News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1900-10-24

has changed and the old law, that his
tory repeats itself, has lost it's force;
whether the ascending splendOr of i'm
perial power is to be followed by the
descending gloom of luxury, decay and
ruin. The other of a nation, where the
spirit of the Pilgrim and the Huguenot
remains the living and controlling
force, devoting it's energies to the de-
velopment of the ineXhaustible re-
sources of its great continental terri
tory; solving the problem of universal
personal and political liberty, of a gov
eminent by the consent of the gov
erned, where no king, no class and no
| race rules, but each individual has
equal voice and power in the control of
all, where wealth comes only as the
compensation for honest toll of hand
or brain, where public service is private
| duty; a nation whose supreme value to
the world lies not in its power but in
| its unfailing loyalty to the high ideals
of its youth, it's forever lifting its
strong hand, not to govern, but only to
| protect, the weak; and thus the bright
shining which brightens more and more
into the fadeless eternal day.
"'Brethren, Ebal and Gerizim are be-
fore us. Might and right stand on
either side, with their great appeals.
"'0nce to every man and nation comes the mo.
ment to decide
In the strife OF truth with falsehood for the good
or evil side;
Careless seems the great Ayenper. historv's Mares
but record
! One death grapple in the darkness 'twixt old sys.
tens and the word.
! Truth forever on the scafold, wrong forever on
! the throne,
Yet that scaffod sways the future and behind the
dim unknown
| Standeth God within the shadow keeping watch
above his own.
"'we see dmly in the present what is small and
| what is great.
Slow of faith how weak may turn the iron
helm of fate,
But the soul is still oracular, and amid the mar.
List the ominous stern whisper from the Delphic
cave within:
| They ensaye their children's children who make
| compromise with sin.
'Paraphrasng in part the invoca-
ton which attends the opening of the
supreme court, God save the United
States of America and keep them from
| the road so often travelled by nations,
{ of increasing territory, accommodating
| dominion, rapidly and easily acquired
wealth, luxurious splendOr. a growing
| separation between the poor and the
rich. presagng decay and death, and
may we always hear the solemn pray
er of Abraham Lincoln borne upward
| to heaven from the consecrated field
of Gettysburg upon the mighty volume
of patriotic incense which, ever rises
from that sacred spot. that government
| of and by and for the people may new
er perish from the earth
1t was very still while Edward was
presenting this part of his argument,
for the quotation was from an address
so recent that it was not generally
known and. so far as Edward knew it,
had not been printed in any of the
RaynOr papers. One of the judges lis
tened with marked expression of sur
prise. as If he could hardly believe that
| a judge of the supreme court of the
United States could be the author of
the sentiments attributed to him in the
address. Address by Hon. David
Brewer associate justice of the SUI
preme court of the United States. be-
! fore the Liberal club, Buffalo, Feb. 16,
1890.
There was no attempt, at any point
in his speech. TO break out into APP
plause, as there had been in the case
of Wilson. Even when Edward closed
his description of the horrors of war in
general, by quoting Willis story of the
battle and the death of the native Fill
Pine and her baby, there was not the
slightest Indication that he had any
sympathy from the audience. 1t was
only when he finally closed and walked
back to his seat, that the applause
broke out, and apparently it was then
fully as hearty and prolonged as that
which followed Wilson's peroration.
In Wilson's rejoinder he showed a
slight hesitation, similar to that which
had marked Edwards beginning.
Those who knew what he had prepar-
ed. said afterward that he left out q
large part Of what he intended to say,
and extemporized to a great extent.
However that may be, he spoke with
considerable force and again provoked
loud applause.
Edward closed the debate with a re-
buttal that, in the opinion of a large
part of the student body, was far
stronger than his main argument and
again divided the honors with Wilson,
rs far as applause was concerned.
And now came the most trying mo-
ment of the evening to the young con-
testants The judges retired to make
their decision, and while they were out
The glee club sang by request When
rome one called for the old war song,
30 Cuba, the land that ought to be
freeP' 1t seemed to some of the au-
dience that the sentiment provoked by
1t was in the nature of prophecy, an
ticipating the decision of the judges
against Edward. There was no doubt
that, owing to the enthusiasm for the
war; Edward had the unpopular side
Of the question. And yet, more than
one woman In the audience that night,
thinking of her own child safe and
warm in its bed at home, felt her eyes
dim at the memory of Willis picture
: as Edward had drawn 1t from his let