Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1886-07-06

eight years of heroic conduct in battle sn(
| serge, OF heroic endurance in victory and de
feat, from Lexington TO Yorktown.
| What was il my fellow citizens what grear
idea or principle. that kept the thirteen sep.
atate ana independent colonies so long to
gefher, inspiring them TO sustain, feeble a,
they were. the unequal conflict to its trium
plant close? Not independence merely. moi
freedom for themselves alone; bu. something
10 their Declaration of July 4; something
tnerein that gave promise that in du.. time il
they won. the weights would be lifted from
the shoulders of all men, and that ali men.
everywhere, would have q better chance
Under the inspiration this great cause, the
rights OF men. thev fought, they endured, they
won.
Ihey won; and, then, to crown all, they
secured 10 themselves. to Us, and our posteri-
y, the immortal truths of their immortal
Declaration. IN Constitution of Government.
so free, so safe, so wise, 80 strong. so stable
IN peace and In war; yes, in that masterpiece
OF human wisdom, thar consummate fowe,
and browning glory of the Revolution, at
once the wonder and blessing of the world
the Constitution under viii n we live.
They won; and how great that victory. re.
garded IN its results For, it has not en-.
tered into the heart of men to conceive the
future greatness, glory and majesty of the
great Republic born of that victory As
widely extended as are its bounds. those
bounds are not fixed, but destined to prevail
IN the future, as in the past, until the future
miilions OF this great co itineat snail have but
one country, one constitution and one ies-
tiny.
Great, indeed, was the conduct by which
the nation was founded Great, also. was
the conduct which kept the nation whole and
made 1t wholly free, in our time. 1t is this
great conduct Of the nation, by which it was
founded and saved, that makes US all, on this
day, 50 proud OF our country. and gives such
nope AMI assurance that the sublime aud
mighty work of our Fathers shall never
perish
Reading the Declaration.
ExGov. Selden Conner read the Declare.
ton of Independence
The address was delivered by one of
Augustus most prominent citiz Hon. j.
Manchester Haynes, whose superior ability
as an orator is widely known and recognized
ard who IN previous days has spoken most
effectnally in the halls of legislation and in
political contests. He occupied about forty
nve minutes IN the delivery of his able and
interesting Grafton, obtaining and holding the
undivided attention of the great audience
which pressed closely about the stand to the
close, Notwithstanding there were many out
side occurrences to draw one away. Mr.. Haynes
spoke in a clear and distinct manner so that
his eloquent words were perfectly audible TO
all. Following is an abstract If
Mr.. HAYNES, Oratfou
In opening, the orator reviewed the rapid
growth of the republic of the United States
saying, from the eminence to which we have
attained through many vic'ssitudes the un.
lmpeded vision ranges over prospect of
national growth and prosperity, so wide and
magnificent, that the patriotic heart beats
with pride and admiring reason rejoces in
those institutions under whose fostering care
the brilliant scene upfolds. When we con.
slider the briefness of the time in which all
this has been accomplished we feel
| that the charge OF exaggeraton cannot be
made to anything we may say of it. Com.
pairing it with ancient republics and the
British nation, the speaker found that one
hundred years of free thought, free spec Oh
| and representative government had equalled
the triumph of centuries of other nationali
| ties In proof of these views the orator
quoted from Mr.. Gladstone who said to ar
English audience, that, while England ha.
been advancing with portentous rapidity
America Is passing us as if in canter. She
will become the head servant in the grea
household of the world; the employer of al
employed; because her service will be the
abest.
Continuing Mr.. Haynes declared that the
declaration of Independence, made scarcel,
limo hon hnp
voice which commanded light out of polilica
darkness, and in illustration of this point re
ferred to the gift Of the statue of ''Libert,
Enlighening the World" presented to thi,
country by the French nation, inspired there
to by Its own change from the imperial to tn,
tree representative form of government
The speaker claimed that all nations are feel
ing the influence of the success of our repub.
| lican experiment, and referring to the presen
! home rule agitation in England said, tina
just now the best preserved of thu
old monarchies, and the one which by thu
shrewdness and tact of its compromises ha.
most successfully disguised and maintained
arbitrary government, is IN the throes of
revolution which shall ultimately, if mo-
presently, secure local elf-government te
the fairest portion of the imperial domain
| giving 10 the emancipated Irishmen at home
taste of those political rights which he en-
| joys in full and without stint abroad | be-
lieve the Londoner lives today who, in graft
tude for enlarged liberties in his own parish
of st. Paul, shall bless the Irishmen who
instituted these home rule proceedings
| In claiming for history scientific progress
the speaker referred the initial impulse of the
American republic to the Reformation and
teachings of John Calvin, saying, it is the
political aspect of the Christian Renal, Q ince
| the effect of the new intellectual movemen,
| on the politics of the world. We are today
as system of government the fruit of the
principle of individual equality and response
biity first preached by Martin Luther and
John Calvin. He then proceeded to trace the
course of parties and the religious contests
which developed the Puritan party of Crom-
well in England AMI which, after the fall of
the Protector led 20 the emigration of the
Puritans, first to Holland and finally to this
country in 1920. The speaker quoted the
compact entered into by the Pilgrims in the
cabin of the Mayfower, finding in its language
the precepts and plans of Luther and Calvin,
and declaring that the nation which sprung
from that compact embodies in its growth and
development the genius, the inspiration and the
philanthropy of the Reformation.
Referring to the hardships which the early
fbo