World's cresset. [volume] (JAH-ville [Colony], Fowler, Mo.) 1891-19??, 1908-06-04
|GREAT MEN Of AMERICA.

We can not overlook the man
who performed the first and
greatest work Of America in the
manner of taking an oath. Hon
cradle Robert X. Livingston.
Please read,
Washington, IN taking the
oath, as administered by Chan.
cellOr, Livingston. is said to have
laid his hand upon that page of
the Bible containing the fiftieth
chapter of Genesis, opposite to
which were two illustrations OF
the text, one belong a picture of
The Blessings of Zebulon," as
the other of THE Prophecy OF
Issachar." That memorable
volume, of such peculiar histori.
cal associations, row belongs to
one of the masonic lodges in New
York. Upon each of the two
outside surfaces of the volume,
there is engraved in gold letters
a commemorative record Of the
interesting circumstances at.
taching to it: and on the inside,
beautifully written upan parch.
ment, in ornamental style, sur.
mounted by an engraved portrait
of Washington, is the following
statement:
On this sacred Volume. on the
the 30In. day Of April. l7o1, IN
city of New York, va, dlminis.
tered to GEORGE WAelEruroN
the first President of the United
States of America, the oath to
support the Constit alton Of tie
United States. This jmpo"ten t
ceremony was performed By
the Most Worshipful Grand
Master of Free and Accepted
Masons Of the state of New FORK
the honorable Robert il. L,il.gs.
Chancellor OF thu state.
We can hardly over hook for
this in this instance to r,nra!
itself. Turning to another Son
: of America we call your attcn.
ton to the reath Of Daniel
| Webster in his debate with
Hayne. Please read.
Liberty and Union now and
forever one and insppera5lc.
Alter we study trom c'nter
to circumference these words
we are living in a day WHOM sucl
a motto should SWING over tia
mantle piece Of every mans
door, and each heart suia!ird in
Its folds. As the Ertat man
spoke on the 81 of January l,:;c
these words.
Mr.. President, | SHAH enter
on no encomium upon Massa.
chusetts. There ,h, is behold
her and Judge for Yourselves
There is her history; the wcrld
knows it by heart. The pas!
at least, is secure. There is
Boston, and Concord and Lex.
ington, and Bunker H'll.-and
there they will renal. forever,
The bones of her sons, falling in
the great struggle for indepen.
dence, now liz mingled with fac
soil OF every state, from New
England to G,crgia; and there
they will lie forever And, Sir
where American liberty raised
it's first voice, and where its
Youth was nurtured and sus
tanned, there it still lives, in the
strength of It's manhood and full
OF its original spirit. If discnrd
and disunion shall wound it!
party-strife and blind ambition
shall hawk at and tear it il folly
and madness IF uncasircss un.
der salutary and necessary re.
straint, shall succeed 10 scrar.
ate it from that tnisn. by which
alone its existence is made sure,
il will stand, in the cad, By the
side Of that cradle in which its
infancy was rocked: il will
stretch forth is arm with what
ever of yigor It may still retail n
over the friends who gather.
round it; and it will fail at last
ii fall it must, amidst the proud.
est monuments OF its own glory,
and on the very spot u i.s
origin "
When my eyes shall bc turn.
to behold, for the last time. the