Little Falls weekly transcript. (Little Falls, Morrison Co., Minn.) 1894-19??, 1898-06-03

government are Instituted amongst
men deriving their just pOwers from
the consent of The governed" But
at the same time that this grand
celebrating was grandly made
human slavery existed amongst us
as u domestic institution and a pO.
litical power. 1t was indirectly but
plainly recognized 10 our fundamental
law. but our early patriots aud
statesmen confidently expected 1t
would naturally die, out here as it
had done In the mother country, but
through modern invention, the cx-
tension of commerce and manufact-
nre 1t became more profitable, and
while 1t died out in the original
Northern states. it extented In the
South until 1t became the dOmlnat-
ing idea Of the whole section. 1t
claimed and received recognition and
control OF the great states Of the
South and boldly and arrOgantly
demanded extension even into north
ern territories naturally and p0-
litically free. This arrogant claim
was denied. Then, at slavery's dc
tum the south withdrew from the
union and sought to establish q
confederacy based on the institution
Of slavery az the corner stone Of ite
political editice. Here two great
fundamental principles are claimed.
both antag0nistic to our national
greatness, the permanent establish
ment Of slavery, and the dissolution
OF the federal union.
Another principle fundamental to
national SUCCESS waa involved In the
great questions at issue. tO-wit:
State Va. National Supremacy. We
have then. as the great questions oi
the 6erce contention III the eos:
First, slavery as opposed to free
dom; the dissolution az against the
permanence Of the national union:
and the supremacy Of the states
separately AZ against the national
government.
Slavery is a relic OF barbarian, alb
horrent to the enlightened Judgment
OF mankind, and happily it's powers
were consumed in the cOnflaEratiOn
itself evoked.
The union Of these states ia the
secret Of their peace and their power.
Had secession succeeded in the war
Of the COS who can say where 1t
would have ended? or what the final
adjustment OF the Earring fragments.
"a thousand years scarce serve to form state.
An hour may lay II In the dust;
Who can then its shattered splendors renovate,
Recall It's virtues back and vanquish time and
fate!
History presents Its most pathetic
pictures In the ruin OF great states.
On the ruin Of their nation the cap
tive Jews hung their harps on the
willows and sat and wept by the
waters Of Babylon. Yea, they wept
when they remembered Zion. The
great Roman, whose armies con-
quered Carthage, afterwards an ex-
lie, unused midst the faded glOries Of
the conquered city. Childe Harold
unused at midnight's noon in the
ruin Of the Colosseum, the chief relic
of almighty Rome; or on Mars Hill
recalled the faded splendors OF au-
gust Athena, gone, glimmering
through the dream of things that
were! But what Marius or Milton.
what Byron or Bancroft could de-
pict the fadedgloriee and the blasted
hopes of the great American Republic
tlOtted from history forever.
The broader hopes of later liberty,
and the grander progress OF human
lty, the great interests Of Republican
and mans capacity for
seli government were all in volved In
the success or failure Of the great
American republic.
Even In years long past the great
est OF modern poets, he who died at
to restore the lost liberty
Df old Greece, recognized the great
interests involved in our national
lie
'Yhe name Of commonwealth Is crushed and
gone
On the three fractions ofthe grooming globe.
1enice is crushed and Holland deigns to own
A scepter and accept q royal robe!
{ the free switzer yet bestrides his chainless
mountains
IT'S but for . time, Tor tyranny OF late Is cum |
ming grown
md in It's own good season tromples out the |
light Of freedoms ashes.
But one great cline In full and free defiance
ears her crest unconquered and sublime
Above the far Atlantic
That that great cline should
till survive to hold liberty's bright
anner to a waiting world, is due to
he men of the COS, whose memory
We honor today. They eradicated
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