Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1876-07-04

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PROCLAIM LIBERTY THROUGH.
OUT ALL THE LAND UNTO
ALL THE INHABITANTS
THEREOF.
e Over three thousand years afo the
oice OF inspiration Evk6Nese wordv
1t the base of Mount Si1ai Moses is.
sued this mandate Is from the Al.
mighty to his chosen people. The
voice of the grand old law-giver has
resounded though the ages, and to-
day It's solemn tones still call mankind
to rejoice for the work that has been
done and To strive for the universal
liberty that is to be. The inscription
Of that grand command upon "Inde.
pendence Bell" was in itself q pro.
phecy. A generation had passed
away before the injunction was full
filled. Then at the bidding Of our
fathers its glad tones rang out pro-
claiming liberty throughout all the
land.
The full effect of their act was not
forsseen even by the noble men and
far-seeing statesmen who issued the
Declaration Of Independence. Not
Lee, moi Jefferson, nor Franklin, nor
Adams, nor Hancock foresaw tho
mighty tree that was to spring from
the root they planted. 10 a few of the
fathers only was it given to see its
first budding fruits; and at the expira-
ton Of q hundred years We, their de
scendants, look only upon its youth
ful promise.
In July, l776, the American people
we're hardly o than a CIPHER In the
political economy of the world. They
were less than three million inhabit-
ants. They occupied a long struggling
belt Of land over fftsen hundred miles
in length and less than a hundred in
breadth. They were hemmed In by
tribes Of hostile ssvages on the n
hand and by az inhospitable ocean ON
the other. They had no navy to de-
fend their shores, no army to defend
their firesides; they had no common
recognized government; they we're d.
vided among themselves. They were
weak in all the elements of national
strength, save in their inherent man
hood and in the devoted love of lit err
ty that inspired every heart; and thus
weak, taking their lives in their hands,
they issued their proclamation Of self
government, their declaration of war
against the most powerful empire of
the earth, and animated solely by
their own stout hearts, struck full at
the towering crest of Britain. With
the incidents of the struggle against
{ u mother country. with its reverses,
is successes, its heart burnings and
p~rivations and its final triumph, we
are all familiar. There is no need to
ry~capitulate them here. Let us look
upon the fruits OF the struggle and Of
the sublime enunciation that all men
are created equal.
Since that struggle W have ever been
increasing in wealth. in power and in
liberty. We have solved the mightiest
problem aver presented to man and
reconciled liberty with law. We have
been twice tried in the fire of foreign
var. and found moi wanting. We have
been engaged in the most tremendous
civil strife that history records, and
have emerged from it with a re-estab-
ljshed government, with restored fra
ternal feelings, more united, richer,
stronger than ever; and with liberty
proclaimed throughout all the land to
all the inhabitants thereof. Our wealth
has increased owe three thousand per
cent; bur populatioI eyer fifteen hum
dred. Our strip of territory along the
Eastern ocean has wideaed until q
mighty continent IL ia our grasp; and
to day. from the vast pias forests Of
Maine to the fragrant savannahs OF
Texas; from the storm bound coast Of
the Atlantic to che tranquil shores Of
the Pacidc. fosty. dss millions ~ frss.
men chant the praises Of he brave
men who ivst declared individual lib
erty the basis OF oil government.
And it is not In It's effects npon
America alone that the Fourth Of July,
1778, is to be considered " the grand.
est epoch in the history Of human pro-
gress. The experiment in~augurstad at
Philadelphis one hundred years ago
has been watched with fear by ty.
rants, and has animated the hopes OF
millions. To the spirit OF
freedom there unclaimed is due, In
part. the French Republic OF to day.
and the increased measure of liberty to
the masses throughout Europe, from
Petersburg to Madrid. And that spir
once unclaimed, never dies, and Is
over active. Its work has but begun.
thought, free speech, . free press,