Whig and tribune. [volume] (Jackson, Tenn.) 1870-1877, 1876-06-10
SATURDAY. j
JACKSON.

CELEBRATK.-In another column we
publish the proceedings of public meet
ing held in this city on Monday last, June
5th, 1876, to devise ways and means of
bringing the people of Madison county
together in an appropriate celebration of
the Tooth anniversary Of the birthday Of
Liberty in North America; and it will be
seen that a number Of our very best citi-
zens are engaged in the Roble work.
Man was formed for action. His very I
organic structure, and every principle /
centred in his character, proclaim his /
destiny-to rise in the scale of being-tO |
march on from improvement to improve
mcnt, and to be not only the lord of ere
alton, but, also, the best, the greatest and |
the noblest of Natures works. His body /
is admirably calculated for agility, and
by proper exercise, capable of enduring |
any fatigue. He can scale the Hottest /
Northumberland the abruptest cliffs |
Of those Alps upon whose activities hung
the hosts of Hannibal like the tempests |
of heaven, and fcarlcssly traverse the |
Tudcst path amid the up-piled rocks that |
"echo the joy of waves" lie can be |
brave and noble and generous; no action |
is too daring for him to perform, and
none too noble and generous for him to
emulate. His mind Is capable of unlim-
tied expansion, grasping and compre-
hending everything but inilnitv. With
Judgment strong and discriminating, he
can trace effects to their proper causes,
rejecting error and embracing truth.
With an invention correct and penetFa-
ting, he can master the most ireRicate
and complicated combinations in meehan-
les, and with an Imagination vivid and
lively, lie can soar almost "aboVe all flight
Of hope,p hold converse with angels and
gods, and cease, as it were, to be a child
Of mertality-the creature of fleeting
time. All these he can do, bat not with
out energy and exeFtion. There are few
mon who would not be willing to have it
said of them that they were sincere
friends kind neighbors, useful citizens,
ardent lovers Of their country, and upon
the whole, occupied station in society
which viii be missed at their death. There
are few who do not love glory and desire
TO have their names written in the annals
of fame, 10 be handed down to unborn
generations as benefactors of mankind
AL then, that is necessary Is to foster
and strengthen this willingness to be
good and useful, and to keep alive and in
vigorous exertlon this love of glory and
desire of fame. Hence the origin, neces- |
sity and importance OF keeping in re-
menibrance, and properly celebrating |
great national and historical events. Ev- |
cry age and every nation have had their /
muster spirits-their great events-their
deliver;uices and their triumphs-and as !
such they have been remembered and |
celebrated. It is just--it is right-it is |
i useful to 10 So The human character is
.s elevated, ,digniiied, and ennobled-the
beneiaetOrs OF society receive the reward
due TO their merit, and the citizens In
rendering homage to virtue, become bet
ter, more useful, and more attached to
their country. What could be more pro-
per than for the Jewish people to ceIe-
brate, through all ages, the Passover?
They called to remembrance the deliver
ance of their fathers from bondage-the
complete and miraculous destruction of
their enemies-and the clear manifesto
ton of their being a people favored by
heayen--set apart from the other nations
of the earth by the great Jehovah, for
the accomplishment of his own particu-
lar purposes. Would not every heart
burn with enthusiasm such an Occa-
sionl Would not piety and devotion be
kindled in the bosoms of the most de-
events and consequent celebrations, and
the Romans had theirs. The French and
English have theirs, and we have ours.
We have our Fourth-of-Jul y--the ami
versary of the birth of our nation, and
the release of America from the thrall-
dom Of European despots; the commence
ment Of the reign of intelligence, and
the era of the freeing of Il large portion
of the human race from the CALLING and
debasing shackIes of Ignorance and SUI
perstition, and raising them to their pro-
per station-to think, to speak, to deter
mine, to act, and to gore,n for themselves. |
We have our Eighth of-January and cur |
Twenty Second Of January commence
rative of our own inviucible Jackson and |
of Washington
'.That Star of the West, that will never
so down
Till the records OF vaIor decsy;o
We must worship its light, for it is our
own,
And Freedom was born in its ray.''
etus then have an awakening. Let
the approaching centennial celebration of
the natal day of Freedom in our land be
such as will do honor to the spotless pa
triots Of other times, and be creditable to
the love of country and sense of graft
tude that inspired it. Let US have ora
tions setting forth the virtues of Wash
I, ington, who was, like Mareellus, ''the
sword Of the Republic," and of Jackson
whose Damascus blade, swinging be-
tween Louisiana and the British, was
like the flaming sword of the Cherubim
flashing between Adam and the loved
Eden he had lost What great inheri-
tanee was bequeathed to us by the patriots
of 1776l A country stretching from The
pillows o. the Atlantic to the Pacific
shore and nom the st. Lawrence to the
Bay of MOBILIZE country abundantly
1 rich in the fertility of its soiI-rich in its
unparalleled improvement and general
prosperity-rich in the blessings of civil,
religious, and rational liberty. This glo-
rious inheritance we are bound by the
most sacred obligations to preserve pure
and untainted, and as men are bound to
transmit to posterity that which is as in
alenable as II is valuable. Every Amer
lean should feel the sentiment expressed |
by Smollott:
'gEhy spirit, Independence, let me share; |
Lord of the lion heart and eagle eye,
Thy steps follow with my bosom bare, /
Nor heed the storm that bowls along 1
the sky"
The Republican, the Radical paper at
Huntington, gives an extract from a
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