Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1886-07-06

Carson never excited ltseI U
present better appearance than
on Saturday last. The dccoratln.
began the day before, aud ther,
was hardly "A private residence II
town that was not hutteriug viii
flags and bunting.
THE PARADE
Was to have taken place at II
o'clock, but of course 1t dIdn I
The tiremen say the military was
slow; the boys In blue claimed that
the jakleS uId no. get their engines
FURNISHED up IN time, and then
again a painful rumor Is atioat that
the ladies on horseback ild not get
primped up unt,l 1i:3O, and the
ladies say that the State officials
we're not ON hand. The aids, poet
and orator are charged with the
crime of delay. However, abouI
noon the huge line of soldiers, fire
men, civilians, school-chlldren
chaplalns. orators, poets, aids aud
eQuestriennes got under way and
moved down the street amid the
murmurs of admiration from every
balcony. 1t was altogether too gor
geous to describe IN print, and as
every body saw it for themselves it
is not necessary TO give "details.
1t was voted as the biggest thing
ever seen in this city since the
town was christened.
THE LITERARY EXERCISES.
On the East side of the Capitol
the literary exercises were heard.
Judge Virgin read the Declaration.
George Tyrrell gave spirited reel
tation of brakes address. There
was a prayer by Rev. j. l.. Woods;
an grafton by Robert Lindsey;
poem by Rollin Dagcett, and u ben
ediction by Rev. Davis.
judge Hawley made a short per-
tinent opening address and there
was also instrumental and vocal
music, the latter under the dlrec-
tiOn Of Dean Hatch
THE GRAFTON.
Robert Lindsey, of Reno, deliv-
cred the following address:
Today the chivalry and the beau
ty, the youth and manhood of our
common country assemble TO COM
memorate a nations birth, and in
harmony with this time-honored
are we congregated
around the altar Of patriotism.
The centuries number nearly
nineteen since the birth of Re-
deemer for mankind was announced
by the anthems Of heavenly host
in the presence Of the shepherds,
and the story Of His birth is as new
today in every Christian land, as
when first the glad tidings' rang
forth on the breezes of the morn in
that far-otf Eastern land. At the
time of His coming mankind be-
lieved that self-government was
heresy. Honor the King" sub |
jects, obey your rulers were the
ideas which governed. Paganism
and every form of aoject tyranny
were the order Of the day in all the
lands of the earth He was the
of great idea, and
around and about Him grew up a
civilization, the like of which, prior
to that time, the world had no rec
ord OF. Wherever the thoughts
and doctrines taught by Him found
their way, men adopted them as be-
ing the most consonant with the
Divine right Of man. until the
rulers themselves. forced BY the
sheer weight of the heavy-taught
sentiment of the governed, adopted
His teachings.
On down the centuries until
had passed away and the
eighteenth fingered in the Ian of
time, the Christian world had been
by thought which en-
bodied as its corner stone the d.
vine right of kings" An hundred
years and ten ago in this fair land
On this great continent, another
and no less divine redeemer of
mankind had her birth. The angel
dead Of seven long years of bloody
var sang loud hosaunas at her
birth. The wsrld proclaimed her