Speeches of Benjamin Harrison, Twenty-third President of the United StatesHarrison, Benjamin
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Speeches of Benjamin Harrison, Twenty-third President of the United States
Harrison, Benjamin
Harrison, Benjamin, 1833-1901; Speeches, addresses, etc., American; United States -- Politics and government
United States, proud of that arch of strength that binds together
the States of this Union in one great Nation. But citizenship has
its duties as well as its privileges. The first is that we give our
energies and influence to the enactment of just, equal, and beneficent
laws. The second is like unto it--that we loyally reverence and
obey the will of the majority enacted into law, whether we are of a
majority or not [applause]; the law throws the ægis of its protection
over us all. It stands sentinel about your country homes to protect
you from violence; it comes into our more thickly populated community
and speaks its mandate for individual security and public order.
There is an open avenue through the ballot-box for the modification
or repeal of laws which are unjust or oppressive. To the law we bow
with reverence. It is the one king that commands our allegiance. We
will change our king, when his rule is oppressive, by these methods
appointed, and crown his more liberal successor. [Applause.] I thank
you again, most cordially, for this visit, and put myself in the
hands of your committee that I may have the privilege of meeting you
individually.
INDIANAPOLIS, JULY 13.
One thousand employees of the various railroads centreing at
Indianapolis, organized as a Harrison and Morton Club--J. C. Finch,
President, and A. D. Shaw, Marshal of the occasion--called on General
Harrison on the night of July 13. Yardmaster Shaw was spokesman. General
Harrison replied:
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