The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1899-07-07

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have built homes for your families, who
are happy in the general prosperity OF
the nation-patriotism and progress.
All Americans are patriotic; those who
are come here, and their children as
we'll, as those whose great great grand
| parents were to the manor-born. In
every struggle for freedom, in every
struggle for the honor OF the flag, the
blood of the foreign-born citizen has
freely commingled with the native
stream. The mythical Anglo Saxon
cannot show, 1 think, a monopoly Of the
patriotic article, and if he says he can.
you may summon up the Sullivans and
Barrys, the Skaters and the Schleys,
and thousands of others whose nation
ality is not indicated by a hyphen.
George Washington will ever abide in
the hearts of all Americans as the high
est type of American patriotism; but
Washington did not hesitate to recog-
nize the real worth of a man, regardless
of his place of birth, for Kosiusco and
Hamilton are his warmest friends, the
latter being his first secretary of the
treasury. And as an admirer of liberal
principles, as a llater of bigotry and
narrowness, 1 am glad that our next
congress is to be presided over by a
citizen of foreign birth-the gallant, pa
triotic and liberal minded d. B. Hen
derson of Iowa.
In republic like ours there must al
ways be room for vast difference of
opinion on subjects not endangering the
unity and integrity, the honor and sta
bility of the nation. If you do not sane
ton every policy of an administration,
you are not on that account disoyal or
unpatriotic. 1t is the right and duty
of every citizen to freely discuss the
wisdom or foolishness of the policies of
men until the people in their sovereign
power have spoken. when the contro-
versy must be considered at an end.
The voice of the whole people of this
republic is the voice of God; the civil
and religious liberty announced in the
Declaration is the liberty Of heaven. Let
us hearken to that voice, and let us prize
that liberty; let us freely give to others
a good portion of the blessings we enjoy,
ever mindful Of the lessons Of the found
ers of this republic-lessons intended for
the peace, prosperity and happiness Of
this free people, forever!
Divine Providence In American
History.
BY Rev. A. G. Martyr.
Mr. President and Fellow Citizens:
Every devout mind and every thought
full patriot, as he reviews his nations
history, cannot but recognize a divine
and experimenting providence
as marked in it's character as the pillar
of cloud by day and the pillar Of Of fire
by night to ancient Israel. To nations
as to Individual man, there Is "a divint-
ty that shapes our aims rough-hew them
as we may" and "a tide in the affairs OF
men that, taken at its flood, leads to
In g.. 4
tian civilizations, God has apparently
chosen this land as the theater OF the
worlds final and highest development.
Several points in the early history of
our republic distinctly show the hand
of providence. First, the time and man
ner of discovery. 1t was not discovered
until the fifteenth century. God held this
continent in reservation until the fulness
of time had come. The long, dark night
of the middle ages was just passing, ana
as the flame of civil and religious liberty
in the Old World was being k1ndled,
Columbus was divinely impelled to
cross the unknown ocean and realize by
discovery this vast western hemisphere.
The time had come, in the providence OF
God, when America must be discovered
when the land of science, OF civlllza-
ton and of religion must be occupied
when and where God would establish a
home for his oppressed people, plant
the standard of the cross, rear repub-
lican form Of government, and scatter
broadcast the institutions of civil and
religious liberty, which must influence
all the monarchies and despotisms OF the
world. For this purpose God had re-
served this large and noble continent
land fitted by its mighty rivers and lofty
mountains. its dense forests and vast
prairies. it's productive soil and mex
haustible mineral productions, as
theater for human development and hu-
man progress beyond any other on the
face of the earth. Second, the hand OF
providence may be further seen in the
character of the colonists who settled
this country and who have left their
impress upon it's institutions. l refer
to the Puritans of New England, the
Hollanders of New York, the Friends OF
Pennsylvania, the Catholics of Mary
land, the Cavaliers of Virginia, the
Hugenots of Carolina. For nearly 5OO
years a stream not only rises in the Old
world. but flows continually in this di-
rection, bearing on its bosom the best
men the world has ever known. Eu-
rope had literally been sifted-her hills
and valleys carefully searched to collect
the few choice souls who could be en-
trusted to establish new government
whose foundation principles should Do
human equality and civil ana renglous
".
for the diyinely-appointed sons and SUI
preme mission Of celonization sa lcnao o. Tnsy nsr
secution. and suffered the loss of all
things that might breathe the pure air
Of freedom" They fsarlessly ass - met the
warfare and the privations and suffer-
ings of an inhospitable climate and sea-
SON that they might find land land leave srsednm nma
to worship Cod" Tney were persons
who had hated oppression. abhorred ig-
snorance and vice, who were in their very
souls lovers of freedom and true Chris
tians-these were the men and women
chosen out by infinite wisdom to control
the destiny of the New World. TO these
colonists modern nations owe the free
dom of their constitutions, and what
ever of liberty they possess. Here - IN n
America has been the nursery OF Ine
rights of man, and in this cradle mas
been rocked the infant that is to eman-
cipate the world.
when we look at the character of our
forafo tbars there never has appeared