The DeLamar nugget. [volume] (DeLamar, Idaho) 1891-1900, 1894-07-14

A wild murmer fills the hall. Sign!
Ha, there ia NO doubt now. Look
How they rush forward, stout hearted
John Hancock has scarcely time to sign
his bold name before the pen is grasped
by another, another and another. Look
how the namss blaze on the parchment.
Adams, Lee, Jefferson, Carroll, Roger
Sherman the shoe maker, and then good
old Hopkins, trembling with palsey,
then comes Patrick Henry the man who
made the fiery speech. And now the
parchment is signed and now let the
word 60 forth to the people in the
street, to the homes in America. to the
camp of Washington, to the palace of
George, the idiot king let the word 20
out to all the earth and, old man in
the steeple, now bare your arms and
grasp the iron tongue and let the bell
speak out the great truth. Fifty-six
farmers and mechanics have this day
struck at the shackles of the world.
That was bold thing they were un-
dsrtaking. With but three millions of
people, large minority Of whom were
in sympathy with the British, scattered
over vast area stretching from the
White mountains of tho north to Sava-
nah in the south, without money,
friends, arms or adequate equipment of
any kind. with only raw recruits from
the farm and workshop. These men,
yet set at defiance the richest and most
powerful monarch on the earth. With
only the full conviction ofbeing in the
right, the dared TO force the wrong, in
what appeared to bs hopeless struggle
for freedom
Putting their trust in the Almighty,
they went ont to do battle for the
emancipation of man. They believed
in the promise, "Tbe Lord Of Host shall
arm the right.n And the result proved
that they made no mistake in so be-
lieving. From Lexington and Bunker
Hill to Princeton. Saratoga, and to
the surrender of CORVALLIS at York
town, the Americans were in tho main
And at last, England,
wearying of . war in which, though
she could gain battles, yet could make
no progress in subjugating the country,
gave up the struggle and acknowledged
The Independence of the United States
Ind the greatest Republic the sun ever
'hone upon, became an established |
fact
The conditions are indeed different.
Then we were few, weak revolving
at war with the mother land.
Now, we ars nation, mighty nation.
We have grown from three millions of
,eople to sixty-fve millions. We have
pread out from the Atlantic TO the
'acifc, from the great lakes to the
dexicsn Gulf, and instead OF being at
Var with the mother country, to-day,
hank God, England and America
hake hands across ths mighty deep in
and in peace.
Our flag was then unknown. Now it
J known, loved and respected wherever
be sun shines, sym bolizing, as it does,
hysicul, political and scclssiastioal
reedom.
Our forsfathsrs, fought, bled and died
,r those truths, and they left to US
'gacy of duty as well as of privilege, of
as well as of honors.
They left to us the great boon of
Universal suffrage through which every
1ult citizen has voice in the affairs
government.
They left to US q land free from 9
Ecclesiastical tyranny. A land wherein
very man may worship the Almighty
,cording to the dictates of his own ,
,nscisnce, and no man dares to say
i'm nay.
They left to Us above all other things
Ie great blessing of the public school
stem, by which the means of the poor
an has the same opportunity for sdu-
tion as the child of his richer brother.
nd leaving these to us they left US also r
e duty and responsibility of seeing ! !,
at they be kept in all purity. For q
ia purpose, if need be, we must con-
crate anew our lives, our fortunes AID :
II most sacred honor. And for the
ture good of our land, let us bring up
r children, who will, ere long, hold
e rod of power in their hands to love n
d revere the Star Spangled Banner. s
TO this end. let "Old Gloryn be flung o
the breeze from every school house .
the land. Thus with the earliest a
imbs of learning, our little ones will i
10 be fed with patriotism, and as their 9
nds expand under the influence OF