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independence


independence
Emerson Page in Delta Tribxne-
and carewo man. leading little boy BY the hand
destitute but sti noble looking man. making his way on foot
help him had secretly tried his ideas and
failed England had been appealed in vain Spain had sub
biblical and heterodOx he his way France.
at haa imam
invited Columbus to stay awhile at the monastery and here
and the Guinea Isles; Of his fight
shpwreck off Cape Vincent of the sailors he had and
and countries that Christians had
and that by sailing could reach eastern
Strange pieces Of wood fashioned by human hands but
them had the dead bodies of strange Of unknown
Whence had they they had not dred the
heard in Ielandvague and formess tales of
ed pleasant cities there.
And so the priest was and thru him. the Co
ships only three unseaworthy tubs and the
human derects mans independence of thoughthand
of bigoyfnaly aoot llequpped and insufficient
s
had led him thru bitter poverty and loneliness and made him
pointed him the fool thot the world
round It would have been much easier to acquece in the
dominant majority was wrong and if he had SO acquesce
haye had different history afterwards It was here then in
the head Of CHRISTOPHER Columbus and not at Independence Hall
lin 1776, that American independence really began.
But though Independence Hall not the birthplace of
American independence the most important milestone
than that Of the present city of New York respectfully but
fearessy deed the whole monarchic world They did not
ally only against Great Britain but by repudating
doctrines of depoc that ealousy de-
Tended in every other monarchy as they were in England the
world. 'o''-.-
Judged by the number Of engaged and the size of the
battles fought the American Revolution not much of
than George III to seat other depos their thrones but
dependent denial OF peoples obligation to be ruled by any
despot at all.
II is either in the souls of it
not anywhere It in the thinking of Columbus before
was announced the words of Jefferson. in the sefre
defiance of the coonists before its recognition
from George III by the Revolutionary War It was in the blood
sailors it's second recognition in 1915 in
of the pioneers who poured the Ohio Valley and
Illinois and built empire there and pushed across the
plains to Oregon and built another empire there.
These independent of all the things that make
slaves to monarchs to mobs and make them soft They
that had been done before at ALL It this independent
daring that built the Great Northern railroad wilder
operation ore filled the world with Mark
wans bucoc rdcue of the preense he found in European
this independence the wan is it in secusion?
Never before the history Of America has there seemed be
prise of suberence to the current tendencies of
maortes This domination Of maorities extends far
decide and determines taste in literature
policy business and opinions concerning pretty nearly
Everything - -
Increasingly accept the dogma that the crowd like the
despo of DID, do wrong and like the subjects Of
repression individual independence win the
daon of crowd but discovered continents
colonies developed any empires OF the magnl
ltude Of the United States.
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