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    THE RED CLOUD CHIEF.
THURSDAY JULY 13.
1876
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Official Directory.
CONGRESSIONAL.
A. S. Paddock. Boatnce. U. 3. Senator.
W. ffitebcock.Onana. U. S-Senator.
Lirunzo Crounse. Kcireecttivo-
EXECUTIVE.
SILAS OARBEIt. (Jovarnor. Lincoln.
JBrunoTwchock. 6c. of State.
J. IJ Wfijton. Lincoln, Auditor.
J, 0. McBride. ,, Treasurer.
Ooo. II. Huberts. Att'y Gen.
J. M. McKeczie. Lincoln. Sup. Pub. Itutrac.
JUDICIARY.
Go. K L.tko,Ornaba. Chief Jistice.
rAnMOantt. Nebraska City. A . atc Jug.
hJam J Maxwell. Platsmouthi
WEUSTER COUNTY.
J. A.Tiilleya,
K. II. Joner.
I. W.TuIleys.
II. C. Hill.
J. S. Oilhnn,
C C. Coon.
W K. Thorn.
. W. Ball,
F. Mattcson.
J. II. UobarU
1
County Clerk.
Treasurer.
Probate Judge.
Sheriff.
School Hup't.
Coroner.
County Surveyor
County Commissioner.
For President
E." B. Hayes.
For Vice President,
W. A.. Wheeler-
CALL FOE A BEFUBLICAN STATE CONVENTION.
TO NOMINATE CANDIDATES FOR STATE
OFFICES.
The Republican elector? of the State
of Nebraska arc hereby called to send
dolcgates from the several counties fo
meet in State Convention at Lincoln,
on Tuesday, the 2tb day of Scptein
ber, 1876, for the purpose of placing
in nomination a candidate for member
of congress, and candidates for Gov
ernor, Lieutenant Governor, Secretary
of State, Auditor, Treasurer, Superin
tendent of Public Instruction, Attor
ney General, and Land Commissioner,
and to transact such other business as
may properly come before it.
The several counties are entitled to
the same representation as in the
State Convention called this day to
meet at Fremont on the 23d day of
May, 1S76.
MJMBKR.O DKKK(MTK8.
Adams 4 Knox !
Anti'lopo- Lancaster 9
Boone 1 Lincoln 2
Burt 3 Madi?on 2
Buffalo- 3 Merrick 2
JJutlor 2 Nemaha 4
Giws fi Nuckolls 1
Clay 1- Otoe S
Odar 1 l'awuco X
Colfax 2 Platto 3
Cheyenne I Polk t
Cuming 2 Kichard&on f
Dakota 1 Saline 2
Dawson 1 Sarpy 6
Isixon 1 Saunders 2
Ihidco 5 Seward 1
lnnslns 10. Stanton 4
Fillmore 3 Sherman T-
Franklin. 2 Thayer 2
Furnas 1 Washington 4
dkRe 5 Webster 2
Hall 4 York 3
Hamilton. 4 Oreelv .V Valley 1
Jlarlan 4: Pheh-5 & (Josper 1
Howard 1' Dundy. Ch:ise.
Jefferson 4 JUu-ticork. Frontier
Johnson 3 A Red Wi'l.iw I
Kearney 1 Wayne k I'iorco 1
Keith 1
By order of State Central Commit
tee. C. B. Yost, Sec. 0. H. Gere, Ch'n.
Lincoln, March 8th, 1876.
&H for Heeling of Bepublicaa St'ata Cen
tral Committee.
The mpmbers of the Republican
State Central Committee are hereby
otlled to-meet at the Commercial Ho
tel in Liucoln, on Wednesday the 26th
day of July, 1876, at 2 o'clock P: M.,
for the purpose of completing too or
ganization of the Committee, and
transacting such other business as may
properly come before the same.
James W.-Dawes,
Chairman.
IZTBACTS FSOH TIE OBATION DE-
UVEBED AT BSD CL0UD..BY J..S.
GILHAli, ON TEE lib OF JULY.
We have not room to publish the
whole of the oration in this issue. We
therefore publish the following extracts
which will illustrate the scops and
character of Mr. Gilham's speech.
Through adversity and defeat,
throuch success and triumph, in
weakness and in strength, we have
arrived in our history as a nation to
this meeting of the centuries. Stand
ing here to-day, at the inter section
of these two great cycles of time, we
may pause for a moment to look back
over the century that is past, and gird
up our loin for the century to come.
