Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1882-07-06

this Sublime and eelf-svidsnt truth the
var Of the Revelation was fought and
won. This uncfowned kings and wrest-
ed from the hands Of titled tyranny the
sceptef Of usurped and arbitrary power.
II superseded royal grants and repealed
the cruel statutes of thousand yeors.
1t gave the peasant q career, il kni9hted
all the sons Of toll, it opened all the
paths TO fame, and put the star of hops
above the cradle of the poor mans
babe"
Standing on such rock they could
not fail. In such cause defeat could
never come. But many dark days and
this instrument vas adopted il Wa not
with beted breath. Think Of Il, ovsa in
struggle to the death to maintain il.
fought, who bed, who labored, Who suf-
fered more than tongue can tell during
the long, long var, to establish not
Independence Of Humanity.
We remember them with gratitude
and reverence. We sympathize with
them in all their trials. We have march
ed with them over all those weary fields
snow and rain. in defeat and disaster,
unpaid, unsheltercd and unfed. But the
dawn approaches-a brighter sunlight
than the world had yet seen. The
thunders Of the cannon Of tyranny die
away. The dark clouds of oppression
are driven back by the breath of enlight-
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erty heralds the coming day.
who won this battle of Freedom are
the errors of their humanity let rs learn
wisdom for ours.
One count in the indictment against
George the Third you have not heard.
One charge against tyranuical power
for the sake Of policy was dropped. The
protest Of men appealing for liberty for
themselves against the enslaving of 9TH
ers, was stricken ont.
In the original draft of the Declara-
ton of Independence, a. prepared by
Thomas Jefferson, was the following
paragraph in aYraignment Of the King
Vt England:
He has waged cruel war against hu-
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cred rights of life and liberty in the per-
.ons Of distant people who never Of
Tended him, captivating and carrying
them into slavery in another hemis-
phere, or to incur miserable death in
their transportation thither: This pi-
ratical warfare, the 0pprobrium of In
ads! powers, is the warfare OF tho
Christian king Of Great Britain. Deter
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should be bought and sold, he has pros
tituted his negative for suppressing
every legislative attempt to prohibit or
that this assemblage Of horrors might
want no fact of distinguishing dye. he
is now exciting those very people to rise
liberty of which he has deprived them,
oy numbering the people on whom he
has obtruded them; thus paying of for
ties of one people, with crimes which he
r-oes them to commit against the lives
Of another"
III difference to tho wishes of the dele
gates from certain section, the f0rego-
stricken ont. Compromise with wrong
ovOA OA1C0t t0kA00bAOk1 0A1u To-
suits most dreadful. Hsd this section
bsen retained and the subsequent State
and Congressional legislation been in
harmony Herewith, what might not
been saved to us. What sectional
strife, what hot debate, and years of
weary warfare, might We not have e.
capped.
Think of it. What lesson. This
omission brought the blighting touch
Of sorrow into every household in this
fair land. II desolated fields, destroyed
homes; treasure uncounted II cost; lives
unnumbered it sacrificed. Thank God,
its shadow is passing away, but who cen
forget what the riRhting Of this mistake
OF these great, grand patriots Of enc
hundred years ago has cost? Let rs new
Ar forget, hut treasure il a. the richest
legacy of patriot nation.
rellow citlzens of Washington, the
Lesson il for us. We, too, are forming
state. To Us is given the responsibility
IN this far northwest, Of constructing q
social. moral and political fabric. Let
as build it broad, and true, and deep, to
stand forever.
Ibis ia indeed land of promise.
Hers are all the elements of material
prosperity. Fertile plains invite the
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