New Iberia enterprise and independent observer. (New Iberia, La.) 1902-1944, 1917-07-07

and carries everywhere the worlC
around such hope to the captive
and such glorious tidings. The
stars upon it were to the pining
nations like the bright morning
stars Of God. and the stripes upon
it were beams Of morning light
AS at early dawn, the stars shine
forth even as it grows light and
then as the sun advances this
light breaks into banks and
streaming lines of color, the
glowing red and intense white
striving together and ribbing the
horizon with bars effulgent. So
too, On the American Flag, stars
and beams of many colored light
shine out together. And where
ever this flag comes and men be-
hold it, they see in it's sacred en-
blazonry no ramping lion and no
fierce eagle, no embattled castles
or insignia of imperial authority,
they see symbols Of light.
"Our Flag carries American
ideas, American history, Amer
can feelings. Beginning with
the Colonies and coming to our
own time, in its sacred heraldy.
its glorious insignia, it has gath
cred and stored chiefly, this SUI
preme idea; Divine Right of Lib
erty in Man. Every color means
liberty, every thread means lib
erty! to lawlessness, not license
but organized institutional lib
erty; liberty through laws and
laws for liberty.
The American flag has ever
been the safeguard of liberty.
Not an atom of crown was allowed |
20 60 into it's insignia, not a
symbol of authority in the ruler
vas permitted to go into it. 1t
vas an ordinance of liberty, for
he people, by the people. That
t meant, that it means, and Ivy the
blessing of God that it shall mean
o the end Of time.
"The history Of this banner is
IL on the side of rational lib
rty. Under it road Washing
on and his armies Washington
nuch beloved but much abused
y those who are his eugolists,
Who have described all that he
7as except his love Of liberty,
nd this has been forgotten. But
Washington, would be like a man
7ithout a soul, if you left out of
i'm that high, almost imperial
hivalric love Of liberty for every
uman being. Under it rode he :
nd his armies, before it Bur-
oyne laid down his arms, it
7aved on the highlands at West
oint when Arnold would have
these valuable for
'esses and precious legacies. His
light was turned into day and
is treachery was driven away
y beams of light from this starry
It cheered our army /:
riven out from around New
,ork and in all their painful
ilgrimages through New Jersey. ,
mall, but comely, and rich and :
nperishable in the drops Of
recious blood that have re-
eemed her sainted soil from
arrenness. In New Jersey more
ian in any other state grows the =
ailing arbutus. Methinks it is :
e sacred drops of Pilgrim blood
at come forth in beauteous flow
s in this sandiest Of soils, for ?
is sweet flower that lays its t.
EEK upon the very snow is the d
ue Pilgrims Maytiower. This 7
inner streamed in light over the !,
ldiers' heads at Valley Forge b
d Morristown. It crossed the B
ater, rolling with ice at Trenton, .
d when it's stars shone forth m Il
cold grey morning with VIC
ry. a new day of hope dawned p
the dependency of this ma e.
N. fr
And when at length the long b.
ars of the war were drawing !.
close, underneath the folds 70
this immortal banner sat Wash la
gton, while Yorktown sur N
ndered it's hosts, and our Rev y
itionary struggle ended with q,
tory.
1T waved thus over that whole - :.
Itoric period of struggle and %
er that period in which sat the Il
mortal Convention that framed =
r Constitution. 1T cheered the -
rdy pioneers who then went
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