Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1878-07-06

lney were bought 1or seven pounds ten
Our flag waves DER them after the fight,
Or, Molly Stark sleeps a widow tonight.
And, at Ticonderoga, too,
At the head Of a dauntless few,
Ethan Aliens name bright appesrs,
And will through all the coming years.
Captain. said he, in accents grand,
Surrender your fort I demand.
In the Great Jehovah's name, and,
The Continental Congress Of thisl land.
In those days, when mems souls were tried,
Our brave soldiers were unsupplied,
Barefooted and scantily clad,
Yot to meet the foe. always glad.
All Of US can remember well,
The hist'ry Of that gloomy dell,
Valley Forge, where, often defeated,
Our gallant boys had retreated.
That winter. darkest of the war,
When success seemed SO very far
Ill fed, and without any pay,
They were true heroes in that day.
Severed from their wives and daughters,
shiv'ring in their winter quarters,
They were fighting for principle,
And they became fnvincible.
For seven long and weary years,
Through sorrow. pain and woman's tears.
Thru sickness, wounds, thro' bail and storms,
Our fathers fought mid wars alarms.
Their cup of woe, filled to the brlm,
Their hearts grew heavy, their eyes grew dim
Yaf faIterad not that oaraa ~, &c..
In God alone they put their trust.
With this reliance firmly hedged,
Their lives. fortunes and honor pledged,
Who can wonder that vfct'ry
Should crown the sons of liberty.
Did you think, proud Bitons, when.
You sought to Cypress these men,
And brought your troops across the waves,
You were to meet a race of slaves?
IT. ia true that these men had long
Submitted to many a wrong.
But when you would bind them with chain,
You found the effort was In vain.
Many times they forced you to feel,
That they were worthy of your steel.
And that the friends of liberty
Would never yield to tyranny.
They taught you this from Lexington.
Where our boys made the red-coats run,
To the day your flag was hauled down
BY Lord CORVALLIS, at Yorktown.
And may We, who, as a nation,
Occupy the highest station,
Never forget the debt we owe,
those who saved us from the foe.
They fought to establish freedom,
In this land where any may come
Who would not to a tyrant kneel,
Or place their heads beneath his heel.
] have but one word more We must
Ever prove faithful to this trust.
Our fathers expected that we
Would keep THIS a land of the free.
Mr.. Frank Clough read the Declaration
of Independence with fine EN- ohasis and
good effect. 1t was the universal verdict
that he acquitted himself with credit.
Mrs. Ella NJ. Ross was to have recited
brakes Address to the American Flag, but
the committee concluded that the exercises
might be drawn out to too great a length,
and in consequence thought it best to
omit this portion of the programme be-
sides, they thought it might be rather try
ing on a lady to speak in the open air.
Many persons were disappointed in not
hearing Mrs. Ross. The Grafton by Col
onel Bishop was, Of course, o mastery eff
fort, repletc with eloqucnce and earnest
patriotism. But ecomiums from us are I'M
necessary. The document speaks for it.
self:
THE GRAFTON.
MR. PREsIDESr-LADIEs AND GENTLE
MEM: This day is sacred to the cause of
human liberty. 1t is the birthday Of
freedom and nationality. One
hundred and two years have passed since
Jefferson presented the Declaration to the
patriot band who signed it and pledged all
that was sacred to guarantee the principles
stated. The signers have crossed
to the shores Of Time ; their work on earth
has ended the honored patriots are gone
from earth, but the result of their deliber-
atoms has been more prolific of good to
mankind than they could lave anticipated.
Yes, the signers lave gone to their reward;
the brave soldiers OF the Revolution have
sunk to rest but, thanks be to the God of
Nations, the principles enunciatel in the
Declaration still remain as truisms the
Consultation adopted after hostilities had
is still the grand and powerful pro-
tector of the rights of the citizens the
Union of States still exists-the hope and
of the free as it is, also the dread of
earth's crowned tyrants. This day we
have come as Americans to u national
altar to renew our VOWS of fidelity to the
cause of freedom and Of unending devotion
to our Constitution, and the indivisible
Union OF States resting under its protect
ing shield. We are thankful to be per-
mitted to thus meet and give expression to
loyal sentiments and public testimony of
our faith In the business and purity If the
principles set forth in the Declaration,
guaranteed by the Constitution and made
sacred and secure by the patriotism of the
sons of the nation. This day all citizens
are Americans. Many of them are adopted
children OF the Republic, but the princi-
Piles of freedom and perfect equality before
the law are theirs by natural right. The
adopted citizens may love the old home
beyond the ocean, and think OF its grand
beauties and glorious history with pride
and affection, but it is a feeling akin to that
which we of native birth entertain for the
shady groves, sparkling brooks and green
fields that surround the sold Homestead
wherein childish sport we whiled away the
hours of youth, bht it is not q love that in
ter eres with the just pride we entertain
for our mountain homes. 1t is similar to
the love which a strong man retains Tor
the memory Of a sainted mother, alove that
does not lessen the pure affection that he
Justly lavishes upon the wife of his bosom,
but makes il more pure and holy, for each
object in life that man rightly loves or ad-
mires gives force and power to the afec-
tions.