White Pine news weekly mining review. [volume] (East Ely, Nev.) 1910-1920, 1911-07-09
GREAT TRIBUTE TO THE OAY|
Of INDEPENDENCE IS PAID
Grafton of Charles A. Walker a Scholarly and Mas.
terful Effort, Is Well Delivered and Makes SpIen.
did Impression Upon All Who Heard it

out or arms and even imbeeiles were
crowned. When the people were
forced TO give some reason why the
eldest son Tor daughter if there vas
no SOM should rule them, they in
vented the absurd phrase of Divine
rlgnt OF kings believing. or claim
ing 10 believe, that God had endowed
the eldest son, or daughter, as in
the cases of Queen Bess, Queen Mary
and Queen Victoria with divine au-
thority TO rule over millions of sub
Jects. We thus see therulers of the
flrst period possessed some physical
qualifications, as being bold and dar-
ing. cruel and Goliah like in size,
and those of the second under a sup
posed right from God.
For the third period. People had
emigrated from the old world, mostly
from England, to American shores.
These emigrants We're not of the
stagnant blue-blood class, but their
veins ran full of good red blood. and
in the wilderness they found plenty
of time to think Git is said that all
good thoughts are born In solitude)
and they figured out that God is no
%respector of persons, and that George
~ oha iht hidJofiA3 vi ~ 1
parliament were tyrants; and they
further figured that IL God had any.
thing TO do in the matter, he cared
no more for aristocratic blue-bloods
than for poor but honest red bloods.
They failed to comprehend what right
George Ill had to quarter foreign
soldiers in their homes in times of
peace. and without their consent: TO
F.w.thl.. a.faa 4an. H. -.
the high seas and press them into
English service, and without pay; to
make private searches without legal
warrant. TO forbid colonists to send
their products to any country except
England, and then only In English
bottoms, to refuse to allow them to
pass and enforce local laws; and es-
pecially to tax them without their
consent-without allowing them to
name a single representative to sit
in the House of Parliament that lev.
led that tax. Then they figured some
more. and came TO the conclusion
that intelligent people should have
some say as to how and by whom
they should be governed. and after
coming to that conclusion. they inn
mediately set themselves to bring
that condition about.
You are all more or less familiar
With the principal events of the
Revolutionary War; how 1t commenc-
ed in the commonwealth of Massa-
chusetts, spread to the southern col
onies. and lastly to those of the
middle Atlantic. ending in CORVALLIS
surrender at Yorktown. We know
that England was not content with
sending her vast armies of English
men to subdue us. but hired armies
of mercenary soldiers of other coun-
tries and melted the savage Indians,
who spared neither age nor sex, and
knew nothing and cared less of the
rules of civilized warfare, TO sub
due a mere handful of American set
tiers. scattered along the Atlantic
coast from the bleak and barren
shores of Maine TO the swamps or
shores of Maine to the swamps OF
Florida. We know of the Stamp Act
of the Boston Tea ~Party-how some
If the best citizens of Boston town,
disguised as Indians, boarded an
English vessel in the harbor. and
dumped the tea into the sea;
They made the biggest mess of tea.
In one of the biggest dishes
| mean they stepped 1t in the sea
And treated all the fishes.
of Paul Revere's ride; battle of Bum
ker Hill. capture of Forts Crown
Point. Ticonderoga and Stony Point;
treason OF Arnold; the pulling down
of the leaden statue of George Ill in
New York City and melting II into
.ulIets to be shot at the kings sol
diers; of Washington's wintering at
Valley Forge with his army of almost
naked and starving soldiers through
hat winter of winters; and how the
great and lovable Marquis de
Lafayette engrafted himself into the
hearts of all Americans by his aid TO
us in trying times; and the great
patriots who rendered such aid by
their oratory and pen. Who can
imagine more forcible statements thai
Patrick Henry's "* /" Give me liberty
,r give me DEATH" and Thomas
Paine's introduction to Common
Sense These are the times that
try mems souls. The summer sol
der and the sunshine patriot will, In
this crisis, shrink from the service
of his country, but he who stands 1t
now deserves the love and thanks OF
men and women
For the first two years of the war
there was no unity of action between
the thirteen colonies except such as
arose from mutual sympathy n
mutual protection; but as the war
progressed, 1t became evident there
must be some central body to direct
operations-a house divided against
tself must fall, but there Is strength
in unity. Therefore the several col
onies appointed delegates who met at
Philadelphia in 1774, and organized
the first Continental Congress; the
second session of which met in 17f5,
and the third, the doings of which
we are most particularly interested
in. met In Independence Hall, in
| Philadelphia, In 1776. Virginia
had instructed her delegate, Rich
ard Henry Lee. to introduce
a resolution of independence,
| which he did on June 18th, which
resolution was seconded by John
Adams of Massachusetts. The House
| dahatad as n whole on the Sth and