The Penn's Grove record., 1910-07-01
The PENIS Grove Record
FRIDAY, JULY /, 1910.
The FAITH OF Our FATHERS
The Precepts al Laid Down ~ the
Father Of Democracy
Thomas Jefferson

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Anniversary Festival 1t ought to be
commemorated as the day Of deliver
ance by solemn acts of devotion to God
Almighty. II ought to be solemnized
with pomp, shews, games, sports, guns,
bells, bonfires and Examinations, from
one end OF the country to the other,
from this time forward forever"
Why should it be SO?
Thomas jefferson, who wrote the
Declaration of Independence, said:
s.The Fourth of July divorces us from
the follies and crimes of Europe"
In 1921, Jefferson said: 'The flames
kindled on the Fourth Of July, l776,
have spread over too much of the globe
to be extinguished by the feeble engines
of d~espotism; on the contrary, they will
consume these engines and all who
work them."
Daniel Webster said Of Thomas JEFF
ferson: HE more deeply impressed
himself upon the Legislation and desti-
MES OF the country than any other man
who ever lived"
The late United States Senator Geo.
F. Hoar, of Massachusetts, said of
Jefferson: 1.-THE author of the Declare
ton Of Independence stands in human
history az the foremost mar who ever
lived. whose influence has led men to
govern themselves in the conduct OF
the states by spiritual laws, not form1-
las to be assenled to, but rules OF life
to be governed BY"
REASONS FOR INDEPENDENCE.
Jefferson formulated these reasOn
among others for American indepen-
dence:
AL men are created equal.
When any form of government be-
comes destructive Of life, liberty and
the pursuit of happiness it is the right
of the people to alter Oh abolish 1t.
The King of Great Britain had
evinced a desire to reduce the colonies
under absolute despotism by taxing
them without representation in parlia-
ment; made judges dependent upon his
will alone; erected a multitude of new
offices; kept standing armies among
them in time of peace; cut off trade
with all parts of the world, etc.
RULES FOR SELF GOVERNMENT.
Thomas Jefferson was the father of
another epoch OF our nation when he
became President in 1901. In his fir t
inaugural address, he said:
About to enter, fellow citizens, on
the exercise of duties which compre-
bend everything dear and valuable to
you, it is proper that you should under
stand what l deem the essential princi-
dies of our government, and conse-
Quently those which ought to shape its
administration. 1 will compress them
within the narrowest compass they will
bear, stating the general principle, but
not all its limitations.
Equal and exact justice to all men, of
whatever state or persuasion, religious
orpolitical; peace, commerce andhonest
friendship. with all misunderstanding
alliances with none; the support of the
state governments in all their rights, as
the most competent administrations for
our domestic concerns and the surest
bulwarks against anti-republican ten
denotes; the preservation OF tie General
Government in its whole constitutional
yigor, as the sheet-anchor of our peace
at home and safety abroad; a jealous
care of the right of election by the peO-
plea mild and safe corrective of
abuses which are Topped by the sword
of the revolution where peaceable rem
edies are unprOvided; absolute acquies-
ence in the decisions of the majority
the vital principles of republics, from
which there is no appeal but to force
the vital principle and immediate parent
of despotism; a well disciplined militia
our best reliance in peace and for the
first moments of war, till regulars may
relieve them; the supremacy Of the civil
owe the military authority; economy
in public expense, that labor may be
lightly burdened: the honest payment
of Jul debts and sacred preservation of
the public faith; encouragement Of ag-
r%iculture, and Of commerce al its hand
maid; the diffusion of information and
the arraignment of all abuses at the Tar
of public reason freedom of religion;
freedom of the press; freedom of person
under the protection of habeas corpus;
and trial by juries impartialiy selected
these principles form the bright con-
ISOLATION which has gone before us, and
guided our steps through an age of
revolution and reformation.
The wisdom of our sages and tile
blood OF our heroes have beeu devoted
to their attainment. They should be
the creed OF our political faith-the
iextof civil misunderstanding touchstOne
by which to Try the services of those we
trust; and should we wander from them
lii moments of error OF alarm, let us
hasten to retrace our steps and to re-
gain the road which alone leads to
peace, liberty, and safety"
This country Was governed under
these rules for sixty years. How far
we have wandered from the faith OF
u fathers Ill the past fifty years is
worthy of consideration by all citizens
to-day.
ACROSS THE RIVER.
United States Senator Henry A. du-
Point, who1usually spends the hummer in
Europe, will remain home this year to
look after the election of Legislators favor