The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1907-03-02

LINCOLN SPEAKING AT THE LYCEUM.
sttutons conducting more essentially
to the ends of civil and religious lib
erty than any of which the history of
former times tells us. We, when
mounting the stage of existence, found
ourselves the legal inheritors of these
fundamental blessings. We toiled not
in the acquisition or establishment Of
them. They are Il legacy bequeathe1
us by a once hardy, brave and patriotic
but now lamented and departed race Of
ancestors. Theirs was the task, and
nobly they performed 1t, to possess
themselves and through themselves us
of this goodly land and TO uprear upon
Its hills and valleys political edilice
Of liberty and equal rights. Ills ours
only to transmit these--the former I'M
profaned by the foot of an invader, the
latter undecayed by the lapse of time
and uniform by usurpation-to the latest
generation that fate shall permit the
world to know. This task gratitude
to our fathers, justice to ourselves.
duty to posterlty--all imperatlvely re-
iuIc W pcIioihs
How, then, shall we perform it2 At
what point shall we expect the APP
proach of danger? Shall we expect
some transatlantic military giant to
step the ocean and crush us at blow?
Never! All the armies Of Europe, Asia
and Africa combined, with all the
treasure of the earth Jour own except
ed In their military chest. with a Bo-
naparte for commander, could not by
force take drink from the Ohio or
! make track on the Blue Ridge in II
| trial of q thousand years!
| AT what point, then. Is the approach
of danger to be expected2 l answer,
| IL Ii ever reach us 1t must spring up
amongst us. 1t cannot come from
abroad II destruction be our lot. we
must ourselves he It's author and fin
isher, As a nation of freemen we must
! live through all time or die by suicide.
~ hope ! am not oyerwary. hrt II ]
ana not there Is even now something
of III omen amongst us. mean the
Increasing disregard for law which
pervades the country, the growing dis.
| position TO substitute the wild and fu-
rlous passions In lieu Of the sober judg-
ment of courts and the worse than saw
age mobs for the executive ministers
Of justice. This disposition Is awfully
fearful in any community, and that 1t
now exists In ours, though grating to
our feelings to admit It, 1t would be
a violation OF truth and an insult to our
intelligence to deny. Accounts of out
RACES committed by mobs form the
everyday news of the times. They
have peryaded the country from New
England TO Louisiana. They are mel.
Their peculiar 20 the eternal SHOWS OF
the former nor the burning sun of the
latter They are not the creature OF
climate. Neither are they confined Ia
tbe slaveholding or Notwithstanding
states. Alike they spring up among
the pleasure hunting masters Of south.
ern slaves ana the order loving citizens
of the land Of steady habits. What
ever, then, their cause may be, II Is
common to the whole country"
The orator then adverts TO the doipgs
of recent mobs In various parts Of the
country and insists that IL the spirit
that produced them continues to In
crease the laws and the government II
self must fall before Il. Bad citizens
will be encouraged, and good ones, hav
Ing no protection against the lawless
will be glad 10 receive an individual
master who will be able to give then
the peace and order they desire. Thai
viii be the time when the usurper viii
put down his heel on the neck OF the
people and batter down the "fair fab
rlc" Of free institutions. "Many greaI
and good men," he says, sufficiently
qualified for any task they should I'M
dertake, may ever be found Whose am
bition would aspire to nothing beyond
a seat In congress, gubernatorlal or 4
presidential chair, but such belong MOI
to the family OF the lion or the tribe Of