The Adair County news., 1908-06-03

yOu Call tuC dCCcptOI Vi q Cudl-
lenge and condemn the sender. BY
that barbarous code he who was charg-
with an infamous offense could not
clear his skirts by proving it's falsity.
To prove the charge false and to fail
to resent 1t was to aggravate the i'm
putation of cOwardice, in that day
more odious than vice or crime. The
same perverted public opinion which
necessitated the acceptance forced the
sending of challenge"
Could a retort be more conclusive?
If Hamilton was a martyr of the bar
barous code when he accepted, it nee
essarily follows that Burr was also
martyr when it required him to send
the challenge
Those fond of the brilliant, the or
nate, the exuberant, the splendid, can
find it in these passages with which
Stanley closed his speech:
For centuries neither the telescope
of the astronomer nor the researches
Of science could solve the mystery of
that misty light, that glimmering Cos
samer encircling the brow of night;
at last the spectrum revealed in this
nebula unborn worlds, held in SHIN
mering gauZe; revolving masses of in
candescent gas, cooling through the
passing cycles Of time, growing denser
without, shrinking within, forming
smoky concentric circles, whirling
luminous fog, congealing into molten
rings drawn by their own gravity into
rude globes, and these spinning
spheres shaped by the plastic hand of
Divinity like clay upon potter's
wheel, into planets and their satel-
lites, new solar systems, swinging for
the first time into their orbits in the
trackless, fathomless depths above.
Thus God peoples the heavens with
radiant worlds
81 have fancied that those daring
bands of exiles, forgotten by one world
and lost in the dark wilds of another,
living and dying in ignorance of the
mighty destiny of their children's chill
dren, conscious only that they were
free-I have fancied that He, with
whom thousand years are as day
or a watch in the night when it is
passed. saw an unborn and puissant
nation through all the mists of mis-
cry, persecution and death, through
which succeeding generations passed,
first to independence, then to the mas
terry of the land and sea.
"In the vast womb Of the wilderness
ing in their orbits and splendOr, but
they differed only as one star differs
from another star in glory In the
hour of destiny each found it's own
place about the great central power,
to which, like the planets, they were
eternally bound, yet forever separate.
The fathers, | declare to you, heard
the voice of God when they covered
this continent with states, even as the
heavens are bespangled with stars.
''The same peril awaits the star and
the state. The state discovered from
her sisters Is lost, even as a planet
wrenched from it's mornings, comet
like, becomes the wandering vagrant
of the skies.
Either, drawn by the compelling
gravity of a central force into it's
mighty vortex, is annihilated by the
power which should have been the
source of light and life.
From the chaos Of disunion and the
wreck of Capitalization may he who
ordained long preserve this constella-
ton of states.
LET no new Hamilton arise to dis
turb or destroy their exquisite bal
ance-harmonious, distinct, indissolu-
BILE, they shall remain eternal as the
revolving stars"
For years and years the dogmatism
of Hamilton's eulogists has dominated
American public thought. only wish
that Owsley Stanley would take time
to elaborate this splendid speech of
his and offer it to some leading maya
zine 1t would carry confusion into
every Hamilton camp, and shake the
walls of Harvard College themselves.