St. Charles City Republican intelligencer. [volume] (St. Charles City [Charles City], Iowa) 1857-1861, 1858-07-08

enCcS tnelr hearts tIie TlSulS vi inc
people are secured. 1t is said that
CromwelIs army was invincible be-
cause his bayonet soldiers prayed.
The lamented Havelock preached
the gospel to his regiment on the Sab
bath, and no regiment was so terri
bic to tyrants as his. Nations build
Notifications and maintain standing
armies for the defence of their liber-
ties. Christianity is the most impreg-
nable of all Notifications, and the pro-
Chalmers of Christianity constitute a
standing army stronger than the le-
gions of Caesar, and its truths are
more potent than cannon balls. Lib
erty, in turn, protects Christianity
Thus they travel soul and soul toward
heaven" where the principles of both
will be experienced in their highest
development.
g. Our Foreign Relations May our Govern
ment ever continue on amicable terms with
all the world and the rest of mankind
DR.. f. Cortright was called, and res
pended
Ladies 4. Gentlemen Il feel this toast
is sadly out Of place. was always
taught that after mans country it
was his duty to love his wife and chill
dren. Moreover, if he had no wife, to
get one as soon as possible. l there
fore expected, before this, to have
heard "The Ladies mentioned Blu,
l am glad that l, an Englishman by
birth, am permitted to address you on
this suspicious occasion, because the
oppression of the -.merican colonies,
which led to their independence, is
charged upon the English people, whilst
the crime, in truth, was committed
by an imbecile king, feudal aristoc-
racy, and corrupt government. New
er was there filter expression of the
feelings of the masses of England
than when Pitt gave that electric
shock as he cried "Were | the
American colonists, would submit ?
No, never, never, never, never J" The
English people behcld you fighting,
not because you were Americans, but
freemen, fighting for your liberty, your
hearths and homes and they look
upon your triumph now as the triumph
of that liberty.
But to my text: "Our foreign rela
tions-may we ever live in peace will
all the world and the rest of mankind.
When l first heard this, l thought il
was bull, not an Irish one. Though
ike most Irish bulls, it had deeI
hidden meaning. When all the world
is embraced, who are the rest of man
kind? l will take as all the world
the great Anglo-Saxon race, with its
depots of liberty in two hemispheres
and to the man of commerce, of scienc,
and of literature is it not all TIN
world =? Sweep away from the broa'
ocean the fleets of America and Brit
ain and what dreary void it becomes
Blot out from science the names ant
discoveries of Franklin, Watt, Fulton
and Morse, and mechanism sinks al
most into barbarism from poesy
Shakespeare and Milton A.; from states
men, a Washington, Webster,
Pitt, Burke, and Chatham tax,
away from the world all the achieve
ments of this race, and methinks a,
angel would weep at the loss Of sucl
a world
But this resolution speaks also o
peace peace, the first blessing of lib
crty. May we ever continue in peace
if SO, we may be sure justice viii
-1rcspots o. the OLD worlu w0uIt
scott to see such fratricidal war al
that would be between England anc
this country How the minions OF
tyranny would howl, and yet louder
howl, as they saw the world of liberty
divided against itself! Accused be
they who would unloose the dogs of
war between us who are of the same
language, blood and religion. AS
listened to the eulogium Oh Washing
ton to-day, ! thought how much great
er he shone as his country's bcnefac-
tor than as warrior. AS the man
who loves his country more than him
self, all his greatness summed up in
that one expressive phrase, " Thou
shalt love thy neighbor as thyself"
And when the memory of heroes is
forgotten, when the laurels of the war
rior are withered, his name shall stand
sacred upon his nations history.
Gentlemen, if such are the blessings
of peace-if she is SO indelibly allied
with liberty as utterly to refuse her
caresses to war-shall not America
and England, we who are brethren,
we to whom arc entrusted the libcr-
ties of the world-shall not we seek
peace ? shall not we press onward in
the race of liberty till not a freeman
fears oppression, not fetter binds a
slave, and the goal which both are
seeking be emblazoned with this in
scription Peace on earth, good will
toward men,"
o. The Lades-We admire them for their
beauty, respect them for their virtues, and
love them because We cannot help it.
Mr.. r. G. Reiniger was called, but
being unprepared, excused himself
with few brief remarks.
10. Temperance surest safeguard of the
Liberties Of the people is total abstinence from
all that intoxicates.
G. w. Atkinson, being called, re-
sponded as follows
Mr.. Presidcnt-The sentiment am
called upon to respond to in connection
with the occasion, recalls to my mind
a very interesting incident. When
Washington, at the close of that strug-
gle which secured the Independence,
whose Declaration we today celc-
brate, was about to part from his
brave associates, he called for glass
Of pine, and pledging their future pros
perity babe them adicu. And the III
cident suggests question: may not
l then do-day quaff one trimming
goblet to the memory of those depart
ed heroes? But my heart responds !;
if you truly believe the spirit of Wash
ington if here to-day would bid you