Connecticut western news., 1896-05-14

most part bracing and favorable for hrawn and brain. All fruits. All min erals, All harvests. Scenery displaying autumnal pageantry that no land on earth pretends to rival. No South Amer ican earthquakes No Scotch mists No English fogs No Egyptian plaques The people of the United States are happier than any people on earth. It is the testimony of every man that has travelled abroad. For the poor more sympathyl For the industrious more op- portunity! Oh. how good God was to our fathers and how good God has been to us and our childreni To him-blessed be his glorious namei To him of cross and triumph be consecrated the United States of Americal
 There are three~-great reasons why you and should do our best for this country-three great reasons: Our fa- thers' graves, our cradle, our children's birthright When I say your fathers graves, your pulses run quickly. Wheth- CT they sleep in city cemetery or coun- try graveyard their dust is very precious to you. I think they lived well and that they died right. Never submit to
 
 other than that government under which they lived and died. And then this country is our cradle. It may have rocked us very roughly, but it was a good cradle to be rocked in. Oh, how much we owe to itl Our boyhood and girl hood, it was spent in this blessed coun- try. never have any patience with a man who talks against this country. Glorious place to be born in and a glo- rious place to live in. It has been our cradle. Ayei It is to be our children's birthright- You and I will soon be through. We will perhaps see few more spring blossoms, and we will per haps see few more summer harvests, and we win perhaps gather few more autumnal fruits, but we are to hand this government to our children as it was handed to us-a free land. happy land, Christian land They are not to be trampled by despotism. They are not to be frightened by anarchies. We must hand this government to them over the ballot box, over the school desk, over the church altar, as we have received it and charge them solemnly to put their life between it and any keen stroke that would destroy it.
 And thou, Lord God Almighty, we put, with 6 thousand armed prayer, in to thy protection this nationi Remem- Der our fathers bleeding feet at Valley Forge Remember Marion and Koscius- ko. Remember the cold, and the hunger, and the long march, and the fever hos pital. Remembe- the fearful charge at Bunker Hill Remember Lexington. and Yorktown. and Kings Mountain. and Gettysburg. Remember Perry's battle on the lake. and Hampton Roads, where the Cumberland went down Remem-
 Der Washington's prayer by the camp fire Remember Plymouth Rock and l the landing amid the savages Remem- Der Independence hall and how much | it cost our fathers to sign their names. Remember all the blood and tears of three wars-17T6, 1S12, 1862. And | more than all, remember the groan that WAS mightier than all other groans, and
 the thirst that stung worse than all oth- CT thirsts, and the death that was ghast- | Her than all other deaths-the mount on \ which Jesus died to make all men hap py and free. For the sake of all this hu-
 man and divine sacrifice, O God, pro
 tect this nationi And whosoever would
 blot it out and whosoever would strike
 it down. and whosoever would turn his
 back, let him be accursedi . Go home today in high hopes of the | future The eternal God is on the side | of this nation Our brightest days are
 yet to come
 | He hath sounded forth the trumpet that will | never call retreat
 | He is sitting out the hearts of men before the | judgment seat
 | Be swift. my soul. to answer him. be jubilant my feeti Our God Is marching oni