Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1867-07-08

homes are within hail, ' and the first train
bringing old.time friends and acquaintance
Of long ago, is laundering along its path!
God speed the day.
A third cause Of glory for our country is
found in
OUR FREEDOM,
and first our freedom Of conscience.
II i, true that religion Is necessary
to the perpeturity II not to the existence
Of a State, but the conclusion drawn there
from, in other lands than ours, that there
fore, there must DO q State 5elig'on or iorm
Of worship fostered BY the state, or entirely
supported to the exclusion OF other forms or
modes, 10 not true. Here every person 10 al
liberty to worship God as his conscience
dictates, without fear Of interference or per-
secution. Nowhere else have the Churcn
and the clergy been entirely Dependent upon
the voluntary contributions OF the people,
and the cause Of religion instead OF sunerin8
has greatly gained BY its divorce rom the
State and by free toleration; and nownere
are the clergy held in higher, intelligent,
appreciation and estimation than among our
people. And l am willing to subject
Churches and Sunday Schools and Clergy.
men to the test to which this nation brings
everything, and which is a proper test, rightly
broadly understood and applied: Does It
pay? Yes they do pay, not, may be, always
in the gross material sense, but in q way
which is yet appreciable, and which is under.
stood and felt by sensible men. Although
our freedom Of conscience in this land, our
system Of federation does present US WITH
some strange results, giving us Brigham
Young and polygamy in Utah, Shaker Gom'
tnunities with celibacy in Ohio and New
York, table. tippers and rappers, with their
confused and contradictory communications,
aud small practical results, and socialists OF
every kind, these are only suckers, indicat'
ing luxuriance Of growth and fertility Of soil;
or may be better, only boils on the body
polite, signs Of health, through which the
bad humors which might be dangerous or
deadly il repressed and kept within may be
harmlessly discharged.
We may we'll glory in our system Of
FREE EDUCATION.
Nowhere in the world has the idea
that the State owes to each child Of
the State an education, limited only BY the
resources OF the State, and the ability or in
clination OF the scholar, exerted so wide an
influence, been so thoroughly adopted rs
| among us. It could not be. Despotic power
over the rights Of man, or priestly tyranny
over their consciences, could not tolerate
free schools, for free schools would not toler'
ate either. They flourish best in the dark
ness Of ignorance. But republican institu
tons are founded upon the virtue and intelli.
sence OF the people. We must educate, OF
short will be our race, as a nation, from the
cradle to the grave. While absolute mon
arches dare not, and limited monarchieS
need not, educate the people, u Republic
must. Its prosperity, its continuance, de-
-.. .1z Il Tno ,nh1.a ..hnnla nf Ans
land are the peoples colleges, and though
schools, I believe that in this, our country,
our public school system secures a better
education, to a large number Of pupils, at a
less expense, than any other ever known TO
or put in operation by man; and our school
houses furnish q better protection and q
surer safeguard to our institutions and gov.
| ernment than forts and arsenals and soldiers,
or titles of nobility, or that mysterious awe
| which doth hedge in and circle round the
person Of a King. 1t is Of little use to free
the hands and feet without em~ancipating the
| mind and heart for this moral culture and
mental training alone can do. Let these be
| given to Americas sons and daughters and
we need not fear for the Republic.
We may with reason glory in
DUB HISTORY.
I know we are young yet, not a century old,
| and hence there may not DO so many pannels
in our national temple, bearing the portraits
Of our heroes, nor so many pages in our
Country's annals, illuminated with their
| noble deeds, as some other people have; yet,
unlike other nations, at that period when
| they had not left their cradles, nor cast OF
their swaddling clothes, we are in the full
yigor Of youthful, but mighty manhood; and
while the story Of their origin is lost in
| nbscurity or lies but in fable, or is marked
with blood, usurpation and crime, the history
# our beginning is known and read Of all,
and contains nO'hing which il shames US to
state, which we would fain forget. And no
nation has embalmed in It's annals nobler
names and more glorious deeds, over which
time as he passes will but hang new greener
iaurels than have we !; and no nation has
in so short q time. Never can we sufficient.
ly admire the wisdom, the prudence, faith.
iulness and fortitude Of those fathers who
gave US this day to celebrate, and make il
worthy OF remembrance, as u free nations
holiday. Their bravery in the field, theiI
wisdom at the council board, their deathless
devotion to principle, the skill and judgment
with which they laid the deep, firm founda
tons Of this temple of freedom OF ours, aud
the diligence ana success with which those
whose lives are spared, labored to rear tht
superstructure, grand in colossal majesty,
and graceful in symmetrical beauty, we the
children who walk amid and gaze upward to
those arches Of span so vast, and survey
these pliers massive In their strength, and
beautiful in their adornment, must not 10
,hese busy days, this active life Of ours, for
get. Their LOFTY lives, their heroic deeds. in
some cases their willing death, praying as
they died, 10 the God Of the free, that their
blood might ~fertilize a free land, their
patient endurance; the one priceless posses
sion: their portraits shall hang forever in the
nations family gallery, aud their acts be heir
looms to us, more precious than aught else
which our hands hold or our hearts cherish.
And in the records OF no nation, can be
found brighter instances Of daring deed and
patient suffering from high principle and
lofty, patriotic motive, than can be drawn
from the story Of our late war. To the last
day Of time shall Fame sound forth to
ears Of men, the names and words aud works
Of those who showed honor to Americas sons
felt and thought, and wrote, and spoke, and
fought and died for the land they loved.
The heartiness and readiness with which the
men Of the nation rose as il inspired by the
will and animated by the desire when the
lightning bore word: Firing upon Fort
Sumter has begun" are within the memory Of
ali. Down in the depths Of their hearts.
they said this land Of ours gained by blood
and treasure shall not be discovered ; this
grand nationality bought at such a cost,
Shall not be overthrow, this flag Of our ma
tive land shall lose from its field Of heavens
deep blue, no shining star, nor have wrenched
from its waving folds the ruddy stripe.
Nobly they redeemed their pledge; and that
to-day we COME together not shorn Of power
and shortened in territory, nor broken into
fragments and composed Of sections dis
cordant Of feeble States, with diverse inter-
ests and hostile feelings, is due to those who
answered their country's call, pressed for.
ward 10 the front of battle and gave labor and
suffering, and limb, and life, that their coun-
try might be saved.
o. shall we not glory over such q history
as oursi May we be worthy Of those who
have gone before US, and hand down to those
who shall come after US, our country, free,
one and indivisible. Freedom from foreign
yoke our Fathers gave, preservation from
internal destruction our Fathers won. This
freedom, this Union, have been formed by
signs wrung from the depths Of stricken
hearts, watered by the tears Of those who
mourned dear ones dead, nurtured into
mighty growth with root far spreading. and
deep reaching, and towering trunk, and beau.
teous shade giving bough and leaf, for the
healing Of the Nations, aud brilliant flower,
casting its fragrance far over earth, and whole