The Nashville globe. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1906-193?, 1913-01-03

every race Of every land and OF every
cline. Says Charming: The world
is governed much more by opinion
than by laws" Says Wendell Phil
lips: With US law is nothing, unless
close behind it stands a warm living
public opinion" Says Lord Palmer
ston: Opinions are stronger than
armies. If they are founded in
truth and justice they will in the end
prevail against the bayonets Of infan-
try, the fire OF artillery and the
charges of cavalry.
He that would win favor at the
high court of the worlds opinion
should see to it that his cause is Just,
his hands are clean and his heart is
right, and then press his claims with
might and main until the clouds of
oppression have left the skies and the
horizon reddens with the flash Of vic
tory.
The fathers held in their first ar
, ticle of faith that it was reasonable
| and selfevident that all men are
. created ~equal-eQual before the God
: of nations and entitled to the undis-
+. puted enjoyment of the bountiful
Q blessings of an Allwise Creator; enti-
tied to aspire to the freest and full.
est development of his gifts and
g powers; entitled to receive the cour-
tesy and consideration that he of
/. right should bestow upon his fellow
man. Human society is a divine In
stitution. The gifts and powers are
s the benefactions of Him who is Om-
nlscient and Omnipotent. Goodness
IT and Justice are his peculiar attri-
a butes. From his DEGREES there Is no
q escape and from his decisions there
n is no appeal. Says Jefferson: "They
are endowed by their Creator with
certain unalienable rights" Here
7 the hand of God is recognized In the
+ endowment of natural gifts. In the
- arrangement for the happiness of
mar In the social system the Creator
- saw fit to endow man with certain
~ rights, certain inalienable rights
rights that cannot be denied him
that cannot be transferred and pre-
Il serve the harmony and stability Of
H. the social fabric. These rights arr
" Enumerated as life, liberty and pursuit
l. Of happiness. These are mans ma
tural rights and are not the gifts o
&c civil government. They are inheren
rs and governments are instituted II
OF vouchsafe and secure to each indi
ch vidual member of society these God
"a given rights lest in the progress O
eff civilization or the lack of it condi
les ttons might arise in which those les
e. able to maintain their rights Nigh
suffer at the hands of others. Gov
b.; ernments are Gods agents for tn
E. preservation of mans natural right
on, and governments are mans agents, II
eel ceiving from him such powers as ma
or sees fit to yield for the making
ST. civil law for the regulation IF man.
re- dealings with man in the affairs {
P. the world. This is civilized societ,
mn the most tangible evidence of civilizi
ton.
M The fathers declared that man
right to life was God-given and il
alienable. That liberty and pursu
P of happiness were his by the san
decree, and in the framing of IL
Constitution they were careful to pr
vide that these rights should not
'lls' taken from him, except las a punis
vas ment for crime" and then "by d.
ain process of law"
18th Life is the first gift that the inc
OF vidual is capable Of receiving. 1T
mes the Childhood of immortality" sa
fter One. st Is the active correspondent
was with things about u.s." says anotht
'ses the span Of existence between t
Ida cradle and the grave shaped and
ellis, tuenced by the acts and conduct
gan, itself and others. This is life.
Eu- 1t may be prescribed and proscrih
ard by ignorance, by lethargy and by
per- desrotism Of prejudice. 1t is I
dric province of civil government 10 {
lam that ignorance is enlightened; IL
eed. lethargy gives place to industry a
progress, and that prejudice shall
fettCr any individual soul IN his
forts to mount up and reach his go
,noo Aside from the physical life the
w. is the moral life, which shapes
who conduct so as to preserve a place
bar honor in society; intellectual !
Vito which enables us to invent, to disc
fore er. to realize, to investigate, to knC
BY this We not only appreciate {
own gifts and powers, thereby
alb ing us to utilize them, but cur
tellectual life establishes for US a h
ply relation with the rest Of the wo
- whether in literature, in %sci9nce.
me, religion, or in government. Life a
take abundant life was not only the drei
sion Of the fathers of the republic, bI.
Vas the leading thought that i'll
nan the heart of the lowly Nazarene. s
one L., 81 come that We might have
lnds and that we might have it more alb
her, dainty"
Of Liberty was another cherish
sta dream of those who rocked the c
and die of this republic. Liberty Of DO
cent liberty of the mind and liberty of
| r. soul. In other terms, civil and r
the gious liberty. Liberty" says Bur
,epa- "is not found in the abstract" 81
erty inheres in some sensible obje
-evi- and every nation has formed to its
ated some favorite point which, by way
by em~inence, becomes the criterion
ena- their happiness" 1t is in the emf
life, ment of life and the exercise of
ess; freedom, both as a divine right g
,ern- as governmental functions, that
de- as citizens of this American reput
con- find our sincerest happiness. 81
ever ~Bolingbroke: Liberty is to the
de- lective body what health is to
light physical or individual body" "F
it," sonal liberty" says one, "is the ri
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