Show I 1 1 A MODEL FOURTH OF JULY prepared lor for the london well now let lot us stipp slip pose ose that on this present fourth of july some men of mo ea tion and good sense with something to lose and slid with some spirit of fairness and anil candor could be induced in debian e of the prejudice that would naturally attach itself to such a character to undertake a fourth of july oration and let us consider how bov he would express mt ress him bim himself seir seif we will drop eagles t t under bult bolt water spots its and hurricanes the north and the south the east and the west time 3 ace and infinita anu and and I 1 the other conditions condition of a V vout our owr h of ot july oration and ana proceed at it once to the substance of blat such a person might ba be supposed to uia tia lave have e to s say ay fellow citizens lie he might naturally observe this this ibis is no time for extras gan gans and arid exaggerated pati fegy figy ic let us keep our eloquence for better times and endeavor if we can to learn s bething from our present position we have hid bid our awn own way in this thi S in atter matter of the war and are riot not as far as I 1 ca can see very much the better for it tue tae E ig lish tod told us all along that we had bad better bave save e our blood and our it ioney money and make a friendly parting carting with th the e south since it ws wes clear there was no chance of our dwelling together 11 i ider the same government any more of couise coulse we felt feit the greatest contempt and hatred for whatever dugand said a and nd knew that it must be done with a wish to ruin us bat but for ali all 1 I can see england was not very verj very ar wron wrong we have always been going oin oln to conquer the in thirty days fre wre we ha hav hava aird a not done it yet and for tor my iny part I 1 dont see sec that we e are in ich nearer doing it than we were ivere when aher we ire first b gan 11 ie have w we been for eighty 1 yea a ti iu i i pling over poor old En england land because she at the distance of illie i ille ilie zile R was nall in not t a able alle ble lle to con conquer 4 tier her colonies with france tu tv help them and nere cere are we after a year aal ani a hair half 0 or war not yet able to take richmond n m les south of washington and ver er mi m i 0 a abaid the other day for the safety vf of IV fth fib bigton itself then we have been always at en eagland england land tand for bringing hessians and other german germans s to conquer us but what does the auth say and sa say truly it says that a I 1 the germans that fough dough f a ugh for kin eln king xing a george I 1 were wera mere lambs ard and aid chickens comp compared ired to the gentry isho who fight under the be sed leadership of dlen Blen blenker kers kerp and sigel and heintl 1 relman reiman aney do lo figh certain but the then th theris rj sty sey nothing lot h illg that they will not steal since ne e find oura elves elvea obliged to einai y such means meals to coerce the S sub u b w need not be surprised that poor old king george ceorge who lived in days before people hopie understood any an thing about z the rights 0 of men should hae have taken the same course I 1 Then asfor m gitary h at y e r t all the armies the E H glish brought into the field compared with those that are u under the orders of our generals I 1 dont believe howe hoire or clinton cllnton had bad ever at any time men under bis hia orders lord cornwall Corn walls wails s when be surrendered at yorktown had only a poor 0 r men while mcclelian mcclellan and davis halle halie ita lle ile k and an 1 beauregard are carrying on the work ce f destruction des ruction with la aalf a million of men raen oa on each si e we have been in in the habit of asking whit what right had bad the english to call us rebels and I 1 to shed shei one drop ji of blood in seeking to retain us vis against our oar will they ili iii 1 11 ey ought ou to hae hane known that all men are free and equal and ana have a right to consult their own wishes in the choice of a government and in search of happiness very verj true but are not the south free and equal tool have liae not they aa as much nuch liht right as we to consult their own teel ings ins in the ccoce cho ce of a government and the search after alter bap pines tiie tile wisest people in En england giand gland during daring the war of independence consider that success as even more to 0 o he dreaded than fhil fail failure lire for while failure would diminish dimir ish the empire success would destroy the liberties of the nation does not the e same danger han ban hang over us u it w we lose the south me vie lose a large ion jon and a vast territory terri tory torl but population increases Increase i fat in in new nev countries i and as for territory we vie shall stil still I 1 have more than we know wha to do with if however we conquer the south we must govern them by the beford before acore and how shall we contrive to set up a military power and a strong executive able io to keel keep the south in slavery and yet unable to encroach i i pon the liberties of the north the man nian has haa got dt on the horse to kill the btag stag but buh bu when he M has killed him are we quite sure he can get off again I 1 it was very wrong of the english to make war on a nation sp akin their own language and of their own kindred and linage lin age but bue the relationship was remote and although england and america b ath th belonged belon balon ed to the same croxie cro they could not be a id to be bathe the same country but we are doing our best to cx ex ate our fel fei fellow low coun countrymen tr arnen with the same language an 11 nage the same tradition traditions sp the situe bame same laws the same history how many of ui have sons fighting on both sides or daughters mame one to a smi sou herner fiercer aal the other othar to a no themes every voiley volley oley of artil artillery lerv lery sweeps away the very ery life and soul soui of the country ve we are shedding our own mood blood and mangling our own flesh we ave have been in the habit of despising desp ging england f for tor 0 r her heavy debt and lle ile lie he vast last taxation her people eople p ha have e to bear but that debt was bainy incurred in a cause for hibb she has no reason to blush in fighting cowher foi her own liberties and those of europe against two great conquerors conque rora louis XIV and the emperor napoleon that debt took a hundred bundled and for tor forty years years jears to accumulate while we have hale incurred at tj east least a quarter of it in in a year and add a h half if but in what cause not to maintain liberty not to preserve the balance of or power but to put down doah those very ver principles of freedom to which we owe our existence as a separate state and to cause our children to pasa pass through the fire to the moloch of over grown pride and distempered ambition look how england has treated us dhe she is starving her operative operatives crippling her traded trade reducing her revenue revenues rather than break a bl blocked bloc bioc ka kad I 1 which aich would mould A met me t anav before her bric broc breath at liaw and d danith at her touch wilie adlle ue have av bee been n never weary of loat loading ling her with in ansu til IV we e took from her the right of search bearch 1 which sh she bhe only wanted for the protection of the 1 I g ro for the sake of whom many pro feas teas that we are carrying on the present en I 1 war w ar we kept back the ma map mar 3 which showed that be the was in the righton lne the dispute e abou abow the toe canadian d i frontiers fron fion tiers ue we bullied her ber out c her rights on the columb a river nier we dismissed her ambassador for enlisting our people tho we are willing to take hers hera whenever we ii e caa cao find them |