The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-07-03
EVOL UTION OF THE FOURTH.
Noteworthy Celebration Showing How the Present 0bserv
ance Has Developed.

! ton THE Constitution" 1.-THE United
| States and THE Daughters of Amer
! lea came in for goodly share OF at
( tention in grafton andsin toast. Squirrels,
| chickens, green corn and vegetables of the
] season" were piled upon the tables. and
were free to all, while firewater as well
as fireworks abounded. The Introduction
/ of the 'oration," however, chiefly distin-
| guishes the celebration of 1888. and dates
from that time.
THE FIFTIETH ANNIVERSARY.
This was the Jubilee" and was the
most elaborate of all celebrations up to
declaration were still living, although the
weakness of old age prevented them from
taking an active part in the festivities
The struggle of the South American coun-
! tries to throw off the yoke of Spain, and
the popular sympathy with Greece,
helped to inspire the American people
Bands, bells, cannon and professions
abounded. and the Grafton held a con-
splcuous part. Josiah Quincy was the
orator in Boston. Edward Everett in
Cambridge, while in Washington an hon
orable member delivered a great speech
before greater crowd from the steps of
the capitol New York had not yet made
the other cities. but did not lack in en-
thusiasm. A long procession marched
| from the battery 10 Washington square,
and was there reviewed by De Witt Gin
ton, the Governor of the state Ten thou
sand people were in the assembly and
aided in disposing of the ''ox feast which
lletu Dccn pIONlu6Q. Inc enthusiasm
throughout the land was intense. The
Monroe doctrine" the liberty of man.
the oppression of effete mOnarchieS.'
were expressions used not only by the
orators, but by all men. Doubtless the
Jubilee provided a mighty impulse for
the nation, then just passing out from its
childhood.
THE CENTENNIAL
Marvellous were the changes which the
so years had witnessed since the jubilee.
but they were no greater than the
changes in the method of celebrating the
great event in American history. Noise
of bells and cannon was still retained, to
the inexpressible delight of young Amer
lea, but science. art and literature all re-
ceived their due share of attention. Upon
the very spot where the republic was
born, Hon. Joseph r. Hawley extended q
welcome to the friends of all nations as
sembled there, and then resigned the chair
William NJ EvartS delivered an Grafton
upon What the Age Owes to America"
poems by Holmes and Bayard Taylor
were read and Our National Banner. a
Grand Triumphal March,. written by
Dexter Smith, was rendered. Great as
was the enthusiasm manifested in the
in advance of that displayed in every
city and village in the nation. The cen
tenniai' will be remembered not only for
it's material display, but for its oratiOns
and poems as well. Among the various
Fourth of July orators on that occasion
were Richard S. Storrs, Henry Ward
NIcOTSe w lllldIl OuIllSs I1uIdtlO
Seymour, Lucius E. Chittenden, Henry
Barnard. Cortlandt Parker. John A. Dix.
Fernando Wood, Leonard Bacon. Robert
G.. Winthrop, Charles Francis Adams and
innumerable other lesser lights.
Of poems, William Cullen Bryant. JOnh
Greenleaf Whittier. Oliver Wendell
Holmes, Bayard TAYLOR and others fur
nished their best. Perhaps the poems of
Bryant and Whittier will live longest,
and that of Bryant especially was not
only historical. but also prophetic. He
celebrated" the past and did not forget
the future, as he wrote:
And thou, the new-beginning age,
Warmed by the past, and not in vain,
Write on fairer whittier page
The record of thy happier reign.
EVERETT T. TOMLINSON.