The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-10-06

meeting here. The record does not tell
us, but it was doubtless such a day
as Kansas October always has in
store,-lilxe that which inspired the
soul of dear George Herbert, when he
sang:
Sweet day, so COOL so calm so bright
The bridal of the earth and sky"
There must have been many weighty
matters under consideration for only q
few hours before, demand had been
served upon Charles Robinson, who was
the incarnate purpose of the New Eng
land company, to remove certain tent
in thirty minutes, or suffer the conse-
quences. The tent was not removed;
but the company went serenely forward,
in New England fashion, with the BUSH
ness it had in hand. Mrs. Robinson.
who gave to history an invaluable SER
vice in her book. kansas; Its Interior
and Exterior Life" made this entry in
I the record she kept of daily events:
/ October 9th. At meeting of the
association, it was decided that the town
be named Lawrence, after Amos A.
Lawrence, of Boston, who was doing
much for the settlement"
/ 1t is a noble name, and not only fifty
commentaries the Boston philanthro-
list, who so closely identified with
this young city: but it is suggestive OF
the high and >resolute spirit of those
who chose it. that it mad been borne by
the brave sailor, who died on the deck
of the tCheSapeake,'' murmuring with
/ his departing breath, Don't give up
the ship" And this city--another Spar
ta-turned always to her foes with the
/ Same brave lOOks WHICH SAUL LOU
may hack, you may murder, you may
burn-but here we are, and here we
shall remain" Excepting only Plyfn-
tOuth-if indeed, she ought to be ex-
cepted-there is no soil on this continent
so sacred as that upon which we stand
today. The currents of history, flowing
from age to age and from generation to
generation, meet Thermopylae and
Naseby and Bunker Hill, but here they
touch a soil as sweet and classic as any
in all the world.
Tribute to Robinson.
In the wild, irregular outbreaks which
when they leave the domain of thought
for the trial of mere physical strength,
it is inevitable that many excuses will
be committed. And the best thing in
the history of Kansas, is the wise and
prudent moderation that always tenn
pered passion, when the advice OF
Charles Robinson was needed. How
true it is
1.-The gods approve
The depth and not the tumult of the
SOUL"
He was your great first citizen; calms
sonal courage that he, of all Others could
advise caution without reproach. He had
that highest attribute of statesnaanship,
which in his own language strove always
to keep the record right" He would not
go into any movement which could be
counted rebellious against the United
States; against the goysFnmeP fr wni fta
true course, yet the formal, outward
authority which good citizens must re-
spect-or try to respect In the Kansas
struggle, the government, or perhaps il
would be more correct to say, the adj
large man to see the distinction between
the desirable and the possible. There is a
French revolution. which declares. that
in troublous times it is "audacity. au-
day But true wisdom thinks of tomor-
row. It is not audacity.. but cool. deliber-
If the Kansas conflict had been French
if it had been a general uprising against
what we know it to have been. The
American people can never have need of
ever claimed or desired, is in the great
organic law. And so it has always hap
people assert grievance, it is not for the
denial of some new privilege. but for the
of course. true that we Know the history
of our own race better than that of any
over, know the Anglo-Saxon story. 1t
has been forward race-always in tho
tions and ballads and stories a creed-a1-
most as much religious it is political
which means only this; Liberty under the
law.
The Quantren Raid
What shall I say of Lawrence in hts
tory? The Quantrell raid is part of it.
burst tnd Cruel Giiy savage contin1ance of
the free-state struggle. In 1T, Lawrence
was paying AGAIN the penalty a. OF ner s Ge
lifted once more her beautiful face. as in
the old days, and looking out serenely up
on the future, uttered the words which
more truly than any others tell the sad.
brave story of Kansas: .,Ad astrs per
stars through rough ways.
1t is beautiful tie, which here unites
scholastic-in that high companionship,
which has SO long identified them and
which crowns Mount Dread, is the pledge
of high resolves, and each morning as it
not be seen elsewhere, they who give and
they who receive know how truly they
the things for which Kansas suffered and
strove in those brave days. Here. let me
express the hope and the faith that the
Kansas State university will continue -
be always, not only the seat of scholar
ship and learning, but of honor, truth ana
freedom, the brave ideals which, mors
than any others, join university to the
great common heart
Learning and Patriotism.
They greatly err who think that learn
ing and patriotism do not go hand in
hand, each helping, encouraging and sus-
tanning the other. AS university town
both has received blessings which can not
all be told. or estimated or measured.
like to believe that this noble institution
IS kindred to all which anywhere in the
world, keep burning the light of civiliza-
ton, of science, of art and of beauty. I
like to believe that some day she will bs
another Oxford. at whose breast has been
nurtured the best scholarship and the best
thought of England-Oxford spreading
her gardens to the moonlight and whis-
pering from her towers the last enchants
ments of the Middle Age
Fellow citizens, the high aim of all these
ceremonies is not to recall, or to exalt the
mere founding or the mere naming of a
city. Ali there are larger cities-cities OF
greater commercial Importance, of great
er wealth, but nowhere on any soil, are
there memories more inspiring or which
mean more to those who look back fifty
years. l congratulate you, whose homes
are here in this goodly Kansas-which
you love well-that peace with all her
Joys and her consultations came long ago