The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1903-02-07
SYMPOSIUM or views.

l
The correspondent of the New Yorl
Evening Post says that the recent accept
ance Of the Maryland contributions q
Saturday Hall in the capitol. one OF them
being of Charles Carroll. OF Carrollton
the last survivor of the signers OF tn,
Declaration of Independence. brought ou
something of a symposium Of senat.
views on the meaning OF that instru
ment.
speaker and good type OF the young
Republicanism Of the present day, said In
the course of his remarks:
After nearly century of doubt and
uncertainty come things. at least. have
been made secure. Not very long ago cns
of our most honored university presi-
dents was reported to have said tina; un-
less certain poorly defined ideas OF hi:
own prevail. within twenty -fvt
years. an emperor will be seated in tbs
chair at Washington. Even in the SEN
| ate OF the United States the anxiety,
sometimes real and sometimes pretended
has grown familiar by repetition. that
| the government established by our faith
ers has broken away from its moor
ings and is now adrift upon high seas,
headed toward the rocks, nobody knows
where.
I We ought to keep company with nc
| such opinions. They belong to the black
ness OF the darkness of past generation.
From 1865 forward to eternity, whatever
| else happens. the American republic shall
Twelve to answer the accusers of the
people, live to vindicate the faith OF our
| fathers, 1--we to scatter the riches of civil
| liberty to races not yet grown 20 the
| stature of freedom, and to nations yet
| unborn
! And not only has the constitution OF
! the United States had TO contend with in
| fuences adverse and sometimes malevo-
lent in their hostility. but the Declaration
of independence has passed through vi
! cissitudes hardly less perilous to It's moral
| integrity. Mr.. Jefferson originally wrote,
| All men are created equal and indie
pendent He then struck out the words
| and independent. leaving our sublime
| political dogma standing markedly there.
| All men are created equal
by that he did not mean that every
body comes into this world with exactly
| the same equipments of mind and body,
or character. or estate. Our fathers. so
far as I have been able to find out. were
men of immense practical good sense
They knew perfectly well the differences
which necessarily exist among men. aris-
ing from the nature OF things. They had
no quarrel with the framework OF So
ciety. Their quarrel was with the abuses
OF despotism. the inequalities arising. not
INSTRUMENTATION Of governments II
was against these that they uttered the
challenge of divine justice. All men are
created equal in their right TO life and
the pursuit of happiness
Senator Hoar. earlier in the day. had
said:
Il have no fear that the great Declare
ton of Independence will ever lose its
prinacy among the political state pa
pers which have been produced since the
beginning of time. To find its superior
or its equal we must search the inspired
pages of our venerable Scriptures. There
have been times. and there Will be again.
when the great truths on which our
fathers planted the republic. as upon
cornerstone, will be denied or scorned or
scoffed at by men or parties who. In
some fancied stress or political neces-
sity will endeavor to escape their obliga-
lions.
THAT is true. unhappily. of the Ten
Comma ndments and of the Sermon on the
Mount. 1t is true of every moral and
legal obligation. whether of divine or hui
man sanction. The generation and the
party and the individual who have dis
obeyed these high commands perish and
are forgotten. while the eternal law of
restitude abides forever. The COM
manding authority of our great Declar-
alton and the pure fame of the men
who framed 1t and who signed 1t and
who pledged to it their life. fortune. and
sacred honor will remain so long as
the republic shall endure
In the same strain. Senator Wellington
said:
Such was the character, such were
the services of the two Marylanders
whom our statues typify as the best pro-
duct of the manhood Of our soil. Their
influence has not ceased. True 1t is. the
Co.
which they struggled seem at present to
be obscured by an eclipse. II II be So
would It not be well upon this occasion
to call halt in the fateful march; would
II not be well to look backward and II
necessary. retrace our steps until we
may stand again in that altitude where
our vision will become bright and clear,
where the flash-light of an indiscreet am
bition, of a desire for world power.
for territorial expansion and colonial ag-
grandizement shall forever pass away
and in it's stead we shall see again that
light which led us for a century and a
quarter In honorable history and glorious
achievement as nation? We shall march
to the music Of the song Of the great
Declaration for which Charles Carroll and
John Hanson lived and labored through
out many years. and realize. as did they.
that our strength as a nation depends up
on the exemplfcation of the grandest
doctrine ever promulgated TO men-that
they shall be free and govern themselves
under God. according to their own con-
sent and pleasure"
Senator McComas OF the same state.
said:
THE work of Carroll and Hanson. and
their compatriots of the Revolution. gave
TO the world the first true federal state:
and they built 1t to endure the storms
and stress Of civil war. IL is the great
republic OF all history. In IL the law is
supreme
Looking back over the one hundred
and twenty-seven years of our exist
ence as a nation. one truth Is luminous .
The world would not IL II could erase the /
great republic from the map Of the !
globe.
The future OF civilization rests with I
the Anglo-Saxon race. Not the British /
empire but the American republic Will 1
lead that race onward TO that future. /
moral. political and intel /
lectual ties unite In a sense all who speak 1
the English language. today the leading 4
language Of the world
THE marvellous achievements Of the |
English-speaking people. reaching forth /
from their little island world. are sure to
be surpassed By several hundred millions I
81 English-speaking people Of fifty pow
arfui states IN an inyincible republic.
whose home is the vast center OF a CONT
nent washed by both oceans. The great
republic has been worthy Of it's heritage
Il has lifted up humanity and liberty {
Il is invincibIe in war. IL wsr approach
is shores. IL Is fast reaching out 10 con-
irel the seas. II H. the greatest self
nation and the greatest world
power. Its creed is peace.