Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit
inheritance of generations and nations. Our ideals, laws and
customs should be based on the proposition that each generation,
in turn, becomes the custodian rather than the absolute owner of
our resources and each generation has the obligation to pass
this inheritance on to the future. Sometimes the poorest woman
leaves her children the richest inheritance. The liberties of
our country, the freedoms of our civil Constitution are worth
defending at all hazards; it is our duty to defend them against
all attacks. We have received them as a fair inheritance from
our worthy ancestors. They purchased them for us with toil and
danger and expense of treasure and blood. It will bring a mark
of everlasting infamy on the present generation ñ enlightened as
it is ñ if we should suffer them to be wrested from us by
violence without a struggle, or to be cheated out of them by the
artifices of designing men "They defend their errors as if they
were defending their inhe