True American. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1835-18??, 1839-07-04
JOHN ADAMS,



rae b'raa-d"y Of american Li6ery.-Ths is the
cd Anniversary Of the birth day of Amer, an liberty.
Our oreta'hers had been schooed in The art Of learning
how to be Tree, how t, govern themselves ever since the
hour that the Angles and the Saxons first ansd the
shores Of England and III and in per &C did thew
contend for the sovereign rig hts OF the people with
various success, until determined portion of Enslish>
men was banished from their hon seek refuge in
the Willis Of the continent from persecution and
tyranny aud enjoy that greatest Of pvrges religious
freedom. At the when tbs "proud PROV" of the
ship that bore up the Plymouth pilgrims, struck the
everlasting rock, the moment when an n,lcp.udcu,
and proud band of Adventures Landed upon the river
bank at jamestown, era da wned upon the world
The sun of liberty tina, had been 50 long ohscured bv
clouds Of tauIu oppression an religious intoerur, e
now buret nth With glorious light aud the progress Of
free and republican principles ,nNar and certaiu
Freed from the shackles created by tyranny and inpos
ed upon it by presumpou' wrongs, the mind Of the
American settler looked out upon the void and saw
that the impress of freedom and equal unalen,e
stamped by bcl,eicent creator upon all ,h;nr. il,
the new hemisphere After one hundred aud fifty wears
Of exposure and cultivation under the new influence o,
new world, the fruit upon the ,r.c of liberty had
rPened into maturity, and being pluckcd by our i:nme-
blessed declaration Of Independence bearing date the
18th of July l776!"
The glorious day upon which this precious ins,ru
ment signed by forty eight of the bravest men who
ever lived may well be called the birthday Of American
liberty. In the memorable contests between power and
the people. the world had In the sea girl isle an
Alfred and Cromwell. These men had attacked the
hydra OF pow or but for every head Destroyed hund
red others sorang into life. AT last Washington curr
andhe went forth surrounded by thousand,
"Fa,lI as free and brave as he''
and the monster, kingIy power Ct 5ure diriuo power
Tell, never to rise in this land again. The goddess of
American liberty, the 9TH of July, 1875, stood upon
the soil Mnerya-like the begotten of the peoples wis
dom. Then came seven years war and the enemies
Of freedom were rebuked back to their hiding places
As inhercrs Of the great boon delivered to US for
bookkeeping by toreitlers, sxvhree years ago,
We hail the return of this day Under the benign reign
ofthe peoples power, asserted in the Declaration of In
dependence, this nation has jumped up from three To
seventeen millions the foundation of Il republic has
been laid that enemy, domestic or foreign can ever
undermine the happiness Of the greatest number has
been realized the Union has been bound together BY
IRON bands, and wateed by navigubic canals the Afri-
can slave trade has been abolished the rights of the
States have been preserved swarm Of lreemen has
been sent out, and republic has risen Oh the
Southwest border; the commerce, agriculture, and
manufactures OF the nation have ruouned up almost
incredible height, and navy in valor, has become
tic first in the world. The evils under which the lie
public are laburing temporary for sill rap
idly progressing the march of human LIBERTY and the
time is not far distant when the system of Anglo Saxon
republics will be spread the whole continent of
North America, when bright and broad stripes
will float in the breeze from the pole the Isthnus o.,
Panama WI IS he, then. whose heart does not beat
with joy at each return OF this glorious dry bringing
US nearer to the hour hen net trace of foreign power
shall be found in this whole continent