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New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1876-07-09

gre, seemed to leopard ite own interests in
hands like the GOvernOrs'-not responsible
directly to itself. Franklin's convention, it
may be said, morally adjourned until l775,
when his pregnant suggestion matured to
the first experimental draft of that consti-
tuition, which is our most precious posses.
sion to-day. France fought long enough to
muster the colonies and quicken them with
a national instinct; in abandoning her in
vasiOn, she left mad Britain to continue the
fatal labor. She left them in line and in
discipline, and then succored them in the
revolution against her old foe. Her defeat
was but the kernel Of our oaken germ Of
triumph.
But while the colonies had contributed q
large measure Of succor to the mother
country In her wrestle with France, they
ha0 done much more. They had uncon-
sclously begun to disarm her who disarmed
France. The British restrictions upon their
commerce had forced them to rely more
upon themselves. They smuggled and
erected the trades and arts and imported
less goods. Great Britain lost thus large
measure not only of her customs dues, but
OF the subjects sense of dependence. They
were rich and self-reliant and reasonably
less in awe of an army which in three sue.
cessive cam paigns had failed to disiodee the
French. If Britain was now relieved of
her French foe, so were the colonists, and
better prepared and trained to cOndense
their resistance to Britain's oppression.
The English ministry, having intsrposed
in the colonial trade with the French
islands, in orders for stricter enforcement
of the oppressive acts of trade through
"writs Of assistance" or iudicis! permits of
search, the Boston customs officers applied
for an issue of the writs month before the
French capitulatiOn. It was then that
James Otis took the remonstrance OF the
colony upon his lips into the old townhouse
OF Boston. 1t was Zenger sgsin-nsy, Q
begun to shrivel; it was q Parliament that
now challenged rebuke and the intellectual
stature of Otis was equal to the encounter.
As he spoke in words Of fame. oil Americas
arm seemed to span the Atlantic, rend
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1876-07-09

often people have been left to make tardv
apology at their gravestones. Stark, Greene,
Schuyler and Washington were no worse
men because they were visited with taunt
and reproach by their countrymen, bat bet
tor men in that they could contemn and live
down taunt and reproach. Too few of
those who arrogate leadership are indie
pendent minds; they echo rather than orr
ginate, they are qaick-sared adriot lackevs
rather than statesmen, and their partisaps
are but lover lackeys. like better the
man who ia the very valor of his good mo
tive hnds rich resource. Surprise him as
you may: such one is always q ready
and formidable arsenal, always capable of
q brave and mOmentOus defense. He con-
verts the hostility he encounters to his own
argument as the cOlonists ran the leaden
statue of George III. in New York City to
bullets and shot him back into his subjects;
and if discounted, ''he falls as lofty fir trees
TALL" God give America new SarpedOns to
storm peril, not crouch before it, and to cry
in tbs glorious egotism OF an entire self
conservation:
Let us press on and give renown
To other men. OF win it for ourselves"
Never had the republic been 90 shamed
as when q President who in 1857 wanted
q utah rebellion so put down that it
should be the last" confessed three years
later before the world that his country had
notauthority so to put down rebellion.
Said John Bright, House of Commons,
1894, on the Russian war: II do not
trouble myself whether my conduct in
Parliament Is popular or not. care only
that 1t shall be wise and just as regards the
permanent interests of my country"
There are many subjects that merit at
tentlon at this hour. but must draw to
close. SEQ marshalled over Louisiana
Vast and wantOn league Whose motive is
anarchy, and whose atrocities recall the
Carolinas Of 1880, when neither in the
darkness of the night, the Enclosures of
dwelling houses, the depths Of forests nor
the enlargement of the swamps was 90
curity to be found" and l hear Washing
ton with his hand upon tbs throats of the
pennsylvania insurgents declare "the real
people ought never to DO con-
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1876-07-09

former session. Nor were they oOuched in
language less bold and energetic on the sub
ject of their rights or less affectionste TO-
ward those to whom they were addressed"
But the new prOvOcations have in part
reclted, made the thought of Independence
the sovereign thought throughout the COLO
MES; it was brought directly before Con-
gress by Richard Henry Lee, Of Virginia,
on the seventh of June, 1776. A committee
was appointed to prepare the declaration.
