the sight of the inspired sailor. As we approach the fourth centennial of that

stupendous day--when the old world will come to _marvel_ and to _learn_ amid our

gathered treasures--let us resolve to crown the miracles of our past with the

spectacle of a Republic, _compact, united INDISSOLUBLE IN THE BONDS OF

LOVE_--loving from the Lakes to the Gulf--the wounds of war healed in every

heart as on every hill, _serene and resplendent AT THE SUMMIT OF HUMAN

ACHIEVEMENT AND EARTHLY GLORY, blazing out the path and making clear the way up

which all the nations of the earth, must come in God's appointed time!_

 

--HENRY W. GRADY, _The Race Problem_.

 

_ ... I WOULD CALL HIM NAPOLEON_, but Napoleon made his way to empire _over

broken oaths and through a sea of blood._ This man never broke his word. "No

Retaliation" was his great motto and the rule of his life; _AND THE LAST WORDS

UTTERED TO HIS SON IN FRANCE WERE THESE: "My boy, you will one day go back to

Santo Domingo; forget that France murdered your father." I WOULD CALL HIM

CROMWELL,_ but Cromwell _was only a soldier, and the state he founded went down

with him into his grave. I WOULD CALL HIM WASHINGTON,_ but the great Virginian

_held slaves. THIS MAN RISKED HIS EMPIRE rather than permit the slave-trade in

the humblest village of his dominions._

 

_YOU THINK ME A FANATIC TO-NIGHT,_ for you read history, _not with your eyes,

BUT WITH YOUR PREJUDICES._ But fifty years hence, when Truth gets a hearing, the

Muse of History will put _PHOCION for the Greek,_ and _BRUTUS for the Roman,

HAMPDEN for England, LAFAYETTE for France,_ choose _WASHINGTON as the bright,