The daily silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1903-1907, 1904-07-13
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principles of the Magma Charta. The
colonistse from the other European
countries had Teen disciplined in these
great wars to a spirit OF re sonal in
deper dence and religious freedom.
Their direct descendants were the
people OF the colonies who had a share
in TIE movements that cuinina'ed IN
tre Pnvolrtion. ard who. by inher-
itance and teaching. had Untitled the
same qualities Of their hardy ancestors.
This conformity of characte- held
these dive Sc n~ationalities together as
colonies and enabled them. af'er they
had acuuis ed their independence to
eaTilv coalesce into a nation. IT IVES
such soil. ote-ared, IL seems, ny p owl
eenca, that cave the seed7 of Are len
liberty permanent root and growth.
It was ruch soil Transported from TIE
best parts of Europe to the Atlantic
coa~t that all tie armies OF England
could not trsmple into dust.
Notwithstanding this deposition of
tire coloniets. w o~-ht as Il Rod fe1n
by a long train of circumstances and
tie environments Of o rev ~e-fan. mo
a desire ofr large political freedom, II
took nary aonrereiva acts to force
them to a final separation from the
mother county.
In the beginning they asked only TO
a 'edress of injuries and placed all
tel acts and public expressions on
that ground. The Stamp Act and SUBJ
reruent obnoxious relsu~es-taxation
without reDresentation-they resisted
az invasions Of their rights as subjects.
But trave We e those in Arca~i~a wto
perceived in TIE polie..' oe Parliament
a princi~la incompatible WITH tie tenn
ner srd Ibe ties of TIE ~colori~ts.
Grid ally in these ~une To- iatsllec-s
wa evolved the e eat political truth
that mankind i~ caDah'n If self govern
trent. To vindics re tfat truth they
said the colonies ought to be declared
free and independent states.
TIE fdamses and other leading
Statement u ged the necessity of this
coul Sc upon their countrymen from the
first, but the majority still chung to the
hore oe a reconciliation.
They had been loyal subjects and were
loath to b eak the ties of allegiance.
In 1774 Parliament parsed an act pro-
viding for the TRANSPORTATION of Pc
sons accused of crime in America to
England for tiial. TIE indignation
aroused in the colonies at this enor-
nous measure vas intense. hut d d not
d. i've them into open rebellion. FINAL y
the memorable battle Of Lexington
was fought and Ame.fcan blood was
shed in resisting an attack by the
kings troops. The hou- had struck at
last for the beginning of the g eat con-
fict between tie Old World and the
New.
Liberty and ~daspotism a clossd
again in dubious and obstinate contest
to dete mine the relative lights of men
for all future generations.
Nothing under the heavens could
s~econcile the oppressed and the opp es-
sor now.
When the sun rose on that 18th of
April, England and America we e not
Wholly estrangSd and a gentle hand
might have led them with a sllken
strand into concord and union. Wien
the sun set OH hat same day bands of
ron could not have held them together.
All the past wrong eliminating in
mat tragedy on the 6 eensward at
-eXirg on united the col0l.isas in a
9aIlan band as firm and devoted as
nose of old The mopylae.
Event now followed event in Quick
succession. The elo suence of the pa
Iiot orators fulmined Ger the land al d
hook tho iron viii OF the third Geo. ge
IpOn his throne. On tie floor Of the
Continental Congress- John Adams
"a ried a vote of f eadom. and on July
|, lf76-one hundred and twenty-eigat
ga S g to-d1y-the jubilant tongue
IF Liberty Bell TIE bi. n
If our beloved nation.
In the Decia. alton of independence
adopted then. and which you, my
f4iends. have heard read to- dly in such
: pleasing manner by the aole gentle
a of our town-in that declaration
Ire contained the owe nmental p.opo-
iti0ns which our ancestors maintained
f~the feld Of honor.
All men, it says, are created equal.
How strange hat must have sounded
t that time on the other side of the Al
lantic!
The settlers of a western wilderness de-
lating themselves possessed of all the
inhel ent qualities Of throned majesty.
Eeual in birth. Equal in blood. Equal
In rights.
The annals of the human race far into
he grey centuries of tradition bore am
lie testimony in behalf of roytl.y. 1nere
vas not a precedent in any of the gov
srnments OF the past that denied the SUI
esior rights of some men to others. III
he assertion of human equality was adj
II. ted. then all the other propositions In
he Declaration followed. Of course. For
I all men were equal. then none could
be su.erior to the other. and could be
soveIned only by himself.
Then If men were rot capable OF self
government they were not capable of be-
ng governed at all.
Who can wonder at the furore caused
n the Old World by the declaration OF
guch principles as these?
The crowned heads were alarmed at a
situation so .~erilous to their SUPREMACY.
They thought. however. that England's
1ower would speedily overcome the in
Significant patriots and destroy these new
heories of government.
But. ah. what a mistake was thst!
What a mistake was that! The basic
principle of equality, upon which human
government must rest. was known at
last. and all the armies and sguadrons OF
Europe could not shake IL from its place.
/ have said that our ancestors main
aired that declaration upon the field or
honor. Yes. my friends. TO their ever
lasting renoWn ard our common glory,
let me again say what you all know, that
hey nobly maintained the inalienabie
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