Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1871-07-06
JULY 6. 1871.
F0URTHOF July.

The Fourth of July f776. day before yes
terday ninety-fve years ago, gave birth to
a succession of events, the most conspicu-
Gus. brilliant and momentous recorded in
the chapters 0 fmodern history. The con-
ferring wisdom and the debating, c%alcula-
ting Judgment of the nobe spirits. who
lived in that proud and chivalrous era,
nodded into form and system, the theories
and speculations of republican sentiment
and ambition. The air yibrated with a
happy consciousness, as it bore on its stir
red bosom from old Independence Hall
the full, silvery gamut of the liberty
inspiration which leaped, in kindling
fame, from the hearts of the FIRST freemen
of America. The day cast forth uponthe
tide Of human struggles and deeds. what
we must acknowledge to have been to
mans reason and sight, the feeble enter
prise and dubious experiment of a free
government. Save this bright and redeem
ing atom of freedom and light involved
in dread uncertainties, the world was grim
and chastity with the desolations of tyranny
and filed with the ''blackness of darkness"
Unrecognized as a power, having no CON-
mercial comracts and not a ship that could
be called its own, intestine hostility far
exceeding foreign friendship and, dispari-
ty not considered, the one ten-fold more
destructive than the other beneficial in its
aid, and England, cruel and maddened,
stood over the swaddled bantling, with
drawn sword impatient for its pure, young
blood. Such was the fearful beginning of
szhr surprisingly wonderful lifo. Weak
eof itself, it was ~invincibly potent in the
right Of a sustaining and directing Jeho-
yah. The young nation grasped the des-
cending banner of Heaven, and soldiers,
not girdIed with the baldrick of deadly
strife, and more powerful than those of
che "tented field" followed the course of
It's guiding %colors. England, naughty
and ver-confdent of her martial equip
<.nents, sent o'Fer her best soldiers and an
rArmada grim in it's iron strength, that
had usurped the unchallenged dominion
ae seas. In the face of this superiori-
fc'0the infant republic stood up erect and
in the panoply of its righteous cause.
.hsrre the terrible menace. the protest
seaAst oppression remained unchanged,
fed not a thought was entertained to
sithdraw the declaration ofindepencence.
England began her war upon the feeble
ives, the successful prosecution of
nth she thought her formidable prepar-
up asand the poverty and defenceless sit
let thsf the colonies would render 80
vine speedy and certain. But her
most fleets were useless. and the pesti-
The war snlote and wasted away the
be soss her army. Seven years of vicis-
VIDE, s%ufferin and blood passed away,
as sgaip from the belfry of Indepen-
saS Hall, clearer, louder, grander than
&C called forth the herald-tones of the
Sweet the American arms and the in
the vince of Ehe American Republic.
PUN, wfhe war, but a maegre population
ioo Atlantic coast. whilst west
mos a. vast terra incognita, in whose
ton. e wild beast made its lair undis-
and over our whose vast plains
GISey less savage red man roamed
Two SaBfimeval freedom of the foot
.oJaman. But the progressive
on the stre6rement of the white man
the lard; them over these fertile wastes.
NIX 49, letters, traditions, customs
NeS 5ns have reached the placid
Pacific. Towns and cities
The Black bern gorgeous creations of
On us, and We w~ouland the steam car.
make The most of it. ,,ra folIow-
nonso II rows s~poutof his advancing
hand. and MAY be halorious results of
picking Apart FRONT day, and the
cordials, and marmala5ollo wed. High
hast claret that can be crumble' mon
rIst and valuable for solve. republics
critics. ThsE liberty itself may die,
%cellent recs of the glorious old Fourth
perlor wlneted from generation to
your MI il the fame, glory and
Lot the mPiie before the revelations
stirring osfp.
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