Of course there would
be disappointments and grievous errors. Of course there would
be many things for which the lovers of liberty would mourn.
But America would survive them all, and the nation our fathers
planted would endure in perennial life.
"William McKinley has fallen in high place. The spirit of
Anarchy, always the servant of the spirit of Despotism, aimed
its shaft at him, and his life for this world is over. But
there comes from his fresh grave a voice of lofty triumph:
'Be of good cheer. It is God's way.'"
I account it my supreme good fortune that my public life
has been spent in the service of Massachusetts. No man can
know better than I do how unworthy I have been of a place
in the great line of public men who have adorned her history
for nearly three hundred years. What a succession it has
been. What royal house, what empire or monarchy, can show
a catalogue like that of the men whom in every generation
she has called to high places--Bradford, and Winthrop, and
Sir Henry Vane, Leverett, and Sam Adams and John Adams and
his illustrious son, and Cabot and Dexter, Webster and Everett
and Sumner and Andrew.
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