The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1876-06-30
Let uS Celebrate.

Whenever, in this nation, we APP
preach q general political campaign
whenever a great party assemblies
In convention /; whenever an unex-
pected political epoch of any kind
recurs 10 US, we are told that upon
the altitude of the nation, upon the
views and sentiments of the people,
upon their correct decision and
right action, hang consequences OF
the most stupendous and unprece-
denied importance. 1t may seem
paradoxical that each recurring
general movement or action among
the people, should be more impor-
tant than any preceding it, yet the
f0fnllment of events have invaria-
bly, justified tho declaration and
proved the truth Of the proposition.
Behold, to-day, this nation, not
less mighty in extent and numbers,
not less important in its advance
ment and influence than it is NIGH
ty and important in the eternal
principle of human liberty upon
which 1t is founded, and we see the
results which have followed the
neighborhood gatherings and the
colonial town meetings of I776,
where the people dared TO assert
and maintain the supremacy of
Gods law and the freedom and
equality of all Gods creatures.
From these small beginnings up TO
this mighty climax who cannot
discern the increasing aud progress
i've Importance of each successive
popular demonstration and action.
Conspicuous among these i'm
portant instrumentalities are our
9TH Of July anniversaries. These
are the peoples recitation days,
when We review the lessons of the
past, appreciate and pronounce
upon the present and grid ourselves
for the problems of tho shadowy
future. If the movement of q po-
htical party 10 important, a move
ment OF the whole people lie doubly
80. II q national anniversary is
significant . centennial celebration
IL hundred fold moro portentous.
Let as celebrate. IMonarchists, con-
federatiOnists, nullifiers, disinte-
grAhonists, slave propagandists,
repudiationists, public plunderers
and traitors have done their utmost
and to-day the nation stands secure
upon the summit of the century.
Let Americans arise and hail the
heroic majesty and eliminated glo-
~ of the hour. Behold we stand
between the centuries. Let us take
up the wild hurrah that sounded
forth from Bunker Hill on that 18th
OF June, and whose echoes, like the
beiching thunders, swept the Attain
tics coast, the Jerseys, the Careli-
mas and the Old Dominion, awak-
Ing new world filed with Liber-
sy's children; let US bear those ech-
oes to the distant shores of coming
time and there awaken words hith-
erto unspoken and unwritten, ell
oquence which yet slumbers, and
hAllelujas yet unsung. What honor
has fallen upon us that we to-day,
In the name of our Revolutionary
Fathers, invest the coming centuries
with the glory of hundred years
ago. Thanks be to God, to martyr
cd Lincoln, to our buried heroes
and the great loyal North, that we,
In our day, have shown ourselves
not unworthy harbingers of our
fathers, to the unborn millions of
this fair land.
God with the Father land, God
with the land of tho Bravel
As long - thy banner shall glenn in the
sun,
As long As thy heroes remember their
scars,
Be the hands OF thy children united in
one,
And peace shed her light on thy banner
Of stars.