Volume 18 , Issue 26

1888 - Liberty by Stephen Morris

On this, our glorious day of anniversary, we are surrounded by all that bespeaks liberty, happiness, houses free from Tyrannical search, and, better than all, independence.

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Reviewing the preceding one hundred years, did the inhabitants of this, our beloved country, then enjoy the comfort and peace which rests upon our nation today? Did the children of that day enjoy the advantages of a faultless education, which is now offered free to all who are willing to accept it? No! All then was darkness and despair.

Our country was yet an infant and its independence had not yet been acknowledged by foreign powers, and therefore it had little or no public credit with which to place itself on a firm basis. But in the face of all these difficulties our country has risen in one hundred years to be one of the leading countries of the world, not only in business circles, but in Christianity.

At that time it had just emerged from a long, expensive but righteous war, through which we are now enjoying the liberty and peace for which our forefathers fought so bravely and so hard. Let the children's minds be filled with the glorious deeds of Washington, Marion and Sumter, and let their spirits be fired with grateful enthusiasm, which can never be suppressed at the mention of those true and tired patriots who followed their leaders to liberty or death.

What is more impressive and beautiful than to see the stars and stripes unfurled and floating on a stirring breeze! Then let the rising generation and the generations that follow point with mingled pride and admiration at those emblems of Liberty and say those were won by my country's heroes, those have made my country famous, and let the sun, rising on this beauteous morn, remind us of the long ago, when our country rose from the depths of uncertainty to the glorious position now attained and the triumphant future yer to come.

And then in no distant time we shall hear the echoes rolling back from the Atlantic and from he pacific, from the Great Lakes and from Mexico as the cry dies away. Long live my country, liberty and independence.
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