Randolph County journal. [volume] (Winchester, Randolph County, Ind.) 1855-1862, 1861-07-18
w,xcutsrra. July ;. 1901.

Fftf0W tff-eHS: - itu htaFl- INV
with pa,,iotie arlor YOU have come mp
here to day with one accord to celebrate
the birth day of our National lndepend-
cuce. You have met to do honor TO day
and m event the Importance of which
neither YOU nor have ever fully realized.
You have met to-day. not that You may
bow down in senscle~s alteration before
the throne of dcspot, not 20 ply blind
HOMAGE to some party leader, but YOU are
here 10 stand erect in the conscious digli-
ty of .rcemcn. You have not come to
worship man. but to bow your heads in
humble reverence before the Lord God of
vour Fathers. and IN hi, sight 70 renew
,our VOWS Of devotion to your country
&, honor hey Name, love her Institutions.
and Obey her laws
Nor are YOU alone IN the meeting Of to-
day. From East to West throughout our
vast extended country the voices OF thou
sands and tens of thousands Of your coun-
trymcu unite with ,our., ait ten thousand
hearts are animated by the same common
emotion.
The busy avocatious Of life have for a
time ceased, and YOU have come hitber
lran town and country. from the farm aud
the Workshop, from the store and the
manuuctorv. from the office of the physi-
elan and the attorney, from every rank
and condition of life YOU have come 70
give 10 Liberty day And could Won to-
aly extend your vision 10 che East--to the
land OF the Pilgrims, where the voices OF
the people muele with the sounds OF the
N,nuebec, the Connecticut, and the Hud-
SON. won would find that there, in the We
ry places where thc fr>, blood OF the Rev
olatiou was poured out, the people, still
trueto the trust couGded To them by
their Fathers, are to-day assembled from
every c.ty. town aud village ctoreuew their
eoas ou the altar of our common cOun-
ry. or could you see the bound!ess
N Nc,t. ou the sunset side of the Father of
S. attrs. Won would there see the men
from the valleys o. the Missouri and the
* ,u-ls, ,he Columbia and the Sscramen-
ID come ior,has one man 10 unite with
their brethren in COMMUNICATING tai,
great y .uouai Sabbath. ON tie Isles OF
,uc ocean. .n Tire lar distant capito's OF
Europe. wherever tbe feet of true hearted
Americans have trodlcn there the day
ni.l bring With it its thrilling memories.
AMI 6rm'y believe that could you to-
dsy visit tae sunny South--ihe land Of
,ar Prdce, the Saut,e, the Albama and
the savannah. even t4tre amid the wide
spread de'uslou anJ m siuess. you would
aud many hearts still glowing with the
tervor OF devotion for the country and the
Constitution To-day the PRAYER will 90
up from many true-heari,d Union man
of the South that God in his mercy would
turn aside the black clouds already burst
iug in wrath o. our hitherto happy land.
IL i well that at times like this that the
contests and chickering's of parties should
cease, 50 tat We may indulge IN the high
cr and nobler feelings which are appro-
p.iate to this illustrious day. For t Is
only when we hush within Us the spirit OF
parts an strife. and calm IT. Wild surges as
they beat upon the public mind, that We
tit ourselves TO think calmly and ia the
light of Truth on the grea, events which
have given te the day its Immortality.
eur Fathers were no mere partisans.
They did and suffered teo much in win
ming the liberties which We to-day enjoy,
and in establishing the Constitution un
der whose benign influence We have lived
for more than seventy wears, to allow
their patriotic impulses to be regulated ~
party creeds. And if we to-day. my fel-
low citizens, deere to initiate them, we
must ever bear in mind that patriotism is
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