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Show THE GLORIOUS FOURTH. j How It Was Celebrated in Salt! Lake. lto Hi Side and what each Did and Said. Tbo lvU' brat ton of tin) National Anniversary An-niversary in tliia city, on Tue-tLy, wn- j thu lainit aul most iti)iJaiii' cvi i i wiinesnud in tin: iiiU-ri'ir. 1jVi.-, I Weber, Box KMr an-1 .S;ilt LAel isouiitica were ruprust'iiluil, and tlie re.itn;.-H of thu dijlity wan onl eijunlli'l by the evident deter in inaiiiMi no the jmrt of tho o t iL-ns tu uiukn it wiirtby i-f ttie cuea-ion. p during the mfh which precUd the dawn ol thu Fourth waa out of the queaiinn, lor detonations iroui tire-cntcLera, ju vlmhIo boinbri, pihtol.-, rilies ant) cannun rcsuunded throughout the nijrht; and at suuriao the artillery bvldied forth,' the bandtt played wi'lcomo music and the Siiire and Stripen were Hung out on the morning bnzo with thin liitle diffurenuo, there was no breeze worth mentioning on wh'nh to fling I Ik-id, and no the national banner hung comparatively com-paratively idly in the ambient air. The great featuro of the day was tho grand PROCESSION, Tbo divisions of whiih commenced talting up poaition before eight o'clock, though it waa a quarter past nine bo-fore bo-fore it was fully formed and commenced com-menced to move, taking the route in West St., south to Fourth South, east to First East, and north to South Temple, passing thenco to tbo Tabernacle. Taber-nacle. To specify in detail all the points of interest would occupy too much of our limited space, there being so much that was noteworthy. After tho Marshal Mar-shal of tho Day and his aids, Captain Cros fill's brass band, and a detachment of artillery, came tho canopied car in which sat "Columbia," personated by Miss No. lie Colebrook. The design of the car was by our artist friend, G. M. Ot linger, und wad beautiful. Pano-pliod Pano-pliod in aUrs sat "Columbia," guarded guard-ed by four young men dressed as soldiers and sailors, representing tho military and naval powor of the United i States. Following tho car came a! couple of young men in tho uniform of tho old Continentals, and alter them I three larno carriages bearing young ! ladies from the University represent-; ing tho different States and Terr i to-: riea in tho Union; making a fitting train for Columbia; and they were followed fol-lowed by two young men dressed in the U. S. Military umfjrm of to-dy. After the University came members of Morgan's Commercial College, followed fol-lowed by a lurgo and exceedingly interesting line of schools, bearing fla:s aud bauuers, with mottoes iu any desired de-sired number and range of eemiuient. The Vhiiha'iuonic Society made a very haud-oiue appearance. Tho second division, headed by the Tenth Ward brass bund, cowpnsed various va-rious officials, tho Press, reprei-enli d by the Salt Lake Herald and Dexer-J AVt. railroad olhoials, pro iessioual gentlemen, merchants, photographers, photo-graphers, telegraphers, s'ago uompan-ies, uompan-ies, eto. The noticeable features oi this division were the wagons re pre sen ting the Press; the receiving and distributing vans of tho merchant; the photographers' carriices, and a tine exhibition of telegraphy in a double wagon platform supporting pules, wires, insulators, operating table, etc, the enterprise ot the De.-oret Company. The merchants' receiviug van bore boxes marked with the name of every mercantile Grm in this city that receives Koods from the east or west: Godbo & Co., Teasdel & Co., Z. C. M. 1., Scott Dunham & Co., D. C. Butteriield, Walkor Bros., Kimball & Lawrence. Taylor Jt Cutler, Calder Bros., C. H. Basse tt. Cunnington & Co., Dayrjes A Co., Kite's fc Leohtenberg, D. Grenig, Kahn Bro., Sensency A" Co., C. li liarratt, Day it Culmer, Dunford 5; Sons, 'il.-on & Co., G. YV. Davis, 11 Wallace. Ila-uc Bros . M. B. Callahun etc., etc.; while theistributiug vau iu like tuaniiei' had bi'Ses beauus the names of every leading settlement or place iu the Territory. Tho horrea f the tbrmer van had riders in jocky dress, while the latter had ridel's in Saracen costume. The Singer Sewing Machine Co. also made a splendid display, dis-play, in a tinely decorated wagon, with a lofty canopy. The wagou boro a number of machines set otf to advantage. advan-tage. 