The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1917-03-07

OuC bASuAc OrA&ln OF United Staffa
Government.
Washington. March 5.-vice Pres
ident Marshall made his second in
augural address before the senate to.
day--a statement of his creed Of ci+.
izenship under a government for
which. he said, II ought to be willing
to live or die, as God DEGREES. TINT
it may not perish off the earth through
treachery within or through assault
from without" The address follows:
Custom calls for the utterance of
few words upon this occasion: other
wise. l would gladly remain silent. It
may not be inappropriate to EXPRESS
my gratitude for the little nameless.
unnumbered and times unremem-
pered acts Of courtesy and charity
shown to me by the members of this
body during the last four years; to
express my regret over the vanishing
faces Of those who are leaving and
to welcome those who in a few mo-
ments are to become our co-work ers
IN the cause of constitutional free
dom.
Everywhere in America are clam
ant and strident voices proclaiming
the essential elements of patriotism
He who seeks out Of them all to se-
lect one clear note of love for country
may fail. conceive it to be far
more important to examine myself
than to cross-examine another. May
l make bold to insert in the record
some clements Of the creed which Il
have adopted in this period of retro
spection and introspection? 1t does
not embrace what know but holds
part Of what I believe.
Il have faith that this government
or ours was divinely ordained to dis
close whether men are by nature fit
ted or can by education be made ut
Tor self-government; to teach Jew
and Greek, bondman and free, alike,
the essential equality of all men be-
fore the law and to be tender and
true to humanity everywhere and
under all circumstances; to reveal
that service is tho highest reward of
life. cannot believe otherwise whcr
1 read the words and recall the sac
rifces Of the fathers. If ours is not
the Golden Rule Of Government. thon
Washington wrought and Lincoln
died, in vain.
Il believe that the world. now ad
Hanctng and now retreating, is new
ertheless moving forward to a far.off
divine event wherin the tongues Of
Babel will again be blended in the
language of q common brotherhood:
and believe that I can reach the
highest ideal Of my tradition and nv
lineage as an American-as a man, as
a citizen and as a public oflcial-l
when I Judge my fellowmen without
malice and with charity, when I wor-
ry more about by own motives and
conduct and less about the motives
and conduct of others The time 7
am liable to be wholly wrong is when
know that I am absolutely right. In
an individualistic republic, I am tho
unit Of patriotism and If I keep N.Y.
self keyed in unison with the music
OF the union, my fellowmen will
catch the note and fall into time and
step.
II believe there is no finer form
OF government than the one undcr
which we live and that I ought to
be willing to live or to die, as God
DEGREES. that it may not perish from
Off the earth through treachery with
in or through assault from without:
and believe that though my first
right Is to be a partisan, that nv
first duty when the only principles
on which free government cam rest
are being strained. is to be patriot
and to follow in wilderness of
words that clear call which bids me-
guard and defend the Ark of our
National Covenant"