Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1922-07-05
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INDEPENDENCE DAY

young giant of the western world,
though coming onto the stage of ac-
ton a century and half ago, has
not yet reached it's maturity but is
growing steadily toward world en-
bracing magnitude.
Like all other red-blooded crea-
lures this country has had it's diff
culties and it's development has been
threatened not once, nor twice, but
many times. But it has met and mas
tered all it's difficulties heroically and
by its strenuous endeavors has COM
PEELED the respect of the world.
This giant of the Goth century was
born with a vigorous constitution. It
had the blood of Pilgrims and Puri-
tans in it's veins, and it was pure
blood, untainted with the vices of a
degenerate age. 1t is great thing
for a man or nation to be born
right the first time. America was
born right.
This modern Hercules like its an
Gent predecessor strangled one of it's
foes in its cradle. 1t put to death ex-
ternal authority by it's creation of
the town meeting as a method of
working. 1t formulated what men
had dreamed of for generations but
had never been able to reach. There
came time in its early history when
the nation proved it's ability to coor-
dinate it's powers and faculties. In
stead of allowing it's different mem
bers to become antagonistic, one or
gan crying to another organ, II have
no need of you," Massachusetts and
South Carolina recognized a common
origin and the blood of patriotism
flowed alike in every vein.
There followed an epoch after the
nation had reached vigorous manhood
when internal disease gripped the
heart of the country, and amputation
of diseased limb seemed inevitable.
The gangrene of secession had shown
itself and numerous physicians adj
vised severing the diseased member
But Uncle Ham with sword in hand
cut out the plague spot and the
wound has healed, scarcely leaving a
scar. The drastic treatment admin
istered to the patient in 1862 will
never have to be repeated for the
cause of the plague was forever re-
moved.
A statue of Stonewall Jackson was
recently unveiled at Charlottesville
We Capo+or Harrison, Of MicSiSSippi
the orator of the day, said in part:
'At San Juan Hill the boys from the
South, under Wheeler, charged with
those from the North under Roose-
welt. On the cactus plains of Mex
leo the lads in khaki from Virginia
marched by the side of those from
Vermont. At Belleau Wood, Chateau
Thierry, and Argonne, when civiliza-
ton trembled in the scales the brave
boys from every part of this land,
under the folds of the Stars and
Stripes and to the tunes of Dixie
and yankee Doodle Dandy" follow
ed Pershing for humanity and their
country. And today, it matters not
in which war they were engaged, the
names of northern and southern he
roes illumine the pages of history
and are enshrined in the hearts of a
common country.
The Blue and the Gray,
In, fierce array,
No local hates discover,
Strike hands once more
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The North and South forever.
In 1896 there came another crisis
in the life of the nation. America
could not keep it's soul and permit
atrocities to be perpetrated at her
very door step. 1t went forth re-
gardless of consequences to face the
garroters of its immediate neighbor-
hood and spilled it's blood in behalf
of the oppressed. With mailed fist it
drove the oppressors of defenceless
people out of the country and across
the sea.
Then came the mightiest test of
all the years. America faced the
question: Shall autocracy assissinate
the nations of the earth or shall dem
ocracy vindicate its title to recogni-
ton? This. western giant beheld a
plague of hemispherical dimensions
sweeping over Europe and came at
last to see that if civilization perish
ed in the eastern hemisphere it's own
doom was sealed with loyalty un-
questioned this mighty republic
sprang to the rescue of world. II
poured out its life blood in rivers, ii
struck blows that were felt in the
very citadel of autocratic power. 1t
never fiinched in the trenches MOI
turned it's back on any foe. It's 10y
atty was unquestioned in 1776, in
1861, In 1895 and in 1916 it displayed
the same kind of patriotism that had
characterized the nation from the day
of its first conflict.
The flag that led valiant men from
Concord to Yorktown, from Sumpter
to Appomatox, from Santiago to
Manila, fluttered in the. breeze of La
Belle France. Over the heads of the