Owyhee semi-weekly tidal wave. [volume] (Silver City, Owyhee County, Idaho Territory) 1868-1869, 1869-08-27

Baker, we clip from the Humboldt |
National. The first is from a speech
delivered in San Francisco in 1860
on his way to Wa shington as Sena-
tor from Oregon
We are city set on hill. Our
light cannot be hid. As for me,
dare not. | will not be false TO free
dom. Where the feet of my youth
were planted, there, by freedom, my
feet shall ever stand. will walk
beneath her banner. | will glory in
her strength. ! have watched her,
in history, struck down in an humid
red chosen fields of battle. | have
seen her friends fly from her her
foes gather around her. have seen
her bound to the stake have seen
them give her ashes to the wind,
But when they turned to eXult, L
have seen her again meet them face
to face, resplendent in complete
steel, brandishing in her right
hand llaming sword, red with in
suiferabIe light. take courage.
The people gather around her. The
Genius OF America will lead her
sons to freedom. >
The following is his apostrophe to
the comet of 1858, spoken at the
cable celebration in San Francisco
on the 2Sth of September of that
year:
eve have accomplished great
work we have diminished space to
point; we have traversed one
twelfth of the circumference OF our
globe with i chain of thought pulls
aiing with intelligence and spiritu-
a.izinr matter. But, even while we
assemble to make the deed and re-
ioice ut its completion, the Almighty,
as # to impress us with a becoming
SENSE of oar weakness compared
with his power. has set new signal
of his reign in heaven.
If tonight, fellow citizens. you
will look out from the glare OF your
Illuminated city to the northwestern
h4aYcns, You viii perceive, low down
on the edge Of the horizon, bright
stranger. lthe comet of 1858, then
supposed 10 be the comet of Charles
vi pursuing dis path across the
skY. Amid the starry hosts that
Keep their watch, it shines, attended
bv a brighter pomp and followed by
\ broader train. No living man has
pazed upon its splrndors before no
watchiul votaryof science has traced
its course for nearly ten generations,
# is more than three hundred years
since its approach was visible from
our nlanes: when at last 1t came 1t
startled an Emperor on his throne,
and while the superstition of his age
taueht him to perceive, in its pres
ence. a herald and doom, his pride
saw i'm its ftming course and fiery
train. the announcement that his own
light was about to be- extingulshed.
In common with the lowest of his
subjects. he read Omens of destruc-
tion in the baleful heavens. and pre-
parel himself for fate which alike
awaits tue lnightiest and the meanest.
Thanks to the present condition OF
scientific knowledge, we read the
heavens with far clearer percep-
lion. We see in it the predicted re-
turn of the rushing, blazing comet
| through the sky. the march OF a
heavenly messenger along Its ap-
pointed way, and around its predes-,
| lined orbit. For three hundred
wears be has travelled amid the re-
.gions of infinite space. Lone wan
dpring. but not lost. he has left be-
| hind him shining suns. blazing stars
and cleaning consultations, now
nearer the Eternal Throne, and
again on the confines ofthe universe.
| He returns, with visage radiant and
benign he returns, with unimped-
| ed march and unobstructed way ; be
returns. the majestic, swift, electric
telegraph of the Almighty, bearing
upoa his flaming front the tidings
that throughout the universe there
is still peace and order that amid
| the immeasnrable dominions OF the
Great King his rule is still perfect,
| that suns and stars and systems track
their endless circle and obey the
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