The day ve celebrate, one hundred
years ago, dawned on the American
people scattered along: the Atlantio
seaboard, separated from -the wealth
andcpforts of th old world, by. the
ocean before them, their progress
checked by. the mountains behind
them. To-day-the sun which beams
above an has been followed in his
course by. the cheers and jubilee of
millions of American citiiens and
leaves us to meet the acclamations and
hosannas that are new beginning to
rise from the Pacific Coast. To. sack
an extent has the nation grown. Let
u on this eocasion retrace the history
of that growth, recall the scenes
through which wo have passed, the
steps we have taken, and note the
progress we have made.
--
THE OHIO BACKWOODS-MAN..
Far back in the early dawn of the
oeutury, in the densely timbered re
gions at the foot of the Allegbanies,
is a small clearing,, surrounded on all
"wdca by the dark, thick woods. A lew
log-huts are scattered here and thers
among. the stamps of the trees recent-felled.-
Little- ones are playing in
childish innocence about their, forest
bomee. In the edge ofche timber the
settler swings his ax,, while bin rifle
loaded andever ready rests against a
tree. Asray in the distance some
startled, deer look affrighted upon the
evidences o nan's presence. On the
ground among the leaves, tha experi
enced eye detacttfae track. 06 bears,
or the spot where the baffled panther
streak when leaping for hu prey. The
un hs aireaay wu - . Fl7i,l
tbAtoabAdowiotha trees fall'
acro?bifl way, as the backwoods -tnin
shoulders his axe and rifle and returns
to the house. The dusk of evening
gathers over the scene and the weari
ed limb lie down to rent. Suddenly,
a bright light jrleanij in at the window,
and toe terrific whoop of the Indian
rouses the sleeping household. The
rifle and the axe aro grasped. The
terrified children are held close to the
mother's breast Cautiously the door
is opened. The blaze of burning
dwellings illuminate? the blackness of
aight with its awful radiance- Dusky
shadows flit to and fro among the
trees. Th sharp twang of the bow
string and the whistling flight of the
arrow tell of the presence of the tom
ahawk and ncalpinjr knife. But the
pioneer knows no fear. The rifle of
okl Revolutionary times staud.-) him
good service now. Farther than ar
row's flight, surer than arrow's wound
wherever a moving object appears, its
muzzle points, and the crack of its
discharge is blended with the scream
of the stricken savage. All night loug
from tree and bubh the arrow flies.
All night long the bullet speeds on its
death errand. Returning twilight
brings the disappearance of the toe.
The coming day reveals a neighbor
killed and ecalped, a few smouldering
h-aps where once friends dwelt. With
rifles in their hands the little corn nm
nity perform the la-t sad rites for the
fallen and pursue again the labors of
the day. Tree after tree falls before
the sturdy blow of the axe. The clear
ing extends wider and further on every
side. Slowly aud with exceeding diffi
culty the fare-its are removed to make
room for farms.
There was grim determination in
those Onio settlers. T heru was an
energy of purpose there, an uncon
querable spirit, born of revolutionary
struggles, defeats and triumphs, which
might be opposed by whatever odds,
uhich might Do confronted with what
ever obstacles, but could not be con
quered, could not be withstood.
The truo American energy and cour
ago was embodied in that resolute
frontier man, and that spirit was as
fierce,, as invincible and obstinate in
the forests of Ohio, as when, a few
years previous, ho stood shoulder to
shoulder with his fellows on the
heights of Bunker Hill. To-day look
ing over the past aud paying our trib
ute of gratitude to those who have
suffered and died, and yet conquered,
for our sake, side by side with the
revolutionary soldiers, the minute
men of Massachusetts, the Green
Mountain boys that fought with Stark
and Allen, the riflemen that? followed
where Marion and Sumpter dared to
lead, let us remember and honor the
backwoods-man of Ohio. Ignorant
and unlettered he may have been,
poor he undoubtedly was. Rut the
strength of his arm was enuallcd only
by the firmness of his wiil, and with a
purpose true and steadfast, a resolu
tion undaunted' and undismayed, and
a heroism that never faltered, he toil
ed on, laboring against the obstacles
nature had planted in his way by day,
contending against the savage treach
eries of the Indians by night. His
labor was not in vain. Some of this
audience will remember Mie hard cider
aud log cabin campaign of 1840 Ohio
had become a state, wealthy and pop
ulous, and she elected Wm. If. Har
rison, the backwoods-man, the Indian
fighter,, grim-visagrd, hard fisted old
Tippecanoe, President of the United
States, the first president elected by
northern votes since the days of
Adams. And .in the campaign just
opened, the hopes of three million re
publicans center on another of Ohio's
sons, reared in more auspicious and
prosperous time."', eminent for his
culture, refinement, purity and mod
esty, the essential qualities of the best
type of our American citizens, and
possessing, we hope, all the daring
courage, all the invincible resolution,
all the undying energy of the old Ohio
Frontiers-man.
