Delaware gazette and state journal., 1897-06-10
AT DICKINSON Ian sonooL.
Chief Justice Lore Delivers the BaccaIau
reate Address.

| reate Address.
Chief Justice Charles B. Lore de.
iivered the baccalaureatea address at the
commencement exercises OF the Dick
inson School of Law at Carlisle, Pa,
Monday afternoon. He said in part
The motto on the seal Of the Dick
insnn School of Law. LEX est funda-
mentum justitiae ct lihertatis, which
may be freely translated that Law ia
the foundation of Justice and liberty,
is at once happy expression of the
scope of your school and terse and ex-
haustire statement of the work of law
in forming and preserving human so
ciety.
To say that liberty is the aim and
end of law is to state a truism. There
can be no healthy human liberty with
out law. There can be no just law
that does not grow out of state of
liberty, Necessity, the tyrant's plea, ;
wrote John Milton. Where law ends
tyranny heins, rang out the clarion
notes of William Pitt in ITO. and in
1883 be declared Necessity is the argu.
ment OF tyrants lit is the creed OF slaves )
In his excise speech Pitt said /: The
poorest man may in his cottage bid
defiance to all the force of the crown ;
u may be frail:. its roof may shake !;
the wind may blow through it; tho
storm may enter; the rain may enter,
but tho King OF England cannot enter;
all his forces dare not cross the thresh.
bold of the ruined tenement. These
words, uttered in the crisis of tho
American Revolution, struck the kcy-
note OF saxon liberty. fired the hearts
OF all Just Englishmen ana inspired
n a "a tha nk.f a 4.
side of the Atlantic.
Where the government is one of law
the humblest man ia clothed with nll of
the majesty and power of the State In
her courts he stands absolutely tho
paer of the highest and the rigntiest.
Tho study and practice OF law, in all
ages. has opened up the widest field
of human usefulness and power. In
these folds the master sees and deals
with the sources OF human soeiety, and
is in touch with all the tides and eur
rents OF lie. In tho last resort, law ia
but the expression of the will of God.
The hest human laws are but an effort
to approximate this divine will and
they approach compilation just in SO far
as they harmonize with that will.
The government of the United
States is the highest product thus far,
OF human civilization and constitutional
liberty. 1t was created by, and exists
only in and through that grand pro
duct of human foresight and sagacity,
the Constitution of 1857. Unlike other
nations our form of government did mot
grow up through ages OF conflict be.
tween freedom and slavery, but sprapg
into existence at once. Ike Minerva
from the brow Of Jupiter full grown,
fully armed and equipped. Our fathers
builded more wisely than they knew
when they founded the temple of our
liberties upon that Constitution. Our
government wah created by law, sub,
sists now and must continue foSsuhaist
by law and by law only. =
In addressing the graduates, Justice
Lore said: "Your success in your pro-
fession will be Just what you make il.
do not mean to say that there are not
tides 10 the affairs of men but do say
that you may not drift idly about until
the tides comes and then drift on with
it, but must work SO that you may take
the tide whom it comes and see that it
leads on TO fortune.
The practice of law is becoming |
daily more and more msthndical piece |
of business mechanism. We no longer
need the Clays and the Websters and |
tho Calhouns to be leaders of our
thought and dictators of our
national policy. The press has closed |
the gap and brought all men nearer to
an equality.
"Your lives are before you. Form
and persist in some exalted purpose.
Slight nothing. Learn the habit Of |
exactness and conscientious |
labor. Such II COURSE will give Dickin-
son School of Law no cause to blush
for the class of '97."
He closed with the words of Thana-
topsis: $50 live that when thy sum
mons comes" &c.