West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1885-08-28
FOURTh OE July.
stirring Grafton on our Natal Holiday
nv Truthful William.

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hy Truthful William.
One hundred and nino years have
now passed since our forofathcrs de-
clarCd AL men to bo free and equal and
egan 10 hold out Inducements for tho
oppressed OF otbor climcs TO como here
and help us kin of the Indians.
1t has been n great success. IL has
been thoroughly demonstrated to
dying world that all men arc fully equal
! TO all other men. if not moro 50. Wo
point with pride to-day TO our broad
lands, our luNuriant National debt and
our steadily-increasing Mormons. We
have only fow moro Indians tn wipo
out, and then tho oppressed foreigner
will have it all his own way.
The men who declared themselves
! free and independent one hundred uul
/ nine years agO are now no moro. Yield
| ing To tho great nervous strain incident
! to ared-hot campaign, they finally pined
away and died. As forcfathcrs wo can
never successfully supply their places.
| and their ntimcB death has cast pail
over this otherwise Joyous occasion
To-day from ocean 10 ocean America
| rcioiccs. From the humid Atlantic To
| the moist Pacific the mighty cannon
! thundcrs forth Nations cNultaton,
| aud the smaller cannon is gathering i'm
| its harvest of thumbs. This is an an
nual holiday and great National thumb
| carnival.
We rejoice that tho idea of freedom
| suggested itself TO our forcfathcrs Now
| only part of us are there.
Let us not speak lightly OF Canada,
/ fnr AZ
are there. While we would not care TO
bc n part of Canada, it is good prov
inco to smugglo into or smugglo out of.
IL is good place To stroll into after
banking hours, while tho Board of Di-
rectors are in session.
One hundred and nine years ago the
| King OF Great Britain made tho great
mistake of his life. / only regret that
lie did not live 20 sec IL rs we sec il to-
day. Had he been less ovorbearing to
the infant colony, tho young men of
America would have been drinking al-
kali water in Egypt to-day. We could
have fought the heatncn all over the
globe, and left our shouldcr-blades to
bleach in any Cline which we might
select Had the royal tyrant softcned
little toward the struggling settle
mcnts in America one hundred and
nine years ago, he could have borrowed
our navy to-day, il he would agree TO
take good care Of the worms and return
them in as good order as he found
them
But no decided 10 do differently. and
to-day he must take the bitter conse-
quenccg Kings arc not always RIGHT.
They frequently get left. OF all the
many Kings whom / have known per-
sonally, and with whom | have been
thrown more or less, there arc only four
or five upon whose Judgment / could
rely during great crisis
That is tho reason / very rarely 90
TO crowned head when / am In
trouble.
] seek out some tender-hearted and
unsellish pawnbrokor and tell him all
There is one cloud, fellow-citizens,
which SEQ. with my prophetic eye, Just
climbing the distant horizon of our Ma
tional existence. Sooner or later it will
darken the brightest day for us. is il
the lcprOus Cbinaman or the great un-
laundcred MOrmonP hear you ask. is
II the spOils system under which one
half OF the people will always be happy
and the other half accurscdP Is il the
kiln-dried. fro and -burglar-proof, worm
less American dricd-applc pie which is
now invading our happy bomesP j. il
the baleful simeon breath of New En-
gland rum, which would eat out the
vitals Of "A stone quarry and 90 back the
next day 60 inquire for the nftro-glycer-
inc cansP
All! no, fellow-citizens; n thousand
ttmes may. IL is this: If our rcpubli-
can form Of Government holds together
Tor nlnety-onc years more, we viii
have 70 celebrate again. and il makes
my head ache TO think OF IT, If the
feeling Of rcmorse which shows itself
the succeeding day after centennial
celebrBtion becomes intensified with
each succeeding century, ! hope that
the 9th day 0f July, 1876, shall be out
Of town.
] can not close this brief oration. fell
| low-citizons, without an earnest appeal
~ yOu all 20 be noblcr and better men.
| OF course II you are women this will
not be- eXpectcd but We can all bo gooI
| citizens by that time, perhaps. and !
| earnestly eNhOrt all those within the
| sound Of my voice 10 bo loyal and law
abiding. by all means be industrious
DO not wait for me, but form habits of
| industry ~ once which will cling 90
you through life. nm convinced bv
| what have seen Of its effects chat IL f,
! a good thing Rise carly and go about
| your duties iOyOusly. and when tho
morning meal is prepared and all are
| gathered about the festive board come
and rap gently and IN low tone Of
! voice ON the door of my boudoir -BtI
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