The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1879-07-10

ferent circumstances we can not bring
our minds into such condition, that we
can feel that such prosecutions could
have taken place. 1t was but few
years before our own Revolution that the
Prince Won Metternich said, as he stood
upon his velvety lawns which overlook
the beautiful Rhine river, Ladies" said
he, ''lOok yonder where those hirelings
are at work. This is as it should be, La
dies and Gentlemen in the parlors, while
the unborn Nobility should be in the
fields. with an impossible gulf between
them" Ny friends do you comprehend
the meaning of his philosophy? 1t means
that no such gatherings as this shall take
place. 1t means that you and l shall toll
in the field for life with no chance of bet
tering our condition. 1t means that a
man can be nobleman by blood. 1t
means that the the giant intellects of
Clay, Webster, Lincoln and all the hosts
of Others that have done so much for us
should never speak because they were
born of humble parentage. The sweet
Installations of their noble minds, which
so inspire us would, as the poet said, have
been born to blush unseen and waste their
sweetness on the desert air. While We
admit we must have all classes, we want
it understood that they are to better
their condition as fast as possible. But
Notwithstanding Metternichs wish, the
reverse has taken place. We are living
to-day under one of the most liberal and
prosperous Governments that ever exist
ed in any land. The sun never shone on
a fairer land than ours. Shall 1t always
be? After a little over one hundred
years has passed since it's foundation we
are as glad to come together as in the
earlier wears. We are here to-day to
think Of the stormy journey she has trav-
eled only to be strengthened by every
trial. 1t seems almost impossible when
looking back at the frail beginning, that
it could have gone forth u progress so
steady, progression so wonderful and
an expansion SO ample. q
To-day as the Declaration of Independ-
ence has been read we are not slow to
perceive the courage it required to break
away from the mother country. then the
most powerful nation known. We can
safely say that the Declaration is one of
the grandest eminations that ever result
ed from the efforts of the human thought.
Born from the brain of him who loved
freedom, and hated prosecutions he had
no fears in putting it before the people.
Jefferson was will aware that Repub-
lies had been started only to run few
centuries, then to fall back to mon
archy. Therefore he laid the foundation
deep and strong. He laid it so as to
stand the TRADES that would inevitably
be hurled against it. We should have a
deep and fond remembrance for this
declaration Of human liberty. The grow
ence it. 1t is certainly one of the no.
of A har Cfn tn ROY
erence anything that may pertain to our
early liberty. Every thing that we pos
sess to-day owes itself indirectly to our
first principleSs&,
We wonder that such Universities as sur
rounded those in the early beginnings
could have weathered the stormy time.
But we must recOllect that smooth
ocean never made Columbus. An un-
interrupted prosperity and success never
qualify nation for usefulness and hap
piness. The storms of adversely, like the
terrible storms on the ocean, rouse the
faculties and excite the invention, pru-
dence, skill and patience of the vOyaSer.
Those sturdy men that gave to us this
country, gave it with the understanding
that universities would come, as come
other events. But they would come only
to strengthen us in bonds of an eternal
unity.
Had this country been fouded by the
the nobility of other countries, where
would have been the boosted American
power? would the titled nobility of En-
gland have stood the terrible disasters,
which befell the sturday men of olden
time: Take your histories and compare
the baffled projects and murdered settle
ments, and find one single parallel to
this. But, what kept this noble band to-
gether! They certainly never enjoyed
the fruits that should have crowned their
labor. What few disasters may arise in
our affairs, we hope will never be strong
enough to blast the bud of hope. We
say the future and not the past. That a
nation but trifle over 100 years of age,
startea in the greatest adversely possible,
could have accomplished so much. Yet,
when we look back and see the backward,
dark and dreary looking times that lay
before this infant Republic, it is no won
der that they feared for its safety and its
l. Ill H.,