofthese pupils
land to you pupils,-the supple and plant
twigs that must be bent and fashioned into
timber-that half-generatlon hence, must
be builded into the Ship of State, from keel
to topmast: it is to you we come to cast about
and to enshadow you with the Acgis Of our
country's flag; to you who are waging a
relentless war against fair Lberty's one sue
cessful foe-blind ignorance-we bring to
you, for guerdon in that warfare, the Stars
and Stripes Old Glory, that under its waving
folds you may be stirred by a noble incentive
to wage an unrelenting war against ignor-
ance that stumbling block over which men
fall into slavery and nations into tyranny
and decay, that as you lay the foundation OF
knowledge, it may be cemented into a solid
and indestructible support of a wise and lib
eral national life, go that those of us who are
older and who are participating In this event
to US most hopefully auspicious-as we
recall these exercises in the years TO come,
aud, recalling them, shall be able to exclaim
welcome is the memory and rich is our
pride, in this, that we are able to point to
this one and to that, who is now wei. groun
ded in the faith in Americas strength and of
her mission of liberty and enlightenment to
the nations of the eai,h, due, at least in some