The Carson daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1865-1870, 1868-07-07

and art. could not establish divine labo
that Heaven smiles upon, and recompense
with Its choicest blessings.
Oh. il. is inspiring to Think what we are, ant
God.like to feel what we may be. The chill
lren of but yesterday almost, we are thu
giants of the world, having reached in oul
onward progress to the Pacific, that woos
with the music Of its waves, the hardy spiri
fof our Independent sons, to abide by its
shores, and listen to the blue Oceans anthem.
of freedom.
| But that we feel in every movement of oul
lives, the generous pulsing OF an American
heart, and that in every breath we inhale the
atmosphere of freedom. we might sometimes
doubt that our brave forefathers and oul
noble soldiers in blue had left us a heritage
so priceless as that we now enjoy. Thrice
fortunate are we who have been made the
recipients of a legacy, the gems of Golconda
could not purchase, nor the worth of Socrates
secure. No faint of bondage is in our blood
no tyrant's stain is upon our souls. Free
from our infancy, nursed by free mothers
and instructed by free fathers, we move un-
confnedly as the air that surrounds us
thinking, speaking, acting, as we list, subject
only to the laws of our own creation, and the
common God we acknowledge Ruler over all.
This it is to be an American citizen to live
in the freest country on the globe. Plato, in
|
phon sketched his model Prince, the picus
| Thomas Moore fashioned from purple dreams
beautiful Utopia. These were myths,
deemed shadowy and impossible until Ply
mouth Rock was rendered immortal by the
tracks of the little band that fed from perse-
cution to the spot where Freedom made
savage scenes and solitary shades a lovely
dwelling place by her shrine. Those are
imaginings no longer, and who shall say con-
| corning Plato's dream, that he was not en-
| dowed with power to foresee our beloved
homes risingnp after many centuries. in an
unknown land, types of his inward thought.
And the courageous Prince of Xenophon,
have no counterpart for him Indeed,
have we not his superior. the superior of II
| men that ever lived, in him who is enshrined
in the hearts of his countrymen, and whose
memory is embalmed with the gratitude of a
free people-our friend, protector, father
Washington
How truly sang of him the gifted Byron
''where shall the wearied eye repose,
When gazing on the great,
Where neither guilty glory gows,
Nor despicable hate
Yes, one, the first, the last, the best,
The Cincinnatus Of the West,
Whom envy dared not hate
Bequeathed the name Washington
To make men blush there was but one
| America, bright be her future; and
Washington, blessed be his memory! Our
country, and the father of our country, on
this glorious anniversary cannot be removed
from our minds any more than from our
hearts. 1t is on occasions like the present
that we feel how deep is the debt Of gratitude
we owe to the trainers of our Constitution !:
the soldiers of the Revolution; the heroes
that persisted upon the battlefield in the war
of 1872, and more especially the brave and
noble defenders of our country, our rights
and our laws, who laid down their lives in
the last Rebellion it is on such occasions
that we should essay to break from the chry-
sa lis of selfshness that forms about us in
our daily lives, and put forth the wings of
our resolution in the endeavor to initiate,
earnestly though feebly, the mighty dead,
above whose tombs q nation weeps and keeps
her "vigil pale"
Although this priceless blessing has cost
US blood and treasure, yet we have establish
ed, in establishing the Government, great
and undying principles. Amongst some of
them, of l716. are the following That taxa
ton and representation must advance to-
gether with equal footstep-established by
force of arms, the last argument of Kings
the spirit of which to-day is welding its in
fuence in the legislative halls of proud Eng
land-that an infant colony when its inhabi-
tants are inspired by the spirit of liberty,
although opposed by the most powerful ma
ton on the globe, possessing the best appoint
ed army and navy, could not only maintain
its independence. but become itself one of
the most powerful civilized nations its
opinions become regarded with respect and
reverence by the most absolute potentates in
Europe, and the influence of its institutions |
be felt at the utmost verge Of civilization.
The war of 1872 established other great
among which is this: That the |
American flag must and would protect Anne
rican citizens, whether naturalized or native |
born, whether at home, at sea, or in foreign |
lands aud this principle is to-day being re-
cosnized by the first class powers of the
globe. England, the self-styled " Mistress
Of the Sea-" received severe lessons upon
this subject in our last struggle with her-a
struggle that brought honor and glory to the
Republic, although the enemy burnt the
Capital of our Nation, and turned loose upon
our defenseiess frontier inhabitants, the
merciless red man-establishing the all i'm
Dortant fact that foreign enemies were pow
erless to injure us.
The next question to be solved was
Could the Republic defend itself against
domestic enemies and enforce its own laws
avs made by the people themselves The
Great Rebellion settled that question upon
he battlefield "with red hands and crushed
,kulls" Five hundred thousand traitors,
With treason in their hearts ard arms in their
lands, organized to overthrow and destroy
he best government that God ever permitted
lis sun to shine upon-the Government and
flag that their forefathers had fought to es
ablish and pledged their sacred honor to