St. Charles City Republican intelligencer. [volume] (St. Charles City [Charles City], Iowa) 1857-1861, 1861-01-10

/ Their life went out for want of using
They are the fecblest States in Europe
/ France, half Protestant, is becoming
more free every year. The Emperor
is 40 more monarch by the grace of
God, but by the vote of the people
/ There arc two centuries in that simple
thing. And what is this schoolmastcr
of Europe teaching the indociIe kings?
That nations may drive out sovercigns
that abuse the subjects rights that
the people may choose their own rul-
ers. ltal y votes for her King! When
votes are cast into the ballot-box be.
fore st. Peters, the spirits of the old
purItans will surely walk the streets
of Rome, and chant their airy Psalms
of praise The Car signs the decree
of emancipation in his Continental do
mains, and ON the first of January,
millions of serfs will enter the year
trccmcn Austria, sulicn and reluc-
tant, has not the grace to yield. nor
the strength to defend her oppressed
provinces. Asia and Africa are COM
ing rapidly under the dominion of ma
tons which advance the world in lib
erty. And is our own land receding?
Are we uncluthing ourselves of the
garment OF Liberty, just as the nations
are arising in its robes Are we
about to put on the old cast off
rags OF despotism, and join the op-
pressors of the earth, just when God
is herding and driving them from
among men! No. Liberty was
never loved more dearly than now.
There are more hearts that beat with
intelligent enthusiasm for human
rights than ever before And this
night Of Pilgrim celebration had new
er before 50 wide and profound SYM
pathy !
Our fathers lit a feeble natal fire
upon the rocks this night, two hundred
and forty years ago, and it has never
gone out 1t burns there it burns
here 1t burns in every State in this
| mon and it will burn on for ages
yet q. No vcstal fire Of ancient tenn
pies ever endured so long. No re-
newcd candles ever glimmcrcd 50 long
before prlcstly shrincs as has glowed,
and will glow before the Puritan's
llamc--the ireeman's frel The Ger
mans have legend, that on the ami
versary of every great world-battlc,
the spirits of the old combatants rise
and join again in silent glory above
the scenes Of their former conflict.
Tonight, mcthinks, the old Puritans
OF the 22l Cf December gather in high
and solemn council over the scene of
their landing. No war is in the soul
no sword is in their hand A Di-
vine glory is upon tiicm, and with sol
emn bcnediction they stretch forth
their shadOwlesS hand toward all this
Continent ! And shall seem extrav-
agant, if believe that ththcr through
the air swoop the mighty dead of for
mcr days, to do them reverence The
Rutledgcs, the Pinckneys, the Jcficr-
SONS, the MadisOns, the Franklins, the
Adamscs, the Hancocks, and all the
revered names from every State that,
with them, carried forward the Puri-
tan work Let us join them in SYM
pathy. We send forth our hearts to-
night to every American who loves
the liberty which the Puritan planted
on these shores ! We greet, over all
the earth, every man who stands bold
ly for the rights of men! We give
our sympathy and our prayers to eve
~ man, wherever he may be, that is
wronged and oppressed and that
prayer is, and shall be, " God of our
Fathers : send confusion to the oppressors,
and liberty TO the captire."