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Upton, Cedar County Iowa,
July 10, 1910. ,4 IS ~
Mr. LoaAN-We hand you "a few ex-
tracts from an Grafton delivered at Upton.
! the county seat of Cedar county, on the
last fourth of July, by w. BARRows, Esq.
OF Rockingham, who has kindly furnished
us with the same, and which we should
be happy TO have inserted in your paper.
Yours, &c.
J. w. OAKS, and others.
EXTRACTS, &c. sI.ts
Asa nation we have joined in the march
of intellect, from our earliest existence
and from what we behold of the past we
have only to rejoice in the prospects of
the future. But our liberties rest on the
virtue and intelligence of the people.
All our interests then as men, all our
hopes as patriots and all our pride as Anne
ricans, should be centred in the duty of
extending and enlarging the sphere of
education. 1t is not a part of the people
that should be enlightened. butthe whole.
The bloody streets of revolutionary Paris
alone exhibitwarnings which should alarm
the patriot, when he contemplates the re-
suits Of Ignorance and depravi,y upon free
institutions. Irepeat it then, that general
intelligence, universal education, are the
only safe guards and protection of our IL
berries where general suffrage exists
Our growth as a nation has
been unparalleled national honor re-
mains ,unsullied. The escutcheon of our
fame is without slain-Our flag is as
peace on every ocean, and floats on the
breeze of every cline unmolested, and the
name of American is a passport to the
most distant regions of the EARTH. a.
We have lived but day as it were, in
the age of nations; yet, observe the con-
irast; but yesterday, our settlements were
confined to narrow strip upon the shores
of the Atlantic-To day, the Mississippi
no longer bounds the swelling tide of emf.
grafton, but it rolls on westward, and car
ries with it the light of civilization, to dis
pei the darkness of the forest and spread
life and gladness through this distant land.
But yesterday the savage foe pressed upon
our frontier and the war-whoop was sound
ed and reverbrated from every hill and
grove along our entire border; and to-
! day there is peace in all our land, and we
emphatcally enjoy ourselves under our
own vine and fig-tree.' But yesterday. our
flag was insulted upon the ocean, and our
countrymen pressed into foreign service;
but to-day the stars and stripes of Ameri-
can independence are unfurled upon every
breeze in peace. But yesterday we were
struggling for freedom, poor and exhaust
ed in our resources, and kingdoms look
ing ON with doubtful eyes, as to our sue
cess; but to-day we stand living monu-
ment of redemption from tyranny, the
gaze and admiration of surrounding ,na-
ton; and if we leok to the future, we
can there behold prospects, such as never
opened to the rising fame any nation.
| Our borders have been enlarged by con-
slant purchasers from the aborigines Of our
country, and among these | am proud to
say, that Iowa stands prSseminent in her
territorial limits /; rich in her resources;
unrivalled in her advantages for internal
Improvements; she is destined to become
star of the first magnitude, in the ban
ne: of our free republic. 3. s.s,F
But a few years since, and the Indian
roved unmolested over these prairies and
across these hill the name of Iowa was
then scarcely known in the union, but
now her name rings through the streets
of our most distant cities and her im-
mense prairies are spotted with the habi-
tations of the hardy yeomanry Of the
county; their sheep to-day occupy the
place where but yesterday the wild deer
lay in his covert; and the familiar bark
of the watchful farm dog, has succeeded
the nightly howl of the prowling wolf.
| When l look around me and behold The
intelligence and enterprise that is flood.
ing our land, can scarcely believe that
three years since bent my. course over
these plains without path, or scarce q
mark Of civilization to guide my way
From such a march of improvement in
SO short time, what may we not expect
of the future. But a few months since
who would have ventured to prophecy
that the soil on which we this day cele-
brate would be trod by SO many enter
Iprizing citizens. And but few years
more and who will dare to say that the
streets of Upton will not be trod by the
lmerchant,t the mechanic, THE man Of science
and of wealth, from all our eastern cities,
and Cedar county now stands foremost in
/ the march Of Improvements become the
most powerful Of her allies.
Look at the surrounding farms, the
new made dwelling, and the cheerful
countenances of the hardy yeomanry of
her county Look at the amount recent
,,ly paid into the land ohice--yes, fellow
citizens, one hundred and three thousand
dollars, from this county alone, for lands
of actual settlement.
Look al her mill-streams meandering
every portion Of her limits.
Look at the herds of cattle, feeding
unon thousand hills. Ard fhen ,aiI