The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-12-10

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 viduals. It comes to our people here as the inheritance of ages and effort. It can be thrown away: 1t can be uniearned very easily, and it will surely be unlearp- ed If we forget the vital need not merely of preaching, but of practicing both sets os virtues-h we forget the vital need of having the average citizen not oniy good man but a man. (Appiausel
 .It is a fine thing to have on the Su- preue Court a man who dared venture all for the great prise of death in battle when the country called for him ana then the man who after the war was closed did not content himself with nv ins an ignoble life on the plea tnat ne had done SO we'll it was not necessary to do more, but who continued to do nis duty as a citizen all the better because he had done 1t as a soldier; the man who remembered that duty done, 10 DC or practical use. must serve not as an ex- cuse for not doing further duty. but as an incentive. as spur. to make him feel ashamed that his present or his fu- ture should fall short of his past (Ap- plause) Judge Harlan. l greet you. Fer sonally sir, wish to express my own personal debt to you, for your influence. for your example, but I wish far more, speaking as the representative of all our people to express the infinite sense or obligation we have to you for having shown by your life what the type Of fearless American citizenship should pc.
 As the President took his seat MT. Mc- veayEh introduced Justice Harlan. The cheering was so prolonged that IL was some time before the Justice could speak
 l. x>le nal honor done him, Justice Harlan said that if his countrymen thought that he had discharged the duties of his omce with conscientious regard for what ne deemed to be the law and with an eye single to the ends of justice and right and truth his descendants would nave in this estimate of his judicial life a leg acv more precious than any that he pos sibly could leave to them. He had been sensible of the awful responsoihty resting on every member of the Supreme Court whose power for good or evil scarcely could be exaggerated. But he re- joiced that in the judgment of America it had steadily held the country in the hath of safety ESQ that today our peo- ple believe that the preservation of the Union, under the Constitution. is the sur est guarantee of liberty regulated by law as well as if the success of all move ments and all policies demanded by the common good.
 There is abundant reason, he said. to believe that the people confide in it's patriotism, It's integrity and its learning and have an abiding faith that no per- manent or irreparable harm will come to the republic by any action the supreme Court will ever take. In the early inis- tory of the country some feared that the AwoRfln0 the An0FmNuG power conferred on 1t, ultimately might so change our form of government as to destroy or endanger the essential rights of tho State and imperial those funda- mental rights of life, liberty and prop erty which belong to free men. Few, 1T any, now entertain such apprehensions and no American lawyer now questions the supremacy of the constitution in re- spect of every subject transmitted to the national government or the wisdom Of the provision made for it's final interpre- tation, or the absolute necessity of the maintenance of our liberties. that all the srightful powers of the States be preserves and respected.
 Senator Hoar, who was the next speak CT, after expressing his delight at the opportunity to honor Justice Harlan. spoke of the great responsibility resting on a Judge of the Supreme Court. He referred to the able manner Tn Wnlcn the Justice had discharged this responsibil- ity and concluded by saying that when. after twenty-five years of service, 1t can be said of a man that he has worthiiy filled the position of a Judge of the Su- preme Court there remained nothing to be desired.
 Other speakers of the evening were Chief Justice Fuller Justice Brewer. Hon. Edward Blake of Canada, Judge Alexander P. Humphrey of Kentucky, Assistant Attorney-General Beck and Mir. R. Ross Perry of the District of Colun- bia.
 It vas after midnight when the party broke up.