Palestine daily herald. [volume] (Palestine, Tex.) 1902-1949, 1904-07-02
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We all know the history of ,ba
pivotal Fourth of July from which al
Others have become conspicuous. W.
know how conflicting interests and
emotions had contended. How Han
cock and Samuel Adams. who had
burned the bridges behind them. and
been proclaimed traitors by Great
Britain. urged on their cautious breth.
rem. How sagacious Franklin. long.
headed John Adams and fery-hearted
Richard Henry Lee. together worked
and planned. coaxing. persuading and
arguing with their conservative coa
( leagues. day after day. until they
took of their dare-all. endure-all SD
How that patriotic Congress eve
ally put aside every interest. eyI
consideration. save thsIof liberty
pfaie- of the right>
John Hancock in the chair. the
ing ffty-six. on July 4. 1776. s1gNH
the Declaration of independence. we
know that the deadly seven years
struggle that followed. that carried
that Declaration at the swords point.
and made the world accept Z as true.
The liberty of America vas born on
that July day at the state house in
Philadelphia. That date shines cloft
i blazing star against darkened
armament. Let the small boy shout.
whistles blow, bells ring. and can
non roar, Never too loudly can the
good story be told. At Saratoga and
Stony Point. Yorktown and Valley
Forge. our fathers won ne right for
their children's children 10 the last
generation to burn powder and make
uDroarious din upon this national day
OF days.
John Adams, the second president.
first prophesied that the anniversary
Of the signing of the Declaration of |
Independence would become a festal |
day. Boston has the honor OF holding |
the first real Fourth of July ,elebra.
ton. The war was over The United |
States were free and independent and |
Boston proposed in 1888 to celebrate |
the event in great style So there |
were marchings and parades and fiut-
i,ring Of flags. and shooting of mus.
kets and cannon. The Declaration |
of independence was read aloud. and
DR.. John Warren. Professor Of Anato.
ne in Harvard college. made strongly |
patriotic speech. The custom. SO
beautiful and appropriate. was adopt
ed everywhere throughout the land.
and the plan OF these celebrations has
al. Hoo. oraarf-.
pattern first set
Exactly ten years after. July 4. 1898.
John Quincy Adams was the orator OF
the day at Boston. He had not vet
reached his twenty-sixth year. but his
father was Massachusetts most
prominent son. and his son was
as in sense his representa-
tive. That day John Quincy Adams
showed that be was something more
han merely the son of his father. His
is yet considered a mastep
piece. and from that day he vas a
power in the land and eventually be-
anne president
The morning OF the Jubilee Fourth.
Iuly. 1926. the fiftieth anniversary of
he signing os the Declaration OF In.
found :ou- Of the s!gners |
'ct alive. The sunset found but two. |
IN that day there passed -way the
immortal spirits of Thomas jefferson
md John Adams. each OF whom had
,ccn president Of the nation ha had
.clpcd to make
The morning Of July I. 1895. found
9th the old comrades sick unto
cath. Jefferson sank first. with the
words Il resign my soul To God. and
ny daughter to my country uean-
while in his mansion. John Adams lay !
.asping his life away. Ninety-one
ears had not dimmed his intellect or
elkeued his courageous spirit. He !
.eGrd the noise Of the days celebra- {
ion. and asked what day It was. {
.ftcr he had been told. he Jay for s
rhile lost in thought. his mind re {
erting TO those stirring times dfty {