Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1900-02-03


hand, his signature to it. and also
added the following grateful. solemn
and piOus supplemental declaration,
aud which was also signed by his own
hand: Grateful to Almighty God for
the blessings which through Jesus
Christ. our Lord. He has conferred on
my beloved country in her emancipa-
ton, and on myself. in permitting me,
under circumstances of mercy to live
TO the age of 80 years. and to survive
the 5Oth year of American independ-
ence, and certify by my present sigma
ture my appreciation of the declaration
of independence adopted by congress
on the 4tk of July, 1776, which 1 Or
riginally subscri bed on the 2nd day of
August of the same year, and OF which
| am now the last surviving signer; l
DO hereby recommend to the present
and future generations the principles
of that important document, as the
best earthly Inheritance their ances-
tors could bequeath to them, and pray
that the civil and religious liberties
they have secured To my country may
be perpetrated to remotest pOsterity.
and extended TO the whole family of
men. (Signed)
Aug. 2, 1926.
"CHARLES CARROLL.
..Of Carrollton."
Then Mr. Bell continues: Who in
this country, at that time, could have
been made 10 believe that in less than
76 years. public men, in public
speeches. and public newspapers and
other publications. ia leading art
cIes, would, with impunitv, sneer at
the principles of that immortal in
strument, and al the men who signed
it; and that even the president of the
republic. and the dominant political
party of the country, for the indepen-
dencc of which these signers risked
their lives, their fortunes and their
sacred honors, would openly and ne-
toriously repudiate and spit upon the
basic principles of that declaration
that all men are created equal: that
they are endowed by their Creator
with the inalienabe rights of life, lib
erty and the pursuit of happiness;
and that governments can derive their
Just powers only from the consent of
the governed; or that a president of
the republic they helped To found on
.fDrcible annexation iSoppOsed to our
code of morals and criminal az
erosion, would turn round and help
to make that very declaration Kissing
and by-word in the mouths of men
by setting at defiance and trampling
under his shameless feet the once uni
yersally approved and revered pri lci
pies of that declaration of indcpeud-
ence The teachings and practices of
President Mckinley and the republi-
can party at this time, and especially
their brutal slaughter of men in the
islands struggling for liber-
tv and independence, and their open
and notorious sympathy for Great
Britain, our ancient and eternal enc
my, in her unjust and brutal war for
the destruction of liberty and in
dependence of this Dutch republics
OF South Africa. is enough To make
every one of the 30 signers of the
declaration Of independence turn over
in their graves. And still. William
Mckinley is candidate for re-elect-
ion, and the republican party, the
tory party of these degenerate politi-
cal days, expects to re-elect hi On in this
year of our Lord A. ID, 1900. This
they expect to try TO do, and hope to
accomplish, despite the fact that he
has spit upon the declaration of indie
pendcnce, abrogated the Monroe
doctrine. repeatedly violated the
exalted the trusts. de-
bauched the army, and disgraced
his country in the eyes of every ma
ton in the world except only Great
Britain. He has sacrificed the moral
prestige of his country, and caused it
to belproclaimed as 4 nation of land
robbers throughout the world. He
has sacrificed the lofty principles of
human liberty and justice proclaimed |
n the declaration, and practiced for a |
hundred years, for the misera BILE |
Drinci piles of greed for land and gold.
He has sacrificed our lofty and once |
proud independence. for an alliance
with Great Britain, and thus tied his
own hands and sealed the lips of the
American people from consistently
our sympathy for the
republics OF South Africa,
or how can We consistently denounce
be criminal aggressions of Great
Britain against liberty and indepen-
ience in South Africa. while our
elves engaged in shooting our
ormer allies, now struggling for
liberty and independence in the
islands,? What Great Bri-
ain failed to accomplish in 1916 and
ol2. she has accomplished through
he administration of William Nc
linlev. and that. too. without firing a
.un or costing dollar of money or a
rop of blood. William Mckinley has
made it so that when England takes
huff his truculent administration
proceeds 10 sneeze. and when the
British lion turns over. he pulls the
lanket of of and causes the
american eagle TO meekiy and
squawk. He has
hanged the glorious American flag
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