The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1876-07-08

pure men, honest patriots, who are alone
fit to wear the mantle of liberty decided
us by the integrity of the past "meas-
ures" not men, but / insist that men
must reflect the purity of the measures
they enumerate, or else the object had
in view will fail, which is the perpetu-
atm of free government based upon
the sagacity and character of its repre-
sentatives. The day we celebrate is one
owing to the bold stand taken by men in
defense of measures, but these men were
of mold from which sprang political
veracity, courageous determination,
and a dare to do, carnations that were
filled to establish measures, that could
have no other emanation but from a
fountain-head of honesty and strength.
If this is the story of the past, let us in
the present make it history of the future,
true philosophy that measures, not men,
shout; embody all the cardinal points in
our national economy, it were well that
men must be the directors and governing
pies of public pelity. Measures for the
good of the whole, with the true-hearted,
patriotic American citizen as supporter,
and men of worth will be found at all
times, ready to carry the banner of
American freedom in any and all con-
hlcts where American honor Is involved,
or the pollty of the nation endangered.
THE POWER OF THE PRESS.
In connection with the developments
of our beloved country, it is but proper
in this day of devotion to the memories
of the past, and the glorious attitudes of
encns tbot are r. do 90 much to sustain
a ,rest;,re occurred hv the results of a
centnrv IF efIort AH,ono the most dis
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liberty. The press of America. through
its representatives, has mission to full
fill it is their province to stimulate the
right and to depress the wrong 1t is to
this gigantic part of our moral force, that
our people are to turn for guidance in
their yearnings for the instruction in
political economy, and how necessary it
is that there should be an individualism
in the press, a management of moral
force, infusing life and power into the
workings of this intellectualmotor. The
journalist, on this day of our great ma
tional reunion, should remember that to
him is given the expression of the Amer
lean idea, and in his acceptance of the
trust responsibility is assumed, fraught
with results of vital significance; hence
how careful should the mentor be of the
instruction given; how zealously guard
ed of his motive, its genius and design:
If true, he is indeed benefactor; if
false, he is of all men the most danger
GUS. The American journalist, like all
other patriots, as he gathers around the
shrines of to-day, will promise that from
this anniversary of the enfranchisement
of a great people, his pen shall be a
magnet, whose attractions will be to the
worship at the altar of American liberty.
CHURCH AND STATE.
Ofou FL. v;-+ues within tho Gonna of
,he Am.r;o.n ren1bl;can idea none baya
race;vaJ r,ora noarted recocnition of
;nternaI;onai society with the comment
dat;on of the liberal and yirtuous of all
lands than the latitude given "a
guarantee under the constitution of
fraadom of reI;o;ons thouaht based
mon the distinct senaration nj church
I'd stoto AIthongb wbat NAV he mer;to-
r;ons in tho nbuscb temnoral constrmc.
tor 10 not obsolete in The hodv noIit;c
hut ia ottmned tn the moral disc;nI;ne Of
the stata w;tbont controJlin9 the
;ssne Of scots or the neculiar modes
Of ;nd;y;duoIs The Sbaman or the
S;nta;s, tho E.t;n,;st the Om;ade or
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full play for the powers of his indie
pendent worship, clear of the trammels
of domination of either church or state,
he comes to this land offreedom, buoyant
with the arm of faith in the belief that
religious federation in the United States
of America is assured to all, that here
to-day, in this centennial anniversary he
can offer his prayers, perform his VOWS in
such manner as may be in full accord
with his own obligations, or those he may
inherit from his forefathers, in security
with guaranteed immunity from OPP
preston or dictation. Let us again on
this day of rehearsal of national promises,
renew our obligations to the world, that
this is "the land of the free," that here
in this cosmopolia may all the peoples of
the world gather under the banner of
state and church MISUNDERSTANDING
of the one, and integrity OF the other, all
of which we promise them, as the boon
given to us by the percepterso of our early
history, and sanctified to their Posterity
by the blood OF the heroes shed for the
disenthralment OF man from the religious
prosecutions and the monarchical tyran,
MES of the decaylng dynasties OF the Did
world.
THE CENTENNIAL.
Among the commemorative tokens
offered IRE future Of the acb;evements of
omr country from its;nfancv tn its nre ase nj
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