The Red Cloud chief., 1909-07-01

they were frcr. and tlc dessert smiled.
lum telling an old tale: but It'll one
which must be :old when we speak
Of those men. II i.,p be added that
they transmitted their principles to
their children. and that pcopled by
such race, our country was always
free. So long a. its inhabitants were
unmolceted 10y the mother country. In
the exercise of their important rights
thoy submitted to the form Of English
government: but when those rights
were invaded, they opurned even the
form away.
This act was the Revolution, which
came Of course. and spontaneously.
aud had nothing in it Of the wonder
ful or unforeseen. The wonder
would Lave been. if it had not oc.
Cured. 1t was, indeed. happy and
glorious event, but by 10 means un-
natural, aud intend no slight TO the
reverend actors in the Revolutions
when assert that their fathers before
them were a- free as they every whit
a free
The principles of the Revolution
were not the suddenly acquired pro.
pcrty of few bo,oms. they were
abroad in the land in the ages before.
they had always been taught. like the
truth, of the Bible they had descend.
cl from father to -on, down from those
| primitive days, whom the pilgrim es-
tabii-hcd in his simple dwelling, and
seated at his blazing fire, piled high
/ from the forest which shaded his door,
repeated to his listening children the
story of his wrongs and his resistance.
and badc them rejoice. though the
wild winds and the wild beasts were
howling without. that they had moth
ING TO fear from great mems oppre, $.
ion.
Here are the beginnings of the
Revolution. Every settlers hearth
was school of independence; the
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deeply ana lhus IL came that oul
country was always free; it could not
be other than free
AS deeply seated as was the prin
ciple OF liberty and resistance to arbi
trary power. IN the breasts of the
turitahs' 1t was not more so than Their
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P'ety ana SENSE OF religious obligation
lhey were cmphatlcaliy "A people
whose God was the Lord. Their fora
T. OF government was as strictly theorra
ucaI' II direct communication be eN
D cepted' AS was that of the Jews iuso
much that 1t would be dlt'icult To say
4 Nhefe 'h'rr was any civil wthori'.
, among them entirely distinct from &c
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. Whenever few of them settled
I town. they Immediately gathere,
1 themselves into church; aud thei
= elders were magistrates, and thei
4 code of laws was the Pentateuch
h These were forms, it is true, but form
!. Which lalthiully indicated principle
and feelings; for no people could hav
u adopted such forms, who were no
'horoughiy imoued win the spirit
: anu oeh' Oh .he practice' OF rellgion'
= God was their King; and they re
:, garded him as truly and literally sc
y as II he had dwclt in visible palac
In the midst of their state. They wer
v his devoted, resolute, humble subjects
;, they undertook nothing which the
u did not beg OF him to prosper; the
y accomplished nothing without render
= ing TO nm the praise; they sutfere
70 nothing without carryingtheirsor sorrow
" 10 ms throne' they ate nothing whic
> they ana not lmplore him to bless.
" Their ptcty was notmerelv eNterna
~ it was sincere: it had the proof of
good tree in bearing good fruit: it pr,
u duccd and sustained a strict moraIit,