Then and Now
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| Hersteller: | Forgotten Books (Sumner, Charles A.) |
| Stand: | 2015-08-04 03:50:33 |
Produktbeschreibung
Excerpt from Then and Now: Oration, Delivered at Quincy, California, July 4th, 1876 Mr. President, and Ladies and Gentlemen - Fellow Citizens: - The one hundreth anniversary of the adoption of the Declaration of Independence by the Congress of the United Colonies, or States, of North America: All Hail! Forty millions of people on this continent greet the morning sun of this day with the grandest emphasis of patriotic exultation. In a thousand cities of the land, the opening moment for rejoicings has been announced by the loudest concert of artillery and the peal of ponderous bells. In ten thousand towns and villages and hamlets, the proportion of possible welcome has been uttered; and over all the land the stirring roll of the drum, and the jubilant blare of the bugle, and the long processions of bayonet-bearing and regalia-clad men and flower-gar landed children, and the raising and decorating of memorial and triumphal arches, and the uncovering of marble statues of revolutionary heroes, and the earnest speech of proud reminiscence and hopeful prophecy, are among the high testimonials that are being heard and witnessed this day. Nor is this even a hint of all of recorded demonstration and contemporaneous magnetic incident which deserves our recognition at this moment of time. In a thousand foreign sea-ports that flag is flung from the masthead of every ship in the harbor; nor does there gaze upon it one intelligent man, woman, or child, without some conception of its significance, without some comprehension of its history, without some audible prayer for the perpetuity of those institutions whose one hundred years of life it betokens, and whose flourishing vigor at this day it defiantly proclaims. And as we gather here, a constituent assembly, in this beautiful valley of the Sierras, to render our humble tribute of commemoration, we seem to feel as a necessary, inevitable, and excellent advantage of our geographical position, that the atmosphere comes to us at this noonday surcharged with the echoes of celebrating voices, awakened in unnumbered homes, rolling in one grand tide from the Atlantic shores. An electric impulse and inspiration that comes from the salutations and cheering of the vast multitude of our fellow-citizens who dwell beyond and below us being borne in, as it were, by the winds of heaven upon our swelling hearts. Nay more: We seem to catch the strains of martial music, familiar and yet wonderfully weird and wild in its far, taint accents. And as we listen for the haunting whisperings of that music, we remember that the chieftains of the half-barbaric tribes of Herzegovina, who have recently risen in arms against the Turkish tyranny that has crushed their country for a thousand years, have instructed their clans to gather before their tents this day, and listen, and applaud, and adore the God of battles, after the manner of their fathers, while the bands of their battalions commend their supplications for victory by an accompaniment on the shrill clarions of the Orient-striking the newly learned notes of Hail Columbia, Yankee Doodle, and the National Anthem of the American Union. "Proclaim liberty throughout all the land unto all the inhabitants thereof. " They who see from the design the inevitable existence of a Creator, will confess without superstition the Providential direction that long before the date of its authentic utterance placed these words upon the iron shoulders of the bell that announced from the steeple of Independence Hall in Philadelphia, on the 6th of July, one hundred years ago, that the Declaration of Independence had been adopted by the authorized representatives of the thirteen colonies. The tones that were beard that day by those who were within the literal circuit of its vibrations have been renewed in every decade, as a stimulant and a sonoro
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