San Andreas independent., 1858-08-28
Fourth of July Orations.

very harmoniously, and to have been enjoyed
with much less demonstration, and at consid-
erable less expense than usual. The Railroad
trains conveyed vast numbers of city people
into the country, while the country people
focked into the cities to witness the fire.
works, and other exhibitions SO bountifully
provided on such occasions. Four distinguish
Messrs. Rufus Choate and Edward Everett at
Boston, Mr.. Henry Ward Beecher at Brooklyn,
and Mr.. Caleb Cushing at New York. They
were all said to be exceedingly eloquent eff
forts. We give the perorations of the whole
four orations:
CLOSE OF MR.. EvERETT's SPEECH.
x The day we celebrate is, in the
burning words of our friend Mr. Choate,
a day without parallel On this day was
done deed that the historians of Rome,
Greece, nor any modern nation can match.
TO the citizens of Philadelphia | would
say guard well Independence Hall, for it
is second only to Mount Vernon, and
may it stand forever the sanctuary of
American patriotism. 1t is no irrever-
ence to call its walls salvation and its
gates praise. May the sun shine soft
upon its roof, and the winds of winter
knock gently at its door / would I could
ascend the mount of vision and view the
glorics of the coming day to this country
the past is craven upon my heart. |
have visited every portion of our blessed
country, and have found nothing to con-
denim. All that have found which, had
| the power to strike down [ would do,
bears the name of buncombe." Ire
medous cheering. don't mean any geo.
graphical buncombe, nor the respectable
county of that name in North Carolina.
| mean that political, pestilent, election
eering buncombe which exists in any
State to plague the land Great cheer
ing. If we can get rid of that and re-
turn to such days as when Massachusetts
invited Washington to take command of
our armies at Cambridge, when Adams
and Jefferson assisted each other in draw
ing up the Declaration of Independence
when South Carolina sent her rice to
feed the army of the North-could | live
to see that day, [ would go to my grave
content, and ask for no other epitaph than
this: Through evil and good report he
loved his country"
CLOSE OF CALEB CUsHING's SPEECH.
Accused be the American,
if such there be, in whose torpid bosom
the emotions of patriotism do not well
spontaneously up, this day, as from the
bosom of perennial fountain. Accused
be he, to be driven out like a recreant
knight, from the lists, with the brand of
nidang stamped upon his brow, no more
to know the transport of woman's love
or to walk erect in the estimation of men.
We at least, here within the walls of Tam
many Hall, and now while the roar of
cannon and the ringing of bells and the
hurrahs of our countrymen are sounding
over earth and sea, here and now, we ex-
ultingly raise our voices to join the choral
anthem of a nations joy, and to swell the
diapason of a nations condemnation of
praise to God that He gave to our fathers
this fair land for their inheritance, that
have inspired into them the spirit of ma
tionality and independence, tha.tt He lift
ed up the thirteen colonies into sovereign
States, that He made of us one people,
and that, as by his creative hand He
reared, so by his mighty will He preserves
the superb work of this ever glorious
Constitutional Union.
CLOSE OF II. W. BEECHER's SPEECH.
x Upon this land God has
poured mixed population-for different
races together make better population
than consanguineous stock,-God has
poured lavishly from every nation here
upon us men like our fathers. Though
men are sometimes said to leave their
country for their country's good, yet all
do not. There are men who are restless,
who are enterprising; there are young
people who cannot walk In the old PAGES,
or take the old slow customs, who are not
harnessed to time-worn institutions and
interests; they cannot bear even the
finger of oppression. They are the men
who flee their country, and Fathers
hand pours them upon our shores, and We
take them as a tribute from every nation
under the sun. They are the enterprise,
the youth, the power, the motive power,
and such blood mingled with ours makes
nation, which, if it be educated and
christianized, will give stamina, variety,
genius, and all the elements of national
life to such an extent as never before was
brought together. This is one population
which is now spread from ocean to ocean;
our people wash their feet in the Atlantic
and in the Pacific, and drink from our
great lakes and bathe our brow in the
gulf on either side; we have no other
boundary beside the mighty ocean, the
lakes and the CULTS; and pent up in this
vast area is population which is to make
America the world nation for every man.
This vast extent of territory, this variety
of climate, this diversity of interest is one
of the causes of our danger; we are in
danger just as ship that is built too
long and not strong enough. As they
are in danger of breaking in the middle,
so we are in danger of breaking some
where.