The comet. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1877-1882, 1880-07-03

NV. 90.
recently stamped his foot within my
borders, and nations have felt the
shock. The open foe has been van
quished on many a hOtiy contested
field, but the subtle Nihilist has laid
his mines Of destruction, not only on
our own highways Of travel, but un-
der our palace, and even the sacred
Kremlin has trembled at the dread
explosion. Believing in the divine
right of Kings, we stand firm in our
integrity. But we come with respect
to do you honor.
CHINA.-Mr. Finders.
Just Columbia! We come with re-
spect and reverence to your shores.
When the golden gate of your occident
was opened, and labor was wanted
to tunnel your mountains and drain
your rivers, / sent from my teeming
millions, patient and industrious sons
to do your labor; and when the COM
munistic SandslOt men, urged on by
an Inscriptions leader, would have
driven my sons into the ocean, you
put forth your strong arm and gave
them protection, and punished your
own riotOus and undutiful children.
The empire of the Sun returns you
thanks.
SWITZERLAND-IWiSS Jennie HOSkjnS.
1 come from the land of William
Tell, from the heating breezes of the
Engerdine, to do homage to great
Columbia. Small, but secure / stand
encircled within the strong arms of
my mountains. When nature is calm,
they point like silent sentinels to the
heavens, but when the elements are
at war with each other
Far along
From peak to peak, the rattng crags among
Leaps the live thunder.
Every mountain then hath found tongue,
And "lnTa" through her misty shroud
Answers to the joyous Alps which call aloud.
The same spirit which thrills your
great heart Columbia, pulsates in that
of little Switzerland.
The little Swiss song sung by Miss
Jennie Hoskins, as a part of her greet
ing to Columbia, was received with
rapturous applause. Nothing could
have been more beautiful. She has
perfectly under her control.
EGYPT-MSS Jessie Warren.
The oldest nation Of the Earth comes
to do honor to young, but great
Columbia. You have scarcely passed
the threshold Of your fourth century,
while my Pharoahs lived in palaces
5000 years ago. Beneath my skies,
did the Roman general lose himself in
Cleopatria's eyes as,
They drank the Lybian sun to set
And lit lamps that out burn CQnoHus"
My glories are enshrined in the mist
of the prehistoric past, while yours
are i'll the living present. Long may
prosperity be yours.
COLUMBIA'S RECEPTION-.ujSS Bet
mont Phelps.
Sister Nations:-We welcome you to
our shores. Many ofyou leave behind
accumulated treasures and classic
grandeur of centuries. The stately
cathedral with its sOmbre twilight,
adorned with work Of divine inspira-
ton. Palaces enriched by the wealth
of centuries and labor of generations |
long passed away, ard scenes halIOWed |
by the grandest events which mark |
the pages Of history meet you at
almost every step. You leave much
that is alluring behind you come out
from shadows which wrong and op-
preston have for ages cast on human.
ity. gather you i'll my great home
upon whose broad and deep founda
ton are inscribed the hcaven-born
words, 1--WE hold it as a self-cvident
fact that all men are born free and
equal"
Ifnot adorned by ancestral grandeur
nature has scattered with lavish
hand the lovelieet adOrnmcnts.
Scenes which would inspire the
greatest artists are scattered from the
shores of the great lakes to the flower
island that rises from the
bosom Of our southern gulf, and from
the shores of the Atlantic to the
Pacific is stretched country not
euualed in beauty and variety of pro-
duction in the bOundless Universe.
fields fresh from the hands
of the Creator invite you to develop ,
their wealth. The earth holds within I
her bosom mineral wealth which
YOUR industry will unlock. Truly
will YOU exclaim, when my mighty
possessions are spread out before your
gaze, The half has not
been told! 5
Fair Greece" where burning Sap {
pho lived and sung"-the land of the l
warrior and poet, Eternal sunshine
yilds thee yet" Every grotto and I
grove is sacred with the footprints of /
he gods. Thou art the Mecca to which !
I'll scho'ar travel through the field of |
,lassic thought. 4
La Belle France! your skilled arti-
,ans and your polished scholars will '
lere find material which need their /
The land of Lafayette {
viii always be dear TO the American i
leart. c
The walls of China are slowly crum- ,
,ling before the waves of progress, and d
he tide is rising which will carry c
unks of Chinese cXclusiveness over the {
andbar of Confucianism. We give I
1gvpt the honor due from youth 10 !
ge. Your Nile, obelisk and Sphinx, f
emain the marvel of the world. Your I
,yramids, which have stood in solemn I
Hence for centuries, at the touch of 4
cience, lend voice to the dumb past, I
nd stand as witness to the Lord. t
From free Switzerland, clasped in L
Iature's impregnable arms of rock !
ibbed mountains-frOm the banks Of /
he broad and classic Rhine-frOm +
Iolland's soil, sacred for the greatest +
truggle the world has ever known :
rom out the Scandinavian hills Of the :
,orth-from the banks of the gleam- c
lg Guadalquivar, the historic beauty
f Grenada's walls, we call you all. n
o! the sorrow stricken Isle that y
fts its emerald crest above the ocean L
ave, we encircle you with our tender /
st sympathy. "Come, buy food with i
ut money and without price, and :
nav the blood of your martyred En- G
net be the seed which shall bring the +
arvest of freedom to your brave and II
SONS. Il
The harp that once through Tara's halls n
It, soul oi music shed, q
Now hangs as mute uu Iags's walls =
A. though that s0ul were dead.
Oh! sad-eyed daughter Of Judea's n
-ibe, whose lonely wanderiugs have a
iven theme 10 poet and novelist, we
lrly prepared your children a home /,
here they could enjoy the best priyi- II
,ges of the citizen and free man. When \
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