The Indianapolis journal., 1896-11-24
ADDRESS BY DR.. DEPEW
DUTY OF THE PATRIOTIC AID So
CIETIES OF THE COUNTRY.
POpOcracy's assault on the Time
ciples of American Liberty"

MONTPELIER. VT. Nov. 2S-The ver-
mont Society Sons of the American Revo-
luton assembled at the Statehcuse this aft
ernoon and escorted Chauncey NJ Depew.
of New York. to Armory Hall. where he
delivered a lengthy address. military
band headed the line, which con-
tanned about thousand members and
guests of the socety. including many ladies
and members of the Legislature. In The
course Of his remarks Mr. Depew said
Now, more than at any time during the
present generation, il is important To teach
the principles upon which our government
made IL great. The patriotic aid societies
nave Before them a most important work.
Ihelr nrst duty is to educate the people.
Both those who have landed on our shores
from foreign countries and those of later
generations which have forgotten the revo-
luton must be taught the dangers of NOV
ing the Republic from the safe moorings
OF the past. The hundred and seven years
since Washingtons Inauguration may be-"
the speaker continued, divided into three
PERIODS. We are now entering on the fourth.
1t is remarkable that each of these began
with a threat againSt the Republic
ated by the fathers The Nation has come
safely out of each trial. The Tirst period
was one OF construction and hero worship"
In his review of this period AIR. Depew
said our forefathers believed that they
should avoid European entangiements. At
the same time in the Jay treaty with Great
Britain. ii laid down principles upon which
with skill, dignity and patriotism Secre-
tary Olney has ended the Venezuelan dis
pute"
The second period began with the nulli-
hcation of the federal revenue laws by
South Carolina. The hero worship of the
time gave tremendous authority living
leaders who possessed the peoples love,
and no man more conspicuously met this
requirement than Andrew jackson. The
generation which came upon the stage be-
tween 1850 and 1860 knew little or nothing
OF the revolutionary war. Slavery; more as
an investment and business than as
sentiment, held the Republic by the throat
and constantly threatened its dissolution.
Thus this period which had forgotten the
revolution, which had become sordid and
SURRENDERED everything to profit in its
rude awakening sacrificed millions of lives
Union upon the foundations where the rev.
olutionary fathers had placed 1t"
We then entered upon a third period, the
speaker said. 1t was that of reconstruc-
ton, of invention and of extraordinary ac-
cumulation or national and individual
wealth He referred briefly to the vast vast
time. He asserted that in the general up
lifting the people, the whole people were
better educated, better clothed. better fed,
had fewer hours of labor and had larger
wages than ever in the history OF the
world. But without our scarcely knowing,
and certainly not recognizing its extent and
the possibility of concentrating IL a po-
ltical force. discomfort had seized upon
the people as never before. 1t assumed
the time-honored and revolutionary
principles of American liberty. In
this connection Mr.. Depew declared that
the shifting standard of value Is not Amer
lean, a paternal government is not Amer
ican and any effort to array the people in
to classes when employees and employers
are constantly changing places Is not
American, and an assault upon the inde-
pendence of the judiciary is not American
He spoke of what he said the country owed
to the Supreme Court and to its interpre-
tations of the law and closed with pa
triotic appeal to learn and teach the prin-
ciples upon which our government has
grown.