Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1868-07-06
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At FORT HOhkSTkADs
In due course of time the procession
arrived at Fort Homestead, where, after
Marching around the parade, in dis
banded in front Of the Hall where the
exercises were to be held, and which
was already pretty well filed with a
waiting assemblage. As the carriage
containing Alderman Adams deployed
along in front, he was given a military
salute and three hearty cheers by the
military and assembled people, in COM
pliment to his public spirited patriot
ism, as contrasted with the narrow
mindedness of the Mayor aud other
members of the Board, who were all
Democrats. The meeting was called to
order by J. P. Jones, President of the
Day, who made q few excellent and ap-
propriate remarks, followed by q short
prayer by the Chaplain, Rev. o. w.
Whitaker. The Carson Band played
Hail Columbia" and J.. G. Pelton be-
ing introduced, after some rather
lengthy and inopportuue remarks,
read the Declaration Of Independence.
" Hail Glorious Banner Of our Land"
was next performed by the Band. A
short but very excellent Poem, by Ne
vada's Poet, Joseph T. Goodman, was
now read by Will Campbell, and re-
ceived with much applause, and the
Baud played marching through Geor-
| gia." Will Campbell being now intro
duced as Orator of the Day, gave a
short, eloquent, spirited American ora.
ton, which was much applauded
throughout. It contained nothing
about impeachment" "~reconstruc-
tion," or Niger" and as a whole we
think it the best Fourth of July GRAFTON
we ever listened to. We had hoped to
be able to secure the manuscript of it
for publication entire, but it being
extemporaneous we have not even
a respectable synopsis of it to
give. Mr.. Campbell believed that
the man who could not glory in the glo-
rious old flag on such An occasion as
this, wa, no true American. He spoke
| of the progress made by the nation
| siuce Washington's barefooted soldiers
left their bloody tracks in tho SHOWS Of
Valley Forge and the close Of the revo-
luton saw the United States established
as one of the nations Of the earth. The
doctrine Of State rights never included
the right to secede from the Union, but
only the right to common ownership in
tho whole country and its greatness.
No single State has q right to claim any
one Of the great men Of the nation as
exclusively her own. Washington was
on American /; Fulton and Franklin
were Americans ; Morse, Farragut and
Grant are Americans. No true Amer
lean wishes to ~sectionalize himself as n
New Yorker, o Massachusetts, man, 4
PENNSYLVANIA or a South Carolinian.
So to-day, the men who fought at Get
tysburg, at Antietam, who marched on
Richmond, or who followed Sherman
"From Atlanta to the Sea-" were all
Americans, and when again the "long
| roll " may be sounded will not those
| veterans respond to the call as Ameri-
cans, and say their muskets are readyT
loud applause, and cries OF we
| will."1 From field to field Of victory
our brave soldiers marched, until at APP
pomattox Court House was the culmi-
nation, and rebellion was dead. Next
| came the assassination of Lincoln, but
then was taught the lesson which the
| rebels had to learn, that one man does
not make a nation, and the wheels OF
Government still moved on. Ten States
have fallen as stars from our glorious
flag, but to-day seven Of them are again
represented in Congress, and with Con-
situations which irreyocably declare
that nevermore shall slavery rear its
cursed head in the land. Three more
States vet remain to com in. Befo
three months are At an end, old Virginia
will resume her ancient place among
the States of the Union, and once more
the "Mother Of Presidents" will be
with US. In illustration Of what
influences are continually working,
quietly, vet surely in the hearts Of the
people to bring the two autagonistic
sections into a final reunion, the orator
said: After the war some Of the ladies
of Alabama visited q cemetery wherein
ware buried the dead from a n%eighbor-
inq battlefield, aud after decorating
with flowers the graves Of the Confed-
crate soldiers they also decorated in the
same manner Luo BEN'oS Va "a SatNH
dead. Sometimes l now imagine thai
many a Union mother may, as she reads
or hears of this simple yet kindly trib-
| ute to the silent dead, think that per-
haps they might have decorated the
grave of her boy with those flowers.
He was glad to see so many ladies pres
emit, and especially the little children;
for these were the future fathers n
mothers Of the Republic. He believed
that the next census Of the United States
would show q population Of 10000, 600.
When a man hereafter shall say that be
does not like the Fourth Of July, set
that man down as a fanatic. In con-
clusion he would give these two verses
from the great American Poet:
"Great God, we thank thee for this homo,
This bonnteous birthland Of the free,
Where Pilgrims come from every land
To breathe the air Of liberty.
"still may thy flowers, unsramplsd spring,
Thy banners wave-thy cities rise;
And vet till time does fold his wing.
Remain earth's ~loyliest Paradise |"
After the applause had su6sided, the
Band played the "Red, White and
pI,a ~ and with n parting benediction