Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 July 1884 — PILOT GROVE ITEMS. [ARTICLE]

PILOT GROVE ITEMS.

Pleasant weather. Crops are looking fine. No sickness in this neighborhood. Cleveland and McDonald are the men we want. They will get there, Eli, n|spiteof Mulligan Blaine «> >d Dirty* Dog Logan. It causes our han i ! ome features to light up wi 11 l a smile when wo hear some of the big cuss words that some of the Republicans use when speaking of Blaine and Dirty-dog Logan. Don't spit it out, but swallow it down like good little children. On last Thursday evening Tilla and Lida Schanelaub were both made happy by the unloading of a fine Organ at their home. It is, indeed, a beauty. Mis. Miller, of Chicago, is visiting with her parents Mr. and Mrs. Black, of this place. Mr. Black is a Scotchman, but will vote the Democratic ticket in spite of the poet who saj s,

“The Scots are stubborn as a cuddy, Some through ambition, swang and wuddy.” Now is the time when every good Democrat should begin the good work of converting his Repulican neighbor over to the cause of justice and right. Every Democrat can accomplish something if he but goes to work with a will. If eveiy Democratic voter will work faithfully and stand shoulder to shoulder in the coming fight, we will surely elect our President. Subscribe for your home paper, ai.d above all don’t forget to pay the editor the little you owe him. We have frequently heard in the past week the name of Samuel Barker used in connection with the office of Sheriff of Newton county. Mr. B. is a popular young man, well and favorably known in this county, and we believe there is no one better qualfied. We say nominate him, and his many friends may elect him. Captain Jack. . Pilot Grove, June 28,1884. The following are the remaksof EzraC.Nowels,inthe anniversary exercises, to-day: Fjsllow-Citizznb, Friends and Countrymen —There Is not one of us present here to-day, who does not experience in uis or her own cot - dition, and the condition of those most i ear and dear to them, the influence Hud benefits oi i.,uerty, with its grand and glorious institutions. The position we occupy in the great Confederation of Na ions in the world, ana the nttit udo in which we stand ,o the citizens of other countries. serves io remind ns that neither nations or individuals can perform their Part well u•••til tiiey understand and feel its importance, and comprehend and justly appreciate ail tile uuu,.« “!>■ 'onglng lollberiv. It is not to lnliate nat onal vanity, nor to swell u .igi.t tyid einj ty feeling of self importune j but it is’hat we may Jiiuge In«tiv of onr oun Si. nation. h:hi of olir own individual uuties, j which characterizes our position among the . j.aliens of the earth.

