The Somerset reporter., 1892-10-27

ffbrrtv .xitb suIepdfd aenteeptu.uts Ia arms
n scifuecs in literature IA rvrrgth,uV thaf
makes riviiilnfiou yrtud aud t,4n vndlik.5
that. had the time and elsalirnc, 10 recount
in fttfuY Language, The history Of .ar land and
cause to pass before Won ia panorama the
r,n,5t. nf th.sr INN bfa.si..i ,,.at,. ,,..tg
hcar,s would Glow Win iiidr and saar In.
become elouuent with pfai.r. Bnt could
not do that if | yuuld aud - in uof trv for
my thonqht- hate Travelled ON llIIt, auni h,r
line since began to think .shai would sav
to YOU here to-day. / shaIl therefore ,uuch
very briefly on the history al America .laf,.
Cnlumbiis 'fr.i saV. If. shore 'rbis bi-ta,.=
NAV be divided into four urri9l- rnugblt
correspoading To Tn. lGth Eth tstb and lgl IN
centuries The sixteenth et#utuf, W. may call
the Apn of Discovery ard F.ul9r3fiou. fha
seventeenth the Agr uf settlement and 'oI4
onization: the eighteenth. TN. 4Ye 81 ific-
prndenre and Union: aud h,- uIncttrtth TIN
Auc Of Freedom and Progress
The discovery OF America forms part oil Il
plan wider than mans IN tlPht dee per than
the fathom oi his mind T. il impossible for
us to fully realize the cNf.ui Of he change.
that have taken placc i'm tAt- condition OF civ
iliIcd man since the dass 81 columbus The
home life OF uaf day WI then almost an
know IL uud the inventions and .tunliancrs Tor
conducting the business II Life. which we
think almost indispcn "a lie toourdaily living.
had not then been thought Of The sciences
were not thcn cultivated except in the rudest
way. Literature was only Ia-t awakening, at
ter a steep of a thousand Ytl =. The Reformaz
tion in religious thought aud life had but lust
begun. The social and palitic.u condition OF
Europe was tirplorabic. Constitutional GOV
crnment WAS almost unknown and tho great
ImmuniticS which We all enjoy TODAY, the
right of ttltiou, the right of rec speech free
dom of the press the right ,n a fair and i'm
partial ttial, and above ali. the right OF sui
fragc were unheHrd of, pf denied in those
times.
But even then the dawn WAS breaking \
general feeling of restlessB-ss pervadcd Eu-
rope, spirit of inquiry. "a disposition to
question accepted dogmas. aud to assert in a
feeble WAY, and in certain lines. mans right
to think for himself, to aet for himself to be
Ii.
1t was am cp tCh OF vital importance to man
kind. The greatest crisis in human history
was imminent The mighty contest between
the old order OF things and the new, between
the forces of error and the forces OF truth, be
tween the spirit OF liberty and the entrenched
powers of tyranny and oppression. WAS even
now beginning. place must be fodnd where
this battle could be fOugh out, and in order
to insure the triumph OF right, it must he Il
place removed from the rigid customs, the
hoary preccdcnts and the civil and eccl-sias-
tical domnAtio which paralV1cd thought and
action in the old world. God must have an
arena, wherein might take place that titanic
STRIPPING Freedom. For thai arena the Al
mighty Ghost America. DO you believe il
was by mere accident that Columbus blundered
upon the New World while seeking the East
ern shore ot the old? Watch those three little
vessels, struggling westward ON the mighty
deep; now storm tossed, NOW becalmed. See
their discouraged and mutinous crews, ever
and anon on the verge of turning homeward
and abandoning the wild enterprise. Will
they ever reach the shores OF the New World
Yes; Tor thcN are HeaNen-scnt and Heaven
guided. Land is at last sighted; they near il;
they disembark, and there upon the shore
Columbus Stops and kisses the sacred soil,
not knowing himself what country he had
discovered. And then thcN return in triumph
and all Europe learns OF the land beyond the
sea. And straghtway thai great human Jul
dron commences to boil over and for three
centuries Europeans pour into the New World.
until there h Is grown up ON these shores, Is
prophesicd by Milton, the blind seer. ~
RRtt Tltf ttGap mt II linn
The time is now ripe for the final struggle.
The giant Tyranny. and the stripping, Free
DOM face one another for the deadly conflict,
while the nations of earth look ON aghast. See
Goliath as he stands there, waiting With swag-
eeriug co nidence for the fray; panoplicd in
sccurest armor and easily poising in his
mighty hand his huge spear. And who is this
foolhardv Nouth who dares brave the strength
of the giant shepherd lad. "ruddy and OF
fair countenance,' clad only in skins, and
bearing no weapon but sling, aud five smoot h
der the Phllistint, when h. looked about hlm
and SAW his adversary, "disdaiucd HIM" VT
al th.s momcnt
Humanity with all It's fears,
With all its hopes ot future years,
l. hanging hrcAthlcsS ON his fate.
Nnd II came Ia pass thai tho Youth ran to
ward Goliath, aud put his hand in hi bag and
took thencc stone who-e uame WAS Truth,
and slang it, and ~motc the fhilistine in his
forehead, that the stone sunk iuto Ills fore
head: and he iclt upon hiA lace to tht earth.
The spirit of liberty Is contagious. ACross
The waiter sped the news that Liberty MAS TIL
umphant IN AWerlea, and heiprc tht century
had tlosed- France was plunged in thr mosl
iughtiai polllled enuVulsion the world vNer
~HN. Md the STRUGGLE has been going ON ever
-lnrr, all over EuHopr, ana ts still ma progress,
uat Nth NasIlN smaller results thtn here
Ih" disadvantages Uudrr winch attempts to
lttWrate m1nk1ud from the yoke at tyranny
13c made an tho old world, and tho slow pro
si"-0 Inc hunAl i5i'' mas mad" thefe, lu com
parl~ou with the raFtH strides torN md IL has
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