The Hancock Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Ohio) 1857-1870, 1866-07-27
Fourth oi July.

o.. since, the sublime Declaration Of In
! .dependence eDponnced ODD countr,
. TO besone The nations ofthe earth
There are men now living whose az,
+. reaches back to the biTth Of the ma
? ton. a nation notoldar than maj
with thirty million OF p6pulation
thirty hundred mlflioiis u public
debt, eight miHisn trditors, and
Andrew Johnsont
Itis hurried bttle history for
ninety years. Bat that Is what we
have come to. y
y wehave distinctly whipped great
/, Britain twice IN. II, We are han
2 kering to doit again y \ q
We have waved the bpnner Of glory
In aud around The IIalls Of the Mon.
tezumas. (And we haye about made
up our mind that AHxinlasn has
waved there nearly long enough
i We have built incrediblA thousands
Of miles OF sAilroad. tLikewise, We
have SMASHED to pieces Incredible
z thousands Of American people there.
on, fsF -.
We have invented and ptt in prac.
tice an Infinite tnngle Of Telegraph all
over this continent Aid we keep
it to the top of its lightning in diff,
fusing Associated Press dispatches
and Johnson's vetoes. gr.rrs
We have searched the old forest
with republican civilization, from the
Atlantic to the Pacific coast. In
which process we have combed out
and cracked innumcrable vile. vermin
Of humanity, called "red 9mep Of the
forest, romantically so called.
We have given to the world the
blessed sewing machine and Hoes
cylinder. press with which we are
in way 10 sew up and Hoe down
all creation:) CNA F'&J5
We have fought the greatest civil
war Of the worlds history, crushing
n conspiracy OF eight million people
the most causelessly, criminally,
and desperately reasonable people
the sun shone upon. besides, we
squelched, in the same process, the
hundred of thousandsz-we don't
know how many. of their Copperhead
allies in our midst; and were so Ia
mentally magnanimous as not to
have hanged any of them-letting
them all live to vote us back TO where
we fought from.
We have, by this war, righted the
most stupendous wrong of Christen-
dom, striking of the shackles from
four million slaves, and restoring to
them those -"unslienable rights of
life, liberty, and the pursuit of hap
piness" which our ,4th: of July Dec
laration maintains that oil arc sen {
dowed with. eve are taking meas
ures to secure these freed -lOyalists
in the aforesaid rights by remanding
them to the mild and patriarchal rule
Of those whose judicious and gentle
lash has governed them hitherto,
even as fond father governeth his
wayward children
In this war, we put the finest body
OF soldiers into tho field that ever
did battle, noble, generous, glorious
men, who (God bless them! lavished
their lives by the hundred thousand s
that we might still be AVIATION. [ And
we manufactured Generals anil Colo.
nels enough to fill oil our offices for
two generations. 8sa ets.A NV 10
In this war, too, we found three Of
the grandest heroes of history
Grant, Sherman, Sheridan. (This
was after we had found George B.
Mcclellan. \
We. had for President, from the
beginning to tlie end of this war, one
of the most honest, earnest, generous, !"
genuine men that ever guided peo.
pie through the Red Sea of battle r
1--WE have-Andrew Johnson.)
Such are some of the glories (aDd
so forth that II Is natural to trecur b
to on this 4th of July. And it is
natural, too, TO look round and con-
template results. We have the ninety
years Of national growth before us A.,
and that, with slavery's mortal poison
in the nationalsoul and body, Look
at 1t, and, without any OF, July %
fustian,. Say if there is anything ip the 2
books that can be named in colnpar,
ison. In spite of the shameful .ahd 81
drawback. we have risen
to standing with the first rate pow
ers Of earth. 49,, 10y ~
But, the stain on the banner now
dyed out with patriotic blood, we go
forward from q new era henceforth.
Ten 4ths Of July from this will not
have passed till we shall be. recog
nized as the controlling power on
the globe. This is not patriotic
prophecy; this is the logic of events
destiny. 'rT 'f7lf fttr-o'.
Dear readers, may we all celebrate
that hundredth 4th of July. And let
us so live, and ACT, and vote as to
feel. that We have contributed our
share to promote the integrity, peace,
prosperity, and grandeur of the Great q
Rcpublic.--Xeaia Torohlight. .arr- q
Lord Frederick Fitz Clarence was
once dining with marty of olfioers.