The Newtown bee., 1896-05-08

face to face with the heroisms, the sac rifires, the victories and failures of past, which but for your living rugged presence before us would seem even as ancient history. Permit me to recall to your mind few events contemporary with your life. The Father of his coun- ,rv. ''the Immortal Washington, the first, the last the best, the Cincinnatus of the We$t," had been laid beneath the sunny Hopes of beautiful Mount Vernon lc2s than three years before your advent. When you were born Thomas Jefferson, the third president of the United States, WAS just entering upon the duties of that exalted. yet trying office. There have been 2I presidents since. Jonathan
 rrnmbut), "Brotbor Jouathan, " was gov crnOr of Connecticut, the fourth from the organization of the States, eight
 years before. There have been B gov otDore nf Cunnecticut during your life time. 4 bruhan iIilhOuse, senator from
 Couucctlcut, was president of the United States senate when you were born, It WAS more than GO years later before Con- ucct.uut was again h0nOred in that posi- ti0n, by Senator Lafayette ;. Foster,
 still you were 8 sturdy boy before Sena, tor Foster WAS born, Senator F0stcr died
 IG years ago full of honors and T years
 of age. We recall to mind the fact that you were over seven years of age when Thomas Liucoln and Nancy Hanks gave
 to imperiShab'e fame Abraham Lincoln. 1 yet "Father Abraham has passed to his re ward 30 years gone by. You Were six years old before Andrew Johnson was l born, 20 years before Grant, 20 years be ] fore Hayes, 29 years before Garfield yet all these brave and true statesmen and patriots, and all having occupied the pO- l siti0n of president of the United States, | have gone on before. Iou were B 1 when President Cleveland was born, and i you were 39 before Ex-President Har- riaOn'8 grandfather, President William ] Henry Harrison was inaugurated, ninth president of che United States, when the l opportunity occurred for casting your first presidential vote, you had choice | from among the names of William H, l Crawford, Henry Clay, Andrew Jackson and John Quincy Adams. It has been
 your privilege to vote at 10 presidential elections. Whenyou were born, sir, the
 star of ''The Napoleon was just rising in
 military splendor from victorious Maren- go, and you were a fine Yankee lad of four when the g0ry field of Jena saw the
 annihilation of Prussia almost complete, and you can well remember when Aus terlizt saw the combined allies crushed beneath the heel of this modern Alexan- der. You were over 10 when the blaz ing fires of splendid Moscow the star of
 Napoleon grew dim in the light of dis
 asters paling, and you were B when Waterloo ended the military career Of ! Napoleon-truly the Great. We who
 live in this century are to be envIed by
 all the preceding ages, but to have lived the century through is indeed a
 notable thing even for this most notable
 period. In your time,sir the population
 of the Nation has increased from l (, COG. .OO0 to more than 70, ,00o, 900. Then,
 1000 postoaices answered the require
 ments of the time, now 10000 are none
 too many When you were born one of
 the most pressing public questions of the day was the repeal of the 0dious
 Alien Law by which the president was
 authorized to send out of the country
 any foreigner whose presence should be
 considered prejudicial to the interests
 of the United States, and ] venture to
 say that you have lived to see the day
 when ; majority of your fellow country
 men would hail with patriotic delight the re.enaotment of thar same old odious
 Alien Law.
 It was in your boyhood that Comma.
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