The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1906-07-01

State House In Philadelphia, adopted th
immortal declaration Of mans natural
born rights. they unwittingly placed {
final seal for liberty upon a date which
at least three several times in the earlier
centuries, had seen long steps taken IL
that same sacred cause, To all the civil
lzed world that document OF human free
dom now sums up the spirit OF the day
that has come to be- known as lnde'
pendence Day, with a strangely unusua
fitness in the name. In view OF It's far
reaching record In history
| In the France Of tho Sixteenth CEN
tury It's future glory was first greatiy
foreshadowed, when lin 1891 and on July
4th) liberty OF conscience was first OH,
cially Endorsed: 1t was Henry ~. ceile5
The Changcable,' who is TO be thanked
for rcvoking the many hnrrassinG edlcts
which had been thrown out against me
cause OF the people, ae opposed TO ina
| of the Glasses came England inooTse-
ment. exactly Axty-two years later, July
o. 1853 the British Parliament Ignored the
| claims of the 'heaven-ordained' Stuarts
and chose Oliver Cromwell as Lord Pro-
| tector OF tho land.
The Albany Gathering.
The third OF these condolences, fore
telling even moro polntedly than had Its
| predecessors the greatest OF the days
events. chanced to fall in these Amer-
can colonies. in l7b4. There were then
gathered at Albany tho trade commission
srs from New Hampshire, haHseohusstts ais
Pennsylvania end Maryland, and on July
4th they adopted plan OF colonial
union." which had been proposed by
| certain MIR. BENJAMIN Franklin. That the
decision was later reversed by both Crown
| and colonies Is OF less Importance than
that tho world should have seen, Just
| twenty-five years to a day before the
signing OF the great Declaration, the
| steady working OF the leayen OF the
thought OF union in tho minds OF the
colonist leaders.
With l776's fourth and most splendid
act in the drama came, in less than two
centuries. Liberty and Union, one and
inseparablc, now and forever" but yet
other condolences continued to follow in
the wake of Americas pronuncamento
OF her independence.
fore on the exact semi-centennial OF the
birth of the great document. died two of
the five men who. more than all others.
had been responsible for ~ Thomas JEFF
Massachusetts. Five years later. and
again on ''the glorious Fourth died
another President OF the United States
who had given his name Of Monroe to q
policy so closely upholdinS the principle
of freedom here In the western world
history almost equal to that of the In
strument of 1776 itself.
america" First Sung.
How appropriate to the spirit of the
have been sung first on July 4thl S. F,
Smith. now known in letters and divinity
as Doctor" was then but student at
the Andover seminary, but the hymn he
had written on a dreary February day,
placed In the hands of Mr. Lowell Ma
son. had at once proved Its high worth
to that most prominent man In the mu-
sical circles of the time. and the heart
stirring Endorsement which Its patriotic
harmopies stirred in the breasts OF the
hundreds gathered in the church wrote
oil nd IN
And II the Day of Freedom has heard
the justice of It's cause ring forth In an
them. so, too, has It seen 1t spread to
the corners of the earth and to black
men as we'll as white. July T. 1881, Tus-
kegee college was founded. and July 4,
1901 civil government ives proclaimed in
Manila.
What advocates. again. of the liberty
for which the festival must ever stand
were John Quincy Adams and Daniel
Webster And the FIRST, on July 1902,
telling utterances in behalf OF human lib
critics, while on independence Day. 1851,
Webster; standing before the thousands
who had gathered to witness the laying
OF the cornerstone OF the Capitol extern
sion, declared: "It is my living sentl-
ment and, by the blessing of God, 1t
ence now and independence forever"
Sequence Not Coincidence.
The last named event, however was
IdtneI n sequence or the day than
coincidence. Because II was the Fourth
of July, indeed q score or noteworthy
happenings are to be written down on
the days calendar, SO, in 1888. was
held In Philadelphia the Federal pro-
cession to commemorate the ratification
of the National Constitution. So. In
1904, the first weekly mail coach to
run between Pittsburg and Philadelphia.
Quakers So In 1877 a beginning was
made near Rome n. Y, OF the work
which was to give the country the Erie
canal while just eleven years later, yot
another and greater step was taken
in the American transportation prob
lem when Charles Carroll Of Carroll
charter" laid the first rail- of that which
Ohio road
Such a list might run on almost at
as, Colorado and Utah came into the
Union. Hawaii was proclaimed a re-
pubic on that day In 1894; st, Louis's
magnificent Eads bridge was opened to
traffic on the holiday in 1874. President
Polk laid the cornerstone of the Wash
lngton monument at the National cap
ital In 1S4S; the monument to the same
FIRST President was dedicated in Union
Square, New York City. 1856 and the
sha1t 10 commemorate the man who
wrote Tre1e,. 9ont. Lhe t star-spengled Banner"
on Gate Park, San Francisco, 1884. q
memorial now fallen from It's place.
Records of War and Peace.
To return to the condolences of the
day IT was then Q7S0) that the French
fleet under Admiral de Fernay, FIRST was
sighted from the Virginia coast-a fleet
which was to aid the revolving colonists
In the struggle for their rights and IL
was on the Fourth (S9S) that the news
reached America OF the destruction of
Admiral Cervera's vessels July 4, 1881,
saw the British forces march, beaten
and discouraged, from Williamsburgh,
while on the same date In 1863 not ONLY
did the Union armies win at Helena,
Ark, but Pemberton YVES driven to sur
render Nicksburg TO Grant and Porter
Major George Rogers Clark of Vir-
ginia celebrated the anniversary when
1t was yet but two years old l77S) by
capturing Kaskaskie from the English
In 1S4S peace between Mexico and the
United States was proclaimed on the
fourth OF the seventh month and ex-
acty twenty years later was signed the
So-called Burlingame treaty between
this country and China.
"Blaclk Fourths."
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