The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1855-02-10

the acclamauons and Telolcngs ~ nsAi5 huy niloas
on freemen gloryng in the Of Americana and Sc
eurey enjoying the unspeakabe blessings and privileges
purchased 81 the heroic deeds Of the good and true
who dared and achieved that glorious revolution
Ii Is true that we separated from brethren BY
vast sxpanse Of ocean and thar residing tempor
riIy hope) remote foreign land under the dominion
OF he crown and sceptre fathers repudiAed-among
people who do not understand and do not appreciate our
country our government or our institntons-who have
sympathes with national principles and feelings
bat who, the contrary regard US with jealousy and y
would be idle disguise the fact with deeprooted and
mpacable hatred and envy Prudence might dictate SIT
uAted are that should avoid irritating the preu
diees Of the community in which live and upon which
in degree dependent in our business relations
by any demonstration of national JOY and pride on the
occasion OF this great anniversary the celebration OF which
cannot he very paatable 20 British nsoence and conce
But had the Of 70 been restrained BY personal eonsid
erations affecting their fortunes business relatonshad
they even thong death except despe them
would they have signed that Declaration Of Independence
would We or would our millions OF brethren al home oe
this DAY commemorative that declaration and rejoicing to
behold beloved country pursuing IN peace and security
her destined OF greatness and glory unawed and
unrestrained by the desoating torch Of war that now
ghrs lurid flames OF horrid portent would we not
rather d1ul eoonists loyal subjects Of the British
Crown be offering our treasures and our men 20 hgh he
battles Queens Emperor and Sutans and through our
Lord Chancellor, other representative ~kneeng on
Blended knees humbly to receive her Maestys most gra
cous answer "deignng to accept the proer Of sub
stance and lives Should we then from any appre
henson Of affecting business relations by offending
thesenstye jealousy Of the partisans OF British
should we for any such cause forego the celebration of
national anniversary and the demonstration of that
just pride in the of that revolution which freed
forever from kngly rule and in place of yrannical power
and government Of force substituted government Of
the people founded upon the principles Of personal liberty
and moral power2 Should we do so, we would be un-
worthy OF the OF of the rich
legacy Of American liberty achieved and transmitted TO us
BY our gallant fathers. No my eountrymen we do not
desire offend irriAte the feelings Of ANCIENT
mics yet this glorious day, would think and FEEL and
speak Americans Justly proud of our country and our
institutions will commemorate the daring heroism of our
ancestors who aresy braved the terrors of British
tyranny We will celebrate with exultng joy the success
Of that revolution which has made country great ma
ton feared and hated by the oppreors OF the world but
loved and admired by the good and great of every land
and looked with hope and trust by every friend Of man
kind the depository of personal liberty and the cham
pon Of moral power and self-government
II Is not my purpose, this occasion to enter into
detail Of the series of yranncal aggresons long and
obStinatey persevered in by malignant king and
wicked government which impeiled fathers take up
in defence of their liberties and finally all
political connection with their mother eountrya country
however which manifested for them other national a
fectons than those ascbed the unamabe of step
mothers and whose government exercised its power
them only with view their oppression and degrade
tionthey summed up with great truth and force in
the and indignant declaration which have just
heard read and from our infancy we are accustomed TO
hear them enumerated and discussed, that American
they familiar household wordsneither do
propose to dwell on the glorious battle fields which,
during long years of continued and eventfu
fare, our indomtahe countrymen not only met and
sustained the shock of British power but actually de-
fated and captured the choicest and best-discipned
armies Of that naughty monarchy. The thrilling
ry is in the volumes of our schools, and gilds the
pages Of historians orators and poets and there
not an American schoolboy ploughman whose heart
viii not throb with glow of patriotic pride at the
ton of Lexington, Bunker Hill, Yorktown, and many
other fields renowned by the daring valor and chvalrc
prowess of sires-names the mention of which will
banch English cheek with the mingled hues of
anger and shame Suffice il say, that three millions of
peoples dispersed immense extent of country with
recognised government without fleets without dis
cpline with the generous love of liberty and animated
with the heroic resolve which dictated the memorable
rJ3 nFp .trsgL
he exclaimed in the face OF the pariisans of royalty Give
me Liberty give Death Three millions Of people
the British empire whose disciplined troops garsoned
ortrsses and principal cities whose fleets
tied their thunders in every and whose very frown
caused apprehension and alarm to the most powerful
lions in the world and that after years of bitter and
unreenng conflict they forced from the maevolent
arch England and his perverse ministers full and en-
tire recognition of American sovereignty and ndepend
Was not that conflict, my countrymen7 Was
not that revolution worthy Of being forever celebrated
by an American
During the few moments propose occupy your at
tenon this OCCASION let take rapid survey of the
peculiar nature of that revolution aud of its splendid
suits
almost every of the world But for the last
nineteen hundred years since the time of Caesar the
day when Rome free they have almost in in
stance been revolutions Of men, and of principles
where they did involve the principles of liberty they proved
unhappy abortions, and only tended to rve firmly
the cppressors chain England herself has had
outions, but except the shorved republic las il has
been grossly mscalled of Comwels day. they have been
emphacay revolutions of not to speak of the
contests accomplished by Caesar himself of the yet earlier
ones in the times Of the Pcts and the Britons
acy of the subsequent effected by the Angles
and Saxons in the days OF Hengs and Horsee even the
boosted revolution conducted by Alfred the Great in
yolyed as primary issue question ofdynasy to wheth
er the sceptre OF England which, during succession Of
several generations had been welded by Danish
many OF whose laws prevail in England to this day
should continue to be welded by king race or
whether should be resumed by prince of the Saxon
race whom the Danes had displaced Then the rev
olution accomplished BY the bastard Duke of Normandy
overwhelmingly successful but again revolution of dy
nasty snppantng forever the race of Saxon kings and
substituting dynasty of French monarchs distinguished
by the appeaton OF Norman whose descendants vet con-
time to occupy the English thone Again during the
reign OF King John-ludcrously called John Lakeland
England was reyolntionzed for time and again a for
elgner Frenchman Louis the Eighth surnamed the
Lonhearted oyully crowned and proclaimed king IN
London by the English people themselves
This passage Of history striking that venture 10
hope shall be excused for rciting it recorded by an
eminent French historian Anquete in his Historic de
France volume page 1882 speaking OF the years 1915
l2i6, and 1917, says John Lakeland retired into his
kingdom'-trom unsuccessful the continent
either from the habit of doing evil because he wished
to avenge himself his subjects for the i'll he had
experienced He no longer observed restraint This
yrant tormented the people by mposts openly violated
the privileges Of the cities and the nobility and pundered
the churches This time however it not the clergy
that disqueted him He found resources with he
Pope against the enterprise of his barons Weared with
his vexatons they at first addressed to him modest cou
plants lie took notice Of them In this respec he was
well initiated by his worthy descendant George III with
regard to the complaints Of our The historian