Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1876-07-06
! country vast in extent and vast in

iui0Tlt00u WIFI IIRUtnlIIk WiT0Sy iIldtlu-
featuring, commerce, mining, arts and
sciences, learning, literature, all in a
very advanced state; religion respected,
and the God OF nations loved and
worshipped.
But why speak further of d prog
ress-that Idea which Is coinprehended
in the word s'progress? The whole
story of our country from its birth Is
embraced in that one word, progress.
It Ia he most uniform tendency to be
found in history. It IS true It has had
Its backgrounds and nights of sleep,
although IL has always and ever strug-
gled. So in this government and the
history Of this nation. 10 the great ex
pertinent OF government by the REQ.
pie. At irst obscured by doubt and
inexperience, 1t en'ered upon its career
with enemies and doubters within and
active foes from without. The friends
warm with the impulses and princi
pies inspired Ivy love of liberty were
restrained by those whose teachings,
sentiments and instincts we're opposed
to such a form of government, and who
would have willingly surrendered
their dearest rights for security rather
than launch their banks upon an un.
known sea, where danger threatened
and where the end could not be- de-
termined.
But the die was cast; a new era had
da wned upon the world, and our
country took its place among the ma
lions Of the earth.
It's destiny was to be upward and
onward; 1t had been so decreed by the
Almighty Creator of the universe, and
it's founders we're only the instru-
ments in His hands to carry out His
great purpose. Directed by His in
scrutAhle wisdom 1t was to be a beacon
light in the science Of govern ment; 1t
was to be q. newn le Sson taught in
progress" ART. literature and science.
Noblv has 1t fulfilled its mission. and
to-day we ara permitted to behold the
work of our ancestors measurably per-
facted, and still to 90 on through
countless ages under the spirit and inn
pulss OF progress.
What y change from the old to the
new! What a change from l776 to
1SI3-a change as represented by the
difference between yonder Continental
truck cart and its antiquated passen-
gers, and the cam wagon of the State
Car and its living freight Of joyous
Juveniles. Then it required from five
to ten days IN make y trip from Fort
Orange to Manhattan vile; now 1t ran
be made In three hours. Then men
wore knee breaches and powdered
wigs: mems hreeches touch the
ground, and the hair upon their heads,
In some cases, Is so thin that it can
scarcely he discovered. Then women
wore bonnets of large dimensions;
now thew don the shadow of q hat. But,
coming down to the period within our
own memories, / can recollect when
Won would see long trains Of white
wagons crossing New York
from New England, marked for Ohio,
Illinois or Wisconsin,, stocked with
provisions for from one to three
months. Their friends believed that
the parties we're going so far that they
would never again see them or earth;
now the q remote points of the
then destination NAV be reached In
thirty six hours; and ono may take
his duster, board a Pullman palace
car. and reach San Francisco in ninty
hours from New York.
But for all these changes from old
to rev, all this progress. all these
modern con%veniences, let us hold the
past in fond remembranca: that the
links of history connecting the present
with the past may form q golden chain
to bind ia III f~raternal bond and ally
our affections more strongly to our
country.
1t il the fervent hope Of every lover
IF liberty. every true pafrint; that on
festive year all resentments, all
differences, all conflicts that may have
existed or that may now
tn rankle in the heart
between the members Of the diff
sections of this great Repub
lie. either on account OF the last civil
Val or from aus be buried and
o~bliterated; and hat the peo-
pie of all the States and sections. Of all
and churches. all parties and
classes, unite with n purpose, II
and n hone, and come up to
on their courtry's natal day, 10
the progress of a hundred
years; to join hands in perfect fraterni-
tv. and at their cOuntrv's altar prom
lac the God Of DIR fathers that the new
shall surpass the old one in
the glories Of civilization.
The opening Of this centennial year
seemed rife with such a sentiment, and
already at Lexington and Bunker Hill
We ini the soldiers Of Lee and McLel-
an, the men who met as foes and
In the Wilderness, at Shiloh,
Donaldson and elsewhere. uniting In
he festive occasion, celebrating those
events with as much fervor, feasting.
and drinking, together with az much
Of q brotherhood "a though
'hev had never met on the battle field
In bloody and deadly antayonism.
May the noble example of those who
endured Tho burden, the privations and
III ffering Of tho tented field and the
and struggled through the
Of the deadly conflict, be imi-
by all. In q country like ours,
with our theory Of government. why
should sectionalism in any form be
promulgated or tolerated? While each
Is sovereign we have one COM
mon country. containing 81 States snd
Territories, and the citizen 81
zach State owns an interest in the
81 osperity, the grandeur and the glory
IF ali this States by virtue OF q COM
mon country.
A citizen Of Nevada should feel an
honest pride In the advancement. pros
and glories Of South Carolina
mr. New York a. we'll and along with
he cjtizan of either Of those StatAs;