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sess a most HisbOrlc ancestry, De pen sioner on the dead. We honor birth and ancestry, if they are to be regarded as the incentives to exertion, not the title deeds of sloth. We should honor the laurels that overshadow the graves of our fore fathers, and we should emulate our fore fathers in desire that beneath the ever greens, which we ourselves have plant ed. our own ashes may repose.
 Let us govern wisely by governing ourselves. Let us make every point and crisis of the future outspoken expression of the high purpose and unshaken devo- tion that characterized the lives of the | founders of this great Republic. Let us make loyalty more loyal; justice more | just; patriotism more patriotic. And by | this we say to other lands and to other | nations; we say to the shades of those | who gave their lives and sacred honor to | the establishment of the government. the | flag which is the symbol of the principle | for which you made your unselfish sacri- | fees shall be kept forever more unsul- lied. We say to the world that the bright folds of the stars and stripes shall forev- CT float in the free air of free America, the symbol of universal freedom and uni versal brotherhood.
 United States Treasurer Morgan was was given 6 cordial greeting as he arose to speak. il is remarks were brief and to the point. He spoke substantially as fol- lows:
 Friends and Fellow Citizens 1t is very gratifying to me to be present with you
 to day, assembled here with patriotic
 sentiment pervauing you, in keeping with
 the spirit thar governed those who resid- ed here more than d century since, but
 under circumstances, it is true, far diff ferenG than existed then. Generations h sod Intn T
 4he deeds of heroism and privation of our early ancestors in their determination to give to us free country, and the preser- vation of that freedom by succeeding generations, with it's grand institutions, in so many different directions, makes the present an age and day in which we are proud to live. New England has done | it's full share in contributing to these noble results, and NeWtoWu is beyond question a ypical New England town. NumberleSS places i'll this section of the United States have sent forth their sons 1 ill every direction throughout the whole | country to achieve success and honor
 and with a thorough training of what is | essential to accomplish d worthy ambit- | ion of those who, fortified with true man l hood, had all the possibilities extended | to every citizen within their reach. We
 can extend our feeling of patriotic pride | for many reasons, beyond the town or
 state. We have within the borders ot | New England long list of educational | institutions headed by ale and Harvard that have for d long period eXerLed a mighty influence for good in developing
 the public mind, which, combined with
 the practical education that all who live
 in the atmos phere of such surroundings
 must be imbued with, tortify such men to go forth equipped for lite's battle, con- qutring and to conquer. Love of coun- Jry is natural in the human breast and | your celebration here to-day is very con-
 menda ble, not only following traditions of the past, but with the ever increasing
 loyalty of the present age, and it serves
 as a lesson to the coming generation who
 are so soon to rise up and take our places.
 A quarter of a century since went
 from among you to another field of ac.
 tive duty. How great the changes have
 been-yet here to-day 1 find the worthy
 descendants of those former years in the
 prime of life, filling their various posi-
 Lions of duty with the advantages of g
 wider education and the experience oi
 the past to guide you. And you have the
 desire, in your devotion to the principles
 of American Independence, to perform
 y our whole duty, whatever betide. Pat : riotism should hold full sway in time oi peace, especially when the country is il a state of unrest, and all should be guid
 ed by a cool iud dgment in forming and de
 veloping public opinions that shall con
 duce to the general welfare of the mos favored people in the world.
 Congratulating those who have had tn, exercises in charge on the full success you have attained, those who are fortu nate enough to be of this happy throng and myself that have been privileged t' } be with you, 1 will defer to those wh f are to complete the rogram.
 Judge DeForest, just from the hall
 of Congress, was next introduced. Hi address was couched in choice language and he was given an attentive hearing ] Among other things he said:
 It is one of the encouraging omens o the times that there is manifested a dis !. position to revive the formal and cere l monious celebration of the anniversary 0 f our national independence. The though
 luppermost in our minds at such a tim
 must be, what is the need and what in = port of such observances?
 r For, while there is much of pleasur a | in them, while it i5 delightful thing, i
 itself for neighbors and friends to la , aside the carking cares life, and all re l. ligious and political differences, and ex l. change our greetings and mingle ou .
 same time, we feel that there is beneat it all, something more than mere pleas e ure, something of the nature of a ser |. ous duty, something of the character o r. a grave obligation.
 . What need can there be, one woul naturally exclaim, for memorial lesson .- of liberty to the American people? Ar ,- we not rejoicing in it every hour? AT f we not living under the shelterin 1 tl t gracious fruit of that noble tree whic l our fathers planted? And is it possibl h that we can be unconscious of it's bent . factions and forgetful of it's origin? Al
 yes, my friends, we can indeed be UT > conscious and we can be forgeJful. C is one of the singular facts in this con h plicated problem of human existene ,f that those things which are most pr, 'h cious and most indispensable we are mo: y apt to undervalue. How often it has bee J. observed and how true it is, that we SC i- dom give passing thought to tho' . great and silent forces of the lIght ar air upon whose ceaseless ministratiol
 the very beating of our hearts depends T. To that invisible, but ever-watchful ar t never failing benevolence which thu
 sustains our physical being how prol we are to be thankless? Ho st strange it seems that it should be ne It essary. and yet how necessary tis, tha V as in the days of ancient Israel, so nov . by solemn assemblies, by the sound v the trumpet, by the emblems of u l. garnered sheaf and the flowing oil, V ,e should at stated times and by establis .e ed forms seek to kindle in our co ', hearts some measure of gratitude to u = Giver of every good and perfect gift. U Again take the sweetest of all hum; y relations, that of parent and child.