Piney Woods planter. (Liberty, Mi. [i.e. Miss.]) 1838-1840, 1839-07-13
From the Free Trader.


Sixty THIRD ANNIVERSARY OF AMER.
lCAN INDEPENDENCE this article
will have reached the eye of MAORI
ty Of our readers, the sixtythird ami
versary Of American Independence
will have arrived, and the roar ofcan-
non, the firing Of musketry, the rejoi-
cings ofthc citizen, and demonstrations
offcstivity, will proclaim, that it is the
birth day Of Freedom to the Western
Continent.
This day, sixty three years ago, the
American Congress published solemn
Declaration of independence, that the
thirteen United Colonies "are, and of
right ought to be" absolved from any
connection with the British Crown
and for the purpose of carrying that
Declaration into successful effect, the
delegates pledged to each-"their lives,
their fortunes and their sacred honor"
Twas high and glorious sacrifice
high, because life was the stake--glori-
Gus, as Liberty was the reward.
The armies of the thirteen Provin-
ces, with Washington at their head,
and thousands Of other worthless as his
companions, after seven years war,
with alternate success and defeat, sue
ceeded in waving the American Eagle
over the head of the British Lion, on
the plains of Yorktown.-Then it was
that the vote of Freedom was heard to
to tie G other America has conquered.
Then the SOLVE branch was offered
to the oppressed of all nations, and the
immutabie principles Of American lib
erty estabhshed-the will OF the peo-
pic; a free press; and the separation OF
Church and State. 1t is triunc tree.
don-and the dropping ofone would
be followed by the inevitable overthrow
of all.
Sixty-thrce years ago, our boundary
only cntended from Massachusetts, tt
Georgia; now, we extend from th'
Pcnobscott to the Rocky Mountains
then there were but thirteen children
: in the great family Of Freedom, nov
: we number twenty six, besides havin
: three others, anxiously looking for ma
! ture ge. But the principles Of Amcl
; lean freedom did not stop in our ow
a dominions. The Eagle, "with wild
extended Wings flew to other cline
n and dropt at least one sprig of the eve
IS green ofLiberty. The principles
our government crossed the Sabi1
} River. and Texas herself raised 18th
single Star" of Fcedom, the march
81 which, ere long, will be extended to Il
e walls of the Byzantum, and not on
! North. but South America wilt hol
- the broad banner of Freedom, insc
q bed upon which will be "a represent
tive Government and no King" ga
. ada. too, has the fever of ''Represe
n tatiye Freedom raging high, and. e'
a nv pulsation adds to it addition
10 10 strength. The principles OF our 6
~ ernment have also crossed the Alta
cn tic. and long since entered the bose
of the chivalric population OF the In
n, raid Isle:-England has caught a
the prevailing liberal contaglon, a
even now, a party, "thc Charts
stands at the doors Of her Lords a
Of Commons, with petition signed
nd one million and halt of her hardy y
lc- many, demanding the principles 0
en- Representative Government. Fran
Ter too, is rapidly approximating to tt
we of Government like ours; and it n
re- he truly said that the wide-sPr'
we wings ofthe American Eagle-wh
es- name is Liberty, supported by twer
or six Stars. shining forth in the fri
nd ment of Freedom, with our Corstitut
ar as our Sum-. land our Judiciary as
ar Moon--has been seen by all the
Tas tions Of the world and at this ii
the throne Of every earthly King
tottering "irom the Crosun Of the h
ice to the sole Of the foot"
be IT'S no wonder then, that "illumi
its tons, bonfres, commanding, mu
We dancing" and rejoicings Of all ki
he take place on this day;the very fife
ed drum, seem always to sound,