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Rh cowardice. The post of duty should not be introduced to the craven-hearted. A judge who is intimidated from doing his duty by the outcries of the mob, or the censure of public opinion, or the unjust criticisms of the press, betrays his trust and fouls the fountains of justice. Our courts are the sanctuaries of our liberties; their judges are the guardians of our lives, our fortunes, and our honor. They must have the courage of their convictions, and register their decrees unawed by the hand of power, uninfluenced by the voice of popular clamor, and unintimidated by the threats of political vengeance. They must stand as immovable as a rock in the sea, amid the rush and roar of contending passions.

—W. P. Lord, Governor.

Orators have extolled the spirit of adventure characteristic of our Anglo-Saxon stock; a spirit which led men, like those, to hew their way through a perilous, toilsome pilgrimage to this summer land of the sun-down seas. But many were the women, daily companions of these men of valor, with lives equal to theirs in rectitude and energy, whose names, as yet, have found no place in song or story, who did their part as well as any man; and their memory remains today enshrined