just and constitutional Laws, discreetly and faithfully executed and obeyed; to protect and guide all Sovereigns and Nations, (especially such as have shewn kindness unto us ;) and to bless them with good Government, Peace and Concord; to promote the Knowledge and Practice of true Religion and Virtue, and the Encrease of Science among them and us; and generally, to grant unto all Mankind such a Degree of temporal Prosperity as He alone knows to be best.

Given under my Hand, at the City of New-York, the third day of October, in the year of our Lord one thousand, seven hundred and eighty-nine.

G. WASHINGTON.

I would speak the sentiments of these fathers on this solemn day. The price of liberty is eternal vigilance. It is ever in danger. Now from foreign enmity-now from intestine strifeat other times, as now, from the growth of corruption-irreverence for right as right, materialism, defiling everything, destroying true manhood, disgusting the good and competent with public affairs, and leaving the State to be managed and directed by cunning incompetency, seeking and using place for profit, scoffing at duty, in a word, from moral rottenness. And the escape and, blessed be God there will be escape-I speak with no fear, for God is with us-from ruin to come, the ruin that has befallen other republics, the ruin that has so far been avoided, because our freedom is that which comes of the open Bible, is restoration and increase of its dominance and influence. Stand by it, fellow citizens, as the true Palladium of your liberties. Maintain the schools—and maintain it in the schools. Let it be an institution there, recognized and revered. Thus much can we do as citizens, nor little as it seems can we over estimate its extent. But this must not be all. In every way must we seek to saturate the community with Christian morality. The Church, the Sunday School, Colleges and Academies where religion is directly taught, the support of these is not only our duty as Christians. It is our duty also as patriots. The very infidel, if he loves his country, will aid in the promulgation of tolerant Christianity and the morality it inculcates. For, let no man doubt that just⚫

in proportion to the extent that that morality prevails, just in proportion as we remain the land of the open Bible-in that proportion, and that only, may we be assured that our freedom and progress will last, and that another century will find the Nation one great, happy, republican and free.

ADDRESS

BY COL. ALBERT R. LAMAR.

DELIVERED AT THE CENTENNIAL CELEBRATION, SAVANNAH, GA.,

JULY 4TH, 1876.

FELLOW CITIZENS: Impelled by causes not necessary to be mentioned here, for many years the people of this country have failed to gather in the spirit of patriotic devotion around a common altar. But to-day, from one end of the land to the other, the people will renew their vows to the great principles which gave birth to the American republic in 1776. Standing in the shadow of a dead century and facing the dawn of a coming one, the people of Savannah have determined to light again the torch of liberty, and with confident hopes to transmit it to their children and their children's children. In order to give suitable mark to this Centennial day they have selected a gentleman to read to you the Declaration of Independence, a document whose vehement eloquence not only moved the arms and hearts of American patriots, but set Europe ablaze in revolution a hun⚫ dred years ago. I have the honor to introduce to you Capt. Robt. Falligant, a gentleman who in the last struggle for constitutional liberty nobly distinguished himself, and illustrated Georgia, his native State.

CENTENNIAL GROWTH

IN

NATIONALITY, INDUSTRIES, AND EDUCATION.

AN ADDRESS BY HON. HENRY BARNARD, L.L.D.,

DELIVERED AT HARTFORD, CONN., JULY 4TH, 1876.

FELLOW-CITIZENS, Countrymen, one and all, for on this day, although we meet here formally as one of the cities and towns of this Commonwealth at the call of our chief municipal officer, and on the proclamation of the Governor of the State, we are members of a still larger community, governed by one Constitution, having a common history, and sharing in the weal or the woe of a common destiny--we are an integral part of a great whole, a Nation whose marvelous expansion in territory by peaceful acquisition, whose vast increase of numbers by annual accessions of people flying to us as to a city of refuge from every country on the globe, whose rapid development of diversified occupations, of comfortable homes, and public institutions of learning, science, and religion, we have come together from the promptings of our own hearts, as have ten thousand other local communities all over the land, to commemorate, as the direct and legitimate fruits of that Declaration, which has just been so well read, and of the acts which followed. In that Declaration, and in those results, my countrymen, you and I, all of us, speakers and hearers, find to-day not only the themes of our meditations but our inspiration, and the springs of that exultant joy with which we hail the morn that ushers in the second century of our national existence. That Declaration was made by the Representatives of the Colonies as States-United, the war which it justified was carried on by their joint councils and arms, and the Confederation, or Compact of States which had begun to loosen even before the war was ended, and threatened to dissolve in anarchy and disgrace as soon as the pressure of a common enemy was removed, was in 1787 consolidated into a

Constitutional Republic, national in all the essential attributes of sovereignty, leaving to each State all administration which touched the immediate interests of families and individuals.

I. Let us, then, in the spirit of that Proclamation issued by President Washington on the 3d of October, 1789, in less than six months after his inauguration as President of the United States, in pursuance of a joint resolution of both Houses of Congress, and "of the bounden duty of all nations,"-thank God, humbly and sincerely, "for His kind care and protection of the people of this country previous to their becoming a nation;" "for His providential interposition in the course and conclusion of the late war ;" and "for the peaceable and rational manner in which we have been enabled to establish constitutions of government for our safety and happiness, and especially for the national one now lately instituted; for the civil and religious liberty with which we are blessed, and the means we have of acquiring and diffusing useful knowledge ;" and beseech Him "to enable us to render our national government a blessing to all the people by constantly being a government of wise, just, and constitutional laws, faithfully executed and obeyed."

Under the operations of this national government the territory of the republic has been augmented seven-fold, until it exceeds the area of all the States of Europe; the population has increased from 3,000,000 to 40,000,000; the thirteen States have multiplied to thirty-eight, each charged with only that local administration relating to land, business, travel, traffic, schools, churches, charities, and police, which touches nearly every family and individual, while the larger interests of emigration, commerce, currency, international and interstate communication, the general welfare and the protection of all from aggression or belligerent legislation, foreign or domestic, are left national.

To this increase of territory and population, and to the coordinate administration of all these local and national interests, there appears no limit fixed in natural laws, or the capacities of the people, if properly trained to sobriety of judgment and life. Surely, no other government in the same age of the world has conferred so many benefits on its own people, or interfered less with the happiness of others.