The Dispatch. [volume] (Provo City, Utah) 1891-1895, 1891-07-08

erty and their lives 10 maintain
There was inscribed on hat great irOr
tOngued instrument, II ose words whic
shall always stand in letters of Twin
light as the greatest motto for futul
ages: Proclaim liberty throughout a
the land. to all the inhabitants there
of. +" Methinks that the Sweetes
notes of music ever waited :
the breeze cf this earth to b
borne to the ears of those dear people
was when they heard that grand ii
bell pealing forth the announcement
that the deed was done. that che
were no more part of Great Britain
but that they were a free and independ
ent people. Methinks that thos
melodious strains were caught up b
the angels, and borne away to heaveI
on wings of love, there to reverbrat
and proclaim liberty in the presence o
Him who designed that liberty shoul'
prevail.
Again we hear the sweet music o
/ liberty pealing forth, and is spoken. o
thus, 10y public inspiration:
While the first notes OF freedoms CUR
Came on the blast from Lexington,
And Concord, reused. no longer tame,
FORGOT neT Ola DdpIlSlHhl
Made bare her patriot arm of pc er,
10 swell the discord of the hour,
Who dares?' this was the patriots cry,
As striding from his desk he came.
Come out with me, in freedoms name
For her to live. for her to die?'
Many patriots responded to the vel
coined call. Paul Revere was there
and made his midnight ride through
Charleston to Concord. Washington
was there, that grand and noble son
who fought ana planned so hard fol
the success and comfort of his soldiers
that grand man, who, when the dark
est shadows hung the densiest, would
look To Aim for help and strength who
guideth all things well. He who just
before the final struggle. at Yorktown
was praying IN the woods in secret,
for the final success and victory OF his
army. and who was discovered
by an old soldier who was
50 animated over it. that he
went running into the camp and pro.
claimed with all his strength, eve
will De victorious, for | saw the great
and good Washington praying in the
woods for the success of his country ~
and with hot head and bleeding feet,
with heart palpitating for joy, lie hast
ened to tell the glad tidings that they
would be victorious, for he had implicit
confidence that God would hear the
prayer of the great and good Washing
ton and grant the petition; and so He
did. Yorktown was won, CORVALLIS
was taken with seven thousand soldiers
as prisoners of war, and the Revolu-
tionary war ended.
And on the 23rd day OF October, 1881,
the news was born to Congress,
and on that night the watch
man of Philadelphia, going the
nightly rounds. uttered this welcomed
cry, Ten O'Clock; starlight night;
Cornwall is is taken" 1t was fitting
thing that this glorious proclamation of
freedom and victory should be made
under the starlight. in the streets of that
old town, which first, among the cities
of the world. had heard the declaration,
that "all men are created free and
equal" written by the man whom |
consider one of the greatest statesmen
the world has ever produced; one of
the truly patriotic sons of America.
Thomas Jefferson, that grand and
noble man who was truly a friend to
those who were oppressed, and who
needed a friend. There are hundreds
of others who were equally as patriotic
as those whom | have mentioned,
such as the AdamSes, Jay, Frank
lin, Madison, Har cock, Green, Mason,
King, Patrick Henry, and many
others, whom would like to take up
and give each separate eulogy, and
there are many men of later date who
have been OF sterling worth to our ma
ton, men like Webster, Benton, Clay,
Jackson, Lincoln, Mcclellan, Grant,
Hancock, Garfield and Grover Cleve-
land.
This glorious land Of ours has been
from the date of the De-
claration of Independence to the
present time. in all the strength and
vigor OF its glory. We have kept, COM
pletely separate, church and state, and
that every man should
God according to the
dictates of his own conscience.
But Of all the glories of this fair land,
the greatest among all has been the
OF tie free public school
system. The Patriotic Order of Sons
If America say, "God bless the children
born in our land. They shall have the
rights and benefits of free public
school, so that every one may have a
liberal education" The brethren have
passed that flag of liberty to these lit
means for each of them to be free and
have good education. We recommend
that every child in our land be in
structed i'll the principles of civil gov
eminent, and taught the history of the
land of the free and the home of the
brave.
God bless the children in the
work they have to do. Teach
hem that one hundred and
fifteen years have passed away
since freedom raised her flag on high.
Impress in their hearts that "a thous-
and years shall roll along and find that
banner in the sky" 1t has been shaken
1T times. At one time brother fought
against brother, section against section,
in the worst and most cruel war that
possibly could be waged against or be-
tween u people. [ refer not to this
page in our Nations history in order to
narrow up feeling of diScord and hate
among her SONS and daughters, but
more to teach them the great lesson of
charity. Look yonder on the battle
fields of Seven Pines, Antioch, Shiloh,
Vicksburg. Chattanooga and Gettys-
)urg. Think of it as an unfortunate
in our Nations history.
speak in the tender-st terms OF
lie heroes who fell on either side in that
treat struggle, for it was American
blood on both sides that was spilled
ipon the land they all loved so well.
speak in the language of one of our
worthy poets, of the soldiers on either
ide:
Tears and love for the gray, and love and
tears for the blue
or we Are all brothers of one nation.
let foreign power attempt to invade
,ur land, and you would see the patri-
,tic sons rise up from every nook and
.orner of it. Look at the patriotism
displayed by the people of the South.
)nly a few weeks ago, when President
harrison passed through that vast re-
ZION, he received ovations of the most