ana, after divers amendments, it received
the vote of every colony 100 years ago to-
day, and was published to the world. Gone.
gone from you, old Britain forever; they do
not crumbie OF as colonies from you, but
crack Oft as whole, solid empire; the old.
State House bell that has hung over the
solemn assembly and caught the awful
tervors OF tone below, pants forth at
last and storms all heaven with the
vow of freedom. A nation-not q clus-
ter OF thirteen State gOvernments-stande.
at last, with it's knotted fists upon it's new
CHARTER, and looking across the sea, pro.
claims, "Ihe King has abdicated govern
menu mere oy declaring us out OF his pro-
have, henceforth, government of our own,
ana Tor the support of this declaration. We
mutually pledge to each other our lives onr
fortunes, and our sacred honor!'
ana mere let me say, that upon this com.
m ~; day, it is fit and manly that we
dismiss our spleens against Grea: Britain.
ana grasc, n remember that, in the Ian.
guage OF her Burke, Our antagonist is our
Brights, and that our common tongue
should speak ever but common thought
OF sweet amity. Her great pens retrieve
q thousandfold the American disasters
TO her swords. and CLEAN like lances
IN our intellectual march. To many
OF us English DESCENDANTS, it must
always De grateful to mark the great
currents OF English or American thought,
push up each into the heart Of the other
country, as the sea gropes at night up q
nations hundred rivers, TO feel in them, as
in veins, the tidal pulses of her ever
might.
Yea, q Hearty hand to thee, Great
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dent, not an acknowledgment of the
colonial claim of right; and while
old London, with her heart full Of rejoicing
f0r her distant brethren, laughed of the
night with bonfires and shouted by cannon
at the goodness of the king, as did the
colonies upon receiving the news; the joy
was short-lived. The colonies saw that
England had only forborne method, yet
asserted an absolute right to tax. 1t was
only new summons to be alert, and forth
to the front Of the colonies stepped mea of
might and forecast to descry the danger
from Virginia, Henry, Pendleton, Band,
Wytne, Randolph, Lee, Washington and
Jefferson: from Massachusetts, Samuel
Adams, Otis. Hancock, Gushing. Bowdoln,
Quincy and Winthrop; from South Carolina,
the Rutledges, Gadsden, Laurens and Ram
say, and SO on. Wondrous men these, in
the mair-the very Atlantes OF union-and
men like them were maturing behind them.
A year after the stamp &C: repeal, there
teas imported into America, and on divers
articles of British produce. A national
party sprang into being; the colonies locked
elbows; the royal governors dissolved as
sembly after assembly, and sought to sup.
press interchange of sentiment between
them. Too late. Respectful memorials
still went across the sea. but less as san
gulne pleas than as grave recitals to dear
old England of reasons for what all felt
must come.
Again the ministry for prudential reasons
gave way on the tax bull, save as to tea
Too late! Great Britain asserted the right
to tax provinces she did not admit to repre-
sentation, and against the claim Of right
the coiOnists were arrayed. She was the
more chagrined at each constraint to sur
render detail, and they the more embol-
dened to achieve surrender of the principle.
The colonist began to think that his sub
ectship 20 q remote crown was but an outer
garment, that he could do without it, and
might soon have to strip it of and bare his
arms for desperate struggle. His rights
we're at best less in the legal pockets OF the
garment than in his marrow and blood.
The presence Of the military at Boston,
Q enforce discipline, sorely vexed her pop
'lace. and last a part Of her soldiery and
rsbble coi!ided one March night in l770.
