The weekly Columbian. [volume] (Columbia, Tuolumne Co., Cal.) 1856-1???, 1856-07-12

amply repaid him for all the sufferings and tri-
ais he had undergone. If the inhabitants sof
other lands love with imprisoned intenseness
their native home, should not the citizens of this
mighty, progressive Republic feel source of
happiness for the freedom they enjoy, and the
business, with but few exceptions. of their laws
For the principles which we cherish and defend
was the heroic Garibaldi driven into exile
The earnest almost hopeless pleadings and
eloquence of the applause and admiration of
every true lover of his country, still they toll
on in sorrow and in poverty, oftentimes hunted
as fugitives, from amongst their countrymen and
the homes they love 50 well. 1t was the love
of country and hatred of oppression that
prompted such men as Adams and Otis to de-
nonnce in thunder tones British misrule. 1t
was love of country that Jefferson and others
in their well-timed exertions of their country s
cause, the result of whose patriotic acts are un
mistakably manifesting themselves to the civil
lied world. When the cry of Liberty is again
raised, it will be re-echoed from mountain to
| mountain, from valley to valley, from continent
| to continent Its clarion voice will reverberate
| throughout the world awakening those whose
wrongs have conspired to render them regard
| less of passing events. They will arise in their
might, refreshed for the combat, and goaaed on
to revenge by recollection of the wrongs they
have endured, will infict q terrible retributlon.
The chains of Poland's sons are shaking for the
afray. The inimitable Hungarians are prepar-
| ing to assert the justice of Universal Freedom.
| The heroic Italians will not allow the manacles
long to remain on their true and greatest
friends, but will respond to the wishes of their
leaders, who will lead them on to victory and
| to happiness
] America, the birthplace of Washington and
Freedom, the home of the oppressed and down.
trodden of almost every land. For three-quar-
tiers of century has this highly favored land
gradually, slowly, yet surely prepared itself to
exert nations influence on the worlds destl-
n.y. While Europe has been repeatedly involv-
ed in internal consmotion and strife within the
same period, sometimes occasioned by the vari-
GUS rulers, at other times the people in their
combined strength, and majesty have arisen
and asserted their rights, declaring that
| ga day. nav an hour of virtuous liberty
| Is worth eternity OF bondage
| Yet. as it we're, she apparently slumbered on,
| only awakening to defend herself against the
illegal acts Of the Mother Country, or express
her sympathy for those heroic potrlots in Greece
and South America. Since then she has prov
ed herself able and prompt to maintain her
rights to defend and protect the interests OF her
| citizens whoever and wherever they may be-
| in fine foe worthy of any despot's steel. 1t
| was hardly possible that young and vigorous
nation of SO much enterprise and energy, born
in revolution against tyranny and injustice, era
| died and baptized in blood could long remain
| Indifferent to the well being of the people of
| other lands, and within the last few months, we
have had cheering proof and encouragement to
believe, that she will nobly hold her own
amongst the nations of the earth. 1t is for her
representatives to act as freemen, conscious of
the power delegated to their Rulers and states
men with talents worthy of a better cause, have
endeavored to demonstrate the inpracticability
and successful development of this form of gov
! eminent. Yet with all the obstacles which
malice and hatred could invent-with the pow