Daily Nashville patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1857-1858, 1857-07-10

sodlery, descendants of the Huguenot and the Pu-
Htan, blessed with the stout heart and strong arm
OF their ancestry, who had once extorted, under
Coligny and Rohan short release from the perse-
cution of Catharine de Medicis. made the flower
of chivalry go down before them to the well known
battle-cry of Bills Bowsi" of the English yeo-
many at Crecy and Poitiers
George Washington was intrusted with the chief
command of our armies. The spot now comment
rated by the monument of Buuker's Hill, and the
Heights of Quebec, drank the blood of Warren
and Montgomery, which cried aloud for ven
geance, and that cry was heard.
Still were hopes entertained of 8 reconciliation.
Still our braVest and wsest looked to the mother,
unnatural though she might be, and fondly chung 10
the idea that the bri shtest jewel in the Imperial
Dadem would not be madly torn from the brow for
ever But soon did the voice of canton, bursting
upon the ear of Congress, that the crisis
was come, and the decree had gone forth beyond
revocation They met it. as they alone knew how.
TIE Fourth Of July '76, first the word In
dependence uttered and proclaimed That dag fell
aud foreVer, British Sovereignty over the British
race in North America.
The child that had been Graded in SORROW and
persecution, whose growth had been, not under the
nursing care of regular government but in spite of
Is harsh discipline, had come strong man. The
time had come and with the lapse of time had come
the consciousness of strength. America looked at
its thews and sinews, hardening into manhood, and
with other childish things put scornfully away tie
sense of dependence that had kept t SO long by its
aged mothers side.
Thirteen disuulted, unsocial colonies separated
by distance, habit and education. sparse, rural
population, unused to warfare with disciplined adj
Versaries, with but such as the necessities
of the chase supplied-swords literally of plough
shares, and spears of uing-hooks-without a
treasury without credit, without an ally. And for
an enemy, Imperial England. her King. her Minis
try, her Parliament, with boundless resources, and
unmeasured power Her purse to corrupt, her
sword to punish.
These were the odds of the giant in his burnish-
ed armor, and the shepherd boy with his stone and
sling
And now let US pause to contemplate the scene,
the actors and the event, which here to -day
to commemorate What simple dignity graced that
scene Did the Roman Senate, as, robed in state,
it behed unmoved the triumphant Gaul insult their
Jupiter Capitolnus in the Senate House, present
| NN'4SSASsASa
upon the last irreparable act which should give
Mankind their reasons for a step so momeutous
Were the fires of Etna to Empedocles, or the hor.
rors of the yawning chasm to Quintus Curtus more
apparent, more certain, than to these men the
consequences of disaster and defeat? The anC
the gibbet, coufscaton of fortune, and disgrace
tailed upon the miserable Offspring who should
hail them the prOgenitors of a blackened line
No inspiration of a Cassandra was needed to La
bare to their minds the respective fates that await
ed them. But they ielt indeed that
"TO be weak is miserable, doing or suffering"
, and that
"The mind is its own place, and in itself,
Can make heaven of he'll, hell Of heaven"
They saw the vision that Milton saw and utter
ed
"Methinks l see in my mind, noble and puts
can't nation, rousing herself like a strong man atte
= sleep, and shaking her invinciole locks Me'hink
l see her as an eagle, mewing her mighty you'll
and kndling her undazzed eyes at the full mid .da
beam, purging and unscaling her long abused sigt
at the fountain itself of heavenly radiance, Will
the whole noise of timUrous and ocking birds, wit
those ALEC that love the twilight iutter about anna
ed at what she means"
Such the glories aud memories of 10; an
how those visions were realized, let yon ba mt
= tell with its constellation of thirty-One instead
thirteen stars
But that banner speaks of another land, who
sons withstood fer a time the legions Of Julius Ca
ear; and those numbers Q3O7) proudly mark Il
, date of another Declaration of Independence
Three hundred years, and more, stood Thirtee
- States there too, amid the clouds of despo
=. ism around. Twenty-one sovereign cantons no
own the independence which Tell and ArnOl
l. swore to achieve FIVE centuries and half ago. I'll
Annals of Switzerland are the Annals of Liberty
. All hail to thee, Helvetia! Thy Alps All
are NATURES glorious banners, set against the SIX
- to o'ershadow millions of freemen Yet unbornI We
= Dome thou whose head white with impenetrab
. SHOWS, lifts its maj site beauty far above the cart
and listening with ecstatc ear TO the wild mus
of the storm, sends up the purest prisons, al
-, bows to none but Godl With step untrammelle
cen the leap of thy own mountain torrents, ha
thou cleared the oceans vast expanse to dwell
Freedoms Homei
Now let the unbroken links of strong fratern
love forever bind Helvetia's sons to Fair Americ
- Long may her sons and daughters rejoice in O,
:, ct homes and blooming bowersl Long may tn,
sit beneath the clustering whey ards of their adoE
ed land, blessing and being best with brave hear
myrads crown the brow of Libertyll