Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1881-05-31

with their tears and twino it around will
the garlands Of triumph and eternal af
lection. We are proud
TO HAVE WATCHED OUR FLAG
Floating ON its crest as the bow of peace
cleaned through tho smoke Of battle and
| clouds of civil war. We are proud Of a
country, though trembling beneath the
tread Of contending hosts Of its different
sections, whose warriors so suddenly beat
their bayonets into pruning hooks, their
swords into plowshares and mingled again
in the industrial pursuits OF the nation, to
see those eternal principles Of liberty and
union which our fathers planted on Amer
lean soil still budding and blooming to-
gether in the hearts of the people while
We invite, as our guests, the nations OF the
world TO sit with us in the shadow OF their
luxuriant foliage and exhibit their wonders
in peaceful rivalry. In gorgeous array
there was their sculptured marble, finely
wrought fabrics, antique relics and beauti-
full paintings, the handiwork of ages; but
in vain were they invited to go through
their %crumbling ~alcoves, search their
musty records and point us TO any period
in the accumulated history Of centuries
where could be found the record of a
simpler and greater triumph than when
the ruler OF al Empire, united with the
President of a Republic, touched the
throttle which gave breath to the product
OF freedoms active brain, fostered in the
smallest State Of the youngest nation OF
the world, and started to life the ma
chinery Of the universe and gave to the
genius Of liberty the browning glory. We
invite
H SCRUTINY OF THE woRLD
To the ledger account Of a country which
only sixteen years ago closed its victorious
life struggle weighted with a debt of nearly
three billions, whose balance sheet to-day
shows a reduction Of nearly two billions,
with the capitalists Of the world scram-
bling to obtain its promise to pay. We
point them to the significant fact that there
is q greater strife, among the few, as to
who shall collect the duties at one of its
ports than there is among the people as to
who shall pay the debt of the Nation.
We direct them to consider the fact that
America is pouring its productions into
the lap Of the old world, and gathering
the gold Of its treasures back into its own
Golfers. Well may the world wonder and
ask how ia it that your National debt is SO
rapidly melting away? How is it that
yNoA eiNoit anu IclldDlllly, AZ uOu6 anu
abroad, is SO suddenly increasing? How is
1t that you exhibit such vitality, expan-
sion, growth'and influence unparalleled and
unprecedented in the histories of any peo-
pie? How is it that your land is fast be-
coming one vast network Of steel, and
| your fleet horses, fed with fire, are painting
over the deserts, across the mountains,
through the clouds, moving the
OF the world from ocean to ocean? How
is it you taught the lightning to say
Dear Mary be mine,"" Carloads of SWINE"
zone ton of Cheese, "She's married Fred"
joy Its a Boy" "I'm coming to dine,"
"The humblest words like angels fly
A thousand miles in the flash of a~n-eye"?
WE WILL TELL THEM WHY.
1t is because the de~ath-dealing monsters
Of the civil conflict have been spiked. 1t
is because sectional discord and dissention
have been securely locked in the sepulcher
of time. 1t is the natural result Of the la
Dor of the free toiling masses; the active
brain, the inventive genius, the competi-
ton of noble rivalry bubbling up over
the drift-wood Of factions from the heart
of a free. independent and united people.
1t is because our armies silently melted
away, went to their homes, their farms,
their shops, and, armed with the imple-
ments Of honest toll, crowned their yalor-
GUS deeds with a permanent peace. 1t is
because the world realizes that in America
every man combines the soldier and CIV
ilian, a standing army and tiller of the
soil, a commander, volunteer and private,
as duty, liberty and union direct. Even
though there may be those-when the wish
is father to the thought-who predict that
ere long our bright stars will 60 out in an
archy, darkness and death, yet ! feel that
we
MAY BE PROUD OF H FUTURE.
1 have faith that those noble spirits whose
memory we honor to-day, from their rem
devious ON high, as the years pile upon
years, will look down upon the nation
marching through the avenues Of the cities
OF the dead, weaving the garlands of peace
and union around the graves Of its valiant
and noble defenders, and that the sunlight
OF Heaven will delight to glimmer and
CLEAN among the folds of our flag until
darkened by the fading twilight Of time.
But as q people. we have a duty to perform.
The living owe a debt to mankind, and to
posterity, as well as the dead. Gould we
but melt Deaths icy seal, and hear their
voices on the watch-towers Of the great
unknown, doubtless we would hear them
proclaiming to US, away with your full
some praises, your wreaths and roses, your
poets and orators. If you neglect to heed
the demands Of your country" Every
citizen has a burden to bear. Every man
should volunteer as q sentinel to give
warning Of hidden rocks and shoals he
should give timely notice Of danger, and
fight manfully lest a current of corruption
and misrule should drift the Nation upon
the Scilla Of anarchy or the Charibdis OF
1aaDNk,ap,. an GO pr0foaf and h1it1
up the great industrial pursuits OF the
land; sustain science, foster art and en-
courage learning, for they are the great an
teries through which courses the life
Of the Nation; its hope, vitality and pow
err. Since time was, that people
which nurtured them most has stood
the highest ON the pinnacle of fame. Above
all, education is the truest needle to the
star of liberty. Our school houses, with
the merry songs and ringing, rollickinS
laughter OF youthful America, are the Glib
ralters Of our country's perpetuity
stronger citadels thar a girdeon of forts
and all the ironclad squadrons of the
world. At its approach ignorance flies to
the caves Of darkness. and when ignorance
makes way for reason, superstition and
despotism wither and die. As We bow to
greet our country's dead, let us not forget
to entwine around the brow of tae
LIVING FLORENCE NIGHTENaALEs
OF our land the chaplets Of love and al
fiction. They, by their noble deeds and
tender sympathies, were ministering an
gels, bathing the fevered brow, moistening
the parched lips of the wounded and dying
soldier, who, from disease or violence, had
been stricken down while hewing the way
for the onward march Of human progress.
To-day, as the bugle blast sounds q truce
of the past, they kneel beside the mounds
OF clay Watching and waiting for the time
when in a grander form they too shall rise
and clasp their hands and wreath their
brows with immortal flowers, and, as the
tears start from their fountains, the spark
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