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Hon. w. A.. Nortacot. United States
y Attorney. OF Springfield. Illinois. Il
former West virginian and brother oil
Hon. Elliott Northcott. OF Hunting
ton delivered the chief address at q
I; Lincoln day celebration at Chicago to.
K day. The address Wis an Inspiring
one and is as follows:
There are two great epocas In the
Y history Of the American Republic.
Y One Is the nation:hAllding epoch and
3sd1eJ other is the natIon.prea:wtng
/; epoch. Tne first had its scene Of &C.
4 ton IN the midst Of the thirteen Colo.
4 mics on the Atlantic sea-boarl and It's
central figure was George Washington.
The second epoch had Its principal
stage Of conflict in the Mississippi
valley and It's hero was Abraham Lin
+ coin.
i've recall the history Of the early
settlements Of jamestown and Ply
y. mouth Rock. We see the growth Of
thirteen colonies pcopled by the liber-
Ity.loving Anglosaxons. We stanL
with the throngs in the old town
4 meetings on The commons Of Bos-
tt$5ton and hear tho thunder.bolts hurle'l
& by Sar,uel Adams at the tyranny Of
$tthe British. We again hear tne match
less eloqnence Of Patrick Henry In the
halls Of the Virginia assembly. and the
4 continental congress. Like mountain
;:Deaks loom up the figures OF Wash
ington and Franklin. We watch In
4 the morning twilight for the coming
;S;oi British regulars along the streets
I IN the auiet villages Of Lexington anil
I Concord. We .shnd amid the glories
4 OF Bunker HiH and wait with WASH
Eington and his barefooted soldles In
/ the snow at Valley Forge. and applaud
/; his victory. at Trenton We witness
i Burgoyne's surrender at Saratoga and
Cornwallis'Fat YORKTOWN. We stand
Ein the city opPhlladelphla and hear
ilthe old liberty bell peal out the birth
aof liberty upon new continent: and
hear the plaudlts Of the world at the
Immortal words Of the Declaration OF
5 Independence, as penned by the lib
Serty.loving Jefferson. We see a new
/ nation born, dedicated to freedom ana
constitutional government; created by
1 a people whose forefatners, upon the
y plains at Runnymede. had wrested
I; from King John the Magma Charta.
the Sbulwark Of AngloSaxon liberty;
Ia nation that was to exempllfy to ali
Y history the truth that all governments
\ derive taeir Just powers from the con.
sent OF the governed. s.it,a
Nations are not made, they grow.
Z In the beginning Of this republic our
E!forefatners left two great questions
for future generations to- solve. Ideas
are things, and It was a contest upon
= q
y these two great ideas that moulded
sithe bullets that were fired in the civil
$War. Asthe teachings OF voltatre anil
I Rousseau culmlrated In the French
& Revolution 50 the discussion OF these
d two great questions ended only ut
4 %AppomattoS. ime
~ The first found an early expression
IN the Kentucky and Virginia resolu.
$;tions Of l79s and 1893, inspired by JET.
] ferson. They formulated the conten.
ton that the right OF the State was
above the right Of the Federation.
Jefferson, the l!berty.loving Jefferson,
y who had Just como from the shadows
of montrchy, knew no Capitalization
except the Capitalization Of personal
D government. He did not fully under.
stand that in a representative govern.
/ ment the greatest danger Is not In
rehabilitation, but in dlsintegrauon.
4 He had not come to realize taat the
greatest tyranny Is the tyranny Of the
chief Of q petty tribe, and that In EN-.
tplre there is liberty. That In great
representative government where all
power comes from the people, there
rs no danger OF Capitalization. Cal.
iloun, as the disciple Of Jefferson. car.
\, ried this Idea to Its logical conclusion
and advocated the right Of null!flca-
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