The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1874-07-16


Through the wallis OF hut and palace rum
/ the instantaneous throe.
Az the travail OF the ages wrings earths sys
TENS to and fro:
At the birth OF each new era, with reeoy
mixing start,
Nation wildly looks at nation standing
with mute lips apart,
And glad truths yet mightier man-ehild
leaps beneath the futures heart
America making her cause the
cause Of righteousness had placed
herself under the protecting arm of
the Almighty, and the world witness.
ed The sublime spectacle Of hand
fol of freemen, inspired by the right
eousness Of their cause, contendina
with the hosts of oppression backed
by the riches Of the East.
The revolutionary soldier with new
light In his countenaHce and . new
hope iu his heart, grasped his rude
musket with invincible determination.
All along the shore OF the Atlantic
and far back into the wilderness,
where the pioneers sx had just Awak-
ened the siumbering echoes OF the for
est. the freedom loving people answer
ed the call Of the government by -x-
changing the implements Of peace for
the arms of battle. Tue wives and
daughters Of Columbia inspired her
csuse-hopefully took upon themselves
the tolls aud privations Of the war and
the wilderness, while the husbands
aud fathers pressing forward. shoulder
to shoulder, met the enemy on many
. slippery deck and bloody field, aud
at many deadly breach, until 1T last
leaving the bloody tracks OF their sho, !.
less feet upon the frozen banks of the
Delaware: they hurled back the ene-
mice Of freedom aud made America
the asylum for the oppressed OF the
world. The poverty stricken laborers
Of the old world, with cheering ray
Of hope and q prayer Of thanksgiving
in their hearts. gathered their families
about them and turned their faces to-
ward the setting sun. Many thousands
of these reached the land OF freedom,
and within her borders was seen such
tremendous material growth and such
mighty strides Of civilization rs the
world never before witnessed, unul
twenty-five million inhabitants pros
pered under the folds Of her banner.
But alas, where peace and plenty
reign men are apt to forget that the
principles Of Justice and the cause Of
God are the foundation OF all enduring
prosperity. Ii is humilisting fact,
that
"As humanity sweeps onward, where to-day
the martyr stands,
On the morrow crouches Judas with the sill
yer in his hands"
Cunning, selfish devotees Of main
mon and INSCRIPTIONS political jug.
glers again came to the front. In self
confidence we boasted that our golden
harvests waved from the shores OF the
Atlantic to where the billOws OF the
mighty Pacific wash the golden
sands at the gates of the setting sun;
that we had spanned the continent
with iron bands over which the arte-
ries Of commerce throbbed to the sea;
that we had curbed the lightnIn z Il
subsclve our Will, aud whittned the
seas of the world with sails of our cou-
merce forgetting to sscribe the evi-
dences of prosperity to the life giving
principles ofjustice and liberty and
piety, forgetting that righteousness
exa!teth nation" and that ''sin Is 4
reproacn to any people, La our in
satiable avarice and our love Of luxu
rious ease, we allowed and finally
praeticed Whist our fathers had sought
to put away, and the cries Of the snf-
ferer ascenied to heaven as wa piled
toe bloody lash to the back of unre.
quite 1 toll.
Th did the friends Of monarchy
sneer at our boosted liberty.
And when we asked of Constantine
Or begged the lord OF Mahmond's line
To spare the struggling suliote;
Did not the scorching answer come,
From turbaned Turk and fiery Russ:
Go loose your fettered slaves at home.
Then turn and ask the like of u.s.
Warning after warning came but
we needed not. The finger of fate
pointed to the history Of the past to
admonish us that we could not pros
per ii we forgot to be just. And at
last when our punishment came and
the lowering cloud of war burst up
on us we sought to perpetuate our
sins and at the same time preserve
the nation. The contest surged back
and forth in fluctuating balance, and
not until two hundred thousand de-
tenders of the flag had filed soldiers
graves, and the light Of as many homes
had been exchanged for the sombre
hues Of mourning, did we conclude TO
place ourselves on the side of liberty
and with clean hands look to God for
succor.
When the chastened nation thus
again placed itself under the arm OF
the Almighty, the contest assumed
the hues and proportions Of moral
grandeur, and again upon the theater
| of the Western continent, behind the
foot lights Of burning cities, and with
the wondering world for an audience,
did the two ever opposing principles
struggle for the mastery. Then did
the tyrants Of the East stend back in
awe as a million freemen, inspired by
the cause of justice, drew across the
continent a line Of FIRE, backed by a
line of steel, and when the contest
eliminated in series of battles, any
one of which would have drowned the
,hunders Of Waterloo, and the hosts
of oppression fed before the army ol
the Lord, the christian patriot almost
fancied he could hear the chariot
wheels of Jehovah in the midst of the
receding storm. Under the power o.
righteousness, the cause Of oppression
was borne down with q shock, the
remote effects Of which swept away
the monarchy of Spain, paled the dia
dem in Vlctoria's crown and sent tht
imperial throne of France t5pplina
to the dust. Then could We trul.
sing: