Adlai Stevenson: “It is all-important, never more so than now, that the people should magnify the law.”

And yet history will truly say of him that, while just to other Governments, no President has more firmly maintained the rights of his own.

To this man, more than to any other, are we indebted for the supreme fact that ninety millions of people are at this hour, in the loftiest sense of the expression, fellow-citizens of a common country.

We, the heirs of all the ages, in the plenitude of our enjoyments, and the prodigality of the favors showered upon us, hail Columbus our benefactor.

Touched by his magic wand, millions of trees now beautify and adorn this magnificent State.