Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1880-07-06
INDEPENDENCE DAY.
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quickened the movements of social life
that these divers people from Europe
IRE shaken together and amalgamated in
the New World till the original distinc-
tions disappear, and new national type
is formed"
A great nation, however, cannot, even
under the government of the United
States, be established on solid and
lasting foundations merely by
the political intermingling Of
people of different races. 1t
must constantly be supported and made
strong by those active moral forces
which flow from public virtues and pop
ular education and christian principles.
In Syria different races of men have
lived under almost all forms of govern
ment-patriarchal, monarchial, aristo-
cratic and despotic-and for many years
the inhabitants sinned and suffered in
that miserable state OF unrestrained lib
erty in which "every man did that which
was right in his own eyes" Jews, AS
syrians, Persians, Greeks, Romans,
Arabs and Turks. intermingling in some
degree, have successfully exercised do
minion over Syria for more than two
thousand years.
Damascus, the Oldest city in the world
is still standing on the beautiful plain
where it stood when Eliez,lr, the steward
of Abraham, dwelt in it. The name Of
christian was first used at Antioch, yet
owing to the perpetuation of popular
errors and the repetition of national
vices and crimes from generation to gen.
Grafton, for SO many centuries, large
majority of the people OF Syria, without
christian civilization, are still suffering
under the grievous burdens of poverty,
Ignorance and despotism.
Nations, not less than individuals,
ought to remember their Creator in the
days of their youth. ''lf they obey and
serve Him they shall spend their days in
prosperity and their years in pleas
ure; but if they obey not they shall
perish by the sword and they shall die
without knowledge. s. IS When He
giveth quietness, who then can make
trouble? And when He hideth His face
who then can behold Him, whether it
be done against a nation or against Il
man only?"
Fellow citizens: In order that we
may better appreciate the blessings we
this day enjoy under the solemn compact
sealed i'll blood more than hundred
years ago, let us look back to the time
Ullilb Cf1eu, men souls.
John Adams, the second president,
said in a letter written more than fifty
years ago, that "party divisions begun
with human nature" They existed i'll
America from the first plantation, and in
every colony every measure Of congress
from 1774 to IT'S inclusive, was disputed
with acrimony.
Disputes as to the nature of the gov
eminent being formed fill every page OF
American history.
The ultra doctrine of state rights still
held by many OF the southern people,
and by some in the north and west, was
the great bone of contention among
those intrusted with preparing the con.
stitution under which we live, and
although it took the great and god-like
Daniel Webster to mnihilate the dam
gerous doctrine of secession in congress
and Il great and terrible civil war t.
save the union--we find upon recurring
to that remarkable document put forth
on the 4th of July, 1776, the following
conclusive language showing that the
signers Of the declaration oi independ
ance thought they were framing a union
OF states and not Il confederation.
The document says, SIN the name and
by the authority Of the good people ol
these colonies"
The first paragraph also contains al
lntimation OF the unity and nationality
OF the people i'll behalf of whom the
declaration was made, as viz:
"When in the course OF human event:
it becomes necessary for one people tt
dissolve the political bonds Which have
connected them with another, and tt
assume among the powers of the cartl
the separate and equal station-not
stations-to which tile laws OF nature
and of God entitle them,' etc.
Now, Mr.. President, ] submit that ,
nation was formed III the name OF tho
people and that it was bound to maintain
it's position against domestic violence
just as much as against the other nations
Of the earth.
The territories are the common hcrl
tage of the whole people and no single
state has the right to exercise iurisdic
tion or control over the broad land en-
braced under the name of Dakota.
Fellow citizens: 1 am prou,
of the high privilege to become {
co-worker with you in TIN
broad field before us. The men ant
women living in Dakota to-day ar
making history that shall be read i'll TIN
years TO come rs we are reading the his;
tory made by our forefathcrs.
This is-a wondrous age in which W
live. The past forty years, which ar
within my remembrance, have opened
up more grand ACHIEVEMENTS and improve
ments than whole century previous.
Nearly the whole network Of railroad
that span our common country an
bind 1t together with iron bands, ha
been built and put in operation within
the last half century. The telegraph
the telephone, and Edison's recent dis
coveries of the new forces, are all culm1
mating before our our eyes. In q wore
the age in which we live is so resplen
dant with the light, liberty and the highes
type of civilization, that we should DO,
in humble alteration to the Suprem
Being who has permitted us to witncs
these achievements, and who guides an
watches over our existence here to-da,
Fellow citizens, cannot close Will
out expressing qualification at what
have seen on on my way here from til
capital. The countless acres of cor
and wheat: the long, thick grass, stretcl
ing miles away, ready for the hay-makcl
to begin their work dwarfs the sma
patches called farms in my old New Ent
land home, and forcibly reminds me I
sharp, bright speech made in tt
house of representatives by Jim Cav
naugh, then delegate from Montan
Cavanaugh had been pressing upon tt
attention of the house bill making n
preparations for his territory, who
representative from one
the New England states gray
ly arose and denounced Il
bill MS little better than steal; sayil
that he. was tired of having to oppo