'J he third division, headed by the Draper band iu unitbrm and a company of militia, was one ot the largest but not the nitsi imposing of the procession. proces-sion. It was composed of agriculturists, horticulturists and s-tocii-raisors. One feature of' this division, wh cii had a more than ordinary decree o.' iuiure-t, eoUMaled ut' iv. c waous, ono bearing s.w'C-bru.-U and oali-bru-h. surmounted by :ue wi-r-.k ''J'Jir, Vai.t i,v as it Was" the oilier laden with a. wealth .it' u'etabies, iVuirs -rid tiowera, over which apeaicd "TlIE V ALLEY" AS IT IV Tiic Kouilii divisiou wjs rcaiiy the most iajpi'iiug or any pan of :Le procession. pro-cession. It tiubjccd mechanics and trades, and the Line ta-:e iu di:-(!;iy which appeared. as vthicle alter vchie'e parsed, to.'d of two tliincs the imelli gence aijd of our arti.-aus and the patriotism with which they are iujbued, We have a loug list of notes of ihis di-vi;iou, di-vi;iou, but eaiji'o: Gud fpaco to do thcui justice; and to make inv:d:oui distinct: ids wooJJ be ucfair aid unjust. Captaiu Baci'es mrdal baad led it. The co-operative paiuwrs m-.de t good allow. 'u$ briv.'kLjaitershad a painted pnaji'4 of bricks. The coal ljIoti and quarrymcn had a uiasaive ji"ce o' coal and Liock of granito. The ma- i -ons and toi'ecutter, in uijit'orm ul black coate, white pains, white aprou.-dtid aprou.-dtid blue au-hrs made a hand.-ouje ap-ptarance. ap-ptarance. Following ihtm came a long Hiring of wagutif, fcume sixtet-n or' sHjventeen in number, bearing ore and bullion, a frihnt testimonial to the minora! wealth of Utah; and after them ; the waguo of the Warm Spring smelt-1 inf works, with bullion and a beautiful pyramid representing different kindb ..f Utah on 3. hi-ld togeih-T by a fretwork fret-work cf stiver bu!li"ti. The cn-.ioeer?. maehiniatj and loundrymen were fittingly fit-tingly repreuttd. Tho lumbermen maiehed sturdily on with axes on their .hnuMers The gun-maker, cabiuet-uiukers, cabiuet-uiukers, earpennrs atid joiners anJ -uddle and harnes m ikcrj made an excellmc appearanee. A ta-te-fully dtcoiated wagon, beating yiiUng ladies mid with products of -tiaw appruded, appealed in the pub ic by motto as wch as aeiual industry rn ''Sustain Hotne M-niuiucturen " The woolen matrnfacturers were there. hwing their d';tcrmin;itioii to be uc .v it h the spirit of the tinnn. 'I he tin-. tin-. nor were hard at w.nk; theanvil boi n in the blaeksmith'i wagon wan ringinj! with lu.-.ty strokes ; the wagon, coaeh Mtid car maker showed their patriotism, -kill aud lu-ie by a capital di-play ; the 'Suns of Su Ciispin," with blue a-hes hu iu.-eiibed, appeared like men of soun l understandings ; the sash, luor and blind makers were enveloped in a car of venetiuu blinds; and, though we have siitnewhat mixed them, the PioneerTiuuk Factory worthily brought up the rear. The procession was a grand display and occupied three-quarters of au hour in passing a given pot. Ah near a our reporter could calculate, there uiusi have been at hast 1 5,000 people in procession. Ou the Grm division reaching the head of First East St., it halted until the other three divisions divi-sions passed, when all proceeded to- wuiuu me new juoeiuuuie, wuure many hundreds turned back being un able to find seats, and being too much wearied by the march and exposure to the hot sun to stand. IN THE TABERNACLE. The Tabernaole proacnted a very animated appearance. Thousands ol juveni'e, from the schools, occupied a position in the centre; in front of the stands was a platform on which sa' Columbia wiih her attendant train ol States and Territories, all of whom v is expeoted will enter tho united , state as well as be in the United !Siate3, beforo many more national an- nivcrcaries are celebrated. On the I platform, too, wero Columbia's young soldiers and sai'ors, aud a couple of "pioneers" in fur3 and buckskins who figured in tho procession, j though mention of them has been ountted before. The national flag j hung profusely from various and suu dry points. It was suspended in made I air; draped against the galleries, : sparkled around the stand, and was I een turn which way you would. I Young ladies aud young gentlemen io ; abundance; ladies aud eentleuj-an who had beeu young a goodly number urj jyiars ago; Utah "riffraff aiid Ne-' Ne-' vada "riffraff;" strangers from the 