Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1886-07-07

hall was crowded to its utmost capacity b
those wishing to hear the Grafton, poem
solo and other exercises. The stage was oc
cupied by the various officers OF the da
and those participating prominently.
Hon. Thomos Wren, President OF th
Day, welcomed the assemblage present in
i few appropriate and well. timed remarks
thanking them for their attendance, sfte
which "Hail Columbia was played b,
the Centennial Guard band. Rev. A. @
Dutton, the Chaplain Of the Day, offeret
up q prayer. and the Star band followed
with "Red, White and Blue" The Presi
dent then introduced E. d. VANDERBILT
Esq, the Reader of the Declaration of In
dependence. who read the time-honoret
document in q highly commendable man
ner. Miss Grace Pardy then sang the
soul-stirring and patriotic song, the "Stai
Spangled Banner" in q manner as to bring
forth at the end of each chorus q hearty
applause. More music was rendered by
the Centennial Guard band, after which
Miss Tillie Steler, the Poetess OF the occa-
sion, recited :" Columbis," q poem of great
merit by Timothy Dwight, the newly
elected President of Yale College. The de.
livery Of the poem was from memory and
rendered in good style by the lady, at the
close OF which she was greeted with quite
an ovation from the audience. After the
Star band had played Marching Through
Georgia." Master George Bartlett delivered
with spirit brakes Address to the Amer
lean Flag" Then the Orator OF the Day,
Hon. II. X. Mitchell, was introduced and
delivered
The Eloquent Grafton
Mr.. President, Ladies and Gentlemen:
The shadows Of yester setting sun just
ripened into midnight darkness, when the
booming OF cannon caused the hearts Of
more than fifty millions of fire. emen to
beat to the music OF our national air.
Conscious of the commemoration OF an
eventful day, old age awakens to it's youth
full vigor when contemplating the causes
which led TO our separation, while youth
r~ejoices al the grandeur, the perfection
and perpetuity of our free institutions.
A nation, more than centennial In the
maintenance Of its rights, privileges and
liberty, this day renews it's homage to the
sentiment that all men are created free
and equal without distinction of race or
color.
A Government founded upon the prin-
ciples OF divine law, by men inspired to
act in accordance Herewith; q Govern
ment Of political equality and dependent
solely upon the consent OF the governed;
a Government democratic and free, now,
as heretofore, receives the trembling adj
miration OF crowned heads, and must en-
dure, unless the manhood OF man is lost.
"why shines the sun except that he
Makes gloomy hooks for grief to hide,
And pensive shades for u elsncholy,
When all the earth Is bright beside"
Prosecuted and respondent, impover-
ished and despairing, and in matters of
religion, nesting in the gloomy hooks OF
their native land, forty-one persons with
their families, to enjoy freedom OF con-
science in those matters, and to avoid
prosecution under laws enacted to enforce
obedience to the Established Church, ex-
lied themselves from England to Holland.
These Puritans in the year 1920, in the
May Flower and upon the coast OF Cape
Cod, made and signed the first aud earliest
constitution which is, in substance, pure
Democracy.
The land did not produce, but the waters
gave up a declaration of principles, which
to-day, like cereals planted, are steadily
and surely taking root in every cline upon
the face of the globe.
These Puritsns experienced the mental
delights of freedom of conscience in mat
ters OF religion, and individually realized
the natural necessity OF freedom OF con-
science in all things.
Particularly did they apprehend the de-
duction tina all men are born free and
equal; that they are born with equal
rights, aud "that every being has a right
TO his own as clear. as moral, as sacred, =
as any other being has. Although retarded
kv nxtkfSb nhnpna0itv wounded hy saw
age barbarity and atrocity. and bleeding
from reasonable insurrection, a century
and a half OF colonial prosperity and
strength ensued. At this period OF time
the grievances complained OF, suffered and
forcibly submitted to, became intolerable.
An entire separation from the country
that gave Us birth, az q necessity, was in
evitable. The people proclaimed 1t and
Congress dared to assert it.
You have listened this day ~(eloquently
read to the manifold wrongs committed,
also TO our frequent appeals for protection
against the continuance OF those wrongs.
A bigoted Parliament turned a deaf ear to
the voice OF justice and consan guinity'
and when We consider that an usurper
"ravaged our coasts, burnt our towns and
destroyed the lives of our people," truth
fully may we reassert upon each anniver-
sary that. ga Prince. whose character ID
thus marked by every act which may de-
fine a tyrsnt. is unit to be the ruler OF q
free people,"
Principles. rather than ~bsyonets, create
| great revolutions. There Is In every per
son a most gracious gift, the spirit. which
is the guide to truth. It is not in the
| privileged few, nor In those of us only who
by the favor OF Providence have beer
nursed in public schools. II is in man; iii
| in the poor as we'll as the rich; in the bond
man as we'll as the freeman; in the unedu'
| Gated as we'll as the educated. 1t is the at
tribute of the human race. The human
mind. therefore. divine like, exercising i'll
native functions. distinguishes right from
wrong. A conviction Of right. advocated
and disseminated in a community, viii
absorb every other variety of opinion. and
give strength and courage to the weak, thu
oppressed and the down-trodden. Princi
plos. declaring the common rights of man
kind as contained In our Declaration o
Independence, filed the mind Of the op
pressor with WI and fear, and gave en-
-oouragement TO the founders of liberty ii
the wilds Of America. Intuitive percep
tinn nj auch effect. atrAnQthaned thei