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

. VII
Y " The bloody hand significant OF crime
Had kept its crimson unimpared by time"
: Such was the price OF American hide
J pendence.
"Oh, If there be on this earthly sphere,
! A boon, an offering heaven holds GeAr;
! IT'S the last liDation Liberty draws
From the heart that bleeds and breaks in her
p cause"
:, A new era now broke upon the history
of the nation. The intelligence, tho cour-
age and the hardihood of our fathers
before the Revolution, had made America
great. Her brave adventures had car
ried her commerce to every part of the
habitable globe. Her people pursuing
with steadiness and ardor all the CON-
mendable objects to be attained in the
varied fields Of physical, of moral, and OF
intellectual enterprise, could alone justly
assume the task of establishing q Govern
ment of liberty regulated by law. A
Government whose stability depends not
upon the number of its armiee, nor the
splendor of military victories, but upon
the intelligence Of all classes of its people.
The highest intelligence of the civilized
world anticipated the most beneficial re-
suits from the precedents 10 be established
by the newell born nation. Ii was expected
to cultivate republican virtue, which other
nations might emulate. 1t was to exhibit
the Rd santages of universal intelligence
and progress. 1t was to illustrate the
great principles which lie at the founda-
ton of a peoples true prosperity, and
| thus to overthrow tho ancient systems of
| error and tyranny. Faithfully has intel1i-
| gent people discharged the trust. The
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| rounded by great difficulties. An i'm
mense debt to foreign nations, as we'll as
to their own soldiers and officers, could
be liquidatod from a depleted treasury.
Congress had no power to raise money
from the different States, which con-
sidered themselves independent. and were
jealous OF each other and of the general
Government. The exigencies OF the m
demanded for their common defense the
security of their liberties, and their mu-
tual and general welfare a stronger Gov
eminent. To subserve these ends
Articles OF Confederation were drawn,
which we're to be observed by the several
States, and the Union Hereunder was to
be, and must be, perpetual. The
pecuuiary EN- barrassments OF the nation
were relieved by the genius OF Hamilton.
The candles Of industry and economy,
lighted and ever burning, reflect upon
the pages of our history, wealth and great
ness. The pleiades of thirteen stars upon
our emblem has been by conquest, by
purchase and treaty augmented TO thirty
eight, while our stripes remain unchanged
| and u~ntarnished. Our exports and i'm
| ports, our shipping, our railroads, and
| other internal improvements then COM
paratively Insignificant, are now the pride
| and envy of the world, while our invent
/ i've genius encircles the globe. Our
schools are unexcelled, u manufactures
| are unsurpassed, our fisheries unlimited,
| our oil ~exhaustless, our beds of coal and
iron %boundless, while the more precious
| metals OF the West fill our Golfers. Well
/ may monarchies and aristocracies envy
| our greatness, the fruit OF liberty. The
condition of the American people, like all
| other races, is one of growth or decay.
Acting upon the governing principle that
| the many are wiser than the few. the null
titude than the philosopher, the race than
the individual aud each successive gen.
Grafton han its predecessor, we dare
scarcely predict our standing among ma
| tons within the next century, or the effect
of our principles upon every other form oil
government. The principles OF our De.
| claration of Independence are the soul and
| spirit of the Home Rule bill in the Par
lament OF our Mother England. and Glad
stone in the advocacy thereof is to the OPP
| pressed, in sentiment. the Washington,
Jefferson, Hamilton, Madison and Monroe
and Jackson of America. Mans natural
| state is his state at the present moment,
but il cannot be permanent, for his exist
| ence is flowing on in eternal motion TO-
ward Advancement, improvement and per-
| lection. and with capable, not pliable, men
at our front to watch over and protect
| our civil affairs, the history OF America
will be read by future generations as a
fable. With Truth, the daughter OF
| time" and Justice, the ever-smiling
child OF eternity" hand In hand upon
the parapets OF our Constitution, diifuslng
and disseminating the divine sentiments
of liberty, and charity bidding all to the
benefits of freedom, Divine power alone
will be able to stem the onward march OF
our nations Independence. Having
glanced at the past and present progress OF
the Republic, what may we not reasonably
hope and premise for the future in national
and intellectual Developments and in the
influence of Its examples upon the politics
OF the world. The geographical domain
for the active exercise of our industry is
The area OF a mighty continent, nearly
four millions OF square miles, capable OF
supporting in all the comforts OF civil
lied life, i've hundred millions OF people,
a population, not over-estima:ed when our
age, and area, and population and intel
ligence, are compared with that OF any
y other nation.
knowledge is power;"-that knowledge
ia power which enables us to multiply our
productiyeness. to increase our strength,
to exchange our thoughts, our labor and
our productions; that teaches US to pierce
the bowels OF the earth and bring forth
from the bosom of the mountains metals
enabling US to subject all nature to our
use and pleasure; that enables us to scale
upon bands of iron, with ease and pleas
ure, the mountain peaks and the trackless
wild; that carries our thoughts through
fathomless waters and annihilates the OBJ
~stacles OF time and space. knowledge
then, is the great factor which will work
out our national advancement. till, at last
when Europe asks if the diffusion OF IN
tellisence among the masses Is the master.
wheel in the liberties and happiness, and
prosperity of a nation. America will be