The rsbble was unarMed, excep: with clubs,
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whence earnest men reached for Gods
hand. Again pamphlets flew like petrels
from province to province. Bontires fed
by royal proclsmations, painted sunsets of
British authority along the night.
On the first of June when, by closing
Boston harb0r, Great Britain locked herself
out of doors from the hearts of the colonies,
and Virginia, with fasting and prayer, i'm
plored God to give all her sisters zone
heart and one mind to oppose by all just
and proper means every injury to Ameri-
can rights" She forgot that she was q
cOlony-forgot all save that the union of
colonies was in terrible peril. With the
tidings of the new enactments one after the
other. and the advent of new forces of
foreign mercenaries, drums began with
long behind the colonial lip; men gave half
their prayers to Heaven and cast the other
half in balls, to meet Great Britain with
muskets as their only petitions for redress.
On the fifth of September, IVA, they met
in their first congress-all except Georgia
and from it's closed doors came forth q
"Declaration of Colonial Rights" of which
this wss the first unanimous resolve: THAT
they are entitled to life, liberty and prop
erty; and they have never ceded to any
sovereign whatsoever Q right to dispose Of
either without their consent" The con-
gress c0ntented itself with q compact to
forego all commercial Intercourse with
Great Britain, and with addresses to the
people of Great Britain and Canada, and
to the king. And brave. manly, masterly
scrolls they were Well might Pitt declare
in Parliament: "All attempts to impose
secvitude upon such men, to establish des-
potism over such mighty continental ma
ton, must be vain" No man in Great
Britain saw 80 we'll as he that the British
bayonet had morally rivetted the colonies
to one nation. Each was az the
breastplate of another. Pressed against
the bayOnet pricked
and her Patrick Henry shouted
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1876-11-12
1uRF, FIELD AND Farm SCORES.
coLIEoE BoYs PLAYING FOOTBALL.
The Columbia Team Defeated by that of the
stevens Institute.

The annual contest between the football
teams Of the stevens Institute and Columbia
College was had yesterday afternoon on the
grounds OF the latter in lIoboken, before a large
and enthusiastic concourse Of spectators. At
few minutes before three the game was begun,
the ball being kept well In front OF the Institute
goal by the heavy Columbia forwards until II
was captured by lirinkehon with well directed
Kick In twenty-thrce minutes. stevens then had
II all their own way fer q hort time, and In less
than nfty-three minutes lowered the College
colors thrice. Nothing daunted, the College
boNr. despite the vigorous assaults Of their ad-
yersaries, who were ably led by their captain. Mr..
Hazard, played fast and well. until the nth goal
was placed To their credit 10y Train In twenty
two minutes and the sixth 10y Lynch In thirty
four minutes, after the hardest and most
pluckily contested goal In the game.
with only about fifteen minutes to the call NJ
the game the stevens boys PLAYED their very ut
most. aud before the actual call. had scored two
more pools, one bv Nichols and the other 10y
Shippen \ protest was entered 10y Mr. Price,
the Columbia captain. against Messrs. shipper
aud kingsland, ~ not being students AT the In
stitute. but the referee. Mr. H. Stevens of Prince
ton. had left the ground, together with Mc--rs.
+. d. Ncehs and \. Gorge. the umnres. So the
match l. in allowance. although uudouht edly the
Stevens boys are the winners The play ~
Messr-. Suyddm, Denton, aud White for stevens
and Price, aud Train for Columbia was superb.
Two accidents married the game Mr. Colgate II
Columbia and stevens Of the stevens Institute
being both badly hurt.
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FOOTIIGHT FL1SHEs.

-. stephen FnSe Is a ate ~ with gastric
Ina Kirlhs are coming money 10 Phila-
ocNula.
lhe rly marriage Of a daugh ar of Mrs. John
Ii 'ri Is unuouuc- d.
