The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1880-07-07
TIE FOURTH.
How the Day was Celebrated in
Salt Lake.
The Speeches Made at Washington
Square by Governor Murray
and ?. L. Williams, Esq.
A Splendid Grafton.
THE PROCESSION.

soldiers; then General Washington
the thirteen colonies and shirty-eigh
states represented by young ladies
the territories by eleven young boys
committee OF arrangements, presi
dent, orator, reader and chaplain O
the day and General John E. Smitt
and staff, federal officers, and invited
guests in carriages, twenty boy
dressed as miners. Then came tht
societies and trades, among them the
temperance sOciety, with a wagon il
which were young ladies' represent ting
virtues and graces, the Olympic
Club, with athletes In a wagon tasta-
fully arranged with the Implements
Of their sports; Studebsker with a
number of wagons a-d carriages, q
BAN wagon. mower aud reaper,
George NJ. Scot. & Co.. with an
engine ana three wagons, g. F. Gunner
aad Co, with teas. glass and show
cases, F. AuerbacD, & Bros. with the
large representation OF their builiing
on their wagon; miniature fac sim,le
of the Valley House. very fine and
the work of Mark Milton; Prices
green grocery and poultry store;
Armstrong; various grains; Luca.
& Meaken's grocery and gree q
store; the California brewery; Auer
and Murphy; the Great Basin mine;
Levy's tobacco store and a great
many citizens on horse back and in
carriages. The whole procession was
fully a mile long, and proceeded IN
the line of march as heretofore an
nounced, the streets the whole
distance, but especially on Main
street, being thronged with people.
Beezley's band was also in the pro-
The whole was orderly and
well conducted:
At THE STAND.
The stand at Washington Square
was covered and draped with stars
and stripes. while seats for 500 ladies
had been placed IN front and to the
south of the stand, and such of those
10 the procession az desired TO remain
formed on the outside of the seats.
The stand was occupied by the
committees, invited guests, officers OF
the day, orators, president, etc. The
Fort Douglas baud occupied the seats
Immediately 10 front Of the stand.
3he crowd, which must have num-
bered close on 1000. was called to
order by General NJ. NJ. Bane, and .
prayer offered up by Rev. w. II. Bar
rows. Governor Murray was then TO-
troduced as president of the day, and
made the tollo@ing speech, delivered
10 a clear full voice, with considera-
bic emphasis and added to it such
force as could come from his large
presence. 1t was not very loudly ap-
plsuded, the religious references only
calling forth any response, until he
took his seat.
This day represents the patriotism
of the American people. 1t is ex-
empt from the demands of trade. 1t
yields its rights to no claims of
personal or sectional character. For
the Christian Sabbath only it adj
iOurns its acclamations and attend
ant rejoicings. We commemorate
the entrance of the pioneers of Am
erican liberty into the valleys of
universal freedom. We commence
rate the birthday of established lib
erty-liberty established not only
for our own fair land, but for all the
people of all the world. 1t is the
Peoples Day. 1t is our day; ours
by virtue of the love and affection of
a great and growing people; ours by
a title written under the shadow OF
gaunt suffering and want,and sealed
in the blood of patriotic sires. Ours
and Liberty's, by virtue of conquest
.snatcheG as it was by Freedoms
hands, at the lannon's mouth, from
kingly grasp. Llberty's and ours
and our children's, by virtue of the
storms of over ahundred years, that
attest the Ya.Or of the conquest.
The wisdom of the Declaration we
celebrate and the patriotism that
the it birth. Those who believe in
would Re right of kings, those who
norance ana their fellowmen in ig-
would rob the bondage, those who
those who would SUI OF honest toll,
to any church, grumblers State
ors, do not and cannot enjoy tralU-
dom's day. As we have progressed Il.
grandeur and greatness, as a nation
in glory, we have chal-
lenged the admiration and demand
ed the respect of the pioneers of all
ranks. Wherever a down-trodden
people is found, there from yearning
hearts and lisping lips daily ascend
prayers for the peace and Sc
curity of the Government of the
United States.
The tree of liberty planted in
l776 has grown with our DAYS,
and strengthened with the
years until its spreading branches
reach from sea to sea, broad
to shelter all patriots,
native born or naturalized. Further
shall say, and rich enough in tim
Der to construct scaffolds and collins
Tor all those who may PERSONALLY
~ break uUWn our COnSUlUu-
ton and to violate its written laws.
The people of this country propose
to remain free for ever. No State
viii be wiped out. No star obliter-
ited from our national flag. Upon |
the other hand, no new State will
be formed, no new star placed |
lpon the folds of our flag, until |
.he people it represents come with |
-he badge of freedom upon their
breasts. Free to think for them
selves. Free to act for themselves.
Free from all kingly and priestly
lictation in civil affairs-a liberty
loving, law-abiding people who, with
.'their lives, their fortunes and their
sacred honor" will defend this gov
eminent, our precious blood-bought
heritage-the pride of loving, loyal
people. Utah shall be .free-GRd
hen, and not till then, q State.
The shackles that bind so many of
her good and too-confiding people,
to the superstitions of a dead
past, will, by their own acts,
their own words, be broken.
With her great resources in
mines and in fields, let young
{ tab go forward in unison with civ
the law, and to the music
of the Union, established by the
Fathers and preserved by their sons,
to clasp hands with an inviting and
great future. Our country in the
future as in the past, "with malice
toward none and with charity for
all, " will continue to be just to her
forbearing, ever forgiving,
her first place among the
nations of the earth, and l am sure