"  Mr.  President/'  said  Senator  Hoar,  "  I  have  listened,
delighted,  as  have,  I  suppose,  all  the  members  of  the  Senate,
to  the  eloquence  of  my  honorable  friend  from  Indiana.  I
am  glad  to  welcome  to  the  public  service  his  enthusiasm,  his
patriotism,  his  silver  speech,  and  the  earnestness  and  the
courage  with  which  he  has  devoted  himself  to  a  discharge  of
his  duty  to  the  Republic  as  he  conceives  it.  Yet,  Mr.  Pres-
ident, as  I  heard  his  eloquent  description  of  wealth  and  glory
and  commerce  and  trade,  I  listened  in  vain  for  those  words

1  Johnston  and  Woodburn,  American  Orations,  I,  pp.  248-250.
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which  the  American  people  have  been  wont  to  take  upon
their  lips  in  every  solemn  crisis  of  their  history.  I  heard
much  calculated  to  excite  the  imagination  of  the  youth  seek-
ing wealth,  or  the  youth  charmed  by  the  dream  of  empire.
But  the  words,  Right,  Justice,  Duty,  Freedom,  were  absent,
my  friend  must  permit  me  to  say,  from  the  eloquent  speech.
I  could  think,  as  this  brave  young  Republic  of  ours  listened
to  what  he  had  to  say,  of  but  one  occurrence.
" '  Then  the  devil  taketh  Him  up  into  an  exceeding  high
mountain  and  sheweth  Him  all  the  Kingdoms  of  the  world
and  the  glory  of  them.
