The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1896-11-24
CRITICAL PERIODS IN UNITED
STATES HISTORY DISCUSSED
BY DEPEW.
EACH ENDED IN A CRISIS.
NATIONAL PhTRIOTTSu ppanU,
AGAINST ALL OF THE VARIOUS
ATTACKS.
ANOTHER PERIOD NOW AT HAND.
Its Duties Pointed Out to the Sons
of the Revolution at
Montpelier.

MONTPELIER, VT, Nov. 23.-The
Vermont Society, Sons of the American
Revolution, assembled at the state
house this afternoon and escorted
Chauncey NJ Depew, of New York. to
Armory hall, where he delivered a
lengthy address. A military band
headed the line, which contained about
thousand members and guests Of the
society, including many ladies and
members of the legislature.
In the course Of his remarks Mr.
Depew said that now more than at
any time du ing the preser1 genera
ton 1t is important to teach the prin-
clples upon which our government was
founded and the policies which have
made it great The patriotic societies.
nave before them a most important
work Their frs. duty IS to educate the
people. Both those who have landed
on our shores from foreign cp;inrri IS
and those of later generations who
have forgotten the Revolution must be
taught the dangers of IN owing the re-
public from the safe mornings of the
past.
THE 107 years since ,Jashington's
tinued, divided into three periods. We
are now entering upon the fourth. it
is remarkable that each Of these be-
gan with threat against he republic
as created by the fathers The nation
has come safely out of each trial. The
first period was one of construction
and hero worship" In his review OF
this period, Mr. Depew said the fore
fathers believed that they should avoid
European en.anglemen.s AT The same
time, in the Jay treaty with Great
Britain, they laid down the PRINCIPLES
upon which with Skill. dignity and
patriotism Secretary Olney has ended
the Venezuelan dispute
The second period began with the
qualification of the federal revenue
laws by South Carolina. Her worship
OF the time gave tremendous authority
to living leaders who possessed the
penp,e loVe and no man more con-
sp1cuously met this requirement than
Andrew Jackson. The generation
Which came upon the stage between
1850 and 1860 knew little or nothing
Of the Revolutionary war Slavery.
more as an investment and a business
than as a sentiment, held the republic
by the throat and constantly threat
ened it's dissolution. Thus this period
which had forgotten the Revolution.
which had become sordid and which
had surrendered everything to profit.
In It's rude awakening, sacrificed mil
lions of lives and millions of treas
ures to maintain the Union upon the
foundations where the Revolutionary
fathers had placed It,
we then entered upon a third pc
riod,' the speaker said cit was that
OF reconstruction, of invention, and OF
extraordinary accumulation of nation
al and individual wealth" He referred
briefly to the vast strides forward
that had been made in that time. He
asserted that in the general uplifting
the people, the whole people, were bet
ter educated, better clothed, better fed.
had fewer hours for labor and had
larger wages than ever in the history
OF the world. But with scarcely know
ing and certainly not recognizing it's
extent and the possibility of concen-
trating it as a political force, digcon-
tent had seized upon the people as
never before. It assumed again the
form OF an assault upon the tfme-hon
ored principles OF American liberty.
In this connection, Mr.. Depew declared
that the shifting standard of value
Is not American, a paternal govern
ment Is not American, and any effort
to array the people into classes when
employees and employers are constantly
changing places, is not American. and
an assault upon the Independence Of
the judiciary is not American.
He spoke Of what he said the country
owed to the supreme court and to it's
interpretations of the law, and closed
with patriotic appeal to learn and
teach the principles upon which the
government has grown