Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1915-07-01

tending Justice Chase from impeach-
mems before the Bar of the Senate, the
Senators acting a. jurors, and Vice
President Aaron Burr sitting as the
presiding Judge; ard still later we see
him defending this same Aaron Burr
from the charge of treason. We see
William Pinkney, performing in the
span OF single lifetime, the duties OF
member of the Maryland Convention
that ratified the Feneral Constitution:
member OF the Maryland House of
Delegates; member of the State Sem
ate; Representative IN Congress:
United States Senator from MARYLAND:
Attorney General of Maryland: Attor-
ney General of the United States:
Commissioners 10 London under the
Jay Treaty; Minister TO the Court CT
st. James: Minister 10 the two Sicilies:
Minister to Russia. We see Roger Il.
fancy, in the midst of his stormy and
tempestuous life, handing down the
decision of the Supreme Court which
precipitated the Civil War.
The rivers of some lands, on their
courses to the sea, disappear and re-
appear, and disappear and reappear
again, now ripping in the sunlight,
nov passing drought the necesses OF
the earth. So il is with the character
OF some men. They lack the power oI
being always at their best in the march
through life. and they pass on content
with less, until some great occasion
calls forth unsupported depths of hero
ism or sacrifice or accomplishment,
and then, the occasion past, they sink
back to mediocrity again.
But look through the annals of the
sons of Maryland, and there you find
men, such "a those / have mentioned.
who have never once failed to give the
best that was in them To the work thai
was at hand: men who have had the
capacity of Withdrawing from them.
selves, and of giving their best "a
something outside of themselves. Be
cause of that they have lifted them
selves above the common place and
have honored and blessed their state
From the beginning man has wanted
To be remembered by poSterity. He
has wanted 10 leave a memory which
will live through the ages to come
We see this trait manifested in the
sculptured monuments of Greece and
Rome: we see il in the Pyramids and
Catacombs, which mark the last rest
ing places of the Egyptian dead: vi
see II in the great cemeteries of our
modern dead; we see it in the country
graveyards where ''the rude forefath,
ers of the hamlet sleep" We see il
in the lives of usefulness and self
sacrifice and nobility which men have
lived, and which has caused so many
of them never TO be forgotten but al.
ways To- endure.
The history of Maryland is full Will
the lives of men like that. To live a:
they have lived is not to die. Their,
is no surer way to- kindle our patrio
tism, whether for the demands of peace
or war, than the study of their bio
graphies. There is no better way q
prepare ourselves for the part eacl
one of US will he called upon to- play
at some stage, near or distant, of tn,
International crisis which shakes tn,
world today.
We pray that that part, when i
comes, may be of peace. We pray
that your future may be the industr,
of business life. or the hum of fac
tories or the farm; or else the triumph.
of the bar, or of medicine or of states
AZURE or science or art.
But if il he destined that our eoun
try's part in this International crisi.
should not be one of mediation anC
Cancellation and of peace: if it Ike dis
| tined that the rights of our people, a!
citizens of neutral country, and oul
nations duty to- them and To p0sterit,
require US To enter that fearful strug
gle: then the lives of the great Mary
landerS who have gone before, In,
splendid history of this state of ou
birth. and the love of country which
is Unborn in every breast. are guaran
tees that we will. all of US, do our par
| with resolute hearts.
1t is related that in 1914. when tn,
corner stone of the old Masonic TEN
pie in Baltimore City was laid.
printed record of the history of In,
building, as well aS q gold eagle q
1911 and other coins and relics. wer,
placed within the stone, that the,
might be forever preserved for poster
| ity. But when the corner stone of tn,
new Temple was laid in 1866, and thu
old corner stone was unearthed anC
opened, it was found that of the print
ed volmme only some remnants of de
cay u blIulnS Etiiidllltu. anu tfldl lilt
silver and bronze inscriptions wer,
blackened and defaced Damp and
mould and time had furnished or de
Stroyed these memorials with the pass
ing years. But the gold eagle of ISL
remained rs clear and bright as wheI
it had first been placed in its ston,
tomb.
So will il always he with the eagl,
which ~ mboliZeS the American nation
The Blue and the Gray, the North anC
the South, have passed away forever
into the receSseS of history. Thel
are reunited now into one common
inScparahle country, whose flag 81
glorious not only with the north star
steady light. but is Respondent will
the luStre of the southern cross -
The work of man NAV pass away
temples and great buildings and won
dcrful structures may become ruins
other nations of the earth may rise o
fall, live or disintegrate: but the unit
of the American nation, and the prin
ciples for which il stands, are sucl
that the people of this great State o
| Mary land will ever face the duty O
the future, bc it peace or be it war
with resolute hearts and with eyes tina
will shine as clearly and as bright,
aS the oold eagle of 1911. which I'm