Connecticut western news., 1873-07-11

IHe F0urth.-With the exception of here and there an intoxicated individual, Jour streets on the fourth of July almost pre- sented the stiffness of the Sabbath. But quiet interest and enthusiasm probably ani- mated the hearts of all of us, as it did, more intensely, our forefathers Tn the day s of '76. Everyone seemed inclined to en- joy the day quietly to the utmost. No doubt many reverted to the long series of years prlor to the Revolution, when the policy of the British government toward the colonists was ''purely commercial and it's commercial policy wholly restrictive. It was system of monopoly" based on no right. founded in injustice and unworthy the support of any ruler but tyrant.- These states were not founded by the Eng lish government and never received it's fos- tering care. The brave men, and still braver women, who landed in md winter on Plymouth Rock, came not with Eng lands motherly blessing When the coo- nists wrested the different sections of our extended country from the savage, and made it teem with life and beauty, they never received favor at her hands. When the coonists were bravely facing the dan gers and enduring the hardships of pio- neers, the British government was wickedly laying the foundation of that accursed system that has been the occasion of SO much trouble and suffering which this country has recently endured. When our fathers were hewing the forest and building houses for freemen. her government was monopolizing the slave trade.
 Go back ninety-seven years to old Inde- pendence Hall. Look at the men to whom all of us and countless millions owe our freedom. Mark the solemnity of their deliberations, the fervor of their cloquence and the frmness of their resolves. Here are Jefferson and the elder Adams, the Vir- ginian cavalier and the New England Puri- tan. Here the courageous Carroll and the brilliant Lee. Here the polished Living stone and the learned Franklin. The great charter is brought forth, and every man is eager to append his name; every man thereby commits treason against George the Third, and knows full well that unless successful that paper will be his own death warrant. One among that number has written his name in characters so bold that the executioner will have no difficulty in the reading of it. Another has fixed his identity beyond a doubt by adding the place of his abode. But to return to fourth of July, 1873, let every citizen, native ol foreign born, remember this birthday and our triumph over English arms. Let the many gallant Irishmen who have theil homes in our midst cherish this day for its memories of English humiliation and de feat, and the promise it gives for the final / liberation of the Green Isle. Let the pros porous and thriving Germans of the land love and revere ii for the home it has given them in the New World, and the enlight- ened liberalism and free thought which have here found wider range and noblel expression than in the Fatherland. Let the native American hail it with joy and gladness, as the one great day in his coun- trys history when the clarion voices of his fathers rang out defiance to the British king and ''proclaimed liberty throughou, the land unto all the inhabitants thereof. J
 r. S.-We should have stated that the Sunday school scholars of St. Johns Epis. copal Church were highly entertained by the fireworks exhibited at the house of Rev. MT. Johnson, the Rector.