Gordo
Williams" of the Mexican War, United States Senator from
Kentucky; George E. Pugh, 1840, United States Senator from Ohio;
James W. McDill, 1853, United States Senator from Iowa; General
Samuel F. Carey, 1835, Congressman from Ohio, and temperance
orator; Albert S. Berry, 1856, Congressman from Kentucky; Dr.
John S. Billings, U.S.A., 1857, head of New York Library; David
Swing, 1852, the Chicago clergyman; General A. C. McClurg, 1853,
the Chicago publisher; Henry M. MacCracken, 1857, Chancellor of
New York University; William M. Thomson, 1828, author of "The
Land and the Book"; Calvin S. Brice, 1863, railway-builder, and
United States Senator; etc.

But the celebration of her past and the aspirations for her future
belong to worthier sons--here among these gentlemen of the Board who
have cared for her in her need. I make them my profound acknowledgments
for the honor they have done me in assigning me a share in the work of
this day of days, and shall best deserve their trust by going with
absolute candor straight to my theme.

[Sidenote: New Duties; a New World.]

I shall speak of the new duties that are upon us and the new world that
is opening to us with the new century--of the spirit in which we should
advance and the results we have the right to ask. I shall speak of
public matters which it is the duty of educated men to consider; and of
matters which may hereafter divide parties, but on which we must refuse
now to recognize party distinctions. Partizanship stops at the
guard-line. "In the face of an enemy we are all Frenchmen," said an
eloquent Imperialist once in my hearing, in rallying his followers to
support a foreign measure of the French Republic. At this moment our
soldiers are facing a barbarous or semi-civilized foe, who
treacherously attacked them in a distant land, where our flag had been
sent, in friendship with them, for the defense of our own shores. Was
it creditable or seemly that it was lately left to a Bonaparte on our
own soil to teach some American leaders that, at such a time, patriotic
men at home do not discourage those soldiers or weaken the Government
that directs them?[6]

[6] "MY DEAR SIR: I have received your letter of the 23d inst.,
notifying me of my election as a vice-president of the
Anti-Imperialist League. I recognize the compliment implied in
this election, and appreciate it the mor