New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1893-07-05
LIBERTY AND SEVENTY SIX
Lots of Noise, a Parade, Flags and speech
es that recall the First Fourth.
Lind Delivers Mastery Address full of
Good Advice and Caution.
Everybody Exhibits Patriotism, Either in
.-.@ One Way or Another. i.


and noise of booming crackers and shoot
ing rockets that might easily have passed
for incessant cannonading. Powder was
wasted lavishly and the air was thick
| with smoke and sulphurous odors. The
| Fourth itself dawned with clear sky
that filled the hearts of all with interest
in the day. The small boy jumped from
his couch at the sound of booming can
non and with pistol and crackers in hand
he made himself numerous and lineal
| descendant of the Revolution. Flags
floated everywhere, green branches of
trees lined the streets and people flock
ed in crowds to witness whatever might
come in the way of a celebration.
At ten o'clock the procession formed
at the monument and moved towards
Minnesota Street. At the head was Mar
shall Andrew J. Eckstein. Then came
troupe of men on horseback, followed by
the Concordia Band and the children of
the Methodist, Lutheran and Catholic
Sunday schools, a float carrying forty
fouryoung girls, representing the vari
Gus states, and a carnage bearing the
speakers, the mayor and officers OF the
city and board of aldermen. In the Sec
ond division, marshaled by F. H. Retz-
laff. were the Star Band, the children of
the Turner School, the Active Turner's,
the Zoeglings drum corps and society,
theTurnverein,a few citizens in carriages
and the St. Paul Y. NJ. V. or Lutheran
Literary Society. The third division was
made up Of the City Band and the St.
Joseph's Society led by John Korbel as
marshal.
/ Arrived at German Park the bands
played the national airs and then Col.
Baasen introduced VIM. Muessiny who
read the Declaration of independence.
That finished, the orator of the day, Hon.
John Lind, was introduced and spoke for
nearly an hour. His address, we venture
to say, vas the finest ever delivered in
New Ulm. Leaving out all that might
smack of the spread-eagle or bloody shirt
he confned himself exclusively to hist
ory and the lessons that it teaches, talk
ing without notes or manuscript and car
rying the attention of the large audience
with him through every sentence. In
commencing his address he dwelt upon
the fact that this was also the annivers-
ar year of the discovery of America by
Columbus, and in order to show the i'm
portance of that event in history he re-
viewed the character of the epoch I'M
mediately preceding. At that time he
said our ancestors were mostly common
ers, who labored under adverse condi-
tons. No man could say then that he
was his own ruler. The masses were
serfs; they enjoyed no right of liberty,
! no right of conscience,a darkened church
owned their souls and their bodies were
bought and sold for shilling. The civil
government could oraer them to the
stake without question and apriest could
send them to either heaven or hell. 1t was
nage of ignorance. Great kings signed
charters with their mark and documents
of State bore only cross to represent
signature.
It was then that the discovery of Am
erica by Columbus stirred all the poles
of thought. No event since the birth of
Christ, said the speaker,ha done so much
for humanity. It inspired new vigor, Gre
ated new life. 1t awakened the people
who were slumber1ng in ignorance and
subsection and spoiled the pet theories of
science and the church.
Previous to that time it had been pro-
nounced by the Church to be heresy to
claim that the world was round. Calico
was condemned to imprisonment by the
Roman church for advancing his theor-
les on the subject. But when men
began to sail around it, people saw with
their own eyes, and when once that hap
pens no dogma can convince them to the
contrary. They began to think, and
when man begins to think he saves
himself, not only socially, but politically
and religiously. The rivalry over the
newly discovered continent stimulated
thought, and in the sixteenth century the
Teutonic masses rose in their might and
r,belled against improper practices, and
nc one can deny to-day but that it
was better for mankind and the Latin
church too, that the Reformation occur
ed and established freedom of liberty
and conscience. =
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