Urbana union. [volume] (Urbana, Ohio) 1862-1872, 1866-07-18
Written for the Urbana UnIon.J
Fourth of July Orationl
By HUN-KI-Do-RI." "


FELLER CITIZENS l. This is the day upol
which the American heart swells to abou
twice its natural proportions, and beats witt
twenty-seven times its usual rapidlty; wheI
a mans clothes are too small to hold him, aAC
he wants no drapery but the Stars anC
Stripes, when he would ike to be able t
fondle with one hand the evergreen curls o
Maine, and TO toss with the other the colder
sands Of California, while be drank the healtt
of the Goddess OF Liberty out of Lake Erie
and laved his feet in the cooling waters Of the
Guilt
Feller-r-r CitizGnsl Upon this glorious
day we recall the memories of the band OIL
| patriotic and devoted heroes, whore struggles
| through seven years of bloody and relentless
war gave US American Independence. What
l ask, what sustained them through those
| heightened years OF darkness and of blood
What enabled them to endure hunger and
cold, to make the most arduous and stupen-
duous marches. and to perform prodigies oil
valor upon the ield with which the world
rang, covering their names with glory through
all coming time 1 answer.
''Ro5ack Stomach BitteT8"
The sitting scenes Of that mighty revolu-
ton 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
they poured an entire ships cargo into Bos-
ton harbor Not by no m cans" They
knew better and more healthy beverage e.
They said green tea was good, but Roback S
lras Better.
Then, too the battle Of Bunker's Hill,
fought regardless of the remoustrances Of old
Mr. and Mrs Bunker, who owned the hill
What was it that enabled that little band of
raw and hastily-collected recruits to repulse
greatly superior force OF British regulars,
veterans from the battle fields o Europe, hus
winning in;perishable renown fol the flag Of
tie infant Republic
Phe answer comes sweeping along upon
the Eastern gale, from the very summit Of
Bunker Hill monument
R05ack's Stomach B.tterSi
Wh;t was it that inspired Patrick Henry,
one Of the early Fenisns, to Startle he echo
es in Independence Hall with, Give me lib
erty or give me death Fife without Lib
being wholly unendurable 2
A private telegraphic dispatch from Phila-
delphia replies
R05acts Stomach Bittsrsi
Looking hack in my mind upon the scenes
Of the Revolution. I see smoke curling fee
bly, from few miserable tents and novels in
a suow-draped valley, Men in ragged uni
forms hudde around the camp FIRE, haggard
and hungry eyed, their naked feet bleeding
and frozen. 1t is Valley Forge" What
sustained them through that winter OF suffer
ing and gloom?
RoJacks Stomach Bitersls
Many are the individual characters and |
scenes that loom up in the picture of the
Rev luton upon this ever to be remember !
I'd days. There was glorious Old Put" |
who was the first to do the Mazeppa act on |
horseback. When hotly pursued by the
British, at Horseneck, what gave him cour-
ICE to dash his horse down that rocky de-
,livity, to the amazement Of his foes?
I" RObacE's Stomach BitterS.
Washington crossed the Delaware because
here wasn't drop of "Roback's" to be had
N the other side, and the battle of Brandy
vine was brought to a successful issue by
ningling bitters with their brandy and their
vine
Feller-r-r-r-citizens You ask me what
an dissolve the gall that civil war has en-
endered among US, cement the Union and
estore the greatest degree Of confidence and ;
armony between all sections of this great I
nd glori us country? With the stars and
tripes waving in splendor above my head
ne with the national anthems ringing in my
ais, amid the peal of joyous cannon and the /
louts Of an exultant populace, reply
RoJacls Stomach BitsTS F