The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1921-03-11
MARSHALL MAKES
PLEA FOR OLD FAITH
VICE PRESIDENT BIDS FAREWELL
TO OFFICE HE HAS HELD FOR
EIGHT YEARS.

Official life as the constitutional pre-.
siding officer Of this body. That mo
ment, when it arrives, will not mark
my demotion into tho ranks OF the av.
erage American citizen, for | never
arose above them.
| sprang from the loins Of men who
helped to lay the foundation Of the
republic. At my BIRTH my father
placed upon my baby brow the coronal
Of free-born American citizen In
my youth | was taught that if ! wore
it worthily, no prince nor potontate
nor electorate could add to or detract
from the honor of that royal coronet,
may have failed but tired to keep
the faith. | have never doubted that,
so far as the principles of civil gov
eminent arc concerned, the pillars OF
Hercules rest upon the declaration
of independence and the constitution
Of United States. TO my mind there
Is no beyond. The forms under which
The principles of the republic arc ad
miniStored may need changes To meet
changing conditions but the undery.
ing idea docs not, for truth is unchang
ing and ternal. What was so when
the morning stars sang together viii
be so when the angel of the Apoca-
lypse appears.
venture to express this much OF
to the inalienable rights of man to
life, to liberty and to the pursuit of
happiness can find its perfect accom-
plishment only in Representatives
brave and strong enough to rise above
the ambitions, passions and prejudlc-
es Of Individuals and groups. Rep
resentative government was intended
to guarantee these inalienable rights
| 70 men through the enactment and en-
forcement Of laws calculated to pre-
serve and promote equal and exact
Justice to all men. Religions die be
| ,ause priests humble their creeds
but have no faith in their Gods. Gov.
asnments go to wreck because their
statesmen shout aloud tehir shibbo
| eths but let friendly enemy pass
| the ford.
| feerly grant the right OF this peo
| ple IL to change our form of govern
inert and to adopt other basic princf
t les, but If it is to be done, let il
be done decently and directly so that
Ill of us may know it, The old faitl
Ehas already too many sleek and smil
ing Joabs asking Of it, us it we'll witt
thce, my brother F."
While the old order endures let rep
| escntativeG represent the old ideals
let it be understood that they are no
mere bell boys, subject to calls FOL
legislative cracked ice every time thu
victim of debauch of greed, gam
j ng or improvidenco feel the icye
f flcnzicd need.
The life is more than meat and The
lody more than ralment 1t Is Of mi
nor importance who holds the wca'ti
Of the nation il the hearts Of all 1T
people beat with true historic Ameri
can throb. ! he clothes may mark bu
the clothes cannot make the gentle
! man. The economic rehabilitation o
America is of vast moment but tn
rehabilitation OF the ancient faith whiCI
upheld the ragged continentals emere
cd in pristine glory from the tbron
of civil war, and hurled its slrilin
and undaunted face against the grin
engines of tyrany upon the fields q
France, is far greater work
1t is cnough-Perhaups too muCl
Who am to suggest, even with sham;
faced timid.ty anything to you. Fo
eight long years, crowded wit
events which have forever change
the currents OF the worlds histor.
have been with you. | come to tn
end of them with feeling of hear
felt gratitude 10 you all for thcs
title namcleS3 aforementioned acts {
kindness and charity which hav
marked your friendship and good wi
You have been good to me. The Ole
of your friendship win sweeten an
air that | may brcothc. Not one
Won can wish for himself a kindlit
fate than would give YOU if wei
omnipotsnt.
Ii is no row religion we need, Cl
4 creed should be; One lord ore fait
one baptism-the Lord of Justice, WI
was with Wash ngton at valley Fors
Grant and Leo at Appomattoy. Po
shing on the fields of France; the fai
that under a republican form of g.
eminent alone, democracy permancI
ly can endure; the baptism of tn
spirit which will not IL content un
no man is above the penalties and
man beyond the protection of o
laws.
Let him who goes and him w