Rensselaer Union, Volume 6, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 July 1874 — The Eagle in Kentucky. [ARTICLE]

The Eagle in Kentucky.

This is the way Louisville CourierJournal editorially ushered in the glorious Fourth: “ This is the Fourth of,July. It argues that, being the Fourth of July, tis not the 17th of March. Neither is it the Ist of May, nor Christmas. St. Patrick was not born bn the Fourth of July. Queen Victoria was not crowned on the Fourth of. July. No thanksgiving has ever been appointed for the Fourth of July; and history has failed to record one single hanging or horse-race. And yet the Fourth of July is honored as the day on which Gen. Jackson signed the Declaration of Independence; as the day on which Dr. Franklin wo* the battle of New Orleans; as the day the eagle bird of liberty flapped her wings and exclaimed, in the classic words of Jones’ fighter, * I am the howling raccoon of the mountains.’ Shall.we omit to honor the day and celebrate it? No. Bh there not a tire-cracker the less, or a stripe erased, or O star obscured! Nail to the mast that holy flag, set every threadbare sail, and give her to the- God of stonns, the lightning and the gale!” , During a game of base hall at Memphis recently a negro and a ballist had a controversy, in which pistols were used oh both sides and the negro was killed.