THE ILLINOIS FARMER.
Later on in our history and within
the memory of the more aged of this
audience another field of labor opens
up to American Industry. Far as the
eve can reach stretches the rolling
prairie. There is nothing in sight on
the wide expanse, limited only by the
vast circumference where earth and
heaven meet, where the light brown
grass mingles with the deep blue of
the sky. I was wrong, there i some
thing in the centro of that great circle,
a spesk.o the surface of the plains,
there are the first higns of American
enterprise ; a group of wagons, sail
covered aro moving slowly over the
arena Hundreds of miles now from
civilization, Cincinnati far to the
South and East, Chicago, unknown
and unbuilt, the wagons pursued their
slow journey towards the stream, evi
dences of vrtiich-were already in sight.
Slow moving with exhausted horses,
the shades of night darkened over
them, ere thev descended the last
elope to the river bottom. The droary
aud'tedhus pilgrimage is over-. The
.end of their longand wearying journey
is reacnea. ine morrow will hod them
seeking sites for homes and hewing
the logs for their dwellings. The old
life is ended and the uow life begun.
Behind them in the past were the
eae, the happiness and the pleasures
of civilized life, tho wages and the
contentment of the laborer, the easy
if not affluent circumstances of the
tenant, and-tho but, pay of the me
chanic. Before them in the future
was tHe poverty of an unsettled wild
erness, the miseries of unrequited
labor, toil unceasing, sufferings inde
scribable, and privations as yet unex
perienced. But they blenched not.
Hone cheered and! strengthened their
spirits until experience hardened and
fortified them. In weakness and pov
erty they began their labor. In suffer
ing and distress (heir work was pushed
forward: The log cabin gave them
shelter and" afforded them a home.
Weak and feeble were their early ef
forts and sickuess and fever rendered
them still more impotent Ignorant
of the climate and the soil miserable
and repeated- failures attendedv their
first struggles. Discouragements with
out end confronted their failing spirits.
The grain raised from the field found
no market, .brought no price. Years
passed aud there were no gains. Eaoh
returning day brought new wants and
diminished the supplies. The neces
saries of life became its luxuries. Pri
vations cumprisod their resources and
gains. The most untiring, labor, the
most pinching economy could not se
cure them from debt Hope sickened
and all but died within their breasts.
But they straggled on with what littleH
strength they had. They endured not
for months but years, all that poverty
ando weakness imposed upon. them.
They were men of- energy, of strong
purpose, ot a high degrea- of mental
harraved and annoyed them. Their
hands were tired. Energy and enter
prise languished without the uteanA to
assist them,
They were strong men boond with
bands they could not rend. Bat the
cords that would not break, constant
struggling might wear out, aud they
toiled on, until, after years pasted, otwi
by one the ties Were sundered. The
want that howled about them was
driven from the door. The debts that
clamored for payment were discharged.
The harvest brought with it a HttU
gain. Succese breathed upon them
the breath of hope and they wrought
in might where before they had labor
ed in wr aknesi. They achieved con
quests where they had met with fail
ures, found profits where their feeble
ness had incurred but debts. The
future became roseate and parage with
the hues of victory, and the Illinois
farmer rose from poverty and misery
into affluence and happiness. The
white walls of pleasant cottages, give
back their radiance to the nun as he
moves in his orbit over the Mississippi
valley this bright July morniug. Cat
tle that feed upon a thousand hills tell
of present and prophesy future abund
ance. Cities and villages have sprung
up in the path of the emigrant wagon.
The commerce of the nation with its
ceaseless din and hurried bustle is
whirled over the once uninhabited
prairies. The American pioneer is
gone, but the population aud wealth
of the Mississippi valley, the results
of his euterprise, perseverance and
heroism have crowned his efforts with
success, and tho American people
meeting on this Centennial Anniver
sary to celebrate the birth of the na
tion and review its progress will not
be ungrateful to his memory.
Yes, Honor, unstinted and in full
measure to those old pioneer farmers.
History makes no mention of their
struggles. Fame reports none of their
achievements. Not in the full blaze
of glory do their deeds appear. Not
with the criaiaon pen of the warrior
are their triumphs recorded. Nothing
that is lofty, glorious aud iuspiring at
tended their progress save the brave
spirits within them. Humiliating
small and almost insignificant, rather
were their struggles, and humble thei?
victories. Yet, not always aro courage
and heroism confined to the most
sounding and iuspiring achievements,
to tho pomp and splendor of life. The
courage of the toldior marching on to
victory, through the smoke of battle,
io the blaze of musketry and the roar
of cannon is not the highest courage.
