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I. Under God's free summer sunshine fall away
Slowly, surely as the season comes, his massive chains are melted,
And a single drop is born of every ray; Then confluent in their currents sing the little brooklets hurrying
To unite and form a torrent in its power, Rushing headlong down the mountain, every opposition burying,
Growing stronger and yet stronger hour by hour, Till at last their force is gathered in the broad and placid river
Flowing noiselessly and steadily along, Messenger of peace and plenty from the glorious All-giver,
Though it moves without a roar, without a song.
II. So, in genesis of nations swells the human tide forever
Of resistance to the wrongs on which men brood. Trickling first, then drop by drop of individual endeavor.
Finding volume till there falls a mighty flood. Strong enough to move a thousand mills if Titans could but store it.
Making chasms out of each and every crack.
Sweeping m.any an ancient barrier from the course that lies before it,
Leaving chaos — but a pathway — in its track; Then its violence is swallowed in a People's peaceful yearning
For respect which only dignity can draw.
And the Freedom-loving spirit, noisy effervescence spurning,
Finds its triumph in the fixed domain of Law.
III
Revolution's call to arms, our bells all ring. Peal of cannon, burst of fireworks, brings to mind the Declaration,
Which renounced allegiance to Britain's King, But the birth of statehood in our peerless written Constitution
Calls for heartfelt paeans of deeper music now. That we see in it the final unimpeached and sure solution
Of the governmental problem, all allow.
Thence arose the system under which a proud and fearless nation
Swears to guarantee the weakest in his right; Hymns of praise unto Jehovah dedicate our celebration.
The centennial of a dawn that has no night !
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SOUVKNIR
AND
OF THE
CENTENNIAL CELEBRATION
OF
GeorgeWashington's
INAUGURATION
AS
First President of the United States.
Compiled and Edited by John Alden.
PUBLISHED BY
GARNETT & GOW,
NEW YORK.
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Copyrighted, iSSg.
Chapter VI Causes Leading Up to Nationality Chapters VII to XII Signers of the Constitution
Chapters XIII and XIV Constitution and Amendments
Chapter XV Presidential Administration Washington
Chapter XVI
Chapter XVII
Chapter XVIII
Chapter XIX
Chapter XX
Chapter XXI
Chapter XXII
Chapter XXIII
Chapter XXIV
Chapters XXV to XXXIII Washington's Inauguration in 17S9
Chapters XXXIV to XXXIX A Century of Art and Industrial Development
Adams — Jefferson
Madison — Monroe
.J. Q. Adams— Jackson
Van Buren — Harrison —Tyler
Polk — Taylor — Fillmore
Pierce —Buchanan
Lincoln— Johnson
Grant— Hayes— Garfield— Arthur . . ..Cleveland— Harrison
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Preface
For matter used in this Souvenir the Editor wishes to acknowledge his indebtedness to " Harper's Magazine," " The Century," " The Cosmopolitan," " Illustrated New York " (by The International Publishing Co.)," The First Century of the Republic " (Harper's), and also to exhaustive special articles in the IVor/J, Herald, Si/n, and Times. He has very freely used the Official Programme of the Constitutional Centennial Celebration in Philadelphia (1887. Published by J. F. Dickson & Co.). In the Constitutional history of the United States, which runs through all the Presidential Administrations, the writer has availed himself of all the standard works. He is most largely under obligation to Bancroft on the history of the Constitution, and to Judge Cooley on points connected with its interpretation. Much interesting information on the history of Fife Assurance in the United States has been taken from " Fowler's History of Life Assurance in Philadelphia." J. A.
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