1 Pac fic aud strangers: from the Atlantic; und even the motherly luce of the lion. iz-ibeih Cady Stantn and the maidenly Sunuti B , wei e there to see iiow the gloriou-. Fourth was celebrated in Mormondom. At least twelve to thirteen thousand people were present. TUB tXERCLSES. In the ab-enoe of es-Goveruor B. Young, the chairman of the day. Mayor Wells was elected chairman by unanimous vote. The a-seuibly was called to order by Col. J. D. T. McAllister, Marshal of the Day. "The Star Spangled banner," was sung by the Tabernacle choir, the , Philharmonic Society and the com-j com-j biued c'ny choirs with splendid iffloi; the audience j lining in the chorus. A fervent aud patriotic prayer, invoking in-voking blessings upon the Uuioo, President Grant, bis Cabinet, Congre-i and all the people, waa offered up by ' the Chaplain of the day, Elder Orson Pratt, Sen. Music Selection from tbo "Grand Duchess" Captain Croxall's brass band. Col. D. MeKenzie read the Declaration Decla-ration of Independence. "Yankee Doodle" by Captain Beez-ley's Beez-ley's martial band. ORATION. I Hon. Goorge Q Cannon, Orator of j ! ihe day siaii-d that h j ha I been pre j ; vented preparing an oration by un runirollable circumstances, and gave I ii'ieiaoee to his scntimcntsimpioiuptu ; He contrasted the c 1 hraiiun twenty-two twenty-two years ago ol the Pioneers' Anmver-! Anmver-! -ary with the host of faces and great celebration before him. The differ j ence was wonderful. Tho people to ! whom he spoke could well appreciate; rhe principles ennunciated in the Declaration of Independence. Per-I Per-I haps no oiher people cmd so well ! appreciate tho perils und laNors of the 1 nation's sires and the wi-dom and! ; pmity whie-h animated them in be- I j.ueath'ng to their posterity such a noble heritage. They who have b'en ! persecuted c:m best appreciate religions j md political liberty; and the dwellersi iu these vaileys could see with clear vision tho overruliugs of an ever-watchful ever-watchful Providenee, made manifest in tho hi-tory of nations, to prepare for the establishment of a power under which frecd"in and liberty miuht be er-j'ved by ail. The speaker referred to the mvparation of the nations fir a treat eh i'ije.tl.e d.scovery of Am ric.i, the tiowin of the udo of emigration io the western heiui.-pherc, the trials through which hs Pilgrim Fathers pised, -ind compared their feelings when they landed on the bh ak and rock bound coast U' New England with tuti-e of the pioueers of the IvKjky Mountain region when they entered these moun'ain ribbed vallejs twenty fmr yar ajro. Both had en countered jrreat trials; born had cher-i-htd a tpirit of independence, and taught their children the priceless value of civil and religious liberty. The Pilgrim Fibers h;d kupt alive the tires of freedom and instiiled a love or horry and justice into tho mindt of their children, asd this imperishable k'jrucy made their desceQaauus iiisbty when tie struggle came. $aid the speaker, I have often thought, my friends aud fellow citizens, that there is ocjething peculiar about tliii Und of ours, which will not admit of the existence of bigotry, tyr ; aioiy itnd inNtleraiiee. Th'-rest-ems to I?-' potiiethtric: in the atmosphere of Ameriea which beeeta a love for free-'!om. free-'!om. for civil and re!igiou,i liberty 1 d-i not lj.-li.-ve it oible for a peopltf ' to live un this continent whn do not eh-Tish theie priocip'c. I do noli oeiieve it is ihe iuti-n'ioQ of the Ai-; mighty that any nation shall ever flourish for any length of time on this! ureat continent which does not uphold j C.vd and rdig;"'is liUrty, and which is nut willing to extend eual rights to ail , their fellow creatures. I know there iaie time- when it seems as though i I'vrants and iniokrant men h'dd un- checked sway. We have felt tlut-i ourselves, and hence we undefstai-d n;; i but there U suuieth.ng iu the AmeriC m 'mind that revolts at the eXercUe ol mtol -ranee and tyranny. I am thank- i tui lor our nuke. that this is no; for, if : it had not bei-n. our position uiiht i hive been t :y different to what it ia j i Min may ne and commit gieat and j jiievous wrings they may crowd ! iion their fellow ci'Zns, und exeieisej j i-r a sh.'rt time arbitrary and oppres-; oppres-; -ive power, tr.ni-C'-iiuuig the houuds of