Show birth cf the new world all bonor Iio norto to this thi day aday I 1 tho the anniversary of alir country count rys I 1 9 birth four hundred years enuco frat crat that brilliant star rose on oil the western korizon at airet in an orb in the ascendancy whilo nations stood afar and ked with admiration crowned kinns kings in ili wonder nonder wrape arid and success looked on and emperors and princes rose to view the new born planet in tho the western skies yow now like a glittering geni gem from ocean caves in most dazzling beauty clothed or like a harbinger of future good just rising oer the tempests and tile the of 01 b bedone ege ages age who when gloom arid and ignorance reigned and only half of this tin s terr terrestrial estial earth was annii to human kind hind all hail clail columbus here hereof of all time ill A rean man of destiny prophetic soul immortal wind that circumscribed tile globe jy by trained zo to point the way across oceans dangerous depth to find fit another sphere and brn brio to light A hidden bilden continent ali ah mark that epoch c veil four centuries agone the destined time I 1 had ad couie come A hemisphere with matchless great greatness nesi we alib woi flit famo and fortune 1 waited I to bestow their choicest gifts for enterprise enter prie aud in thrift scarce had tho the great explorer reached the und land and dis embarked to tread the virgin soil coil when with electric speed tho the tidings hew flew back oer 0 1 er the billowy pathway to the courts of regal royalty yand and to the dismal homes bornes of mourning magacs of mau baukind uia uUnd kind who wha 0 groaned i claner Beric ith the shackles of oppression soon their noble manhood yearning to be tree free turned to the he western world as if to heaven their birthrights had been poverty and 1 want I ant their strength and blood had built up tip monarchies their best reward was scorn arid and ty rany to cringe before tile the heartless autocrat and affer pangs from his hia relentless 61 spleen these multitudes of men from nations old FI e 1 fr i uni th the c po pott 1 I or cr of it haughty a ugh ty de despots spot 8 clinic with the mighty currents rents of migration brought brain and muscle and intelligence ge 11 c e to populate tile the newly favored world ere era pione jonir towns cities 4 vili villages aes appeared As if b by y magic growth still thousands cu co c e in quest of homes and wealth and freedom too the bade therl AN welcome cleo n le and the plains invited oin ormard ird while tile the glad hills smiled with all their golden treasures Irea rich and ra re and progress marked dev elopement developement and 1 wealth I Re rewarded enter enterprise prise tho the land too loo great too vast was peopled the greatest of all nations born god gave the gobern government ment a constitution grand uy by inspiration i framed for generous laws and am u with ith the glory of all ages crowned in unity and brotherhood columbus I 1 bail thou tot founder alider of our land of liberty v I 1 the KI cutest honors of this day are thine baigh ai ciry october 1892 |