The Arizona sentinel., 1899-07-08
Official Paper of Yuma County
THE FOURTH OF JULY.

day and the people ot Yuma and the Colorado river valley celebrated the day with a big picnic at the Tulie Laguna. The program of the days proceedings will be found in another column.
 Every American citizens heart beats with stimulated pride and patriotism on that day. We looked through the smoke and noise of the fireworks and saw a vision of our country's history Every small incident chronicled in our history seems to be more interesting to the American heart than the great his torical events of international inn portance. Pocahontas and Captain Jchn Smith interests us more than Cleopatra and Mark Antony. The courtship of Miles Standish seems of more importance than the signing of Magma Charter. The ride of Paul Revere is more wonderful than the victories won at Runnymede. Pink ney's famous phrase of millions for defense but not one cent for tribute" is greater than the Edict of Nantes. Our path and onward march has been one of glory.
 As we looked through the din and smoke we saw a proud and in domitable people resent oppression and saw the first blood flow at Lex ington in defense of their freedom, and great events of that struggle arose before us. We saw a party oi patriots-braver than ever Sparta bred-assembled together and pro mitigating the Declaration Of In- dependence and hurlng a def Tn the teeth of the mightiest nation o1 earth. On that memorable 4th of July a new natlon was born. We heard the mighty and magic voice of Patrick Henry urging the colo nists to deeds of valor and heard hlm say "Give me liberty or give me death" We heard brave old BeE Franklin arise to the occasion and say, "Gentlemen we must all hang together or most assuredly we'll all hang separately" We heard the urchin shooting" Ring grandpa, ,ringr'and we heard the old liberty bell ring out for joy vibrat- ing with the tones of freedom. We saw the patriots gathering at Lex ington and Concord and Marathon paled into insignifcance. We saw again the sanguinary battle of Bun, ker Hill, where when the smoke ot battle lifted "there lay the RedcOats in windrows like a mower rakes hls hay" and Thermopel9 lost some of its glory. We heard old John Stark say "There's the Redcoats boys, we beat them today or Molly Stark's a widow" and forsooth he did beat them. We suffered again with Washington at Valley Forge and fought again with Marion's men We went with Ethan Allen tc Tic9nderoga and heard him thunder ':SurrenderW "In the name oi who? came the startled query. "Ir the name of God and the Continen' tai Congressw We heard Hale repeat, "The only regret 1 have l; that I have not nine lives to give to my country" and then died fol America. Each scene and incident of that unparalleled conflict held us spell bound until we reached the climax at Yorktown and we were $ free and independent nation. Eng land had boasted of being mistress of the seas and Paul Jones robbed her of that glory; and her naughty generals, who had come to com maud the Hessians against us, were made to stoop their lordly crests o- pride.
 We love to muse on the history ofour national existence. We love to fight again the battle of New Orleans with hndy Jackson. We jketo get with Perry and Lawrence on Lake Erie and see the sigma fving, "Don't give up the ship and read again Perry's famous dis patch, "We have met the enemy and ,hev are ours We like tc para tue halls Of congress with Webster, Calhoun and Clay. and so with Dayy Crockett to Texas.
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