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it is wrong, then they must have commandments or laws to guide them until they see the right. Thus a code of laws is developed by every nation: but of all codes, the greatest is the Roman Law, which is not only the corner-stone, but the whole foundation of all modern laws. The Romans, noted for their sobriety of char acter, their stability and endurance, their virility, disciplined themselves until they arose to a supremacy in arms, and built the city of Rome which ruled the world. We would thus assign Courage to the Jews, Wisdom to the Greeks, and Temperance to the Romans, but Justice we will keep for a nation where all men are created free and equal. Justice which necessitates the law,—law the guardian of our people; Jus tice, the foundation of our government, the embodiment of our institutions, the keynote of the voices of our people; 'tis this for which our fathers fought and died; 'tis this we gained and ever sought to hold; and holding this we stand before the world devoid of fear since, " Justice rights all wrong." And when perhaps our Nation shall lie crumbling in decay, still unharmed among the ruins shall stand each just decree. Yea, a new chord shall be added to the echo of the ages, the song of our Nation, the joyful cry of Freedom. VOICES AND ECHOES 4e•F:Sp , A, C ; ) .2.52a•N