Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1876-07-05
The OrattGn.

| Those who were present at its delivery
! and those who were absent will certainly
want to read it. Mr.. Read spoke as follows
| Ladies and Gentlemen 1t is confessed
that there are no genuine Native Ameri
cans, except Indians. There are few O
| these present to-day but the Indian is not
very deep. The most of us are foreigners
immigrants. Some of us came little ear
lier with our fathers and grandfathers
some of us little later by ourselves ANY
man that the flag protects is an American
and in what | have to say to you l shall
address you by that title.
There is a certain succession of things
that we can, [ think, depend upon Seed
time and Harvest shall not fail; whatever a
man sows that also shall he reap. In order
to declare the end it is only necessary to
know the beginning. The hereafter of a
| man or nation is not new creation, for
| eign or strange The future is drawn out
from the past. If / were to attempt to
show the future of this nation, should 20
back and look at it's early planting. You
are familiar with the spring of American
civilization; you know the kind of grain that
was earliest brought to this continent 1t
was the finest of the wheat. Columbu
seemed bat to set the fashion, The men
who came after, were like him -, Column bus,
| De Sofa, La Sale, Miles Standish and Mar
quette are wonderfully alike. Kinsmen in
muscle and soul. Here and there doubtless
there was among the pioneers of the new
world vagabond-chess among the wheat
but the rule was otherwise Men, noble
| by ancestry and by right, first found this
| countryside coast of ii; the heart of it.
Some of them in black gowns, some OF them
soldiers, some of them mixture of priest
and sold Ter and trader All of them hard
10 kill a 4a SIS
1t IS enough to only speak of Plymouth
Rock You know the kind of men Who
kneeled; what stuff there was in. them?
They believed in eection-that they were
elected to be saved, but they took gun
along in case they should meet an Indian
elected to be shot.
What pilgrimage was that to Concord
last year. Four of our foremost Americans
speaking words of commemoraion of one
little fight Small afiair that quarrel on
the bridge, but it looked forward 10 and
more nearly concerns us than any battle in
history. 1t means us. 1t means the emf
grant loaded to-day at Castle Garden
meant all who shall land. 1t was fought
for the family, except perhaps the Heath
en- Chinese" If a man was not born here,
tina, is nothing he can t help that, but
when he refuses TO be buried here, We will
have to think about it. A mans residence
is where his bones are. The battle of Con
cord meant him unless he pers SIS in so
| stating his objection ~.
We are tod often enough that we are
practical fOlks-a nation without senti-
ment, and the reasons to make us think so
are glibly stated. We begun monuments
and are called away on business to Cincn-
| natl or St. Louis and do not finish them.
| The monument at Washington TO Washing
| ton, the monument at New Orleans to
Jackson, both seem to imply that we got
out of ST lff-either short Of stone or rev.
| erence for the dead. The Pilgrim notices
that there is plenty of stone laying around
loose and concludes that it is reverence we
are short of here. While / am speaking
| they are debating in Boston the question
| whether they can afford TO preserve the
| Old South Church. 1t trsmbled to the
| voice of Otis and Adams. 1t was a meet
British troops stabbed their horses Bui
to-day the Old church is in the way of
trade. 1t is a question between a senti.
ment and money-between an old memory
| and the shoe trade. Wendell Phillips
says to the citizens, if you destroy the old
South you will have to re-baptize your
city Call it Shoe town and Mackeralville,
reckon money will carry the day. 1t has
so far in Boston. The Hancock House is
gone The old State House is gone; the
battle SCARED church that stood so 10
with ball in its side, that has gone, and
now the shoemaker is at the door of Old
South ana flannel Hall. When these are
gone the old Boston Of the boys magma
ton will have gone too.
Visitors to Philadelphia tell US that
America has in Machinery Hall half mile
OF Sewing machines and mile and a half
of reapers and mowers. Also we are strong
in Agricultural Hall. There is a little sen.
tmentalism come all the way from Gin
cinnati. A glass case in which hang three
or four hams. richly canvassed, not in the
ordinary yellow linen, but in silk of Grim
son, white and gold. 1t is pork lifted into
the region of poetry.
Charged with having no sentiment az q
nation and presented with the proofs |
confess the charge and excuse it. The
farmer of the west up in St Croix, busy in
grabbing wild acres and breaking them
does not shine up his boots. He is not
landscape painter. The only carving he does
is with an az Not poetic and not artistic;
we excuse him; we excuse bis wife. also.
Cooking and washing and sewing max ing
butter and hunting eggs. She has not time
for the decorative arts Nevertheless there
are pictures on the walls, not costly, bat
cut out from Harper's Weekly. There are
flowers in the windows. These little
| things show that she neglects the beauti-
full, not because she does not love it, but
Because shells cooking for the threshers.
So with the country, we have had great
deal of clearing to do-a 100 years of
| springs wcrk-clearing OF Indians from
Ply mouth Rock to Shawno clearing of
Kings from Concord to Yorktown; clearing
| Of the wilderness; breaking of the prairie;
and then the raisings we have had to at
tend. Art requires time and long peace.
We have had neither. TIE Pilgrim plant
| ing corn with musket sung to him is
picture of the nation doing herwo War
has come into every generation. II called
Warren away from his books, and the
grandchiId of Warren away from his. I
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