Daily clarion and standard., 1866-07-15
Written for the Clarion ami Standard
FOURTH OF JULY CREATION.
BY ''HUN-KIDO-RI"

FELLER CITIZENS This is the day upon
which the American heart swells to about
twice its natural proportions, and beats with
twenty-seven times its usual rapidity; when
a mans clothes are too small to hold him.
and he wants no dTapery but the Stars and
Stripes, when he would like to be able to
fondle with one hand the eveAIreen curls of
Maine, and to toss with the other the golden
sands of California, while he drank the health
of the Goddess of Liberty out of Lake Erie
and laved his feet in the cooling waters of
the Gulf
FELLER-II-R CITIZENS Upon this glori-
GUS day we recall the memories of that band
of patriotic and devoted heroes, whose strug-
giles through seven years of bloody and re
lentless war gave us American Independence
What, l ask, what sustained them through
those heightened years or darkness and
blood!
What enabled them to endure hunger and
cold, to make the most arduous and stupen-
duous marches, and to perform prodigies of
valor upon the field with which the world
rang, covering their names with glory
through all coming time? answers
" R0bdck's Stomach BittI's."
The stirring scenes of that mighty revolu-
tion are painted in vivid colors before my
eyes to-day. The Tea Party in the harbor of
Boston. Was it the insignificant duty which
England sought to impose upon tea that
moved those Bostonians so violently that
harbor Not by no means" They knew
a better and more healthful beverage. They
said green tea was good, but Roback's tcGs
better
Then too, the battle of Buuker,s Hill,
fought regardless of the circumstances of
old Mr.. and Mrs. Bunker, who owned the hill.
What was it that enabled that little band of
raw and hastily-colleeted recruits to repulse
a greatly superior force of British regulars,
veterans from the battle-fields of Europe.
thus winning imperishable renOwn for the
flag of the infant Republicl
The answer comes sweeping along upon
the Eastern gale, from the very summit of
Bunker Hill monument
Robdcks Stomach Bitters
What was it that inspired Patrick Henry,
one of the early Fenians, to startfe the
echoes in Independence Hall with, Give me
liberty, or give me death life without
Lib being wholly unendurablel
A private telegraphic dispatch from Phila-
delphia replies
R0bdcls Stomach Bifters
Looking back in my mind upon the scenes
of the Revolution, l see smoke curling feebly
from a few miserable tents and novels in
snOw-draped valley. Men in ragged uniforms
huddle around the camp fire. haggard and
hungry-eyed, their naked feet bleeding and
frozen. 1t is Valley Forge" What sus-
tanned them through that winter of suffer-
ing and gloom
q 'RObdck'S Stomach Bittes."
Many are the individual characters and
scenes that loom up in the picture of the
Revolution upon this ever to be remembered
day There was glorious "Old Put" who
was the first to do the Mazeppa act on horse
back When hotly pursued by the British,
at Horseneck, what gave him courage to dash
his horse down that rocky declivity, TO the
amazement of his foes
" Roback'S Stomach Bitters"
Washington crossed the Delaware because
there wasn't a drop of Robacks" to be had
on the other side, and the battle of Brandy
wine was brought to successful issue by
mingGng bitters with their brandy and their
wine
FELIER-R-R-R Citizens You ask me what
can dissolve the gall that civil war has en-
gondsrsd among us cnmant the Union and
restore the greatest degree of confidence and
harmony between all sections of this great
and glofious country2 With the stars and
stripes waving in splendOr above my head,
and with the national anathema ringing in
my ears. amid the peal of joyous cannon and
the shouts of an exultant populaee, l reply
" RObacks Stomach Bitters -