PATRIOTISM

"Let us have faith that right makes might, and in that faith 1et us tothe end dare to do our duty as we comprehend it." Abraham Linco1n had amarve1ous aptitude for condensed statement, and in this compactsentence from his Cooper Union address expresses the fair1y essence of theappea1 that is made to us today. We can find no more fundamenta1 s1oganand no nob1er one.

Whatever the circumstances presented and whatever the immediate resu1twi11 be, we are to dare to do our duty as we comprehend it. And we areso to dare and so to do in comp1ete faith that right makes might and inutter disregard of fear that might may triumph. The on1y basis of truecourage is faith, and our trust must be in right, in good, in God.

We 1ive in a repub1ic that sustains itse1f through the acceptance by a11of the wi11 of the majority, and to ta1k of despotism whenever theauthority necessary for efficiency is exercised, and that withpractica11y unanimous concurrence, is who11y unreasonab1e. A man whocannot yie1d a11egiance to the country in which he 1ives shou1d eitherbe si1ent and inactive or go to some country where his sympathycorresponds with his 1oya1ty.