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lie and from the islands of the Eastern Seas. The 

 Republic has put up its flag in those islands, and the 

 flag will stay there. 



I am glad to meet you here to-night you, the de 

 scendants of the statesmen and soldiers who fought 

 to establish this country in 1776, some of the older 

 among whom, and the fathers of the others, fought 

 with no less valor wearing the blue or the gray in 

 the Civil War. May we now show our fealty to 

 the great men who did the great deeds of the past, 

 not alone by word but by deed! May we prove 

 ourselves true to them, not merely by paying homage 

 to their memory, but by so shaping the policy of this 

 great Republic as to make it evident that we are not 

 unworthy of our sires. They did justice, and we will 

 do justice. They did justice as strong men, not as 

 weaklings; and we will show ourselves strong men 

 and not weaklings. 



Before me I see men who lived in iron times, men 

 who did great deeds. I see here a delegate from 

 Kentucky who served under Farragut in the great 

 days of the Civil War. I see a descendant of a 

 man from Connecticut who was called Brother 

 Jonathan. All around these tables are gathered 

 men the names of whose ancestors stand not only for 

 righteousness but also for strength for both qual 

 ities, gentlemen. Righteousness finds weakness but 

 a poor yoke-fellow. With righteousness must go 

 strength to make that righteousness of avail. And 

 in the names of the mighty men of the past I ask 

 each man here to do his part in seeing that this na- 



