Daily Mississippi clarion and standard. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1866-1866, 1866-07-15
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Hourth OF y uly OTatlOn. ~
The follAwing or,tion was delivered some-
where within thousand miles of New Or
leans on Independence day.
Fellow itizens-rhis is land of liberty
for those in ascenlancy. 1t is q land of
freedon-foe those u power. 1t is country
where all eau do as they please-provided
all please the will Of the majority. 1t is, in
fact, the best government the sun ever shone
upon. Hurrah for the United States of
Americal
Everybody is supposed to hur1ah
TOAST
Amerna-(So called because it was dis
covered ly Columbus, now one of the five
grand divisions of the globe May she ulti-
mately boone the grandest.
Music u the band.
This is great country. 1t has longer riv-
ers bigger lakes, deeper caves, crookeder
railroads, tcher oil wells, smarter steam
boats, widr prairies, lower riyer-bOttOms,
taller grassland shorter grasshoppers, than
any other euntry afloat on the bosom of the
ocean. GAat applause It's people have
more religiQ and deviltry in their compost
ton; more simplicity and extravaganza;
more humility and pretention more SINGER
lty and hypocrisy; more go aheaditiveness
and ld-bakitiveness more reliability and
humbuggery than any other people on the
face of God'sfootstooi.
TOAST.
Liberty and Equality-May the former
never be sacrificed by those who would at
tempt to constne the latter literally.
[Muic by the Band.
Perhaps you would like to know how
such a country cane to be discovered Well,
just before the cbse of the fifteenth centu-
ry, say about l49D, it became evident to the
Spanish Queen, Isabella, that the people of
Europe, Asia and Africa were governed too
much for their own good and by long pro-
cess of reasoning she came to the cOnclu-
sion that people had become old enough to
govern themselves, provided they had room
enough to do it il, On looking around she
found that all the countries of which she
had any knowledge were already settled"
so she sent for one Christopher Columbus,
navigator of note, aud asked him if he
thought he could ind country unoccupied,
where people tired Of kings, queens, princi-
palities and powers and "sich like" might
90 and govern themselves, and maintain the
Monroe Doctrine" Mr.. Columbus seemed
to think he could if he had the spon-doolux
to defray expenses THAT you shall have"
said the Queen, eff have to spout my own
iewelry and that of my relations to raise it!''
'Nuf sed" replied Mr.. c., and he forthwith
began to prepare a chart to sail by, and three
ships Ga little larger than dug outs') to
transport his men and himself to "the land
where the sun SETS"
All things being ready. he set sail, and
kept sailing until he brought up, in 1892, on
an island Just outside of the main land of
this continent.
Having made this discovery, he returned
home, 1after some irohs which had been
forged for him. and shortly after, A merry
cuss came over and named the continent,
and a merry set of cUsses we of America
have been ever since, to be sure especially
if we happened to be Quakers during the
first attempts of the Furitans to govern
themselves" in this country; or Indians,
wherever white men" have shown them
selves; or soldiers, just prior to l776; or ''se-
cessionists," at a later date.
TOAST.
The Tree of Liberty-May it never pro-
duce any sprigs of nobility, or of-shoOts of
tyranny :Nmay every sucker it would put
forth be nipped i'll the bud /; may every limb
become timber and pliable in the hands of
Justice and while it is leaving may those
who cannot endure its shade leave too
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Along with this country was discovered
many beasts and birds of prey. Among the
latter was the somewhat celebrated "Ameri-
can Eagle"-sO called because no other cOun-
try was ever big enough to hold him when
be shrieked. He is so large that when he
lights on the Rocky Mountains the tip of
one of his wings dip into the Atlantic, and
the tip of the other into the Pacific; and
while his tail is nipped with polar frosts his
head is schorched with tropical rays, and
when he shriekes Hail Columbia" all Co
lumbia halls !-invectives on kingdoms,
empires, and ''sich like for be it remem-
bered this is the best government the sun
ever shone upon If any reliance is to be
placed in this speeches of Fourth of July
orators.
Gas no Fourth of July Grafton is complete
unless some reference is made to that tabled
bird, called by the ancients and moderns
the PhPnix"-cumrouse,y your orator will
here introduce it, for fear it may be left out
1t has no bearing upon the subject, how
ever.)
We celebrate this day because it is the
anniversary of that day we cut loose by pro
clamatiOn from tie mother country and un
dertOok to go it alone. If we do not gel
euchred it will be because we hold bOtE
bowers and the ace guarded-a hand never
before held by any Republican government
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AS this is the best government the sun evel
by land or by sea, it is high time the othel
nations of the earth found it out. Hence
the Monroe doctrine" prevails-on paper !!
Fellow-C itizens-I repeat, tl.is 9" ." 60
country Cc-saT and continued applause.
1t can't be beat or beaten in either fai
standup or rough-and-tumble fight. Oul
natural and acquired advantages enable u
to bid defiance to the combined powers o
the earth, including New Jersy, whose cap
ital is Communipaw, shad, oysters and clans
each in their season.
Fellow-C itizens-As this is the day we Gel
citrate, and as we Americans are so consti
tuted, we cannot permit too long time t.
elapse between drinks while celebrating
on any occasion; therefore, your orator viii
repeat, once more, that this is a great cOun
try, and then close for you are no doubt
all thirsty, and you orator certainlyis Thu
band can play the "Star-Bangled Spanger,
while the audience and les orator adjourn
to James Gonegars Wholesale Drug Store
No. 20 st. Charles street, whose stock o
drugs and medicines, and patent medicines
is not equaled in the entire South.