The Nevada Democrat. [volume] (Nevada, Calif.) 1854-1863, 1860-07-11

Extracts from Rev. ThOs. Starr KAEy's 4th
81 OF July Address.
The Rev. Thos Starr King delivered very elo-
ouent address to the Sunday School pupils Of San
Francisco on the Fourth Of July. Judging from
the reports Of the address, published IN the Bay
papers, it was very appropriate and able effort,
and much superior to the ordinary run of July ora
tons. We extract a few of the concluding para
graphs. Those who have heard the reverend gen.
tlemans lectures will at recognize the simple
ity of style and striking comparisons which charac-
terize the productions Of the author:
God had plainly designed, he said, our nation to
be perpetually one, for He has spiked itup and
down from the lakes to the Gulf with the bed Of the
Mississippi, cross-bolted it from Georgia to Lake
Erie with the Alleghanies, and opened path from
St. Louis to the Sierras for Pacific Railroad, which
Congress will learn some day, when it studies anew
the points of the compass. and hnds among them
letter W., as well the letters n. and 3. Whoey-
er works for the disunion of our nation, and hopes
to succeed, must get up, not convention or re-
belon but an earthquake that shall pitch half the
Mississippi towards the north pole, snap the Allie
ghanies at the centre turn the Ohio out of bed and
choke with ruins every pass OF the Rocky Noun
Gods America was designed to be the home Of
immigrants from every land, for the first explorers
and colonists of it were from every civilized Euro
pean kingdom and race. And, as plainly, 1t was
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were driven, as by the hand Of benehcent destiny,
from their whole chain of Western intrenchments,
before the Revolution, and the Spanish power was
unraveled, that Saxon principles might be ladlwith-
out embarrassment, as the warp-lines in the vast
breadth of the national loom.
An eminent sculptor, at work upon his block, was
asked what he was doing, and replied, There is a
noble statue buried in this marble; am toiling to
dig it out" The true America is as yet only half
hewn statue. If the best men retire from interest
in public life she will be spoiled by the hacking OF
bunglers. II the best men band their energies to
purify the public spirit, she shall out from her
mighty continental block, sharply and beautiful, the
pride Of the globe. Seeing these opposite possibi-
ties, let in joy erect the altar OF holier pat
riotism In out hearts
Mr.. King closed with a word or two of direct ad-
dress to the children. You know said he, that a
clock ticks and ticks second by second, in dull,
patient humdrum sort Of way till the hand reach
es the sixtieth minute and then it strikes. A new
hour is born. What, If each day should be marked
at sunrise by the louder striking of clock to tell
US that more important minute was reached
What, If the commencement Of a new year should
always be told to us by the vibrations of some
mighty bell. far up in space, that sounded only on
the first OF January, touched then by the hand OF
God. And now, suppose that when anything very
important was about to happen in the wOrld-when
| new year of hope and JOY for nation OF mankind
was to come, mighty time keeper, away up among
the stars should ring out that men could hear it,
and say-"Hark! All, new hour, one Of Gods
hours, has struck in the great bclry Of the heavens
This would be grand. But God does mark the
great seasons Of the worlds history by a mighty
clock. In fact every nation has huge dial plate,
and behind it the works, and below it is the pen
dulum, and every now and then its hands mark n
new hour. Our revolution such period. That
is the glory of it. The English Government had
oppressed fathers 1t tried to break their spirit
1t was for several years dark time, like the
before sunrise. But the old time-pece kept ticking
ticking, the wheels playing calmly, till, about l775
there was strange stir and busy catter inside the
case the people couldn't bear any more; sixteth
minute came, and all of sudden the clock struck.
The world heard the battle of Bunker Hill-One
the Declaration of Independenee-t,co; the surren-
der of Burgoyne-three; the siege of Yorktown
four the theaty of Paris-3fre; the Inauguration OF
Washington--sir; and then it was sunrise, and we
live in the forenoon of the glorious day. [Cheers,
long-continued and repeated.
Let us be glad and grateful on this Anniversary,
that such glorious hour marked for our coun-
try and the world on our coasts. Let us hope and
pray that the good old clock shall remain for centu-
ries uninjured, and that it will strike many times
again-but not through battles--to mark new hours
for humanity.