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of these rights on the means exerted for their defence, they have prevailed over all op- position No instance has heretofore oc- curred, nor can any instance be expected here- after to occur in which the unadulterated forms of Republican government can pretend to so fair an opportunity of justifying themselves by their fruits. In this view the citizens of the United States are responsible for the greatest trust ever confided to a political society. If jus- tice, good faith, honor, gratitude, and all the other qualities which ennoble the character of a nation and fulfil the ends of government, be the fruits of our establishment, the cause of lib- erty will acquire a dignity and lustre which it has never yet enjoyed; and an example will be set which cannot but have the most favorable influenoe on the rights of mankind. If, on the other side, our government should be unfortu- nately blotted with the reverse of these cardinal and essential virtues, the great cause which we have engaged to vindicate will be dishonored and betrayed; the last and fairest experiment in fa- vor of the rights of human nature will be turned against them; and their patrons and friends ex- posed to be insulted and silenced by the vo- taries of tyranny and usurpation." See "Re- ports of the Debates in the National Convention of 1787" (3 vols., 1840; new ed., 1 vol., 1893); "Madison's Complete Works" (6 vols.); "Life and Times of James Madison " by W. C. Rives (8 vols., 1859-69, unfinished); "The Letters and Other Writings of James Madison "(4 vols., 1865); " James Madison " by Sydney Howard Gay in tory of the United States under the Administra- tion of James Madison," by Henry Adams (1893). In 1901 his grave at Montpelier was reached by crossing an uncultivated field to a dilapidated brick wall surrounding the family burial plot which was filled with sunken mounds, fallen headstones, and a wilderness of woods. One of these graves is that of James Madison, the " Father of the Constitution" and the fourth president of the United States. In selecting names for a place in the Hall of Fame for great Americans, New York university, October, 1900, James Madison in Class M, Rulers and Statesmen, received forty-eight votes, fifty -one being neces- sjirv to secure a place. President Madison died at Montpelier, Va., Juno 28, 1836.
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MAEDER, Frederick George, playwright, was born in New York city, Sept. 11, 1840; son of James Oaspard and Clara (Fisher) Maeder, and grandson of Frederick George Fisher, an English Shaksperian scholar. His fatlier was a professor and composer of music, and his mother an actress. He received his education in Trinity school, New York city, and was a member of the

boy choir in Trinity church. He next entered ujwn a business career, which he abandoned for the stage in 1858, and in November of that year appeared in Portland, Maine, as Bernardo in " Hamlet." He played in New Orleans, 1860-61, and in 1861 dramatized Dickens's " Great Expec- tations " which was first presented in Montreal, Canada. This was quickly followed by his dram- atization of Miss Braddon's "Nobody's Daughter, "^ and in the same year he joined the Wallack-Dav- enport company and played in the principal cities of the United States. In November, 1862, in company with his brother Gaspard, he leased the Washington (D.C.) Theatre, and there pro- duced his dramatization of " Les Miserables.*' He went to Europe in 1803, with a panorama of the " American War," and travelled through England, Ireland and Scotland, and while in Liverpool played a six weeks' engagement at th» Prince of Wales Tlieatre. He returned to the United States at the close of that year, and pro- duced his new play "The Ticket-of-Leave Man '* in Boston. In 1864 he appeared at the Broadway theatre, New York, with John E. Owens in "Solon Shingle," and travelled with McKea Rankin's company for a time. His dramatizations and plays not previously mentioned include: Enoch Arden; Help; Shamus O'Brien; Griffith Oaunt; Buffalo Bill; Maun Cree; The Runaway Wife, and The Cannuck. He died in New York city, April 8, 1891.

MAES, Camillus Paul, R.C. bishop, was born in Courtrai, Belgium, March 13, 1846. He was graduated from the College of Courtrai in 1864, and studied theology in the seminary at Bruges, and in the American college at Louvain. He wa» ordained a priest, Dec. 19, 1868, in the cathedral at Mechlin, Belgium, by Mgr. Antonio, auxiliary bishop of Mechlin, and removed to the United States in 1869. He was assigned to the diocese of Detroit, Mich., was appointed pastor of St. Peter's, Mount Clemens, 1869, of St. Mary's church, Monroe, in 1871, and pastor of St. John's church in

1873. He was secretary to Bishop Borgess, 1880- 84, and was consecrated bishop of Covington, Ky., Jan. 25. 1885 in St. Mary's cathedral, Jan. 25, 1885, by Archbishop Elder assisted by Bishops McClos- key of Louisville, Ky., and Borgess of Detroit, Mich. He was a member of the board of directors

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