Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 261, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 November 1918 — Beneficence Without Ambition. [ARTICLE]

Beneficence Without Ambition.

At present we behold only the rising of our sun of empire—only the fair beginnings of a great nation. We departed early—we departed at the beginning—from the beaten track of am- . bition. Our lot was cast in the age of revolution—a revolution which is to bring all mankind from a state of servitude to the exercise of self-govern-ment—from under the tyranny'of physical force to the gentle sway of opinion, from under subjection to dominion over nature. It was .ours to lead the way—to take up the cross of republicanism and bear it before the nations, to fight its earliest triumphs, to illustrate its purifying and elevating virtues, and by our courage and resolution, our moderation and magnanimity, to cheer and sustain its future followers through the baptism of blood and mattyrdom of fire. A mission so noble and benevolent demands a generous and selfdenying enthusiasm. Our greatness is to be won by beneficence without ambition.—Wlam Henry Seward. •