The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1886-07-10


Those blessings that only proclaim for the
right.
Ring out the glad tldings yet, bells of our
And. let the loved message re-echos againi
ton
From the western Cascades to tho bleak
Thou wild thing In nature! whose fash never
Speed, speed with the news on thy delicate
counsel
With thy wild spirit tanned thy fierce strength
suOdued BY the brains of our FRANKLIN and
Morse.
BLESSED land Of the free, where no crown but
Encumbers the laurels that rest on thy brow
Thy mountains, and yallies, re-echo the story
How thy sites won the emblem that honors
thee now.
Let the blood that Was shed when thy patriots
At Lexington. answer TO what thou hast seen
When thy foes from their ramparts 10 crush
Then ask what thou art, from what thou
hast been.
Britannia may boast OF her nations proud
And claim to possess where the sun ever
But Columbia can tell with more honored
How her sons broke their shackeIs from
Briton's confines.
Enriched by their blood IL the soil of her
vallles-
Enshrined in her heart they defended her
CAUSE
Ennobled they fought 'sainst the despotic
When tyrants attempted to trammel her
laws.
Ali why did they strike then, still harder for
Ali why did they clutch with still nrmer
hand
Those weapons of war; It's they who mort
need them
Who agh. for their rights-fOr their homes
They fought to maintain that grand Declare
tion
OF freedom and rights they had made for
mankind;
And to show 70 the world that one trsmpled
Could rise TO that grsataess which God had
designed.
We come not today to relate thy sad story,
CoIumbiai Thy grandeur through troubles
arose:
Thy hills and thy valleys and mountains 80
Now peseefulIy rest in thy lap Of repo.e.
That emblsm Of virtue, the Star spangled
Banner;
Yet waves in proud splendOr without one
defacei
May is glO-iss increase triumphant. still
TIL the galaxisd hosn grow dim through
all space.
The Choir rendered "a Thousand
Years" aud the President introduced
Mr.. Alexander Wilson, the Orator
Of the Day. His Grafton, which we
give entire, Was received with the re-
peAted applause it so justly merited !:
ThE GRAFTON.
Nh. PRESIDENT AND FELLOW Crit
zKNs
1t is with . feeling II some trepida-
ton that | appear before you to-day
To recount the causes why We revere
and celebrate this day, for | assume
the place Of one, whom Won expected
to hear, far ADLER and more eloquent
than |. You must al regret, Ms do.
that the illness OF my eloquent friend.
Mr.. Love. prevents his atiur,iin2 u the
pleasure al listening Ia what would
have been y rare literary treat. May
| trust, then. that you will pardon any
shortcomings en- my part. who essays,
upon short notice, u task of such diffi-
Guilty.
Three grand chapters from the
Book of Life Three bright pages in
the history of mankind! Three match.
less declarations from the shrine of
Liberty, linked with three of the
grandest names the world has ever
kno Su; begouen fthe moral sense of
Justice and of Nsrcy-twin attributes
Of God Himself.
What are these declarationsl
Whose are these namesi We are here
to-day 10 commemorate the first, and
in doing 80 do honor to them all.
Let Us briefly recall the old, old story.
We are none of Us t,n old to weary
at its recital and few too young to
understand its import.
The grandsire lettering to the grave
shades his aged eyes this day to view
the Stars and Stripes, the embems of
his Country; and as he takes his grand
son on his knee. he tells the listening
boy how this great people rose, the
wond'rous story ofits wond 'rous birth;
and AS he kindles with his theme, un.
consciously. the little one imbibes his
spirit and from the incipient germ OF
thought the youthful soul responsive
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