see to it that their State keeps step to the music of the
Union —that she yields a willing obedience to the paramount
authority of the National government as declared by the
pre-ordained and final arbiter between the State and Nation
—
the Supreme Court of the Republic —and that she also
contributes by her example and her Representatives in the
National councils, to maintain the Union in its sphere, un-
disabled by weakness, and untarnished by corruption.
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Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness
By Chief Joseph
Young Chief Joseph, the able Nez Perce' leader of one of the
greatest Indian campaigns of the West, was also a natural orator.
The following was part of a speech he made at a grand council at
Lapwai, Idaho, in 1877, in reference to a thirty-day ultimatum
which the Government had given the Nez Perce's to leave their old
home and old Chief Joseph's grave to settle on the new reservation
assigned to them.
We are sprung from a woman, although we are unlike in
many things. We cannot be made over. You are as you were
made and as you were made you can remain. We are just as
we were made by the Great Spirit and you cannot change us.
Then why should children of one mother and one father
quarrel? Why should one mistreat the other? I do not be
lieve that the Great Spirit Chief gave one kind of men the
right to tell another kind of men the thing they must do.
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Apostrophe to the Pioneers
By George H. Williams
George H. Williams began the practice of law at an early age in
Iowa, where he was soon elected a district judge. In 1852 he can
vassed Iowa for Pierce, and as a reward was appointed chief justice
of Oregon Territory. Under statehood he was succeeded by Judge
Wait, but he went on to higher things. He was United States s
