The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1904-07-07

John i. Main, NJ. D., formerly Of Unity;
Nelson Dingley, Jr., who was afterward
Governor, Member of Congress- Siasa ana onalr-
spent his boyhood days here. Hon. John
Crosby, whose eloquence has electrified
vast audiences in the west, hrst practlced
upon the schoolboys of Unity; and George
C. Chase, now the honored president OF
Bates College, is native OF our Town.
Friends and fellow citizens: Weare proud
of our ancestors and of their work, we are
proud of our town as you see it to-day, and
if this anniversary shall strengthen our
pride, shall increase the loyalty OF our cltl-
zenS and cause our hearts TO beat with a
stronger love and patrlotsm dof ~ our t naive I've
town, those who have labored tor this day
will feel that the recompense mas indeed
been sufficient
! ''A Brief History of the Town of Unity"
published in 1898 by Edmund Murch, has
the following in relation to Unity's part in
the war of the Rebellion:
| In the war of the Rebellion Unity prompt
| y furnished her quota of men and the fol
i lowing named persons and possibly few
| others, besides others that were hired as
| substitutes in other towns, went into the
| army. nearly all of whom returned to Unity,
! and many of them are now living IN town.
pany; Amander Racklitf, Jr., a drummer; ;
| Marsian McManus was in Libby. prison
| nine months, contracted disease while there
| and died few years after the close OF the
war; Daniel Small, I'd, was shot and killed
in battle; Phineas Bennett died SOON after
getting home; Otis McGray wounded IN bat
| tie; Cyrus Haskell now in the Treasury de-
| partment at Washington; Cyrus Myrick
| killed in the army; Jephtha Murch died
soon after the close of the war; Lemuel
Reynolds died in hospital; Alonzo Libby
| contracted disease while in the army, and
of tor hn p1n nj
McManus, Daniel Small, Andrew A. Hurd,
John Ranlett, Benjamin Woods, Thomas
| COoksOn, Josiah Scribner, Daniel Scrlbner,
| Edwin Hall, Ruell Berry. Samuel Myrick,
| Daniel Starkey, John Crie, Amos Douglas,
Frank Hamilton, Daniel Flye,- Eli Chase,
Elijah Flye, Charles 0. Chase, Joseph Lib
by, William Hamilton, Warren Jones, Hen
ry Robertson, Jonathan Kelley, Eldridge
| Parkman, John I. Main, M. D., Jefferson
Clifford, BENJAMIN Williams, NJ. D., Eugene
Boulter, Ralph Harmon, Asa Douglas, AL
yano Lowell, William Bither. Fred Seavy,
| William Moore, Nathan Libby, William
Whitten, George Clifford, Edwin E. Stew
ems, Silas Bither, Lewis Thompson, Josiah
| K. Reynolds, Charles Marshall, Myrick Hag-
erty, Augustus Broad.
| Mr.. Taber then introduced as the orator
Of the day, Prof. George {. Chase, Presi-
dent Of Bates College, Lewiston, and ma
| 1--WE VI y ulGy.
Prof. Chase reviewed the history of the
| town of Unity, the State of Maine and the
/ United States of America, and showed how
| in this, as in other cases, the one leads to
the organization of the other. Our fore
fathers formed the towns; then as repre-
sentatives of the towns they organized the
colonies, and finally as representatives OF
the colonies formed this great Union Of
States. He traced the growth of popular
/ government from its earliest beginnings to
its present state of high development. The
Adamses, Jefferson, Hancock, and the 9TH
ers were not developed suddenly. They
were the product of the training in the
town, as were also the great poets, soldiers,
statesmen and journalists of later years.
| He called to the Imagination the condition
of America were there now 45 small nations
instead of union Of 45 sovereign States in
one grand nation. That condition would
! be the extreme OF weakness. This places
US where our flag is respected and our citi-
Zens protected throughout the world. The
| first settlers of Unity were doubtless en-
couraged in their labors by the victories of
the colonies in the Revolutionary war. All
great events in our nations history, have
| been educators of the people, especially the
Civil war and the events leading up to it
and Immediately succeeding it. The later
eventS-the discussions OF the tariff, the
currency, the Cuban question, the Eastern
reorganization of the political map, the
great IdlIodu enter tHe lHteI-OcetulC Il
canal, the trusts-have all had their part in
educating the people up to their duties as
citizens. The agitation of these questions
has strengthened the popular mind and
leads to successful solution of all these
problems. The citizens of Unity have been
no passive spectators. She has contributed
her full share of men to meet every crisis,
and to lead in the worlds great events. She
has furnished her full quota 10 the remark
able men of her times. Her people have
been honest and true. Freely has she given
and as freely received Never were her
families s.; SO prosperous and happy, her farms
so we'll titled, her schools SO advanced. To
maintain the high standard to which she
has attained she must maintain the high
moral and Christian standard of character
which she inherited from her sturdy an
cestors. Gas you think of these things
think of the men and women of early days
strive to emulate their virtues; and wher
the bi-centennial of our town shall be cele
brated, may our children and grandchildren
be found as true to every duty as were oul
ancestors of hundred years ago.
casion by Miss Muriel Esther Chase, daugh
ter of Prof. Chase, was read by H. L. Rand
native of Unity and now principal of thu
Ames School of Dedham, Mass.
THE SONG OF FREEDOM.
the past,
The past whose glorious echoes shall re
sound
Through the far, unfooted sands of time.
Though we celebrate
No lustrous history of the race, but thu
growth
OF single town, we yet do homage to
The cosmic plan for all the years in this
That the vast mosaic, time, is fashioned bi
By bit and each part needful to the perfec
Pattern OF the years. The centuries live
Though they who trod their paths ar
dead; they live
In the blue sky, the gold light, the gra.
: hills,
In the deep sea, the weary wind and tn
dark night.
The centuries live though whole people
pass away
, Yet do they pass? Nay, in the warm linea
mentS
Of face we view the beauty of thousan,
Years, the subtle secrets of a buried
Race, the deep-brOwed intellect that ha
made
nation great.
/ Rome still lives in some ample
Forum of to-day in hillside temple
Greece survives. The cold ruin of decay
| Chils not the new, wrought in the moult
| Of yesterday.
Though thy children sleep above tn.
calm pond, beneath
The soft canopy of the sky, oh Unity.
, Though they lie meath some far off plain