The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1910-06-10
COLLEGE GRADUATES, FARE
YOC FORTH AND FAREWELL
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seif-eXpression. Our continent seems
to be a stage selected by God for the
drama of farthest manhood.
"In the character and purposes OF
it's founders, in the plans and as
p~irations of it's youth, no nation was
ever SO fortunate as ours. We hao
the right start, received the right I'M
pulse in the beginning. The whole
life Of the American nation ILLS me
with a sense of oneness, of continuity,
of orderly and u%nsleeping growth,
from that hour when the captains OF
Raleigh let fall the first English an
Choir in Pamlico Sound and in the
pathos of lost colonies became i'm
mortal path-breakers.
eve are yet far from perfect, and
problems and troubles beset us. But
we have a. great working-chart to
guide US. In the soil OF the past we
must SOW the seeds of u future
greatness, and in the true spirit OF
u race make our freedom Slowly
broaden down from precedent to pre-
cedent.' Today is reborn yesterday
and the STRINGS Of an elder day are
in it's soul. Subtle tendencies OF
American youth will here persist
I forever.
I'm the early days of American con-
struction, a little group of splendid
lawyers gathered in a room in Phil
adelphia and drafted the declaration,
a peoples indictment Of a king, hui
manity's eternal bill of rights. Thir-
teen years later a similar band franz
er the constitution, a peoples great
deed of trust, granting to government
a guarded power from the source OF
all power. Thus they broadly based
this nation upon the popular will and
the general welfare, ordained equal
ity and opportunity, and set the
bounds of. the three spheres OF go7-
eminent.
\ "The working plan they left US ir
the constitution, u highest couf'
has declared, is in it's meaning a;
cnangeIess as the stars. By that chart
we must hold our course unto the
end. Yet under it we shall know 8
c~easeless progress as in the past and
l. still build an ever greater nation
New construction, applying its di'
INJECTIONS to the changing phases O.
perican life, must always be made
ewo diverse yet equally Virilf
two streams of Teutonic blood
argely met and mingled ane
hted by the blood Of all 1hf
went to the making Of the ear
terican. The Puritan, hardened
Persecution, contributed that
y Of steadfastness and tha'
86erament of gloom that are fun
Mental in our .Germanic race. The
waller, born in the gayest mood q
errie England, brought to the New
&orld a disposition for happil.ess
EAnd the chiyalric ideal Of the honor
hf man and the worth of woman. Like
g%he Magi,: each came bearing a pie
e;ous gift to the American to be.
II saaThe ichi1dren of the Rock and the
@echiEdren; Of the River, stirred forth BY
hsD~dTenturous blood that streams
ii Tstant Viking sires, pushing
hitter ever westward, swarmec
the wall of the A~ppalachians
$SBt over the dark and bloody
gund to the Mississippi, spread over
Tairies and deserts and over-leapec
Yforbidding mountains, until the con-
quest Of the continent was complete
and their unwearied feet met the
Pacific. .
<Today we have passed the las
frontier. The day of cheap land, fit tc
induce Intelligent migration, is gone
forever. The activities Of our time
are as intensive as those Of the pion'
GERS were extensive. Yet the herit'
age of their spirit is with us. We nee6
to apply it to the great task OF the
making Of men, the creation Of citi'
zens. Without a realization that du'
ties are the condition Of rights, with
out the subordination of selfshness tc
| the common good, without heed tt
the counsels OF the spirit Of human
brotherhood no people will long BIZ
free. :
1.-THE vigorous pioneers, scattering
h from ocean to ocean, made a homo,
geneous people, able to asslmiliate