The Magnolia gazette. [volume] (Magnolia, Miss.) 1872-current, 1882-08-04
obR coUNTRYs PRIDE.
HOW rrlts DEPICTED BY A FOURTH OF
sutF sPEroH AT FARGO, DAKOTA
TERRIroRY.
PATRio1fsM SET TO THE HroHRsT rrrcH
"A GENUINE SCREAM OF THE
AMERICAN EAanE.
IFrom aFoarth ofJuiy oration BY Pat Do

From hlFourth Of July oration BY Pat Do |
nan at Fargo, d. I'll
Do olher lands boast of their great riv-
ers We could take up all their Niles |
and Thameses. their yellow Tibers, cas-
tied Rh'pes and beautiful blue Danuber,
by theifpittIe ends, ana empty them in
to our majestic Allss;ssip ppis and NILSSON
ris. Amazons, Snskatchewans, ana De IA /
Plasas, without making rise enough to
lift an Indian Hat off a sandbar. DO they
brag on their sens aud lakes We could
spill all their puny Caspians and Azovs,
their Dead Seas, Nyanzas and Maggie
res, into our mighty Superiors, Michi-
gans, Eries and Ontarios, and scarce pro.
duce ripple on their pebbly brims to
wash away the 16 inch footprints on
the sands Of time" left by the fairy-like
slipper Of st. Louis or Chicago girl.
Do they pirate Of their romantic scenery?
We have a thousand iewel-like lakes that
would make all their vaunted Comos,
Genevas and Killarneys, hide their faces
in veil of friendly fog. The thunder
of our Niagra browns the feeble murmur
Of their casaracts, while the awful crags
and canyons of our Yosemite and Yellow
stone,
THE PRIsMATIc GLITTER AND DASH
OF our 81. Anthony's and Minnebahas,
and the lonely grandeur of our horison-
fenced prairies, boundless oceans Of bill
lowy verdure, dwarf to insipidity the
most famous scenes of Switzerland and
italy, eclipse the wonders and glories of
the Arabian Nights. and defy all the skill
of poets pen and artist's pencil to de-
pict the veriest atom of their snblimity
and their loveliness. Do they prattle
about their Etnas and their VesuviusesP
With our noses turning somersets Of inei
fable contempt clear over our heads. we
thunder forth our Cotopaxis, Popocata-
petels, Chimborazos and score of 9TH
el jawbreakers whose very names alone
are too huge for common tongues-Q q am
aware that some Of the specimens of ma
tional prodigiousness that ] have mem
toned do not just exactly belong TO MS
yet; but they do belong to our next door
neighbors who are not as strong as we
are, and to our gloriously expansive Yam.
kee spirit, where or what is the differ
ence d Do other lands talk of their minet
OF Jewels and gold We answer with the
exhaustless bonanzas Of California, Colo
rada and Dakotah and New Mexico
where mountains OF silver and gold ore,
challenge the skies, aud where the cease
less thunder of the worlds greatest bull
lion mills resonnd in the yet warm lail
of the Rocky Mountain grizzly bear
Do they rave of the harvest fields of Ger
many and Britain, and the vine clad hillI
of France2 We show them half hem
isphero with souls and climates as varied
as the tastes of men, and with capacities
for production as boundless as the need
OF men; yielding everything cerial, vege
table, animal, textile. and mineral, ag.
ricultnraI, horticultural, geological, anC
geological, genealogical, piscatorial, ant
ornithological, ovine, bovine capricorin'
and equine and asinine the last includ
ing most Of our alleged statesmen--tha
all the wants Of all the races, tribes, kin
dreds and tongues of earth can ever re
quire. The sun in heaven, in all hi
grand rounds since s'tbe evening and tn
morning were the first day." never look
ed down on q more magnificent domain
fresh and glorious half world, grand il
all its proportions and endlessly diversi
fed, rich and gorgeous IN all its adorn
ments, resting like vast emerald breRs
, pin upon the bosrm Of four great oceans
II is the broadest land ever given to an
people, the grandest and most beautiful
} the most varied in its productions, an
the most unlimited in its capabilities an
it's future.
Aud Americans were aud are the pee
pie for it--cosmopolitan
THE RACE or RACES
mingling in their veins the blood Of a
other nations. aud combining in then
, selves the good qualities Of all-the stui
,, dy manhood, courage, and patriotism ,
!, the English, the pertinacity, thrift an
honesty of the Scotch. the patient plot
ding industry Of the German, the prid
and galIantry Of the Spanish, the art an
sentiment Of the Italian. and the fire an
: dash of the Irish aud French, all perm'
ated by the energy and shrewdness an
!. colossal modesty that are peculiarly Yar
: kee-the stern piety Of the Puritan GRO
: sed with the reckless deviltry Of the GOV
! boy and the endurance of the Kickapo'
: With such country. and such rae
!, what is not possible7 The mighty marc
), Of new world progress and development