Miss Roberta Norwood win probably play
DJtat the bropalvn In,atfe.
he Hon. UIriir,N Slof Will delight tho LOUIS
vie pee, tu-AiorioN ni.,t.
straknsch proposes to give 81. Louis taste OF
opera. After tat he goes 10 AluinY
STANLEY MCkruna IL rivcliing with Miss ClaK.
1 n, VIM upen- IA Toronto Tomorrow uy,uns.
The GnilOis spelka ~ the 4gic Flute"
"a rly l.! % revived At 1ne Lynqi 'as "tns ic,ne Of
McKe. R1nkin. who formerly nllyef ! ic0ii,s
Ia imlsuvp ia.
Lev, with his cornct blew a Centennill M 4st
IN fnilade pna on Friday snd lnoMAss orchestra
w.re vet TO hv skin.
Miss Laura zee who made a sensation In
hus Resumed her proie sion.
Nine Janau-c9,k gave nost9n touch Of her
QuAltl last wees, PLAY ln2 tne du roea OF Hiese aud
Lsay D.aoct Ia " bleaA Lou G."
,, Lester o walitsks rs.n9oase g the ons,con
one 81 thr features u the ryeuiug.
Miss Nelson hhs been blazing NIT and R0sI-
hnn at the Philadelphia Walnut 10 lar houses. 10
morrow sue appears Ia Measure Tor NJ ASSURE"
Mrs. Bpnciclult and children are now In the
city with Mr, BIuci ault II IA possible that Miss
lie run.
Miss Jennie Hughes the bright and popular
srrlocnnc singer snd Yuorens, has been singing sad
payl AZ two theatres me Etsle ana oynplc, an,
sue made her ,evtuteenth appearance III the week.
George Clarke, who paved the fascinating
hG5g u BY. tne,irc, and sSGscquSntiy Vent to
h9qaon sem t naj,v - navs ma, 4t ~ "T4rss
l.oudol tlq,o saysi Engli.nmen VINO nave been IN
OF American ldio,yncrsles wl appreciate The marvel
luus ndcy of MIR. George Clarke IN an Improvisation
RV Van ssiH. - - - A'' '''''" ''N''''A'
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New Attractions In the Orphans.

Yesterday Mr.. Palmer made two notable
changes in the cast Of the " Two Orphans" now
ruEuing to tremendous houses at the Union
uiare Theatre. Miss SaraJewett playing Louise,
the blind vrl, and Miss Maud Harrison Henrctte,
role In which she Ind already achieved sue
cesses under shook & PImer's management In
BROOKLYN and Chicago. Miss Jewett looked
Louise perfectly, and played the part with ten
derness nd beauty. We doubt II better cast
could be made. To sav that Miss Harrison's
Hentt.Uc l. tho hes we have seen IN TINS cOun-
try might appear invidiuu-: but the lady nos
sesses certain puysicil essentl Il which enable
her to look the par, as Miss jew IT does hers,
aud the emotional nature Of the roe |. precise
" lifted to her emotional tcmperam-nt. 1t viii
beyond question be found that the" Two Or
phans' VIII be interpreted more symmetrici iy
IN II ever nd that the critical JId. snt Of tue
IN nagement. shown In the selection Of these
lavOfite artists, VS. never more thoroughly at
tested than IN this instance.
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Young Men and W omen Can go West TO some
Purpo-e-t Colonization.

To THE EDITOR OF The SUN-Sir: We
are suffering from a glut in the labor market,
and we shall continue to suffer until 1t IL in
some way relieved. How is this relief to be
erected7 II IL very easy to say, Go West,
young man. 10 West - but how Is the young man
to go West2
We all know that in the West and Southwest
there are millions OF acres Of unoccupied land.
