The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1886-06-30
SELECTED.
FOURTH OF JULY OF OLD.


uRNuoN DELIVERED ~ rms roWN \ u
ls2l, ny NOAH BtltRIlIo \ REVOLUTION
AIRY SOLDIER.
When much injured people have burst
the bonds Of oppression, and broken the
letters which held them in slavery Tho
anniversary of their emancipation from q
state of bondage will Justify their turning
aside from domestic aNocations To ccle
bratc the political birth of the empire il
which they live.
! With these prcccdcntS before Us, few
will question the propricty of our spend
ing few minutes in recapitulating som'
of those scenes of suilcringS which It
cmphaticallN tried the souls OF men ii
that memorable war which we trust ha,
forever separated these Emitted State,
from the Government of Great Britain.
/ Fifteen times thrice told has yonder an
mating orb in his annual progress dis
penscd his prol fix radicnce over our fer
tile fields since America gained her ranh
among civilized nations, and II reSpeetahl,
! part of her millions are AT this moment
crowding her awful Temples and othcl
| convenient places of aSscmblage to ollcr Il
! tribute of gratitude to that bcnitCcnt Be
Ing whose proVidcntial agency has been
| SO evidently conspicuous i'll the discovery
and settlement of this Western world, to-
gcthcr with the beneficial consequences
which have resulted from its discovery.
1t requires no uncommon stretch of in
tcllcctual penetration to trace that anxiety
for making discoveries 50 prevalent in the
fifteenth century to a Divine origin. The
immortal Columbus drank deeply into that
inn, of oh 4
gave him an Il Outstanding which was
not satisfied with speculative theories ;
but projected one of the holdcSt enter
priscs that was ever undertaken by NOR
tai man, the success of which has tended
to amcliorate the miscrics and greatly
multiply the population of the human
race. oar fore-fatherS in their own
country could not enjoy those privileges
which they considered as rights of nature,
therefore left their native land and many
of their dearest friends behind them and
were determined to enjoy in poverty
! thosc precious privileges or to be buried
| in the bOiStruus bosom of the deep
/ How gloomy WAS the prospect before
them. They went in small parties into
an enormous country, three thousand
miles distant from any friendly port.
| They were not disciplined troops well
equipped with every necessary military
apparatus to meet Il hostile foe in open
ground. No, they were little more than
yctualled for their voyage and were 10
land in an uncultivatcd country inhabited
by savage man Therefore our ancestors
until they could furnish themselves with
suitable mansions to accommodate their
families, and cultivate part of an uncul-
| tiyatcd country, were reduced to the de
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civ sustained Inv the prisoner, was a,
mich Ia he dreaded -, death itself. And
tbesr northern mountains bu, a small dis
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danny .,sncrt we are reminded Of tho
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