j toe L'onsiii hi ion; but sooner or later I thry ure hurled from their places, and i ilioir poaiuon." are tided by men tvho, ai ! art lor a lime, wnl exi-rcise justice out remedy tho wrong- which their pedccc6or have eounuitied. It i-- in In- -luuuient, in uur nation, under lit Fiovideiiee of Gnd, that 1 attribute our pres rvauoti to tlie present time. lie waa thankful that he lived uudei -o noble a Constitution as that of the United Stales, and that God had raised up men to frame that lonuui iustru lujnt. Tu it the peopU- of than hd ever c ung with inieuse devotion. And the uti-ahej;ed "dihloyulty" of tlie ueople he disposed of in these words: I take thii opportunity of saying 'hat there uever has been an hour -ince Utah was r-ettled by white men when the hearts of her people wore i tor oue moment disloyal to thu govern nient of their country. vClieers. ) W hen menaced by foes, when her flag hai been imperded, when treason at home had sought to -ap the fouudatiout ol the government and to overthrow it, there has never been a feeling iu the hearts of tho people of Utah to winh these attempts success; but on tho contrary wo have felt that the providenee of God had designed that this form of government should stand. We believe that the Declaration of Independence In-dependence was inspired by Almighty (joj, and that the men who trained and proclaimed' it were raised up aud im-pi red fur this special purpose. '1 his is the estimate which we placo upou these documents. He referred to tho effeot which th American revolution had exercised up on European nations; upou the influ enou which any man, meu, commuuuy or nation exercises in a determined struL'ele for right aud liberty; and held i hut Utah's determination to stand by iheoldtlig and hu u free and united people had been felt beyond the mountain moun-tain walls which ird hur valleys, bie referred to the petty tranny ofdema-'guo-S und said Utah could wait I he people of the United States make the government aud the office holders uuder it, and the people make their power felt when it becomes necessary. Ho advised patience; said Utah would ho a ritate some day, and tho future would do justice to her people for their industry, patience and labors; his closing words being : "Lst us bide our time," Mr. Cannon was repeatedly and loudly applauded. The "Anthem of Liberty" was sung by Mrs. Careless, accompanied by the full chorus. Mr. John T. Caine waa the rext speaker. iJe touk the broad ground tut "the day we celebrate" was dear, not ou:y tu American hearts, but to .overs ot liberty the wond over; tor ihe independence ui America waa the iiiuuuraiii'ii ut the peop.e s sovercigu ny. . Thu people uf the L'erntoriee, ul MUich Uiuh la one, can better appre ciaie tlie conditiou of the oiigmal euioinea ui.der Bi inch rule than thuse ot any oilier po.tlou uf the Union; fur lliuuth O.UZ us of ihe Unltua 6iates, . h. y a o iK-mud many ut tho iiguts et'j yed by the peop.e, of Hie hovuiuigu a.a.ea. Bat the lemedy ol Uuti Was uot iu revoiutiun; uu Dlood wa- ueedeu h.re tu water the tree of liberty; but patience aud b"p , further uliiiles iu the patli uf iuterua.1 deve.upmetit aud uoutinued eviueuces ot capability tor m If government; with tuee Uiab wuu.d suou emerge from Territorial pupilage aud take ner place among ihe sovereign States. "The day we oele urate" Uati given to the world freedom of speech aud freedom of the press; and as a representative of the presa ne ufLred uia lieat tteit admiration oi tue principles which had given ii position and influence, aud had secured to the people iht just recognition ol their covereign power. The new.-paper p e-8 bad a mighty work before it in wisely leading aud direutiug the march of human progrebS. Ita voice speaks fur millions, and its utterances should be wisely made, for they are friugbi with baneful results or full freighted with glorious blessings aa this mighty ayent of human advancement, this dail educator of a world, pert ur ma us mis sion amung men. Quoting the word.-of word.-of a poet now temporarily re&iding iu this city, A pan to the'rr'oter'o ar1, Xb poil a b-am, the ro iy pen, The band that hwid- tho pee lo i cp . ut Itn-wle to iu LhehpB of men, ihe said its power to elevate aud en noble far exceeds that wielded by po tentate or ruler. 