Arizona weekly citizen., 1883-07-14


 in mighty struggle for supremacy. It was
 tyrannie royalty on the one side and self-eon-
 stItutsd self-government on the other. Events
 aud things which seem of little importance as
 compared with other events and things. are
 often of great moment in the history of men.
 The minute-men of Lexington. only seventy
 strong. parading at five o'clock in the morning.
 preparatory to defending the military stores at
 Concord, and refusing to surrender when. by
 the crack of his pistol. British Major ordered
 his troops to lire upon the rebels" as he called
 them; Bunker Hill with its martyr. Warren.
 whose eloquence had melted his eOuntrymen
 to maintain their rights against the usurpation
 of the crown; Washington the Father of his
 Country. unsheathIng his sword beneath the old
 elm at Cambridge; Trenton. giving up its th u- sand British prisoners, its thousand stands of British arms, and its half dozen held-pieess to the advancing hosts of the young Republic; Princeton. whore vigorous blows were given for the new movement; Bennington. with old Stark Rt the head of his TermOntsrs. r.ding in front of his column. and saying. Boys, we beat to- day, or Molly Stark's a widow" Brandy~ine. with its wounded Lafayette; Saratoga. with it' defeated camp, giving up to the Americans the much needed Briush stores and ammunition; the proud snd inperiOus Lieu,enant General Burgoyne. whipped and beaten, and surrender ing to the Colonid General Gates. when he Gates. threatened to renew hOstihties; the warm cannonading of tha- hot day a, Monmouth. Val ley Forge. with it's winters snow stained by the blood of the Americans. who were constantly skirmishing to keep from their winter quarters the strong forces of the king; the desperate struggle at Eutaw Springs; COrnwallis handing over his sword at Yorktown; tbese, all these,
 mark and measure the advance of the idea that "all men are created equal" and that freedom is the natural heritage of all the sons of God. Up1n this idea the Republic was firmly founded
 Our fathers buildsd rot better than they knew" but greater. The Ship of State went out upon her untried sea and she sOou became the equal of any upon the hIghways of the nations. Her early captains were brave-hetrted and ar gas-eyed Without serious difficulty she buffet ed tide and storm for many a weary year, but at last a dark cloud arose in the southern sky. From the land of fair women and brave men, from the home of the orange and the magnolia from the section which had given to the Ns1oE so many Presidents and Illustrious statesmen, came the shout of determined what was
 
 scientious. resistance to legally constituted and constitutional authority.
 The first the nations of the earth heard of it was the echo across the water of the crash of the falling walls of Sumter. The last the na- tons heard of 1t the sob of sorrow which vent up from bereavsd and stricken people, when the martyrsd President. the iberstor of four millions of slaves, the friend of man, and the great Captain of our ship of State during the most perilous period of her voyage. went up from his world of struggle and of toll, Co the home of Washington and all the good-to the Great Father of Presidents and peasants, kings and slaves. To-day, the sun in all his course from the moment his earliest rays touched the Atlantic waves, while booming eannons and changing bells ushersd ia the new born day, un tl the hour when his setting beams fell upon the pillows of the calm Pacific. did not shine upon c disloyul State or community. and. hope not upon a citizen who did not. in the language of ! Rufus Choats. m his memorable letter, carry in heart if not is his hand. the flag and keep step to the music of the Union"
 That grand old flag. the EnsIgn of the Repub- | lie, our Stars and Stripes. designed by Washing ton baptized in the blood of a hundred battle l fields, shielding the black man well as the white protecting the humble cot of the laborer | as well as the costly palace of the capitalist it's folds hanging wiJh equal grace over the wheel | barrow of the street cleaner and the stately car riage of the millionaire; to-day iyi from the 1 fore. the mizEeu and the peak of every American | vessel wherever she may be; kissed by the breezes in every hamlet, town and city; waving from the l of every fort. IS the symbol of an l united Nation and the emblem of free people. | Teach your children to love it. Teach them to | realize that every new State is indeed an added l star to its galaxy and SO much additional power tO the nation. that its thirteen stripes ever To- main to remind them, wherever they behold it, | Of the thirteen heroic colonies that est sblished political equality and free Government upon ! this Western Hemisphere. Teach them JO love | it as they love the mother who bore them. Teach | your rosy tipped girls to kiss it's waving folds, | and your brght-eyed boys thRt 1t Is their duty 10 iie. if need be. in defense-t to uphold it's hon Dr-to maintain its supremacy.
 Under its protection what mighty strides the Nation has made. How tho country has increased in population. in wealth. in material prosperity | How IL IS bound together by iron bands and inter oe ked by commercial intsrcOursei What mag lihesnt cities have been built within its limits What countless manufactures have sprung up' the energy and industry of the peo- Jle, and furnishing honorable employment to he sons of toill How its gates have been opened io the oppressed and downrodden of other na- hons, and how they have come here from Eng and and Ireland and Continental Europe, assim- Ia'ing with the native bone, becoming part and parcel of this great American people,
 The whirl of millions of spindles, the click of .la fhs,h hrFr aF II less machines. and the hurry and rush tn the busy marts of trade. mark the never turing energy and -estless ambition of a live and determined peo- pie. By this great American people barren wastes have been made to blossom like the rose. and m trackless deserts have been built conner cial emporiums. The great rivers of the eoun-
 p became the arteries of the commercial na- ton through which the life-blood of trade and | business constantly flowed. But thess were not enough and vast railroad lines were construct ed. telegraph communication introduced. distant I -ities became near neighbors, and far of hamlets
 well posted upon the doings Ot the world as the great centeFs of human life.
 One woid with reference to this veste n out post of the Republic. our Territory Of Arizona, and am through. Why shoald I speak Q, her as outpost She IS, geographically, midway | between two worlds within days ride, by rail- way, cf the highway of nations. Like the Pacific States she IS. in her character, occidental, orI- sn,Al and cosmopolitan. Her possibilities are immense. The time will cone-perhaps not in our day. but It will come-when along the foot nils of many mountain chain, vlne-clad ham lets will be the homes of a freedom loving and prosperous people; when the buEzing of the ma- chInery of the nlanufactory will be heard as well as the tap of the stamp of the quartz mill; when in sight of the curling smoke of the furuaees vast herds of cattle will grzze upon the luxuriant grasses of the plain; when across many a valley the tinkling bell of the locomotive will signal the daily intercourse of industrious and enter prising communities and throughout Arizona from Utah on the north to the sister Republic on the south. from the line of New Mexico on the east to the water. of the Colorado ou the wes' will be the happy abodes of successive genera tions o' brave pen and noble women. and the of Arizona, in her fall robs of Statehood, will stand a sentinel upon he west srn borders of the Republic, a silver brick in one hand and copper bar m the other, and the flag of our Union waving over her perpetual b.,ne- iiction.
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