Let a company he organized. and committee
appointed to select an eligible site for a town in
good agricultural and fruit-growing region. In
order to have sufficient room for wide, airy
streets and central public squares. about two
and hall square miles Will bo required for
@.OO building lots. This site should Of course
possess the advantages Of an abundance Of good
water timber Tor building purposes, and, " pos
sihle; coal for fuel. In all Wild regions Of the
Southwest game and h-h abound, 30
that the, pioneer settlers need not suffer
for food at the uutstart. Let the
young man and the young woman pay into the
company treasury the sum Of 81 per month for
eleven months. That il easy for everybody to
do. aud when ten Thousand have thu. paid in
their Sll ca, Ia there will hc sll0OD Ia the com
mon treasury. Then let lO1 of the l0.ovJ subscri-
beers draw lay lot Sl,OSD each - a pioneer fuud.
which will enable that 10 to build for their fam
HES they should all be married. snug little
houses on alternate lots. and partly stock all
outlying farm of ten or twenty acres.
Here i the town. with lOO houses and proba-
BILE population ~ ~ or 80. within this town
each Of the 800 paid up stoc khulders who stay
behind will own two lots sJxlcJ feet, at u cost
Of $500 each.
The slrl cash capital thus falling to the lot
OF each of the ltn pioneer settlers will put the
project beyond the peradvcuture OF failure. and
every one of tie luWn who invest Sll cannot fail
To- realize at least twenty times that amount
within two years. The extra Slu.Ub that Will lie
paid In according Z" the foregoing plan will east
~ cover all necessary OUTLAY for ohre rent. buo~s
printing. cerk hire. expenses OF committee.w lille
selecting an eligible site. land fees. surveys. and
minor incidcntals. Many states would doubt
less donate "a -unicisnry ~ land for several such
colonies but AT most il would cost but the Cow
eminent fee about SD for every quarter see
tionr h.l acres.
You merchants who want to ind sale for your
goods YOU manufacturers who desire To extend
the use 81 your machinery, you mechanics and
artisans who are eNing ont miserable existence
In garretS anu tenement houses. organize send
forth and 20 forth to labor and pcntyl A few
years OF worN aud waiting will accomplish for
aAwho heartily engage IN this enterprise what
they can 10y no possibility accomplish as plOd-
ding denilens Of an ONer-populated and over
growing metropolis. PIONEER.
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About 800 persons assembled at Plainheld
Park. Now Jersey, YESTERDAY. lie track was In
excellent order. aud the sport Of IN Inter e-'.ng
and exciting nature. The FIRST event on the pro-
eramme WIS trot for purse Of $3.50 for 230
class, mile he ats best three In Ave, In harness,
with three contestants, viz: L. Thcmginss Oh.
2. Silyertail, +. Names 9. y. Moscow, ami L. f.
Dunhams 2. ~. George. In the betting Mos
COW was a decided iavOrite. and he rewarded the
confidence Of his hackers by winning their
money for them. The fret heat won with
cise ny SilSertal In 2:43. The second was won
by ST. George. ID nham bringing his horse M
the homestretcn with line Ell lrt at the tinsh,
bird. four b, and M h b" T. and race In 2.,N,
2t0'.. .3g ST. George was awarded second
money. ana SilSertai third.
The second contest was Tor purse VI $50 for
parer-. mile heats best three IN five. In harness.
IL had three entire, aud two sttrters-Julius n.
ana Eva May. Bind Tom drawn. 4. Maneo's
=. o. julius II. showed his superiority bV VIM
ming me race In three straight heats ia 2i3.,
2.i5, $50.
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To THE EDITOR OF The SUN-SN: Tho
anxiety 81 the past few days WILL not have been
Ia vain II 1t results In the substitution Of sim
pie and safe method 81 counting the vote for
the confused and highly unsafe method now In
use. such ala institution will be the strength
ening Of our political system at It's weakest
point.