Let u* contemplate, then. tUI * connection which binda the prosperity of others to oar own. sadlet ae manfully discharge all the dntics which it imposes. LIBKBTT ENLIGHTENING THS WORLD. In \VK the nowerfnl nation of England enact ed a law requiring all her subjects to attend the established worship, un<F-r the very severe penalty of banishment. At this time, living in jthe Northern part of England, wag a religions sect, known as rnritans, who could,pot comply, and that they might enjoy more liberty. aDd worship God in accordance with their relig ous views a d according to the dictates of their own conscience, they determined to exile themselves to Holland. Bnt after manv long years of hardships, bitter disappointments and privations, ana ha’ing learned of the broad expanse of country on the American continent, this little band of Pilgrims and Worshipers determined to emigrate to America. Therefore/ in accordance with this determination, in the year 1620 they prepared for the vovage by equipping the Mayflower an’d Speedwe 1. But these two small vessels would not carry all, so it was agreed that only the youngest andmost active should go, and the older ones with their venerable and dearly loved pastor should remain. When everything was ready for the voyage and they could not tarry longer. The pastor knelt with his little flock and wanderers, with anguish of heart a* d copious tears coursing down their cheeks, they heard for the last time the voice of their pastor as he lifted his vofee to the God of b attics In exhortation and prayer for them; bnt they knew they were pilgrims and lifted their eyes to heaven their dea; est country. After a wea'v, stormy voyage they, on the ninth day of Noveraner, 1820, in 'he midst of a terrific storm, landed at Cape Cod, and after giving thanks aDd praise to God for their preservation from so many dangers thev. on the 11th day of November, 1«>20, executed and signed an instrument as the foundation of their future needful government, which they bound themselves to obey. Here, then, in the wilds of America, this little band of Pilgrims, surrounded on all sides by savages, and the waves of the ocean stretching thousands of miles away, separating them from the’r kindred and friends, under the guidance of a Supreme Euler planted in America the first germ of liberty that enlightens the world. Thus, left alone in a vast wilderness, with the treacherous Indian tribes for their neighbors, tn cy began the labor of establishing a tree, in* dependent and God-fearing people. Pass ng from the s.istory of the sixteenth to to the eeventeentli ce'itury.weflnd that notwithstanding all their toil, hardships, aud conflicts with the Indians and French Ithat. continued to decimate their ranks for a hundred years and upwards, we find that on the fourth day of September, 1774, the date of the organization of the first Congress of America, there was a population of over three millions of people on the soil of America asking aud appealing to England that thev he relieved of the burdens of taxation unless they be allowed and accorded a representation. Thus the germ of liberty that is enlightening the world was bdlng fanned and kindled by the oppression and tj’rant y of England, that f mi appeases with laws of justice and equality would soon b-eak forth into a mighty, consuming Maine and devour all obstacles that should stand in the wav of liberty. But these appeals were not heeded liv the mother country. Therefore, as a measure of necessity, on the 4th day of July- 1770. Congress, then assembled, "Declared th t, these United Colonies are, nnd.oi a right ought to he. Free and Independent States.’ The signing of this Declaration on the eth of July. 1776. by the members of Congress, an assemblage of the grandest, purest and most selfsacrificing patriots the world had ever seen, marked a new era in the his'ory of man, and ftcr a long and bloody conflict the United Colonies, with the. assistance of France and that illustrious and noble warrior, La-Fayette, who shed his blood ’on the field of Brandywine for his love of liberty, England was glad to make foi peace. Acc.ordin ly, on the 20th day of January, 1783, Articles oi Peace were signe.d which made America Independent in fact as well ns in name. This new era was distinguished by a free Representative Government—by entire religious liberty—by improved systems of national intercourse—by a newly awakened and uucontrollablc spirit offireo inquiry, and by a diffusion of knowledgejtlirough the community. JSnch as had before been altogether unknown ana unheard of, and under these systems and infl 'ences America rapidly advanced and took her place in the first ruik among the nations of the earth, and her advice and counsel have been -ought on many qns 'tions at i-sue between other nations. Yet liberty which enlightens the world had other missions to fulfil. After the settlement of tne trouble between Mexico aim the U ited States, in 1049, whei.by the Untied States gained large acquisitions of tjrrltorv, sectional politics, during the time from 1850 to 1860, grew warm and animated and had the eft' ct of riaving one portion of the Union against the other. Though it may not be of interest to yon, my C lUiiiryniOK ,|i n reca rite history of what,followed tbefiring upon our mil inn al flag at Fort Sumter, on the Htli ‘lay of Apr!’, lSiil. But those gallant soldiers sitting around ns here to-day—their hearts beat qnick.n, and the li e-blood courses more freely through their veins, when they r. - call the time when the music of the fife and drum hastened them to enlist as soldiers to ao battle for their country’s cause; mid. oh, the anguish of your hearts when you bid fat) er, mother, sister, brother, wife and children good-bye, knowing full well all could ne’er return, fiut your couutry called, and as patriots and freemen you west forth to light for th perpetuation of vour Gove nment; and though you suffered and languished in hospitals ar.d mad > ma y long and forced matches, and mnny comrades fell in battle by your side,! yet the. recollection ofj the shouts of victory that went up to Heaven, and couid be heard above the din of b ttle J when you planted the ensign of liberty, the* glorious flag, upou|tbe battlement* of the enemy’s once strongholds at Sumter. Vicksburgh, Richmond, and manv other places, your cheeks tingle and you are filled with enthusiasm eueh as is only known to freemen.— And those gray-haired parents, and the wives and children of the soldiers who sleep in y- uder cemetery can never forget the pangs a. d heartaches ot that parting upon Washington street, inlßenssolaer. and after the fearful struggle which lesnlted in the liberation of three million souls from bondage, and Lee had surrendered, the news spread like flashes of light al, over the country, that the rusty iron doors of Southern Prisons had swung open and the half-clad and starving boys in blue were on their way to home and friends. Oh! what shouts of praise ascended to Heaven, and what tears of ioy were shed, and the whole nation. as with onejvoice, could say in the language of Whitter: "Go ring the bells and fire the guns. And fling the starry banner ont. Shout "Freedom” till your lisping ones Give l) ck their cradle shout. Let boasted eloquence declaim, Of honor, lib rty and fame Still let the poet’s strain be heard. With glory for each second word, And every hing with breath agree. To praise our glorious liberty.” My countrymen, wo stand to-day pre-eminent-ly the grandest nation the sun ever shone upon. A Continentin extent, an island in security, united in sentiment, we could stand aguinst the nations of the world, and tnis grardure of position has been fittingly po trayed by the greai French sculptor Bortholdi who nas made, under the direction of the French Republic a collossal statu of the Goddess of Liberty, aud presented to the Amerlcnn people, which is to be erected onßedloe’B Island, New York harbor, and while we ate celebrating here 'to day, the people of New York are laying the corner stone of the structure that is to receive this collos-al monument of American Liberty, when completed and nnveiled to the world, standing there one hundred and fifty feet high, with her right hand extended on high, holding a torch lighted by electricity, while m her left she holds a book to represt nt the law of well doing. This coliosal statue can he seen for a hundred mileg around, and stands for Liberty itnlightening the World, aud undei the shadow of Liberty the people are greater thanlKinzor Emperor, and the rights.of ail are respected and religious liberty guaranteed because it emeuates from the throne of God.