The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-07-08

Winchester to Cambridge in twenty-one
days to help drive the invader from the
Bay slate. and when these two great
states were seldom divided in opinion
never iu affection.
These Two states so like IN their differ
ences. so friendly even in their encounters,
so flst bound even when they seem most
asunder are as l thiuk destined by God
for leadership somew here. I thank Him
we can all thank Him-that He permits US
to believe that that leadership Is here
after 20 DE exercised on n scale worthy Of
their origin ana worthy OF the training He
has given them. Nothing smaller than a
continent viii hold he people who follow
where they lead When the Massachu-
setts boy reads the history OF Virginia, 1t
viii he with the property of a country
man in her fame When the Nirginlan
hears the anthem of Niagara, he VIII know
the music as his own. When he comes
to Boston, the mighty spirits that haunt
FaneuN Hall will hear vel pleased
focistep which sounds like that of the
compaUiots and comrades, with which, in
danger and triumph, they We're so familiar
of old.
As is natural for communities Of high
spirit, independent in thought, of varying
employment and interest, they have had
their differences. But if you take a broad
survey or human history, n will be hard
Tor you 10 find TWO peoples more alike.
1t was bat four years from the landing at
jamestown to the landing al Plymouth.
Each has been, in les own way, a leader
Each has been the mother of great states.
Each is without rival in history, except
the other, in the genius for framing const.-
tutions and the great statutes which, like
constitutions lie at the foundation of all
government. When Virginia framed the
first written constitution, unless we except
the compact on board the Maytlower, ever
known among men, her leaders studied the
history and delighted TO consult The states
men of Massao husetts "W ou&d to Cod"
writes Patrick Henry to John Adams from
Williamsburg, where the constitutional
convention OF Virginia was sitting. would
to God you ard your Sam Adams were
Lere. We should think We had attained
perfection if we had your approval"
When a Nirginian pen drafted the Declar-
alton of Independence Massachusetts fur
nished its greet advocate on the floor.
When Virginia produced Washington, Mas
sachusetts called him to the head of the
army When Virginia gave Marshall 10
Jurisprudence ii was John Adams or
Massachusetts who summoned him TO his
exalted seat. The men who have moulded
the history of each sprung from the same
great race, from which they inherited
the sense of duty and the instinct of
honor. Both have always delighted in the
| discussion of the profoundest principles
in government in theology and in morals
Rich as have been their annals in names
iAustrious in civil life the history of each
has been largely a military history
There is no more touching story of The
muiicence and bounty of one people to
| another than that of Virginia to Massa-
| chusetts when the port of Boston was shut
up by act of Parliament and by a hostile
| English fleet ] dare say generous Virginia
has disdained 20 remember the transac-
ton. Massachusetts never will forget it.
one thing is remarkable in the history of
Virginia. It is true ! think of no other
American slate Notwithstanding the
splendid constellation of burning and bla2-
ing names which She gave to the country
In the period of the revolution and Of
framing and inauguratng the constitution,
if by some miracle they had been gather
cd together in one room, we VIII say IN
the year ITO or in 1850. and had persisted
in one calamity Virginia could have sup
| piled their places and have maintained
/ almost entirely the same pre-eminence. l
| do not know that she could have furnished
/ a second Marshall or "a second Washing
! ton But the substance of what she ac-
| cOmplished for America and for man
| kind in those great days she would nave
accomplished stin. She was like a coun-
/ try made up of rolling hills, where, II
/ those which bound the horizon were lev
elled, other ranges would still appear lie
yond and beyond.
The mouth of the James river is the
/ gateway through which civilization and
freedom entered this continent The Span
| lard and the Frenchman and perhaps the
! Norseman had been in America before. But
when jamestown was planted the English
man came. 1t Is no matter what was MS
| political creed. or his religious creed
whether Cavalier or Roundhead, Puritan
or Churchman the omigrant was an Eng
! hShman, and every Engiishman then and
since held the faith that liberty was his
of right and when liberty Is put on the
ground of right, it implies the assertion
that government must be founded on right
and that liberty belongs TO other men also
and that implies government by law. Null
lum Jus sine offoio Nulium officium sine
jure.
Other races have furnished great law
givers, great writer's on jurisprudence anc
a few great judses. But the sense of the
Obligation of law as that upon which de
ponds individual right, the feeling that life
liberty property are not privileges bu
rights whose security to the individual de
ponds upon his own respect for them as o.
right belonging to other men also, is pc
culiar to the Englishman and the Ameri
can alone. 1t Is this which is the security
of our mighty mother and of her might!
daughter against the decay which has at
tended alike the empires and the republics
of the past. 1t is for this that England viii
be remembered if she shall perish.
Whatever harmonies of law
The growing world assume,
Thy week Is thine. the single note
OF that deep chord which Hampden smot
Shall VibEate to the DOOM
The people of Virginia have ever beef
, renowned for two Embellishments of
great and noble natuFe-hosp itality an
and this virtue of courage as practised b!
men of generous nature mean something
more than a provision for physical want
. or than a readiness for physical encounte
, with an antagonist. The true hospitalit.
to a man is a hospitality to his thought
and the highest courage is a readiness 70
an encounter of thoughts So In selecting
a topic for to-daY's discourse. although
, hope to fnd myself in general and sub
stantial accord with the gentlemen who d
me the high honor to listen to me, vet