1 he freedom ot the press and the liberty of the people were wi dded for a'.l time; and when the latter is assailed stmog battle win be waged in it detente by an honest virtuous, patriotic press. While future fu-ture geneiations will celebrate the world's anniversary nf American independence, inde-pendence, our children's children will observe it as we do, holding more sa cred the memory of their fathers for giving them liberty than tor giving them life itself; for what would life be ' without liberty! The united schools, led by Mr. George Goddard, sang "Lovely Des eret" in very effective Btyle. Mr. Alexauder Muj jrs next spike. ! He first addressed himself to ihe ehil ;dren. He loved children. He had 1 wituessed many celebrations of the : Fourth of Juf; but he could tell them he had never seeu so full a representation represen-tation of tho arts, sciences and indus , trial pursuits as he had been asMJCiaicd ; with that duj; and he thought it, ' would havo been fortunate i' the peo-ole peo-ole of every State aud Territory iu iht j Union had looked U'ion the living panorama pan-orama just presented in the streets ol 6aitLike city. He cilled the aiteo tion of the ohildreu to tho Declaration !of independence, and enlarged upou the sufl'i rings and saoritioes wh'ch bad been endured to secure freedom auu indtpeudenco to the people of this, ! L'lonous .Republic. His great-grand ! father bad fought from Buuker Hillj , toL.undy't-Ljnf.and hud then gone and . battled wi;h the iDdians in iieuttuky, in i's hist settlement. Hta own lite, had been a western one; and it was happy day io hiai t-j seo the country; : develop and march forward in inielii- j g'-nco, progress aud civilization. Hoi referred to the elective franchise being i extended to women, and bad do fears but the lidies would oe it wisely and; weih He invited the 3Ionucus to lets the past go with the past, and let all : push forward to build up a great coun-; try in the Rocky Mountains. Broad, guage ideas should fill every i mind, and generous, man'y feeling j--hould -nter imo every breast. De ) velopiui'tits were b-dng made in this; country that would brine men ut' the! best talrnt and liberal id'as from Caii-f.rnia, Caii-f.rnia, Nevada, and other States and Territories to Utah: aud all would combine to make here one of the mos-cosmopolitan, mos-cosmopolitan, high-toned, generou-und generou-und manty communities on the fice of the globe. He regretted heab-enee of his noble, broitd-guaged friend, Col Bue!, who had been al-o appointed on the Committee, but who was imnera tively called away by pre-sing bubines-; but the Committee had t-pared no efforts to make thu owlebratiou in even way on-dit.-tble; and he was happy thai ih.-y liad been successful Mr. Mj -i -clo-ed tii.s speech by informing poli titians that they must take on board the ship of state large and liberal idea-,or idea-,or thev would bo thrown overl-oard; , and enjoining upon the children that n jgood name wai belter than riches, and I to secure it they must learn to do iri-iht. Tho gentleman wis loudly ap-; ap-; plaudcd. j More music followed, and a loudj leall wai made for a speech from thei j lion. Thomas, Fueh, who was in tne : audience. After some hesitation ihe I Kentlem;m appeared und honored the! jcall. A a syuop.-i- would not do u- y j kind of justice to his remark, wo pre-1 pre-1 -ent a verbatim rcjwrt. Mr. Fucii I said : I'. Chaintion, Lod es uml UcutUiwu; I oertainly thought that I niiht be ! peruiitled to come hero aud listen tu (he gentlemen who have so coqueuih and patriotically addressed you to-da without be-iug ttius suddenly required to place my unpremeditated uuerunoei-io uuerunoei-io contrast with their fiuished sentences. sen-tences. I am uot u part of the per form a noes. I am not upou the bills, and I consider myself very badly treated (Lamrhter and applause.) I have, however, ladies aud gentlemen, oue consolation: I havo been waiting vorj patiently, during my two months' resi denco in Utah. to sco a genuine, -iinon-pure. well authenticated Mormon outrage out-rage (oheer). and lo ! I have found it at last, and I am the victim. (Ap plause.) I do not know that I ought to charge it altogether to the Mormons, for here and ihero throughout this vast au dience I behold the familiar counten ancc of some old time