Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1892-10-22

ne,unJs ABOVE .I1ueDec; we see the sUuruy
Puritans in bell-crowned hats and sable
assail in unequal battle the saw
age and the elements, overcoming both to
rise against mightier foe; we see the gay,
but dauntless cavaliers, to the southwark,
Join hands with the Roundheads in holy
rebellion And, 10, down from the green
walled hills of New England, out of the
swamps of the Carolinas; come, family
to the ear like far-away forest leaves
slipped to music by autumn winds, the
drum taps of the revolution; the tramp
of the minute-men, Israel Putnam riding
before: the hoof-beat of Sumter's horse
galloping to the front; the thunder OF
Starl's guns in spirit-battle; the CLEAN OF
Marion's watch fires in ghostly bivOuac;
and there, there in serried, saint-like ranks
on fanes eternal camping ground stand
THE old Continentals,
In their ragged regimentals,
Yielding not"
as, amid the singing of angels in heaven,
the scene is shut out from our mortal Wis
ion by proud and happy tears.
We see the rise of the young republic;
and the gentlemen in knee breeches and
powdered wigs who signed the declaration
and The gentlemen in knee breeches and
poVtrrci wigs who made the constitution,
without. We see the rifemen in hunting
shirt and bucSsllin swarm from the cabin
in the wilderness to the rescue OF country
and home; aud our hearts swell to a sec
ond and final decree Of independence won
by the prowess and valor OF American
arms upon the land and sea.
And then, and then since there is no
life OF nations or Of men without its
SHADOW and its Aorrow-there comes day
when the spirits Of the fathers no longer
walk upol the battlements of freedom,
and all is dark; aud all seems lost, save
liberty and honor, and, praise God, our
blessed Union. With these surviving,
who shall marvel at what we see today
this land filled with the treasures OF earth;
this city, snatched from the ashes, to rise
in splendor and renoWn, passing the mind
to prcCOnCeiVe
TIrlly, out of trial comes the strength OF
man, out of disaster comes the glory OF the
state
The Occasion.
We are met this day to honor the mem
ory of Christopher Columbus, to celebrate
the 4OOth annual return of the year OF ms
transcendent achievement, and, with NJ
ting rites, to dedicate to America ana the
universe II concrete exposition of the
worlds progress between l492 and lS92;, No
twenty centuries can be compared to those
four centuries, either i'll Importance or IN
interest rs no previous ceremOnlal can DE
cOmnared with this in its wide significance
md reach; because, since the advent OF the
;5oai ", nnn, human affairs as the dis
lL il1,.,, oF tfn Western hemisphere Each
20 tSo cnnturies that have interviewed
marks many revolutions.
The merest catalogue would crowd q
thousand pages. The story of the least OF
tha nations would fill a volume. In what
have to say upon thls occasion, gner 'h H.
j shall conlne hlysell 10 o,t. oTn oo 49,
speaking oil the United II".ea VI ,, Oh or
lpropose rather to dwell upon our c ny;
acter rs people, ana our reclploT1ii O'iI
cations and duties as an a9Sre sSi 'iI' VI
communities, held together by nkeu con
stitution, and charged WIN DnG o,'oIoS S,o w
Union upon whose preserv,a'lon1 "iu PEE
petuation IN It's Original s'lll. anu p1n dn
the future OF Tree, popular BoNGtlileta1 Nv Nv
ponds, than TO enter ihuo N,99'i 49,, V,'ti0r
upon ABSTRACT prlilclpie'' w, ~ w LIAM
take an historic essay we alo A." l pi'' :,
practical people. we are ray VI 80
VCntoIS ana WORKER, Hou % p,J IN;
and artlstS. we nave ieu 'io WI ~
movement, not its Thought our deeoS az
to be found not upon frescoed walls, or
ample libraries, but in the machine ShoI
where the spindles sing ana the lool
thunder; on the open PLAIN, where III
steam pillow, the reaper ana the mower COZ
tend with one another in friendly Wy
against the ObduracieS OF nature' III =,
magic of electricity "a 1t penetr'lIeS 81
darkest caverns with its irreslstapie pow
and light Let us consider ourselves ~.
+ our conditions, rs far as we are aple, WI
! n CaudOr untinged by CYnlclsm, anu CO.
fdeuce having mo air OF assurance
The True American PoIity.