Grand River times. [volume] (Grand Haven, Mich.) 1851-18??, 1853-08-10
OUR 4TH OF JULY SPEECH.

MY good wing friend! You pretend
to be a patriot--don't you! You are
proud OF America--are you not? You
would not suffer single star in the Fed
eral galaxy to be torn from the folds of
our star spangled flag; would you!--
Florida is as dear to you as Maine; and
does not Louisiana, with her 9Th of jan
uary and her cotton bags, come over you
with the same sort Of a thrill that Con-
cord and Lexington, and Bunker's Hill,
inspire! When you think of Yorktown
or Saratoga, you grow hot to the ear
tips with great thumps of heart !" yet in
unison your heart beats rs your mind
dwells on the proud young State which
illustrates our empire npon the still Pa
ciic. Lake Erie, with brave young Per-
ry, and the flag flying from the mast
head Of the Lawrence, with the motto,
"Don't give up the Ship ."-strs your
American blood, no sooner than that
flag streaming from the turrets of Mont
Grey, or floating upon the Plaza of Mex
leo! All these glories have made the
American Union what it is. Besides, you
are an Anglo Saxon, and you love terri
tory, and glory in its extended area.
Now, my once ardent Wing friend,
hold still Il moment! To what party
are We indebted for these additions to
our territory, and these honors 10 our
arms? Do you not know that if the op-
poncnts to the Democracy had had the
power, we would still have been conlin-
cd to the Old Thirteen! Our West
would have been the Mississippi, whose
mouth would have been in the power of
another, had not Jefferson caught u
glimpse of our destiny, and despite OPP
position bought it Of France? Our
South would have been bounded by the
lines Of Tennessee and Georgia. The
Floridas would have been the fee sim.
pie Of the present dynasty which holds
the Antilles; California with her gold,
Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama,
and Arkansas, with their rice, cotton and
sugar-indeed two thirds of the present
territory, of which you are so proud,
would have been in strange hands but
for-now don't shirk the conclusion
look it in the eye-but for the Democ-
racy. In defiance of the depreciatory
and denunciatory speeches of Federal
ism and Whigs-in defiance of their con-
scientious constitutional scruples-in
defiance Of the narrow commercial poll
cy which would coniine our enterprise
to our own contracted Embellishments
cy has added State after State and terri
tory after territory; has increased our
trade, enhanced our wealth, and has Sc
cured or will secure, by our Pacific rela-
tons, the incalculable advantages Of the
Chinese and Indian commerce Of the old
world.
Now, when you feel so proud of your
native land, in its integrity, do Democra.
cy the honor Of a national salute on ev.
cry fourth. AS you sing out the glor-
Gus song of Bayard Taylor:
II greet with full heart the land of the
West,
Whose ban ner of stars DER the world is
unrollcd,
Whose empire o'ershadows Atlantic's wide
breast,
And opens to the sunset its gateway of
gold"
OH do us the justice, just once a
year ut least, to remember to what party
in America you owe SO much-and
whose foresight directed the hand which
inscribed such proud pages in the VOL
ume of her destiny. Statesman.
BRAINwORK.-Fellow-ci citizens, rs you
sprawl on your sofas this pleasant fore
noon or make all inverted Il of yourself
by dropping your chair-back against the
wall, you probably think it must be ca
sly to write what you find it easy to read :.
Did you ever plough, hoe corn, or plant
cabbages? We have been engaged in
all these rural exercises, and have also
swung the scytho and cradle under the
hot sun of the South; and We solemn
ly declare that the physical labors afore-
said are mere recreation in comparison
with the eXhausting toll of writing for
the press in a close office, with south
western aspect, when the thermometer
is in the neighborhood of the nineties.-
| Ouo bildO ollOulu ilIIu blcII
way by electric telegraph from the brain
to the pen, liquefy on the road and ooze
out in big glcbules of perspiration, while
the more delicate fancies evaporate by
the 4" insensible" process. Excuse, there
fore, the shortcomings of genius under
the influence of the summer solstice !;
for be assured that vertical sun, how
ever it may Quietly and mature cherries,
plums, and other fruital "plumptitudes," -
is by no means favorable to the devel-
opements of intellectual products.
Sunday Times.
DEVICES FOR CoINAGE.-The Director
of the Mint at Philadelphia, under the
sanction of a law authorizing new devil
ces for the silver coinage Of the United
| States and with thu coneopt oc tbo Go,