The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1884-07-04


try for her children; and lifting the down
trodden to walk erect on Gods free earth;
TO bind up the nations wounds and give 1t
place of honor among the peoples; you
are your brothers keeper, o man! Hank
TO that muffled drum! Do you hear it,
toil-worn wayfarers Work bravely al
ways. heart within and God DER head. "
While that solemn sound tells of funeral
marches to the grave" it tells also of "rest
for the weary" of the better land, and the
beautiful city, and streets of gold, and the
white robes of the pure in heart who shall
see God"
Fifty million people are within the folds
of the old fag--more than half OF the
whole English language speaking peoples
of the earth. Had this republic done no
more it deserves the gratitude and the
thanksgiving of the world that 1t is the
only nation of such vast and increasing
numbers, speaking one language and that
the language of universal liberty. The
ONLY nation with a universal language.
The Ysrkshireman, to-day, cannot un'
derstand the dialect of the man of Corn
wall. The peasant of the Nguria Ape
mines. as he drives his goats home from
his mountain fastness, looks down on six
proyinccs none Of whose dialects he can
speak," If rivers are the highways OF
nations and mountains are their natural
divisions, then this one universal language
speaking nation has strong bond OF per-
petual union In this; that whether 1t is the
peasant Of sunny France, or regenerated
Italy's poetic son, or the hardy German,
or the descendant of the old Saxon, or the
mercurial child Of Erin, we are to-day OF
one nation; speaking one language; bound
by common necessity, and that the ne.
cessity of freedom, and destined, II we
merit it, to future of unparalleled grand
eur"
Weare to-day largely the children OF sor-
row. Forgetful of the lessons OF the past
we stretched out our hands to new and
doubtful enterprises to increase our store;
and payday came at last; and with 1T dis
asters and shrinkages, and depreciations
and loss and wastings of fortunes; mer
going down amidst the whirlpool of finan
ruin until to-day we lie supine upon 'oul
backs, with apathy and doubt looking
forward to what our future shall be anC
now this new sorrow hath been put upor
us. Yet amidst all we who arein the abysse
look ND and feel that God reigns. Yo1
are not restrained of your birthright thf
day. If the words Of the only sinless per
feet man be true, ut needs be that OF
lenses must come, but woe to that man b.
whom the offense comefh.7 so it is aru
that when the clouds shall have passed
away OF this present gloom and darkness
there shall come with the new sunshine
better resolution and grander purposes il
the devdopement OF our national lie
Only thus shall we be free in that gioriou
liberty wherewith Tie @'doth make IN
people fee. With the Death of our Pres
ident let there perish with it, our error
and our wrongs, national and individual
In the sweep of ages no man has NOR
admirably represented the growth ant
natural outcome Of republican ideas thai
Americas Andrew jackson. He was
hard fighter, a nan of unboundiDg, un
swerviEg integrity, a man OF heat and pas
sion, man of flame and FIRE, a man O
plume Smd persistence as was John Quincy
Adams--a good hover and good natter
The mma who said ITO the ambassador o
Louis Philippe, when lie demanded hi
passports, @'Tell pour mastT that he mus
pay or Sight, by the EtenalP ana his
master did pay the French spoilation hzllo1
five million dollars
So long as the deltas of tine Father ol
Waters, the Missouri, and his yousgel
= brother, the Mississippi, pour their aSSiu
ent tide into the gulf, bearing upon fhell
bosom from three thousand miles away
the growth and the wealth OF our wesacrr
plains, a free river floating tle products o.
a free people to fill the grSnaries of
world; 80 long as There is merit for worl
and gratitude for servicrs rendered and 1
laurel for the victor, who took the stapA
of that fruitful southern chime, the cot
ton of it's fields to erect his harricade
as protection agaisnt the insolert foe; *
long as the hattie of New Orleans ant
Packenham are remembered, the Republi
will not forget Andew jackson.
What shall the harvest be of all this cen
tury of ''sowing of the seed?" Has tn,
Republic in it the vital force, the rever
ence for law and love for liberty, tina
shall write over its future Este perpetuaf
or have the seeds of death already beef
planted, of distrust, unholy ambition ant
greed, and lust of power, and growing Ia
treds and engendered strifes? Are VI
great enough and just enough to override
order and rank and colors and condition
and (all equal before the law to do equit.
10 all
1t was ON the night of the 3D. of July
1875, at the death of the old century, tina