The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1870-06-20
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EDI1oR WHTIE PINE DAuT NEws: l
notice by the Published proceedings of
the Executive Committee that everything
has been arranged for blowout Of some
kind, on the approaching g-~l-o-ri-o-u-s
Fourth. 1t IS meet and proper TO CON-
memorials the Nations birth; We kindle
the fires Of patriotism, and al that sort
Of meaningless thing; but I submit that
Of late years Fourth Of July celebrations
have come to be an iniolerable nuisance.
The partisan spirit. Ike Banqao's ghost
viii not down for a single day. One
political party OF the other gets control OF
the committees. and everything IS run
on a partisan basls. A political stump
speech particularly If the orator hap
pens 70 be a Republican,, andthe whole
sale ~denunciatian Of those adherIug to
the opposite faith II politics, : sure 10
b the result. Sambo's woody head, too,
generally comes 70 the surfass just in
tine TO cause confusion IN the order OF
march. Some persons, forseIful 81 the
fact that they m1si, sooner Or later,
either sing IN Heaven or roasi IN he'd oil
terms Of the most perfect equality with
the blacklist Of the lately en~frlnchIsed.
swear thsethey vii not procssh with
the .d-n nagur.' Il i usually st this
stage Of the proceedings-ihe .~irrepres-
sible conflict inauglrated b. the pres
enee Of the man aud brother where
the thing peters cut as witnessed in
san Fnncisco and SACRAMENTO, for the
last four or five years in succession.
The Fremsn, forming 3 kind Of dis
tinetiye feature OF the parade. Do, in
most eases. turn ont, 10 air their red
shirts and drag their machines through
the lot sun; while the sidewalks are
lined with citizens on foot, listles spec
fatoIs Of fhe procession. and sweat
which streams from the broKs Of the
f4tigued processionists. Marshals and
aids, with flowing sashes and spurs
wrong side Gp, dash TO and fro, On the
finest chargers to b had for the occasion.
and this, including the political exercises
at the stand, constitutes a latter-day
Fourth o July celebration.
All men are created free aud equal.
reads the immortal Declaration Of hide
pendsnce; and 50 reiterates. with stud
led emphasis, a certain class Of Fourth
ofJuly orators. That equality business
Is s blg thing. happily consummated IN
the ratification Of the Fife enih Amend
ment-as viii be zealously urged from
nox hsncefoTth. o. the day We eele-
hrate.' In fact. this matter Of al people
having been treated equal, las formed
tie text Of every wildcat speaker who
has taken the stump in the interest Of
that party which zrrogates to itself a
monopoly Of the intelligence and patriot
ism CT the Country. for the last ten
years And. BY the way, the doctrine
has paid tSambo8. for step after step, be
has been elevated until be now ReYeis in
the halls Of Congress. BIT, gentle
reader did you ever give this equality
matter and the true Interpretation Of the
language used IN the Declaration Of In
dependence relative thereto, q serious
thought
Thomas Jefferson is popElarlY sup
| posed to have been the worthy author Of
that usually reverad document. Tom,
at the very moment he pennei that
equality sentence, and for a long time
thereafter. actually owned persons Of the
visible sdmixture persuasion. The
whole truth i, Jefferson was ingeighing
against King Georges claim 10 rule by
Divine right. and simply meant 70 say
that one baby isjLsi as much a Kesq. uhl
born, as another. This, and nothing
more
Complaint IS made in certain quarters
that the Repubs. have shouldered the
entire responsibility Of conducting the
approaching celebration in this oity-the
President Of the Day, Orator. Grand
Marshal, etc, all being Of that political
faith. In the good old days, away back
in log-cabin and hard-cider times. peo-
pie did not quarrel about such matters;
fer their party lines were never once
thought Of. and everybody ami his sweet
heart attended the barbecue in the beau
tiful grove at the comfy seat. Hard by.
too-jnst ont Of reach Of sensitive olfac-
~tories-the darkies would hold forth
pretty much after the stvle Of the .pale
faces. But the world moves. and the
Fifteenth Amendment must he accorded