The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-06-06


uEan, with sentence stating what he and his
country through him had done toward estab-
lisning the reign of law in justice for the
benefit of mankind.
Rome said, Here is Numa, who received
the science of law from the nymph Egerla
in the cavern and taught It's message to his
countrymen. Here Is Justinian, who frst re-.
duced law to a code. made its precepts plain,
| so that all mankind could read 1t, and laid
down the rules which should govern the deal
| ing Of man with man in every transaction
| Of life.''
France said Here is D'Aguesseau, the
great chancellor, to whose Judgment seat pill
grims from atar were wont to repair to DO
| him reverence.
| England said, Here is Erskine, who made
! it safe for men to print the truth, no matter
| what tyrant might dislike to read it =
| Virginia said, Here is Marshall, who
| breathed the vital principle into the eonstt-
tuition, infused into it, instead Of the letter
| that kileth, the spirit that maketh alive
| and enabled it to keep state and nation each
| in it's appointed bounds, as the stars abide
| in their courses
I have sometimes fancied that We might
| erect here in the capital of the country a coll
| umn to American Liberty which alone might
! rival in height the beautiful and simple shaft
which we have erected to the fame Of the
| Father of the Country. I can fancy each
|
should rectte its own contribution to the great
structure of which the column should be but
| the symbol.
| The generation of the Puritan and the Pill
grim and the Huguenot claims the place Of
| honor at the base. II brought the torch Of
Freedom across the sea. cleared the forest.
/ subdued THE savage and the wild beast. |
laid in Christian liberty and law the foun-
| dations OF empire
The next generation says: eWhat, my
fathers founded I builded I left the sea-
shore to penetrate the wilderness. I planted
schools and colleges and colrts and
! churches a., .-.~ ...-..E.s#.I
colonial day. 81 stood by the side of Eng
land On many hard-fought field helped
humble the power of France. saw the lilies
go down before the lion at Lousburg. and
Quebec. I carried the cross Of St. George in
| triumph In Martinique and the Havana.
knew the stormy paths Of the ocean. fol-
| lowed the whale from the Arctic to the Ant
arctic seas, among tnnbling mountains OF
ice and under equinoctial heat, as the great
English orator said NO sea not vexed by
my fisheries; no climate not witness to my
tolls - - -
Then comes the generation of the Revolu-
tlonary time Il encountered the power OF
England ! declared and won the independ-
| ence OF my country. I placed that declaration
on the eternal principles of justice and right
eousne.ss which all mankind have read, and
on which all mankind will one day stand
affirmed the dignity of human nature and the
right of the people to govern themselves. !
| devised the securities against popular haste
| and delusion which made that right SECURE
created the supreme court and the senate
| For the first time in history made the right
of the people to govern themselves safe, and
established institutions for that end which
will endure forever'1 p .-e
The next generation says:.tsI encountered
England again. vindicated the right of an
American ship to sail the seas the wide world
over without molestation. I made the Ameri-
can sailor as safe at the ends of the earth as
my fathers had made the American farmer
safe in his home. ! proclaimed the Monroe
doctrine in the face of the Holy Alliance
under which sixteen republics have joined the
family of nations. filled the western hefni-
sphere with republics from the lakes to Cape
Horn, each controlling it's own destiny in
safety and in honor. "
Then comes the next generation: II did the
mighty deeds which in your younger years
you saw and which your fathers told. I saved
the union. put down the rebellion. I freed
the slave. / made OF every slave freeman
and Of every freeman citizen and Of every
citizen ?. voter -
Then comes another who did the great work
in peace, in which SO many of you had an
! honorable share. II kept the faith paid
the detts brought in Cancellation and peace
instead Of war. :, I secured in the practice oil
nations the great. doctrine of expatriation.
devised the homestead system. I covered the
prairie and the plain with happy homes an6
with mighty states. crossed the continen,
and Joined together the seas with my great
! railroads. l declared the manufacturing indie.
pendence of America. as my fathers affirmed
its political Independence. ! built up oul
vast domestic commerce. made my country
the richest, freest, strongest, happiest people
on the face of the EARTH
And now what have we to say? What have
we to say? Are we to have place in thai
honorable company? Must we engrave or
that column: 1--WE repealed the. declaration Of
independence. We changed the, Monroe doc.
trlne from a doctrine of eternal righteousness
and justice, resting on the consent of the gov:
erped, to a doctrine of brutal selfshness