Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1888-07-05


Thou, Thou who nearest
o, guide me in Thy ways o, Lord. Give strength
lest | should falter,
To lay my sacrifice upon my country's blood
stained altar p
She prayed the long night through for light TO
see the path OF duty;
And in ihe morning chastened, strong, trans
figured with faiths beauty
She kissed and blessed the little lad without q
tear Of sorrow
To dim her eyes, that seemed from faith clearer
sight to borrow;
And forth she sent him TO the war on Freedom s
holy mission,
To mount to manhood step by step, and win
fame's full fruition.
All for those mothers of the Past who listened
not Loves pleading,
Whose lips spake noble words of cheer the while
their hearts were bleeding
Who knelt beside the bed of pain and soothed
each poignant sorrow,
Who closed the eyes of death yet still could see
a brighter morrow,
Who sent their dear ones forth to die upon the
field of glory,
For them should be the laurel-wreath of martial
song and story.
o, while to-day you laud the brave, the heart
of Youth to kindle,
Be not forgotten those who held the distaf and
the spindle.
AFTER THE WAR.
Then what task for maid and man when the
long war was ended,
When Freedoms holy cause was won-so long,
so well defended
For round them stood their ruined homes in
every little village,
The blackened inile-posts of the war to mark
the march of pillage.
But theirs were not the hearts to quail at scenes
of desolation,
Undaunted, strong and brave and free. they
laid the deep foundation
On which our Nations pillars stand, majestic,
firm, iarTeaching,
The lapSing years from age to age their pristine
worth still teaching.
VIII.
Lo! where the primeval forest stood the church
spires tower towards the skies,
And, Phenix-like, from wars fierce fires the
civic arts of Peace arise.
We see with wond' ring backward glance the
progress of our far domain,
The eyertireless Steed of steel, replacing the old
rumbling vain;
The reaper in the harvest fields-the thresher
where their fails were swinging
The ne die now a Fairy wand that keeps time
to the housewives singing;
Tne Telegraph, a lighting mail, the steamship
sailing 'gainst the tide:
These are the children of our Past-the off.
spring of our strength and pride.
But, sullylng all our later fame, misbegotten
spawn of hell,
Its hydra-headed form is trailing DER all the
land we love SO well;
The laws OF God anu man defying. Would that
our patriot dead could see
That black stain on our holy flag that flaunts
our Wanted liberty
Would that their hands might rend the chains
that bind the Mormon women down,
And lead them forth TO wear the crown of hon
ored wifehood's chaste renown.
Mothers and wives, whose children yield their
homage TO the household queen,
Think, while your welded lives glide down
- Love placid river, pure, serene,
Think of the eXiled aged one, who sees each
Younger face
Usurp the old familiar place to which her own
once lent Its grace;
And sees her bastard progeny fill dishonored
49, Jallyard grave
Think you she values at its worth the marvellous
life her maker gave?
All no; amid Lies dying embers she joys the
silver chord is riVen,
That frees another Magdalen to sue the mercy
seat OF heaven.
INVOCATION To THE MEN OF THE FUTURE
o. Youth, On Manhood's threshold waiting, the
mystic future yet to see,
\ Nations veal is in your keeping to YOU we
trust her destiny.
In you our fondest hopes are centered-your
hands must hold the helm of Fate
That guides our glorious Ship of State through
all the tempest storms of hate;
Be vlgilant ana brave and true; uphold the
Right, crush down the wrong
Until Columbia even song becomes an anthem
pure and strong.
I'll eyry star upon our banner CLOVIS with en-
pyrean spleudorS grand,
Til ev' ry fold unstained by wrong floats proudly
Ger on native land;
Ill ry sire at Lies declining amid his Deace-
ful household joys
With tervent rapture on it gazing cries out
God bless our noble boys"
THE GRAFTON.
Attorney-General G. A. johnson then
delivered the following Grafton:
1 congratulate you one and all upon the re-
curing OF this anniversary. OF all the days in
the American calendar this is the most patriotic
1t belongs to no party, no clique; it belongs to
the birth OF our children, of our mothers and
sires. the plighted vow 10 some tender being
These we celebrate around the home altar, and
bind each year with the circlet of our hopes,
our fears, our smiles and our tears.
But to-day we celebrate the birth of q nation,
the tairest and bravest whose home is on the
land and on the sea, on the mountain and in
the valley, wherever waves the fIeeman's flag,
1t has given 10 US all the other holy days that
we usually celebrate, those of the church ex-
cepted-the birth of Washington, Memorial Day,
the day in honor of the founder of the missions
of California, Admission Day, and the day of
our autumnal thanksgiving.
1t is meet that This day should be celebrated
amid the salvos OF artillery, industrial displays,
the music of instruments, the waving of ban
ners the smiles of beauty and the glad voices OF
children. SO long as American liberty is of any
worth this day VIII be welcomed whenever the
American people forget 1t, liberty itself will be
but tradition ana myth.
We have given to the world a new DISPENSE
ton that all men are and of right ought to be
free. that the people are the source of all power
that sovereign rights are inherent in them and
not the gilt OF any purple-clad Caesar We
have thrown aside the hoary conceits of CEN
turtles, and installed in their place new ideas,
ideas which have unfettered the human mind,
educated the public conscience, taught men 10
think and act tor themselves, inspired the hopes
of the masses, made life worth living for, and
sublimated al human eudeavor.
We have crowned with flowers civil and re-
ligious liberty, raised the down-troddcn, sup
pressed the fagot and the stake, and illustrated
history with the grandest achievements of war
and peace. We have added to the civilization
of the age, contributed TO the general well being,
made home happy, government secure, and
taught a lesson TO all tyrants. To perpetuate
these blessings we need no standing army only
eternal vigilance, which is the price of all lib
erty; only heroic effort at all times to do right;
Only self discipline self-illumination and if
need be millions of swords Will leap from the
scabbards to hand these blessings down to our
descendants.
What our ancestors founded it is our duty to
preserve. The coming centuries must go for
ward, not backward While the national honor
must alway be sedulously guarded. we must
develop the industrial arts of peace. endeavor
TO remove ell friction between labor and capital,
protect labor and make its surroundings pleas
ant; remove all national and, as far as may be,
all local causes of discomfort; and make this
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Government of the whole people. united by fra
ternal ties and mutual interests; strong 10 do
right. unable to do wrong, and bound together
into indissouble unity by common traditions,
common hopes, common destiny and a COM
mon flag.
When we recall to mind the struggles and
privations of the Revolution, our undisciplined
soldiery essaying 10 cope with the first power in
Europe, with troops which had seen service I'M
der Amherst at Montreal, and Wolfe on the
nights of Abraham when we recollect the
bloody feet which stained the soil at Valley
Forge, and hope deferred that made the heart
sick, except the great heart of our Washington
and even he was thinking of dernier resort
across the Alleghanies when we think of all
this before Saratoga and Yorktown were won
aud The liberty bells rang out their glad clarion,
we realize that it costs something to achieve
liberty, and that our nee institutions thus ac-
quired necesstate the most vigiiant care in or
der TO be handed down unimpaired to our pos
terity.
When we Tecorect our now commonest rights,
such trial by jury, the right of represtnta-
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