prevent us all, who yet believe that the Union must be preserved,
from joining heart and hand our common forces to effect it? When the
cry goes out that the ship is in danger of sinking, the first duty
of every man on board, no matter what his particular vocation, is to
lend all the strength he has to the work of keeping her afloat.
What! shall it be said that we waver in the view of those
who begin by trying to expunge the sacred memory of the fourth of
July? Shall we help them to obliterate the associations that cluster
around the glorious struggle for independence, or stultify the
labors of the patriots who erected this magnificent political
edifice upon the adamantine base of human liberty? Shall we
surrender the fame of Washington and Laurens, of Gadsden and the
Lees, of Jefferson and Madison, and of the myriads of heroes whose
names are imperishably connected with the memory of a united people?
Never, never!



CHARLES FRANCIS ADAMS, JUNIOR

CHARLES FRANCIS ADAMS, Jr. son of Charles Francis Adams, keeps up
the tradition of his family so well that, unless it is John Adams
himself, no other member of the family surpasses him as an orator.
He was born in Boston, May 27th, 1835; graduating at Harvard
and studying law in the office of R. H. Dana, Jr. His peaceful
pursuits were interrupted by the Civil War which he entered a first
lieutenant, coming out a brevet-brigadier general. He was a chief of
squadron in the Gettysburg campaign and served in Virginia
afterwards. He was for six years president of the Union Pacific
railroad and is well known both as a financier and as an author.