Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1873-07-12

!
ries him back nearly to the beginning of
his seveutyaeight years of life, and calls up
from their forgotten graves all the hopeful,
Joyous people-the young and old, the good
and bad, the strong and weak, the stupid
and the gifted-who then made up the
population of this frontier village, which
now contains not one habitation that has
remained unchanged since then.
We would like you all to come
here and live with us. We can promise
you kind treatment and good schools,
obligng shopkeepers, learned doctors, ,pIous
preachers and able lawyers, honest butch.
ers, and truthful shoemakers, plenty of
sauerkraut, and lager beer in abundance,
and whisky that will kill Mt forty rods
magistrates who wear y hats, and consta-
blcs with 143 boots artistic tailors, skilled
carpenters and bricklayers, and industrious
blacksmiths ; high-toned thinkers and Teu-
tonic BARRIERS, the beautifullest women and
the finest cabbages, pure. water and
healthful climate.
have talked about some queer things to
avoid spreading the eage'' on this glori-
GUS anniversary, for if there is anything 1
hate it is hackneyed subjects and wornout
phrases. l never made but one Fourth vi
July speech in my life, and that was to a
lot Of Sunday-school children, in Tucka-
hoe woods, thirty-one years ago, when
was only boy. Then | flew the noble
bird so high he was never able TO come
down again. The quill plucked from his
wing that day loaned to my friend, Major.
Dewart, and he says Harry Masser stole it
from him during the "Lemondiken cam
paign. But always thought my esteemed
neighbor Sampsel got it when he was the
colored candidate for the legislature. + 4
A little more than hundred years ago
no white mans home was reared upon this
spot. The Indians wigwam stood upon
the densely wooded shore, and nothing but
his light canoe glded over the unbridged
and undammed waters. The elk and the
red deer browsed where Kapp's beautiful
Aldcrncys and Tom Johnson's ponderous
I Cotwolds crop the rich grass. And the
wild turkey made her nest where jenkins
high-priced Dorkings and Shanghais swarm
with Yerminous parasites. The lynx, the
cougar, the black bear, and the mountain
wolf howled, and growled, and shrieked
over every clod of this now peaceful SOIL
The eagle built his eyrie among the inac-
cess5lc crags Of Blue Hill !; while the pro-
fame beaver never grew weary of ddm-ntiny
the inoiIGnsive brooks.
| might say something of the change
which century has made, and ailude 20
the rolling-mills, nail factories, car shops,
furnaces, saw mills, big school houses, but
| cannot do il without flying the eagle, and
| am resolved that one of the forty thous-
and speeches delivered to-day shall be
unadorned by the tail feathers, and white
head of that hook-nosed, predatory, coward
ly vagabond.
l would speak of your benefcent order,
if | were not certain you all know more
about it than do. Your name is enough
/ to commend you, and 1 trust you will al
/ ways deserve it. To be patriortc sons OF
/ your country, it is as necessary to be good
citizens in time of peace rs good soldiers in
/ time of war; Upon every American, whe-
/ ther native or adopted-and L hope we are
! all willing to hold out the hand of welcome
/ to those who prefer freedom to despotism-
devolve duties which, if he be true patriot,
| he will never seek to omit or evade. IF he
be faithful to his children, his friends, his
neighbors, and himself, he cannot be faith
! less to his country.
Educate you children, not ouly in the
lore of the schools, but teach them to DC
honest, industrious, frugal, merciful, toler.
ant, and temporatc-and our country will
soon have no use for iails and almshouscs.
Industry, frugality, and good temper are
almost inseparablG as laziness, waste, and
shrewishness. Sins of omission spoil more
happiness than committed crimes, as many
n poor devil in his comfortless, pig-sty
home can testify. No amount of brains, ol
literary capacity, in man or woman, vii
compensate for disorder and idolence
Literary capacity is sometimes only ind
Gated by the litter at home. a we'll scrub
bed pine bench is more ornamental thar
n frowsy and dusty ottoman though cased
III richest velvet.