friends and ' associates "riff raff." from .Nevada (laughter), and I think it very unkino in them io lend their voices to place me iu a position where I shall bo sub ject to a whole crew-fire of "liberal'' criticism; for I believe it is understood, ladies and gentlemen, that evory per sou who participates in iitscelobratioD is to bo forever excluded from communion commu-nion with the "Liberal Church," (Laughter and applause.) I do not know, though, now that, 1 am here, that I shall permit the eir cumsian.'es to restrain me from mak ing a few appropriate lemarks. I honor the name of Liberal; I heliuv. in liberality in politics aud in religion; Hod whenever a party shall bo otgau zed in Utah whose performance is tu be liberal iu fact as well as in name, who will be liberal to others th in those who ibrm its component parts and compose its member-hip, it shall not laek my earnest support. (Applau.-e). But a "liberal" party which .imago nizes your peace, your order, your low tuxes, your strict police regulations, your good government, everything except ex-cept your pulygam ; (:aughici ), a "lib oral" party which proposes tu retain the on y feature uf social life in Utah to which the outside wurld olj uts, and to oppose all those other feature.-which feature.-which a tax-burdeued. ring ridden people admire; a "liberal" party which opposes jour measures and your men because they allege that those ureas urea and those men ore dictated tij Piophetsin place of politicians, by a theocracy ine'ead of a ring-ocrac; a " liberal" party whose organ endorses :in executive order tu prohibit Amen ean ci;-.zeus from properly celebrating the Anniversary uf American ludt-peo deuce; a ' liberal" party which hao foi its head au apostate 'Mormon," who proposes to surrender every feature of his lormer faith except his three xtia ive.-; (eheefr-) and fur us tail a Fed oral ulli;er who has recently immortal laed himself as a member of the "dam phojl" family; (laughter aud cheers) lor cuch a "liberal'' party L havo neither nei-ther tympathy nor support. vGreat u heen.) I am afraid, besides, (hat this "liberal" party io Utah has fallen un ! der ihe control of men who desire to use its organization fir their own pecuniary advantage. I am afraid that the objeot of these "leaders" is to keep courts and juries in a state ot -'ngna-ion. while they fill their pockets (Laughter.) - . . I am afraid that the debris of the Palmer, Cook & Company and the remnant of the Fremont "ting" have got control of the "liberal" party. I am afraid that this animal with a moral reform head and mine jumping ail is something like Lurd Dun dreary's little dog: when it mores you can't ti ll whether the dog wae-i ihe tail or the tail wags tho dog. (Prolonged laughter ) Now, Mr. President, Lidies and G' ntlemen, I would auologUo fur oh truding these suggestions upon t-uch an occasion; but in the first place I am hero not of my own in-tance but am .peaking at yours; and in the next; place this is Independence Day, when! above all days iu the year a man has I a right to speak his thoughts freely. (Cheers.) Our fathers made this d.iy immortal by declaring lor freedom, freedom of tho"ght, of convictioo and of action- They made this day immortal im-mortal by declaring for civil and re i'uious liberty. For that purpose the fought and sacrificed and suffered and died; and whether they followed the gleaming sword of "Mad Anthnoy" up against the streaming fire of Stony Point, or orimoned tho snows ol Valley Forge wiih their shoeless fi-er whether with Marion amid the swamp' if the Carulinas, or with Wa-hingtuh amid the rearing ice of tho Delaware, nigh above all these shone to theiu a- promise and a prophecy inscribed a with fire upuu the vety arch uf heaven, the graude-t senlen-'es of the centu lies, "We hold those truths to be self J evident: that all men ae created ; equal, and are endowed by their Crea tor with certain inalienable rights. among which are life, liberty and the I pursuit of happiuess." (Applause ) I By this grand truth the nation grew to greatness; through its denial w.-joametoihc w.