Show FOURTH OF JULY 1926 ever eier independence da dav celebration renews the lesson of history histon and is a freh frech fre h inspiration to tarn it is more so this lear ear on the one hundred and fiat fir fina t birthday of the nation if ne ae want to celebrate properly ne ae ought to do so with a view of inculcating reverence reNe rence for the emblems memories and principles that typify american freedom and respect for the great personages who were instrumental in securing that freedom the giant of eloquence daniel webster perhaps has presented the character Aar acter and achievements of those thoe tho e taw men more luminously than any before or since his day they are dead he be said in eulogy of the last signer charles carrol of carrolton but little there is of the great and good that can die to their country they yet live in all that perpetuates the memory of men on earth in the recorded proofs of their oun ov n great actions in the offspring of their intellect in the deep engraved eng r aed lines 0 of public gratitude and in the homage and respect of all mankind they live in their example and in the influence which their he and effort efforts their principles and opinions now non exercise and will continue to exercise on the affairs of men not only in their own country but throughout the world 11 in the individual sense the members of that immortal conre congress mere acre the mot remarkable political body which the annals of the orld can show chow in each the fiery zeal of the patriot was tempered by the inherent virtues of the man not one of those 66 56 heroes his trus tru a phe pomonal record in the papos pages of history all the signers st tood stood firm sonic some were imprisoned imprison od and died led as the result of their sufferings dinv were nere impoverished and many stood within the shadow of death all nere tempted just as all felt the menacing wrath which luch seemed poiN powerful erful enough to grasp and crush them not one died with aith a stain on his name I 1 1 I 1 |