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Kx President Graver ('lev eland’s
Addrim* to a Large Audie’no© at
The Centennial Celebration.
One Hundred Years lienee
Washington took the Oath
el Ofllee.
~\ President Cleveland said:
Veiv.ion o’a people may well
i -lober and impressive reilec
!'/:■ subject was not be
st - divine thought when the
.-.as gives to the children
I will tako you to mo
a people* and will be to you a
God.’ This idea of divine relation
tions’nip to a yeeple is also recogn
ized iu 'he fervent utterance/ ‘Yea.
happy is that people whose God is
the Lord. ’ W here\ er hu:nan go v
crnment has been administered iw
tyranny, in despotism, or in op,-
pression, there lias been found
amang the governed ?. yearning for
a freer cotadi eon and the assertion
of man'- uoi/'iiy. Those arc but
the faltexlag -opts of human na
ture ia the dire iion of freedom
which is its birihwright, and they
pressage the struggle ot men to be
come a free people, and thus reach
Ihe plane ot their highest and best
aspirations In this relation and in
their cry of freedom, it. may be tru
ly said, the voice ot the people is
the vci - v . The influence of
those reflections is upon me as I
speak of th s ■ who, after dark
ness and doub and struggle, burst
forth in the bright light of inde
pendence and liberty, and become
‘or.s people,’ free, determined and
confident, challenging the wonder
of the -.nivem-, proclaiming the
dignity of man and invoking the
aid an 1 favor of Almighty God. In
sublime faith and rugged strength,
rear fay c-i cried out to the world,
‘We, tho people ot the United
States, n order to foriw a more un
ion, establish justice, insure domes
tic Iran \ nility, provide tor the com
men defense promote the general
weliare, and secure the blessings of
Lbeity to rc-sci esand our poster
ity. do oik.-;a and establish this
constitution for the United States
ot Atnt ri 2ji alius our people in a
day as-auused a place among the
inti ms ot ihe earth. Their mis
sio i was to teach fitness ot man
f..-r.s<f'f-g ; . > r;.'.n out, and their dcs
linv ■ to outstrip every other
people !;• * ational achievement
wild mater‘a! greatness.
m *
O ; li .."ire; . tears have passed.
Vfe h.ive .... .souuced and approved
to \he ol o' r mission and mads
our destiny secure. I will not tame
ly recite our achievements. They
are ivrit- -u on every page of histo
rv, and th-.* monuments of our
growth and advancement are all
i bout us. l>nt the value of these
things is measured by the fullness
wi .i which flur people have pre
erved their patriotism, their integ
rity and their devotion to their
free institutions. If, engross
'd iu material advancement,
or diverted by the turmoil of
business and activity, they have
nor held fust to that love of c©un-!
try and that simple faith in virtue;
a■ and enlighiment which constituted
the* hope and trust of our fatlicis.
All that wo have built tests upon
foundations infirm and weak.
Meeting this tesl, we point to the
scattered graves of many thousands
ot our people who have bravely
died in defense of our national saf
ety and perpetuity, mutely bearing
testimony lo their lovo of country
and lo an invincible living host
handing ready to enforce our na
tioual rights and protect our land,
our churches, our schools and uni
versities and our benevolent insti
tutions, which beautify every town
and hamlet, and look out from ev
cry hillside, testify to the value our
people plara upon religious teach
ing. upon education, and upon
deeds of charity. That our people
are still jealous of their individual
rights and freedom is proved by the
fact that no one in place or power
lias dared openly to assail them.
The enthusiasm which marks the
celebration of the centennial of the
inauguration of their first chief
magistrate shows the popular ap
predation of the value of the of
fice which, in our plan of govern
ment-, stands above all others, for
the sovereignty ot the people, and
is the repository of their trust. Sure
ly such a people can be safely
trusted with timr free government
and ther® need be no fear that they
have losi the ({utilities which til
them to be its custodians.
Il' they sliould. wander, they will
return to duty in good time. If
they should be misled, they will
discover the landmarks none too
late for safety, and if they should
van be corrupted, they will speed
ily be found seeking with peace of
ferings their country’s holy altar.