The man who goes on working with defect
I've boiler, knowing it to be such, until IL brings
his factory tumbllug about hi. ears, is set down
nv every body ~ "A fool.
but Is bis folly any more staring than that Of
the people who allow defect in the Infinitely
government to - unrepaired year after year.
although their attention has often been called
to IT, aud although they know II TO be pregnant
with the greatest pcrilr
True. the explosion has not come vet. But. as
In tho case OF the boiler. II Is only question OF
time. PREVENTION.
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The DefnuItins Cashier OF Elizabeth Unable
TO Obtain BaIl.

jeremiah F. Fairbanks. the late assistant
cashier 81 the state aton,l Bank Of T. a both.
who WIS Jointly indicted with +. y. Wi.iisrs a
merchant Of thnt city, FIR embezLilne $4,000 ~
the fund Of the bank. has been lodged IN the
Union cou " II. Ca Wednesday both he aud
ilhams pleaded guilty before he United States
Court IN Trenton, and sentence was POSTPONED
for two week., their bah IN the interim heiug
increased Ir M g. ,On ~ $1,000. WI Hams read
iY procured bond men, hut druH ~ wa not
go fortunate. ana bV he a. vice Of his counsel
surrend req himself. ami was taken To prison to
aw ut the und dig uent of the court.
Inc I oct oi Ms beng IN priSun was Kept "a
cret rs p ls,iule by the auth n les. bat II
lr cut ana many # his I lends called TO
cotlolo Win Furu ks. hut ~ studiously
avoids cunyo -in- save wilh two ar three
u"I'"hH. - n'-S md mTnt ! trouble have
well ~ ~ reudcrrI MIN ms n, md ne u nut the
shadow ui ais iu iner self II Is thonght that
tae pri-uncI VIA receive the iull penalty OF the
Law. winch Is ton yetrs' imprisonment ana a
line a. SItAEJ
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Ar ETH OOD.


The trotting in Fleetwood Park yestcr-
day embraced four races, the first being sweep
stakes for Sl25 mile heats. best in 3 in harness.
Charles Young. Billy. Sarah, Blue Ruin, and
Marcngo started. Billy won the first heat in
2t. Charles Young the second, third aud fourth
heats and race in 2lis 2;ii, 2;i
The second event was match for $500. milo
heats best In i. to saddle, between the crack
flyers May Bird and Tanner Boy. May Bird had
the call at $50 to S.. She went to the front
around the turn Tanner BOY passed her and
Nav Bird lead to the quarter in ~ seconds,
close mp; at the half Tanner Boy still held his
lead by length IN i.loie A they went into the
homcstrcich May BIRD closed and they were
Tanner Boy shot under the wire. winner Of the
heat 10y half length. in 2;s'% They got an
even send on in the second heat. Tanner hoy
thowcd the way. MnylIird tapping hln,and pas ed
the quarter pole side by side In ~ seconds. At
the half. Tanner BOY. was leading in lw'%. ON
the turn May Bird colurcd Tanner Boy,
and once more they entered the homcstretch
with whrlwind speed. May Bird steadily crcpt
and May Bird led under the wire, a winner by
four lengths. IN 80,
In the third heat May Dird cut out the work /;
they passed the half-milc pole In l.Osil. Tanner
Boy broke, and May Bird went home IA winner in
In the fourth heat they had an even send on
May Bird; taking advantage " bad break by
Tanner Boy. passed the quarter in ~ seconds,
three lengths in the lead ut the half In l:luH
gained trite, and won the heat and race in
CIV.
Tue next trot was sweepstake for go. mile
heats. best . In b IN harness. Ben Wilson's b. 4.
J. u. B.. +. Gourds b. IN. Butcher Girl. and II.
Iylers b. Y. Frank. j. II. u. won the race in
three straight heats in 2:51. 254, and 2:55 Butcher
Girl second. Frank distanced.
The last race of the day was n match for 500
mile heats, heat In 3, In harness H. Vans
named b. Y. Blind Boy NJ. Dickson named b. T..
Panic. The race was won In three heats by
Blind hoy in 2.t,a, go aud 2.tsS.