-joametoihc tiering aud the sorrow ,of our civil war; iu its re-establishment e stand 10-day again upon the high test pinnacle of power, and thank God that we are aureus of tho Uuiie-J (States (applause), cttie-ns of the greatest, freest and proudest nation I under the light of the aun ; citisens ol a republic whose b-inners "dip their fringes in every sea," and whose shores I mark the pultes of three mighty oceans in their ebb and flow (applause). W shall be less than appreciative of our duties Dd advantages if we tail to be liberal towards ail who are smuggling towards the light; towards all here or elsewhere who are seeking to cany out the doctrines of the Decoration nflrj dependence the doctrines of civil and religious liberty trr which our faiher-coutended faiher-coutended (applause). For myself, in tha hoar that I surrender my individuality individu-ality and my appreciation of the rights of others to ooo man or a thousand men, to a dique or crowd, monarch or mob, "may my right hand forget its unning and my tongne cleave to the 1 ro'f of my mnufh.' (Cheers). , Feih'w citizens nf Utah, you eele-bra-e the ninety-fifth anniversary ol our national iu iepeudenoe under pecu- ' far circumstances, and in some respects i under peculiar disadvantages.- The amuestv wh'eh is large ennuLih to covr i . the sitii of Jefferaou Davis, and to let even a Surra; t go free, is not large r enough in the minds ot some, to reach your cases! (Applause.) But have patience ! This twitching of the flng j 'TS this irritation of the outer mh lace of the skin of the body politic is a 1 mere nervous disorder. Beneath i' all. the great heart of the American peopti b-ats true and loyal to justice and liberty. The eyes of that people au t-euig" turned towards you as m-vi'i ' before; the f'gs ot' falsehood will which you h.ive been environed ar i being dissipated by thu moltuht oi , ruth, and, lellow ci'iz lis, truth IS in noisy proclamation ujuker; truth send no trumpeters to proclaim her idea.-; no army with banners flaunts hei presence and precedes her march, but she wuik, as the nun and the sunshiur work, si.enlly and effectively. At the terminus ut tlie gieat Atlantic Ocean cable it Heart's Content, New louti'lluid, the place where l he mes -ages arc received is not. a largo apart i meiit tilled with noiry batierus, but i. dalkcued and n lls.e.-a looui. Tin v ei trie wav, which passes under Uf 'ceaii bringing im-s-aes from tin nher hemisphere, flashes its tiding lirough a tiny minor idumined b. he time of a little lamp winch re fleets Iho message, letter by leuet upou a tablet in thu wall. Thu--ileutly and in darkness, tidings o battles and stiatagems, which tuaU and uumake empires und kings, an c muiuuicated lu this western hemisphere, hemis-phere, o to day. and every day J'rom Maine to Georgia, the electric wave of truth silently fla-hes its sylla oles upon tho tablet uf history. B. and by it shall become known to all; b, and by, with a pa-t no louger misre presented, with a preseut filled wit I prosperity, with a futurn ioentica) it-glory, it-glory, with homogeneous institution-and institution-and interests, Utah shall etiine a stai in the American constellation, ano then, as now, on each recurring anui versary of our independence, hei people will join in doing honor to thi memory of the fathers who foundeo the government, and houor to tin pioneers who built a city in the wilder tiH-s and laid 'be foundation stones oi I upiro in me ueseru A numbir of toaBts and sentiment wero handed in to Marshal McAllister, but owing to the lateness of the houi were not read. The combined choirs and Philharmonic Philhar-monic Society sang the Union Hymn, and tho audienco were dismissed by at appropriate benediction, pronouueeu by the Chaplain of tho day. In the afternoon a number of invited guests met tho Committee in tho larg room of the City Hall, and partook u. lunch ; when a couple of h 'Urs wen raSed very pleasi nt'y, illumined b scintillations of wit, flashes of eloquence elo-quence and tho enunciation of liberal sentiments by numerous speakers. President Grant, Queen Victoria Pre-i Pre-i lent Brighaui Young, the United States officials, and other toasts wen offered aud appropriately rcsponde. to. At night there was a magnificen pyrotechnic disp!ay on Aisenal bill, which wawituesscd by several thou sand people. The city celebration was one long t be remembered, and reflected grea-credU grea-credU ou ail who participated in making mak-ing it bo grand a succc-a. |