Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1896-01-24

Just and equal laws IT they kno"
you and talk with you they viii under
stand your wants and meet them better.
RICHMOND AND THE LEGISLATOR.
There Is every reason why you should
welcome us in your midst. and why we
should have the interests Of your beau
tiful city near our hearts. There are
some OF us here yet who, when your city
was beleagured by hostile armies, fol-
lowed the black plume OF Stuart ana
marched with Hill and Jackson, and some
Of MS are the sons Of veterans.
For four long years the storm-c.oud
OF war hung over your city: the flashes
OF our cannon illum.ned your streets,
and the roar Of our guns was the lula
By OF your children. When az last that
cloud drfted westward. its fiery breath
lii with flame your dwellings. the ftful
lightning of Sailors Creek and Farm
vile furrowed the sky. and then came
the awful silence OF Appomattox.
where was beautiful Richmond them
Sitting clothed In sackcloth and ashes,
weeping, like Rachel. for her children
because they were not
what change now do we behold!
Now. a queen ind edSshe sits where once
stood the lodges Of King Powhatan-the
falrest Of all the plain-a living monu-
and patriotism OF old Virginia.
HONOR TO MAJOR GINTER.
"soon the rear-guard Of that army will
cross over the river; soon the law-maker
and the law-breaker will have gone
to appear before the Great Law-Giveri
and. with them. perhaps will 20 the
manners and customs Of old Virginia
but Richmond, beautiful Richmond, will
be our monument. and with her name will
be linked the honorable name OF one
man-that Of Major Lewis Ginter the
pubic-spirited citizen, who made for you
many things possible which otherwise
had been well-nigh impossible
Major Ginter Makes speech.
General Hundley's allusion TO Major
Gnter brought that gentleman 20 his
feet. and as he rose he was greeted with
a perfect tumuIt of applause. said be-:
Gentlemen, II / had had the slightest
idea Of the allusion which has just been
made to me, | would have come prepared
to make a speech, as many of you have.
While / am equal to a hotel, / am not
equal 10 a speech. I'd like 10 say some
thing. however, regarding free trade and
the commerce among nations. England
has more possessions than any other
country in the world, and yet she gives
20 all the world tree trade 10 all OF these
countries. We can to-day send our pro-
ducts to those countries on the same
terms az England does herself. | am
forcibly reminded Of these words Of one
of the old English poets:
" The band Of commerce was designed
To be the golden girdle Of mankind;
Each cline requires what other climes
produce.
But offers something to the general
use
1T would be well for us TO memorize
and bear In mind these words. Now, Mr..
President. had / been notified / should
have prepared a speech. which would
have knocked you all out. but as 1 re-
ceived no notification / shall have 10 con-
tent myself with what l have said.
speaks for the Federal Courts.
When Major Ginter took his seat Mt.
Tucker called upon Judge Cardwell. OF
the Supreme Court, who made an excel
lent speech, abiding in humorous terms
10 Judge Keith as the spokesman OF the
Supreme Court. He was loudly applaud
ed. and when he took his seat loud calls
were made for Colonel 10 Lane Stern.
That gentleman responded by introducing
Judge Robert W. Hughes OF the United
States Circuit Court. who said:
AS the only representative Of the Fede-
raj Bench at this board, / respond 70 the
sentiment just proposed. Although de-
rive my commission from beyond the
borders Of Virginia. and have TO deal
chiefly with laws enacted elsewhere than
at her capital still 1 am at home here
no less as a judge than as citizen. our
dual system Of government has never
had a parallel I'm history. We are living
nFrln rIf q
having plenary powers within its special
sphere. and each acting concurrently IN
the same territory and directly upon the
same people.
RELATION OF THE STATES
The States are free. sovereign, and in-
dependent, but they are under an obli-
CATION, entered into voluntarily, of fidelity
TO a common power. They have pledged
their fealty. not to any man Of whatever
name or character. but to a mere document.
We call that paper the Constitution Of the
United States. We all swear fealty to
IL I'm complete devotion, for documents
never become tyrants or usurpers. The
government established by that instru-
ment rests upon every foot Of territory
and every citizen Of the land, and It's
officers are as much at home in each
State of the Union as those of the State
tself. The governments are dual. and
concurrent throughout the federation.
As we have dual legislatures and execu-
tives, so we have dual judcatures, acting
without jar or conflict. side by side, each
periodically respecting the limits Of its
own sphere of action. and each as much
at home in the respective states as the
other.
| have always felt that the trainers
OF our national Constitution builded bet
ter than they knew Those great anc good
men We're endowed with extraordinary
wisdom, but / have never been able 10
believe that. they fully comprehended the
marvellous future Of the mechanism
which they devised. They were but blind
factors i'm the hands of a Divinity which
shaped their divine work They had to
deal with a set Of States so discordant
and violent in their antagOnisms that
as mild a man as Oliver Ellsworth said
OF one OF them that IL had a spirit which
would make a Tophet of the universe;
States which had nothing in common
but the English language and their mu-
tual boundary-lines.
But they brought 10 lheir task the spirit
of absolute unselhshness. Their leading
impulse was concession and forbearance.
They infused that noble spirit into every
line and letter of the Constitution when
they framed.
OUR SPIRIT OF HARMONY.
Except in the lamentable. period OF
ls6l-'65, when a mighty conflict was forced
upon unwilling sections by the spirit Of
TOphet TO which Oliver Ellsworth alluded,
history has shown no example OF such
harmony as has prevailed. during more
than a century of time. between the
Gfafaa Of this ufou oreuuVfug an eighth
OF the inhabited territory Of the earth.
When we compare this history with that
OF the perpetual wars of Europe. every
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