Show civia SUM ono hundred years ago the bourbon element of areat britain still smarting under the conclusive defeat visited upon their forces by tho colonies on this eide the atlantic were disposed dispo ced to to predictions 0 evil avowing among other bilings that he wicked rebels would run heir race in a generations erat ions aan they were unable to conceive 0 any portion of their domain being constituted independent soil the protection of tho crown wholly withdrawn and the people thereafter holding to aether by even a semblance of government it donld gd to pieces they said because of the very elements which brought about lie separation the inability to agree with tho sovereign bower the faroe thing is said by the game class of people regarding ireland and the irish ther with a better foundation or not it is bootless at this time to discuss the colonies not only set up a government in which royalty was not permitted to figure in ahny form but actually eel the seat of condemnation upon class aristocracy and decreed once and for all that one citizen was politically the equal of any other until by liia on voluntary act be placed himself beyond the pale of equality the idea of a nation in which abo functions of government distributed throughout the hands of the common people and leaving no central authority from which laws and decrees should radiate it was too quixotic an arrangement ran gement to bo stable they thought and even many of among our atlantic coi raina who wished us well personally ierson ally could not believe that tho staying qualities requisite for permanent peace and good order abided among na so deeply rooted in ahe mind of the bailou was this fallacy that the new power had scarcely reached its first quarter of a cent existence when the time was thought to be ripe for its overthrow and the forcibly bringing back of he still wayward offspring the culmination of this decoud attempt at coercion at new orleans was the settlement of the question forever though it looked tor a long time as though the rock upon abich our ship of state must split was still ahead of us in the form of a great civil growing out of the question 0 slavery the shock was a dreadful one no other nation could have survived it but ours did and within less than a decade after it was all over it was stronger richer more united and more prosperous than ever before if any of that bourbon element is still alive aal we doubt not there are a few of them w e hope they ha vo read and not yet concluded reflecting upon the series of spectacles just concluded in the city of new york and elsewhere in commemoration of the first inauguration of a president and to fitly celebrate the republics hundredth birthday no longer an but a demonstrated rated fact the youngest and only actually self restraining and self gov arning calion in existence sets out upon its second century with no breakers ahead and no wreckage behind prom three millions to sixty flie millions of people and with the ratio of wealth ten times more increased is a mighty efride and as an illustrative argument in liver of popular government is irrefutable and conclusive the emptiness I 1 of crowns tue absurdity of thrones and the weakness of titles of nobility have been fully demonstrated by our onward march from insignificance to the first place among the grand divisions of the makers footstool and when we reflect upon what we have done and are baill doing of bow nearly illimitable are our possibilities and how impregnable our position in the presence of the nations we must occasionally give vent to our honest pride in such outward demonstrations of rejoicing as those which have just occurred throughout the land but most notably at its metropolis let the starry banner kiad the ski ea let the great cannons roar pierce the cerulian dome let alio majestic eagle shriek aloud his exultation and let tho face af nature it ficle wear its brightest sweetest smiles on every occasion in which we commemorate me the birth of freedom and the dawn of equal rights among men I 1 we are greater than kingg we rule not to oppress but to sustain and encourage our race and long may we lulal A american bald eagle measure g eight feet from tip to tip waa set at liberty from the roof of the fifth avenue hotel new york im raeul aleby upon the arrival of president aboh baat tuesday aba owner of the proud bird a thousand dollars to anyone who will capture and return it unharmed TUB TOWN council of liverpool england ia prosaic and practical the famous painting of caploe by sir frederick dighton has been bargained for at the price of bat the council refused to ratify iho purchase alleging that classical subjects are out of alce in a gallery frequented by common people A likable boral it is probable that few persons i have looked upon the pia m clover puzzle as a moral agent but according to a atlonia Bt Lonia man this is just what it is it teaches us be says that we i should be gentle and patient all things how patiently we will work on fl cumle he adds and yet bow angry und aggravated we become bhea dealing animate ti lings I 1 drove pigs and I 1 know |