Let us have an abiding faith in -our
people.’ Let petulance and dis
content with popular action disap
pear before the truth that in any
aad all circumstances the will of
the people, however it may be ex
ercised, is the law of our national
existence—the arbiter absolute
and uuchanageablo by which we
must abide. Other than, existing:
situations or politics can only justi
fy themselves when they may ba
reached by the spread et political
intelligence and the revival ot un
selfish and patriotic interest in pub
lic affairs. 111-natured complaints
of popular incompeteacy and sell
righleous assertion ot superiority
over the body ot the people
are impotent and useless. But
there is danger, I tear that tho
scope of the words, ‘Oar people,’
and oil they import, are not si
ways felly appreaended. It is <?niy
ratura'i those in the various walks of
life should see ‘our people’ within the
range of their own vision, and find
jusi about them the interests most ira
portant and most worthy ihe csre of
the government. The rich merchant
or the capitalist of the centre ol wealth
and enterprise, hardly has a glimpse of
the country blacksmith at his forge
aad the farmer ia his fields and the e in
their tarn know but little of the labor
ers who crowd our manufactures aad
inhabit their own world of toil, or of
the thousands who labor ia our tmeea.
I the representatives of sveiy elesueat
ot our population aad industries chottid
be gathered together, they would find
bat little of pure y EslSab -and person
al interest in common, and upon a bu
prfioia> glance, but little would De
t on to denote that only the people wa*
represented. Yet, in the spirit of our
iuNtitntioDß, all tbsse. >-o separated in
siation and peremul interest, aro a c m
■oon brotherhood, ami are ose people,’
nil of equal value brfoto ike law, ali
having, by iluir t effrage, tho **n)
voice in governmental affairs; all tie
ujandiag wi h equal fonts piotcetiei.
and (ItCense, atul all, iu ilucr perilous
acid ptopeity, eqauily en'itlul to '.heir
goveinißOJt’.s Minpulous oare. The
d.vaisiry ot our inter Kta, through the
source of bou'iidloi.s wealth anti pioe
perity, has a tendency to press tmr
people apart. Thin condition demands
o us a counterfort}* of liberality uuo
toleration towards each other, and an
e lightened regard for the condition (f
every iudivi ua! who contributed to
1 16 aggregate of cur national great
ness. This aggregate, fostered and
increased by united earnest and unself
ish efforts, will yield full return tor in
dividual enterprise and labor, without,
drying up the fountain of brotherly
kindness and forbearance upon which
the political health of our people de
pend. This centennial time, which
ctirs our pride by loading ua to tho
contemp.'a ion of the tremendous stride
in wealth am? greatness, also resalls to
• ;ur minds the virtues aad unselfish
devotion to principle of those who saw
the first days of the republic. Let
there be anew revival of oar love for
the principles which our country rep
resents; let there be at this time anew
consecration to the use cf man’s free*
a- so And equality, and a quickened
SMise of the solemn lesponsibility as
sumed before the vvoild bv every man
who weatt? the badge of “Cui People.”
The future beckons ns on. Let us fel
low with an exalted and ennoblin'
love ot country aad with ct-urige.
Though the. clouds may sometimes dar
ken the Heavens they shall bs dispell
ed, and wc shad see the bow of God's
promise set clearly ia tbo sky, and
shall read beneath it, bliziag in ra
diant characters, the words, ‘Ourpeo*
pie.’”
Th# New Ymk strikers have cone
to terns with their employers.
From all over me toon h eomes the
news of a great cotton planting.
The All lanee ib stilt woiking on the
bagging trust, and guanas turtle.
WanEamaker is an eeeeutiis on pro
hibition. He will certainly see that
the postoffioes are exclusively dry.
It is thought ky some leading and
prominent democrats that Cleveland
will bo put forward for the presidency
again in 1892.
A New York paper, speaking of
Gov. Hill, says his “principles are
like his too short, ” There may
bo somsthiag in tbits.
Biaine is already beginning to show
his hand as secretary ot stare. Ssyat
al appoiatmen s have recently been
made through him,
It is believed by the ieading mass
of politicians from both partioa that
Harrison is tho weakest president ev
er the repub icau party put in c£iee.
Poor, in:;aa-J, is the spirit of mao,
that would notice the weak, frail and !
fiuky doings of the piniwinkle. Yut, j
iu all End-holes, are those peauvei
wiggle-tails o md.
What will ne next excitement, now !
that the national centennial ia over?
Turning a man loese aatcog his en
emies, U l.ke turning a kitten into a
lino.
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