The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1903-09-10
Four Of the WORLDS Great Rulers Com
pared.

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Prophet Samuel to the Hebrew nation,
1895 years b. c., and the farewell ad-
dress of Washington to the American
people on Sept. nth, 1706-nearly 1900
years afterward-it would seem impos-
sible for any honest man in search of
truth, and willing to receive and act
upon it, not to be forcibly impressed |
by the wonderful analogy pervading
these two immortal documents. From
the giving of the Law at Sinai 1401 b.
@. down to the close of Samuel's' term
as chief justice of the nation, the He
brews had enjoyed all the rights and
privileges and blessings of the most,
perfect form of self government known
to mankind either before or since. But
after they had entered Canaan and
Joshua had led them over the Jordan,
subduing thirty-one heather kings and
had divided the land among the twelve
tribes, the people became corrupt and
demanded king, to be like their neigh
boring nations. No words can ade-
quately express the sadness and sorrow
of the grand old Judge, Samuel, when
informed of the madness and folly of
the people in deliberately rejecting self
government for the slavery of a king.
He took the matter to the Lord for
counsel and direction, and was informed
that the people had become too corrupt
to maintain just and virtuous form of
government. They had been trading
in justice, buying and selling the iudg-
ments and DEGREES of the courts, and
his own sons had received brides with
the rest. They are unfit for freedom
and deserve to be ruled by rod of
iron. Give them king, and let them
learn in the school of experience those
valuable lessons of wisdom that fools
will not learn anywhere else. Let them
bend their backs under the burden Of
taxation and bow their necks beneath
the kingly yoke. They do not appre-
ciate the privileges and blessings of
liberty regulated by law; they give and
receive brides and are only fit for po-
litical slaves-let them have a master.
When Washington had completed his
second term in the presidential Office
and determined to retire to private life,
he embodied in his farewell address all
those wise and noble sentiments Sam
uel had delivered to the Hebrews under
divine inspiration. And thus it is these
two illustrious men, though living three
thousand years apart, by common con-
sent are honored and accepted as two
of the wisest and purest men in all the
tide of time.
When Caligula appointed his favoritt
. horse to be consul of the Roman en-
Q pire to expound the laws and preside
over the senate, no one believed for {
moment his object was to give the PEG
pie wise and efficient officer. On thu
contrary, it was manifest his purpose
was to treat the senate as a co-ordinat,
! department of the government will
Q contempt and show the people they haC
q no rights he was bound to respect, bu
;, that all sovereignty centered in him
It was true he had his horse stabbed il
Z a palace and fed in marble manger a
public expense, but it was impossibl
for the Roman citizens to be please
F. with such an officer to execute the laws
Q When Theodore Roosevelt entere
q Charleston like the conquering hero h
. is, and looked around among the hun
dreds of wholesale and retail merchants
lawyers, doctors, literary men and othe
men of affairs and selected the negr
Crum as collector of the port, to e1
y pound the intricate schedules of tn
# Dingley tariff and represent the Unite
Q States in her intercourse with the ne
a vies of the world is there man in tn
United States, outside Of lunatic asy
lum, of any political party, who bt
lieves he selected the best man i
Charleston for collector of revenue
!. Besides, the constitution places til
n appointing power in the hands of th
president to be exercised for the peopI
= by and with the advice and consent
i the senate. In full senate there al
o 80 members, each of whom has the sam
y power over one Of his nominations 6
y the president himself has. These sci
ators rejected his nomination of Crun
and members of his own party advise
him that 80 per cent. of the citizens
8 the town were opposed to Crum's al
;. pointment. But in spite of all this
. he appointed the negro after the senat
;, had twice rejected him. Did he do til
~ to mongrelize the federal governmer
/" and have mixed government of whit
g and black men in the south ? Did
h make the appointment because he b,
> lieved Crum to be the wisest and be
qualified man in Charleston to faithful
|" ly execute the duties of the office, O
7, like Caligula in the appointment of IL
et horse, was he expressing his conteml
for the senate as coordinate depar
ment of the government? Even fana
les and educated fools like Crumpacke
Hopkins, and other moral perverts
l. that political party can see that he j,
= nored his official oath iii refusing "tl
advice and consent of the senate, " an
&c with his "big stick" struck dead