Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1890-07-10


day every rightminded citizen
SHOULD swear 10 uphold political
b. honesty.
, In the early part of I776 the
Massachusetts delegates in Congress
were instructed TO vote for indie
/ pendence. absolute and eternal.
? Others OF the colonies forwarded
: similar instructions 10 their dele
= gates. About this time Washington
: wrote: "a reconciliation with
r Great Britain Is impossible. When
l took command Of the army 1 ab-
hored the idea Of Independence: but
! am now fully satisfied that Moth
: ing else VIII save US"
On June :, l775. Richard Henry
Lee moved in Congress: That
these united colonies are ana of right
ought 70 Toe free and independent
: States" Four days later this motion
was adopted, and 4 committee con-
sisting Of Je1rrSOn, FrInklin, John
Adams and Roger Sherman ap-
pointed 10 prepare q declaration VI
Independence. On June . the
committee reported, but the declara-
ton was not agreed upon until July
l. Is Il not fitting that the work
and the names OF these men be
sacredly reviewed each recurring
Fourth, and that their memories bt,
proudly hOnOrede OF men ami
deeds not a 1.-THE as worthy Of song,
Byron says:
But these are deeds which should no, pass
away,
And names that must not wIiher, though
the earth
Forse:s her empires with . JEST decay.
The enslavers and the enslsyed. their
death and birth;
I The high, the no=nt-IH majesty % worth.
! Should be, and shall, survivor OF ~ woe, !
AID from IL immortality look forth
I In The suns face, iike yonder wasatch 4
snow
InPer.shably pure beyond Al thing DC. |
low.
The grand epic which Is 70 pre-.
serve the deeds and the names If I
these sacred heroes Is yet uuwritten,
anu Will be, until some sou Of Utah l
performs The glorious task. In no
other province Of the republic, ex-
cept IN Utah, are the Young taught 1,
that these men were more than !
mortal, and that their mission was
a much Of divine guidance as vas
that OF NJ ses, who wrought the in-
dependence Of his people. IL is be-
cause this teaching hss net been
lnculcated As il ought 10 DE during
the past III years that our highest
feat today is the explosion Of a fire
cracker or the delivery Of an infiat-
ed Grafton by some wiudbaC poll
tician or preacher.
The American Declaration OF In
dependence j., with some slight
amendments, the work of Thomas
jefferson. What American can I
pronounce this name without re-
calling the classic words Of Iucan.
the Latin poet, who makes Cato saw
OF Pompey: )
"Clarum Ct venerable nonen,
GeniI5ns. Ct EnGltzn nosirse qsod prodcrat
urbi."
: Eale lllustrioa and reyeret By nations.
And r.eh II blessings Tor our country.
good.
Compare Jefferson with pOmpey, :
and how UNNECESSARILY small tile !
latter appears. Tine deeds Of Jrfyr- a
son and his brethren q
Were tue siory's stainless yiatOries ,
Won by the unsmbIuous heart and hand
OF proud, bToiaeTlY. and civic band.
An unboBsht champions IN no priucelv :
cause
VI wee entalied corruption, they no land !.
Doomed 20 sevail the 5lasphemy Of laws
Making kings rishis DIVINE -by some ORA.
comic elaase." .
On fourth Of July celebrations il %
was customary As part of the exer- +
Uses TO read the historic document n
m full. IL would not be inaypro- b
pirate TO read it today, and not only il
o read but 10 pause, reflect, review | F
IND ponder. The document saws of ii
hat tyrdnnous monarch: Il
He has erected a multitude OF new :,
'ffices and sent hither swarms Of -
ulcers TO haraSs our people, ard eat ~ y,
ut their substance" y
Ale has refused his assent TO laws
be most wholesome and necessary Ii
Or the public good" pa
He gives assent 'tO qua-tering large IL
odies OF troops among u.s. and for ~
lurdars protects these troops by
lock trials F" 81
"ln every stage Of these oppressions
'e have peiitioned for redress in the ~
lost humble terms; our repeated
s,iiions have been answered only by 10
,peated inJnry." IN
re
Who that is familiar with the
story Of Utah can read the sbove tn
itracts without feeling their exact all
jpitcatiOn TO the affairs Of that in III
red and outraged Territory. Are PI
lere not swarms OF offic.holders an
irassing the people and eating TIE sid
sople'ssubstance? Did not Murray. tee
homas, and others refuse assent 10 int
holesome and necessary laws?
How POLITICALLY appropriate is the lad
ause relating TO troops and mock ba,
alsi ia
Have not the people Of Utah De- "'
Toned for redress in humble terms. NO
~ have been answered by injury &c
ii outrage, by perjury and cal 10 .
any. by inquisitiOn and Bersecu- -
N. As the immortal Declaration %,
": Iol
We have reminded them OF the ing
Of our emigration and der
tlement here. We have appealed Col
their native justice and magnanlm- Mr.
, and we have c0njured them by Che
hes Of our common kindred 10 ~
avoW these usurpsiions, which | -
uld inevitably interrupt onr con- 1oi
'uohs and correspondence. They. eiil'
. have been deaf TO the voice Of sho
tice and consanguiniiy." fees
S not this truthfuIly the ease9 a 81
w often has il been told TO the TN,
rid and 10 the United States mar ono
Harry Of the emigration and set II Z
nent Of Utah? Is not the world ca
infant Of the fact that parch,.d ten
suess ulIs1trSa hands and weary beal
reclaimed Utah? Is it not a otb,
that in the conquest of that exb
ert mind triumphed over natter ;r;e.
" often did the exhausted BODY +,
down TO Gle, but 10 he aroused NOR
IN By the ureleSs, imperishable uslI,
II and souR And yet, we today. con,
I'D anu DO malign, maltreat and indie
lder the people who endured all no n
- .sse people, tco, Americans, the
their fresiueht OF Tue stock then
en- instructed the Ai2ssachu- no
s delegates to vote for indepen- wrot
ce. ping
e Us axe retrospective glance ling
Isl Isys as Ieiaung 10 Utnh. On its ai
> iSoZ' When civil war con- race
90 the country, and when gam
her was aTrsyed against brother. that
people OF Salt Lake City cele. lIvej