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CHAMBERSBURG, PA., FRIDAY, OCT. 2, 1891
ANOTHER EMINENT NATIVE
BACK TO THE OLD HOMESTEAD
The Crown of Honors Judge Thomas Bard
McFarland Brings Back to His Native
County and the Scenes of
His Childhood.
[Below will be found a newspaper sketch
of Thomas Bard MdFarland, Justice of the
Supreme Court of California, and now in
this his native county. having arrived in]
[...]
persuasive eloquence and vigorous reasoning
was heard on all leading questions, notably
upon The Bill of Rights ; the Federal
Constitution ; imprisonment for debt ; on
trials for libel ; on the Legislative Department
; on the Judicial Department ; on the
political power of the people ; on the school
system ; on revenue and taxation ; on the
right of suffrage ; on local option. His
spendid defense of the Constitution of the
United States in a speech before the convention,
October 28, 1878, was a specially
bold, courageous and masterly effort and
deserves to be ranked with the better of the
[...]
delightful world of modern prose fiction,
created. we might almost say, by the genius
of Sir Walter Scott, and peopled by him, and
those who after [?] him conjurede with less magical
wands, with those wonderful "being of
mind," whose society is a joy forever. And
there, too, you will have spread before you
the great and most interesting panorama of
human history— on which you will first see
how human beings were rude inhabitants of
caves , with scarcely more knowledge than other
animals around them.
And then you will observe the faint beginning
of that wonderful drama of human
progress; you will see how that majestic
power, the human mind, proceeded, generation
after generation, and century after century,
to wrest from nature her secrets, and
to apply her forces to human comforts and
to the elevation of man ; you will see how knowledge had to struggle against ignorance