The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1886-06-09

Our country is great in its achievements
lie pioneers set upa government by thepeo- :
at which nations wondered, but respect :
and initiated. The rights of the Ameri-
n citizen have been sustained, until to.
y, the stars and stripes float to the breeze !,
every port. Border foes have been van :
isheG, internal foes have been silenced :,
d made friends But more thar this the /,
y has been opened for the slaves of other :
Ids, the oppressed of tyrants, of military =
e. of religious persecution, may find here
home, provided they are honest, indus -
and sober. "
)ur country is great in its universities.
and schools, and knowledge not
y may reach, but well nigh has reached -
ny home. The press lends her aid, and
5 not only the youth of our land. but
people, generally, are elevated to a high :,
'iane OF civilization and enlightenment
re are warriors as brave as ever drew a ou
'rd, statesmen as gifted as eyer dictated ey'
the Osean or F,rIarl me
nj as eyer e,acod ,ha IN. 80 pro pls
ituiions. Poets and artists, philosophers
inventors vie with each other for place
fame on the worlds record. :.
nd it is true, then. that this land is the ste
Il of all that is desirable? Is it a resnblic Oh;
act as in name, aud a fit model for other Az.
ions. Are we so progressing as to be- an,
lie better, nobler, frser? Do we strive TO m,
: the most effective Workings to the in of
posion OK winch We of I
and for which we profess our graft mn
e to the dead heroes who beaueathed r.,
p 10 us? viii America, with her abun- &c.
resources, her enlightened people. her oro
possibilities, continue il be the land -
I Zee and the home Of Me brave?n c;a1
r to- questions that l shall Stpresume -,
lnre Time alone can tell AID NE I'm
y record the story of these vnit. sn,
This lous
r revealin.. bril-
tloh ONYX places that mar the ma! Il
! denied thaAgress. But it cannot be zee
: and UNEVEN independence is secured 81
still exists gislom established, there -.
ored fame of OILS that cloud the hon ~
their sombre shas to-day and throw Ia
: But that futuresr into the future.
y move onward to ~re',ones- and as we ~
u remember that 'he homes. let Us w
y price of liberty" An Glance il the Ju
( memory of those whoEe honor the
/ overcome greater evils a cir lives 10 Pc
not a nation Of freemen st.r; shall ed
5, and carry aloft their banna cir INNS ma
I'd sponsibilities that await then he re. tn
70 the tendencies that yet menac rcome rit
oil and endauger our perpetuity as ture. of
s. And so | say in conclusion, thu IL
cd as the American people pay suchsg
Is tribute 10 those who so bravely deieng NJ
II, nations honor, so long as the Biblel h.
ry source of our laws and the inspirati.l
ne our teachings, so long as God is the rec
he nized head of this nation, so long are
D. free. And. while He who neither stunt
nor sleeps is keeping watch above his o.
q this land of liberty, that reaches from oc
a 10 ocean. that is arched by the blue dom
heaven, and decked with the eternal st
nd will still remain the grandest, the free
It's and the best under the sun.
al Prof IL. Miller said
80 Members Of lie G. a. T., Sons Of Veterans
- Friends We nave assembled this bea
fall day not to revive sectional strife no
% cherish bitter animosities. but TO recall
no past. Soldiers. to-day you think of
comrades who marched with you to ba
but returned no more. 1t is sad, indeed
ho fall in early manhood. as many dld. but
-. BILE to die in a worthy cause, forlife is m
an ured by results and not by years W
- any one dies it is not so much the ques
-, as how and where, but in what cause,
90 day you think Of your companions in ;
who mustered in the same battal
fought in the same column, bivouace'
o. the same field wore the same dress, att
,,a same fitch, slept ON the same hard bed
ais under the same rough blanket. Erie
there came a time in the history of our c
try when the Declaration of independ
was called a series of glittering general
s the Constitution a piece of paper, the
"o' TONS Flag an old, weather-beaten rag. )
" Of YOU, the soldiers present, remembe
50 luminous clouds that preceded the stor
rebellion. On the anniversary of ouI
tional Independence, July 4, 1860, the
ouent Thomas +. Marshall, of PoughI
e sic. n. Y, and it was but u short tint
ests se o,o,as -,
were gathering, alluded to the threats
had already been made to divide this [
and ASKED, If we divide this Union,
shall we DIVIDE the Declaration of
pendence ? How shall we divide the NJ
we sipoi ? How shall we divide our Nat
We. Songs-Hail Columbia? Star Spansled
ner. and old Yankee DOODLE Il
know he said, " unless we at the
keep the Yankee, and give the Soutl
Doodle"
. Friends. this Nation must be one.
has so made it that it cannot be broker
fragments. Ifyou can take a living
~ heart of his anatomical system and
him on his way rejoicing without it,
day and not till then, you may take the
ions and Allegheny ranges from our moi
that systems, the Ohio, Missouri, and Missi
n oil out of our river systems, South Car
Up to Pennsylvania, New York, and Mas
I'D sets out of the compact of States, an
lone destroy the National structure.
e les threats were carried INTO effect. South
hose lima led in the great secession. Now,
lder- should value things by the price, tn
oute. ton cost immensely-seyen years figh'
state establish Independence, four years n
to re- preserve and perpetuate it. Ten per C
II DE the one hundred years of u Nation
n III has been spent in war to save oui
country. This is u great country
nearly six thousand miles of sea coast
tion. bors unexcelled, rivers longer than Il
n its ga. and more beautiful than the Rhii
The has an extent of territory scarcely les
rt it (; all the Empires. Kingdoms and RepuI
lbout Europe. 1t has a population exceedii
sacri- of Great Britain, and nearly equal to
pres France. Ia agricultural wealth it is
,oun- passed, 1t has every variety of C
him, from the regions of perpetual snow,
IS the fiery heats of the tropics. Friends, "
suf- assembled especially to pay tribute
# the brave soldiers who gave their lives fc
q ma country. 1t is betting On this OF
ry of that we call to cur minds the pri
vouchsafed to us by the precious b
let as these braye men. We are to-day er
otism the fruits of their victory. Our Ma
they day is undivided, and at peace wit
t they borders. Well do / remember to-day
will, whom | PLAYED in childhood,