Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1833-07-10
A JUST REBUKE.

We highly approve the notice, which cores
pondent of the Charleston Courier takes Of the
Governors reference to the Attn of July. This
little STATE Riget Sovereignty spark, has been
blown in by 10 upon sound materials,
and the blaze il mas caused, sheds bright and
wholesome light upon the principles OF our Go.
yernment and It's UNION.
LiitieaesS His Excel!cncy, in his general or
der for 4th July, taxes occasion to throw Oft null
ricatiuE flourish. As your columns are not gra-
ced with this State paper,-I will just quote the
first sentence. -
Thursday. the Fouih Of Juiy neri being
the Anniversary of the Declaration of American
Independence, whe tby thirteen dependent Pro-
pinces became FACE, SOVEREIGN and lNDEPEN-
DENT STATES, IL will be celebrated in this City,
with all those demonstrations Of respect which
belong TO SO great aud glorious an event"
Now, is no, all this very silly. What? are we
10 pe, together aud fire guns and beat drums, be-
cause, the little strips of land called Provinces,
marked out and bounded by British Colonial
Chariers-were on the 4th July, emancipated
and set free; each to set up for itself, petty pal
try sovereignty, unable to withstand the assault
of the most Insignificant power! VAST 10 con.
sign the people Of these naiionlings to the OPP
preston of every faction which "men OF mean
capacities, but Unsuitable vanity" can excite in
small community, that We are TO celebrate the
4,h Of July with . ringing OF bells, bonfires and
firing of cannon''-because thirteen Provinces,
dependent on a great and powerful Empire, be-
came thirteen disunited, turbulent, factions. fee
Bile. yet arrogant and tyrannical hot-beds Of null
hication-are the people to rejoices
No!if such had been the end Of the Declaration
of Independence, long since the contempt and
Il houa hsan .ioIsh
event as mbecile rebellion. The truth is, the
4th Of July witnessed the solemn Declaration of
three millions of Acknowledgment over the
wide Empire Of British America, and divided
into thirteen Provinces or Colonies, that these
United States were, and of right ought to be,
free and Independent OF the Birth Crown, and
that they were resolved to stake their equal
station among the nations Of The earth" not as
thirteen Provinces let loose from the control OF
foreign monarchy, but as "a people" entitled
to an equal station among the nations OF the
earth. The 4th of July is the birth dav Of a
nation. IL added a great poger TO the Kingdoms
of the earth-and therefor IL is, that every man
proud Of the title Of " American Citizen" re-
joices in its and raising high the glorious
banner Of freedom-'hail our natiun's natal
day"
1t is no day for the little, paltry, prosecuting.
pismy theories OF twenty -four sovereigntes-nei-
Their large enough to bear flag three leagues
from land--nor to demand the homage Of their
professors. II is no day to :. blow the nulifi.
cation trumpet'' If fever nulli6er feels mean,
il is when the recolections inseparable from the
4th Of july put in contrast his selfish and narrow
doctrines II is day of modification and re.
proach; and nothing but the necessity Of taking
OF the gaze of the world, and avoiding the con.
fessinn Of their anupathy, render its celebration
unavoidable. II IS we'll it is So The misguided
and deluded may on that day, feel rush of no.
nest patriotism. which may operate revival that
may end in restoring them to their eountry,-
The sight Of our national banner NAV bring with
it assoc atons which will lead once bewildered
follower OF the nev light theorist to exclaim, in
the fersor of honest patriotism, I, too, am an
American citizen" 20.