Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1877-07-06

sion OF IL. reading. R. NJ. Beatty ESQ.
was introduced TO the audience. AM
delivered the following
oRATIox.
Mr. PREsrDENT-LADTEs AND GEx.
rLENES: Only one hundred and one
years have yes been numbered with
the past since the day we celebrate,
and Of which this - the anniversary,
dswned upon an anxious, misruled
people, and upon which the acts N.
Coiumbis's valiau;-hezned sons
proved America 10 be the bir.h-placs
Of human liberty.
See wha; in so short q time marked
BY the annals Of worlds history. but
50 very long when considered iu the
lives Of men and governments, has
been accomplished by q free, enlishl-
enej. frugal and industrious people.
On the Fourth day of July, l716,
hfy- SIX patriotic hearts, beAling high
with earnest hope; ily-six compre-
hensive minds, with but The one alb
sorbing theme of liberty, finy-sIx
eager. willing hands. setting their
seals TO the written act which would
secure 70 their posses>ors- 6od-fssrinx,
country and bome-Ioving men-and
all whom they held dear. either liber-
ty or death, all thereby declared aud
published 10 an expectznt world that
The people, and they alone, we're the
soyereigns Of their land. And with
an almost idolafrous faith inthe prinei-
pies Of free thought and seif-govern-
meni, frOm the sScred portzls Of ln-
dependence Hall, those very noblemen
of azure sen forth the Declaration Of
American Independents, enunciaIing
IN words of plain unvsrnishsd truth
Ard in the name and by the authority
OF the good people whom they repre-
sen,ed. That the United Colonies
were and OF right ought TO be free aud
independent States and that such
they should be. and ever aferward re-
main. Each tn the other pledged all
that man could hold of measurable
worth, his life, his fortune aud his
sacred honor. Prominent among the
men who thus immor.slized them
selves. and Herewith lea peace and
personal safety behind them, aud bold
ly plunged into what they knew TO be
a war for life, appeared many whose
HuiC aIt nov TtttTcl OQuSGDO41
words wherever liberty il cherished,
and whose AFTER glorious deeds will
never he forgotten or fail OF emuls-
ton by free-men till history sha!! be
40 more aud every earthly record
shall have been blsckened in the scroll
a. the great ending Of time. Individual
mention ofsny OF those men is unne.
essary. No higher tribute IAN lie paid
to each and all OF the heroes of ITO
than this: THAT inspired Declaration
still remains, and, God willing. ever
shall stand, the cornerstone OF this
great Republic AMI her peoples lib
erty."
Eleven years later. in i7S7, the Con-
stiiutlou Of the United States of Amer
lea WAS framed aud adopted as the
fundamental law of the young nation.
That II was wisely proyisioned and
conditioned as bs>eeIned a free and in /
dependent people, has been indubit-
ably proven by all subsequent history.
That lis trainers were men of f~zr-seeing
minds and disinterested impulses is
shown by the growth and progress of
the nation under IL and Its worthy
forerunuer, the Declaration Of indie
p~endence; for they. together insured a
haven of safety and freedom to the
d~owntrodden and oppressed of every
and. They secured TO a man of what
yer CLINE a home in the fullest signi.
hcsfion OF the name, and protection
for himself and his household gods,
where, underline azure arch ofHeaven,
breathing the air Of Columbian liberty, |
he could follow the dictates of his own
conscience, untrammelled by sect,
creed or form OF religion. They gave
the glad tidings tn the dwellers of the
earth that here Heaven might lie ap-
preached by any road The weary pill
grim might choose in faith to follow.
Witness how "a country from the
then small but earnest population of
many less than four million souls, and
with a domain OF but eight hundred
thousand square miles, has since ac-
quirea. by purchase. treaty and CON-
quest, so great an enlargement of terri
tory that to-day the area which she
holds in undisputed right numbers
three million five hundred and sew
enty eight thousand and more square
miles. And her eagle standard bearer !
holds in his mighty hand the flag OF /
the free hearts only home, which then
displayed but thirteen-and is now EN-
blazoned with thirty even, ave, thirty
eight, for to-day Is ad led a new and
other one for the Centennial Common
wealth Of Colorado-pure white stars,
which sing together of the harmonious |,
union OF as many free and independent
States. And that symbol of freedoms
chosen land this day triumphantIy
floats over the heads Of forty million
of sdoring lovers, few, If any, of whora
but would shed the last drop of their
blood II need be ere that star spangled
banner, first unfurled by our fathers
v one hundred years ago. shall be
lowered or one single sta be stricken
from its blue field; and who now,
thank God, are enjoying every earthly
blessing possible for q government TO
bestow oil her people by united pro-
lection under Americas laws. But,
fellow countrymen, aside from the
unprecedented increase of her popu
latlon and remarkably rapid acquisi-
ton Of territory, the United States has
another and a better title to a place
among the foremost nations of the
Earth, secured to her by the proper
administration OF her ~salutary laws,
and the possession of which should
u every true American heart to
beat quicker with pride and self
graduation. Through the earnest and