The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-07-05
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| question: Are we to become a ma
tlon" Is this new and precious bud of
| nope to be blasted, or will it blossom
into perennial beauty? Oh, doubling
| hearts, be still for the sunburst Of
! freedom shall smile on thee this dayi
me herald is on his way. Hurrying
hoof beats proclaim his near approach.
He is here! He stays to rest his pant
Ing steeds. In the hands of an ardent pa
triot he places a copy of the great
charter. The hitherto quiet village is
now all astir. The sons of liberty in
stinctively turn their Fastening foot
steps to this sacred spot, from which
Tor half century they and their
fathers have received the words of
grace and truth, not now to worship in
the temple made with hands, but here
assembled on the grass green turf be-
meath the lofty trees that bend their
branches as if in benediction, above the
mouse of Ged,. to listen, in a spirit no
less reverent and sincere, to the glad
gospel or freedom now proclaimed in
authoritative form, for the first time on
the soil of New England.
The reader of the declaration is
isaiah Thomas Self-educated and
disciplined in obscurity and nov
erty, he is one of natures leaders, full
OF power and prudent courage. This is
the supreme moment of his life. Des-
tined for five and fifty years hereafter
TO live an honored citizen of Worcester
captain of Industry in his generation
and to receive the proudly bestowed
laurels of the university, no honor that
can come to him can equal that which
Is his today. What wonder If some
sense OF self-exultation mingles with
ms patrlotlc JOY? In his own person
ne has felt the tyrant's power. The
iron has entered his soul. Scorning
the brides and despising the threats Of
the royal government, he has been
forced to move his free press NV
stealth and at night from Boston to
this inland town. This is his day of
triumph
AS he stands here with the porch Of
the Westinghouse for his rostrum and
with the declaration in his bold and
nervous grasp well might he ex-
claim:
THY spirit, independence, lie. NE
share,
Lord of the iron heart and eagle eye;
Thy steps I'll follow with my bosom
bare,
Nor heed the storm that bowls along
the skyl"
And in sooth, he has no cause for fear
for the spirit of liberty stands by his
whose service is perfect freedom rests
upon his brow.
What thrilling emotions fill the
hearts of his hearers as through tie
quivering air hot from the passionate
lipe of Thomas comes that immortal
sentence: "All men are created eeuali"
Glorious message! None of equal i'm
port has reached the ears of man since
the birth of Christ. Wonderful reyoh,-
ton and revelation No jnsti-
tuition is destroyed. The church. the
state, the school remain, but man IS
no longer a slave to do their will but
their master empowered to use them all
as the instruments of his service ard
culture.
"Al men are created equal!" Sure
herald of that coming time when there
shall be none of any race, sect, religion
or nationality, on any soil, in any cline.
who may not on the day of Americas
jubilee stand erect and free in the
image of his God, and exclaim with
joyful accents: This day has mes
sage for me. So far as human rights
are concerned, 1t gives me an eqral
chance in the race of life with every
other human being / will honor this
day by becoming in personal character
and in public and in private life all
that 1t has made me capable of beirp
as a citizen and man. "All men ere
created equal" Blot from thought md
memory all other maxims of govern
ment and leave us but these five words
and we have enough on which tn found
a free and prosperous commonwealth
The reader continues to recite to
eager ears and responsive hearts the
bold and fervid eloquence, the notes Of