Arizona weekly citizen., 1883-07-07
THE FOURTH OF JULY,
The Celebration Last Evening in Leyin,s
 Park.
Very Excellent but brief Programme Presented and well executed.-The
 National AIrs.

In anticipation of considerable warmt
 no preparations had been made for al
 old fashioned parade of the military am
 CIVIC socIeties, but every one departe
 early for the different country resorts n
 Silver Lake, Agua Cahente, Mountain
 Springs, Fort Lowell and other rurs 1 points to escape the heat. They wer
 glonously 'left" however. as never nj, l a finer Fourth of July dawn mon in,
 ancient snd honorable pueblo. Tn,
 climate was as balmy as the breezes tha
 sweep OCT Ceylon's Isle, and every on, stood around as if astonished at the ac
 tlon or the fair Goddess of Liberty II
 tbus providing such climate for the eel
 ebration of the l07th anniversary of he I birthday. The showers of the preyiou,
 evening had laid the dust, and clouds o
 yesterday kept the thermometer's iron
 getting up too high in the world. Tn,
 clty was very quiet all day. Occasion
 ally some patriotic American who al
 lowed himself to be overcome by enthu
 sam and ug-luice, would rush out from some saloon into the street, and inst AS
 he would commence to whooD If m would be gently gathered up by tn. pohce, and consigned to the city cala. ooose. There was some fast driving dur ing the day, and little Papago papoose was run over, and had. a limb broken, Some of the "soger boys" of Fort Lowell were Tn town Tn charge of a cor. poral to have a good time. The officer was very busy keeping his men from get ting arrested, and had to chase one ou: of town,
 In the evening 1t seemed as if the whole clty had come together in Levin's Park. Every bench, table chair, and foot of standing worn was occupied.
 GENERAL II. ROLLINS GRAFTON.
 Owing to the c-0wded condition of our columns to-day A are able only to give the following opsis of the stirring patriotic speed delivered by General Rollins, and wh was frequently inter rupted to the el by applause:
 MR. PREsIDEs AND LADIES AND GEN TLEMEN: The dG Ee ecelebrate-the ami versary of nat h's birthday-is a red lettered day in ty calendar of time, and marks a new departure in the history of man. The Fourth of July, l776. wit messed the inauguration of a government upon the western continent unlike any that the world had seen, and founded upon ideas and theories so broad in their conception and so liberal in their import that England was startled by the declar atlon Of the new government, though other European powers considered it as coming from feeble source and likely soon to be remembered only as the esca- pade Of a wayward and revolutionary people. They seemed to have been born for the heroic undertaking of establishing Tn the wilds of the new world a government "of the people, for the people and by the people," a gov ernment acknowledging no allegiance except to God and the governed. You may read history as you will: if you read It with sn unbiased mind and an un- heart, you will come to the that James Parton was right when he sald that "if George Wash ington was the sword of the Re vOlutlon Thomas Jefferson was its pen How little real interest many of the siA uers of the Declaration took in the inauguration or the new and how timid and falter- ing was the support of many others. Randall says Ill his life Of Jefferson,
  only In time to vote for it." at the last Congress, "and others were allowed to attach their names who were not pres ent," even lat that vote." There were langers-on in those days as well as in time, and even now, men who are gstride the fence, and know not which way to jump. The British forces were more than two to one of the colonies. The first battle after the new departure was that of Long Island, and the relative strength )f the armies was l5,OO0 British soldiers against 5000 Americans very poorly 1 armed. The Americans lost in killed | and wounded four men to one of the | British. On the first day of the | second monlh after the first memorable | .nurth an attempt at a compromise on 1 he part of England was made, and Ben l amin Franklin, John Adams and Ed | ward Rutledge met the English com nissioners on Staten Island. Do you l think that the colonies with the Declara- non that "all men are created equal" l staring them in the fee, could compro- mise with king, who said that he ruled | Dy Gods particular permission. Why, | rou might as well suppose that the | Declaration vBs a series of glIttering l and that Jefferson wrote it | with as little care and thought as when | le drew the bow across the fiddle No | was made, and the war | vent on With the current of hu- l nan events in war or in peace there IS 8 | turning point, and 1t finally came in the | mighty struggle of the colonies. On the | I7th of October, TIT, Burgoyne surrend- cred. The immediate and important re- sult of this was treaty of alliance with | France. The war practically ended in | TSP, six years after the immortal declar- ltiOn, though the preliminary treaty between England and the United States | vas not signed until January of the fol- | owing year. Holland, Sweden Den mark and Spain acknowledged the inde- 1endence of the republic, and the United | States of America assumed it's place | lmong the powers and nations of the ,arth. Under the protection | ,f its flag what mighty strides the nation las made How the country has in- creased in population, in wealth, Tn material prosperity How 1t Is bound | ogether by iron bands, and interlocked | )y commercial intercoursel What mag llQceuI Cltlos nave Ootu Dulit HltniH us | imitsi What countless manufactories lave sprung up, indicating the energy | md industry of the people, and furnish ng honorable employment to the sons ,t toil, The whirl of millions of spindles, he click of thousands of trip hammers, he hum of countless machines, and the | hurry and rush of the busy msrts of .rade mark the neyer-tiring energy and l -estless ambition of a live and deter nined people. One word more with |