MAEDER
MAES
of these rights on the means exerted for
their defence, they have prevailed over all op-
position No instance has heretofore oc-
curred, nor can any instance be expected here-
after to occur in which the unadulterated forms
of Republican government can pretend to so
fair an opportunity of justifying themselves by
their fruits. In this view the citizens of the
United States are responsible for the greatest
trust ever confided to a political society. If jus-
tice, good faith, honor, gratitude, and all the
other qualities which ennoble the character of a
nation and fulfil the ends of government, be the
fruits of our establishment, the cause of lib-
erty will acquire a dignity and lustre which it
has never yet enjoyed; and an example will be
set which cannot but have the most favorable
influenoe on the rights of mankind. If, on the
other side, our government should be unfortu-
nately blotted with the reverse of these cardinal
and essential virtues, the great cause which we
have engaged to vindicate will be dishonored and
betrayed; the last and fairest experiment in fa-
vor of the rights of human nature will be turned
against them; and their patrons and friends ex-
posed to be insulted and silenced by the vo-
taries of tyranny and usurpation." See "Re-
ports of the Debates in the National Convention
of 1787" (3 vols., 1840; new ed., 1 vol., 1893);
"Madison's Complete Works" (6 vols.); "Life
and Times of James Madison " by W. C. Rives
(8 vols., 1859-69, unfinished); "The Letters and
Other Writings of James Madison "(4 vols., 1865);
" James Madison " by Sydney Howard Gay in
- • American Statesmen " series (1884); and " His-
tory of the United States under the Administra- tion of James Madison," by Henry Adams (1893). In 1901 his grave at Montpelier was reached by crossing an uncultivated field to a dilapidated brick wall surrounding the family burial plot which was filled with sunken mounds, fallen headstones, and a wilderness of woods. One of these graves is that of James Madison, the " Father of the Constitution" and the fourth president of the United States. In selecting names for a place in the Hall of Fame for great Americans, New York university, October, 1900, James Madison in Class M, Rulers and Statesmen, received forty-eight votes, fifty -one being neces- sjirv to secure a place. President Madison died at Montpelier, Va., Juno 28, 1836.
MAEDER, Frederick George, playwright, was born in New York city, Sept. 11, 1840; son of James Oaspard and Clara (Fisher) Maeder, and grandson of Frederick George Fisher, an English Shaksperian scholar. His fatlier was a professor and composer of music, and his mother an actress. He received his education in Trinity school, New York city, and was a member of the
boy choir in Trinity church. He next entered
ujwn a business career, which he abandoned for
the stage in 1858, and in November of that year
appeared in Portland, Maine, as Bernardo in
" Hamlet." He played in New Orleans, 1860-61,
and in 1861 dramatized Dickens's " Great Expec-
tations " which was first presented in Montreal,
Canada. This was quickly followed by his dram-
atization of Miss Braddon's "Nobody's Daughter, "^
and in the same year he joined the Wallack-Dav-
enport company and played in the principal
cities of the United States. In November, 1862,
in company with his brother Gaspard, he leased
the Washington (D.C.) Theatre, and there pro-
duced his dramatization of " Les Miserables.*'
He went to Europe in 1803, with a panorama of
the " American War," and travelled through
England, Ireland and Scotland, and while in
Liverpool played a six weeks' engagement at th»
Prince of Wales Tlieatre. He returned to the
United States at the close of that year, and pro-
duced his new play "The Ticket-of-Leave Man '*
in Boston. In 1864 he appeared at the Broadway
theatre, New York, with John E. Owens in
"Solon Shingle," and travelled with McKea
Rankin's company for a time. His dramatizations
and plays not previously mentioned include:
Enoch Arden; Help; Shamus O'Brien; Griffith
Oaunt; Buffalo Bill; Maun Cree; The Runaway
Wife, and The Cannuck. He died in New York
city, April 8, 1891.
MAES, Camillus Paul, R.C. bishop, was born in Courtrai, Belgium, March 13, 1846. He was graduated from the College of Courtrai in 1864, and studied theology in the seminary at Bruges, and in the American college at Louvain. He wa» ordained a priest, Dec. 19, 1868, in the cathedral at Mechlin, Belgium, by Mgr. Antonio, auxiliary bishop of Mechlin, and removed to the United States in 1869. He was assigned to the diocese of Detroit, Mich., was appointed pastor of St. Peter's, Mount Clemens, 1869, of St. Mary's church, Monroe, in 1871, and pastor of St. John's church in
1873. He was secretary to Bishop Borgess, 1880- 84, and was consecrated bishop of Covington, Ky., Jan. 25. 1885 in St. Mary's cathedral, Jan. 25, 1885, by Archbishop Elder assisted by Bishops McClos- key of Louisville, Ky., and Borgess of Detroit, Mich. He was a member of the board of directors
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