The f pirit to dare a great deed and
achieve a brilliant success is not always
the noblest spirit. To brave death
itself is uot more courageous than to
brave the wearying and discouraging
and disheartening duties of life. The
marvelous feats that history records
and fame trumpets are not the most
heroic things of earth. The sounding
pomp and glittering pageantry of glory
will animato the most timid and the
weakest to action. But to toil in
wcikuesa, to labor in distress, to be
checked oa the right and defeated on
tho left by the limitations of poverty,
to work body and mind year after
year and count no gains, to seo each
returning season deler tho fruits of la
bor to the distaut future, to wait
courageous when tho hands find
naught to do, to strive with might
though hope promises no reward, in
all the weaknesses and feebleness, in
all the disappointments aud despond
encies, in all the discouragem-nts and
dishcartnmeiLs incident to the settle
ment of a wilderness by poor men, to
toil bravely on, requires a courage the
highest and loftiest, and a purposo tho
most unyielding and invincible.
Any man oun summon up the cour
age to win a victory that will blazon
his name with glory, but to work
bravely when the hands are tied
by poverty, the body feeble with sick
ness, and the mind sick with failure,
demands not tho bravado of a day or
year, but a resolution fixed and firm
for life.
Such men were the pioneers. What
they endured and suffered has been
poorly told. The experience of many
111 tins auaicnce could intorm yuu
much more truly and fully. Some of
you have talked' with those men.
.whose grizzled beards, furrowed brows
and broken trames, spoke with a- fuel
ing eloquence of the struggles aud
trials and hardships of pioneer life.
Fou have seen the wife, her beauty
wasted, her features pinched and nar
rowed by want and privation. You
have seen a tear glisten in the old
man's eye, as he told of the littb one,
whose merry prattle cheered the cabin
home, dying on that bleak prairie,
when medical skill would have saved,
but was not attainable, whose suffer
ings found no delicacies save a moth
er's tears, no luxuries save a mother's
lips. Through such hardships, over
such difficulties, amidst such discour
agements, the settler of the Missis
sippi valley labored until success re
warded his efforts. There-have been
grander, more showy and ostentatious,
but no truer types of American hero
ism, than was that of the Illinois and
Iowa pioneer farmer.
THE CALIFORNIA MINER.
Winging its eagle flight over the
.vast area between the Mississippi and
the f acme, the genius ot American
progress folds its unwearied pinions
on the summit of the Sierras. Drag
ging its- slow course up the eastern
slope of the western mountains, a long
train of wagons pursues its tedious
march. Over the broad plains of the
Missouri, where the buffalo, roamed,
along the coarse of the Platte to its
source, up through the deep defiles
between the snow-capped peaks of the
Rocky Mountains, down into the
trackless desert beyond where the sage
brash and cactus only grow, on
through the great basin of the inland
sea, where the rivers sink into the
sand and the alkali blinds the sight,
until the white tops of the Sierras
gladdened the vision, the train had
moved its slow pace forward. Nearly
two thao?and- miles behiod were the
ou tposts of the civilised world. Be
yond over the mountains up which
they were slowly climbing was an un
explored country- washed by the
waves of.the unknown ocean.
In those wagons, tired and exhaust
ed, was tho remnant of a band of reso
lute men, that months before had left
the states to. seek the coafises of the
earth- They were the advanced guard
of the hundreds of thousands that fol
lowed after and peopled the Pacific
coast with the most active and enter
prising population on the globs. Ac
tivity and enterprise-are not apparent
in the occupants of those wagons now.
Fatigued with the long journey, worn
out by privation and exposure, fatn-
ishing.-for food and. water and fiunt
from sufferings,, nature had almost
rebelled and given up the strife.. They
talent. Bat poverty held them in its had seen their comrades fall before tho
vice like gripe. Accuaiuiatin&. db& fiiaof the saxage, . sink- tMwh thve.
hard-hips of the route, droop from
hunger and thirst and die from expos
ure, f heir own endurance had been
taxed to the uini. Thcrr strength
bad been strained the farthest, their
frith hod been tried the strongest, but
they had not been overcoat and the
end was near.
Months ago there sped orer the
village of toe far away east the
strange intelligence that gold free and
abundant had Lcea discovered in Cal
ifornia. Marvelous n-ooru of that
unknown land, that Eldorado of tb
West, bad spread over the breadth of
the Atlantic and Mississippi states.
It precioas tnt'tak, it wonderful veg
etation, the manmoth fruit and the
giant tree, its mountain peaks cover
ed with eternal mjow, and hu rich val
leys where winter never chilled, were
on the lips of all. The California fever
became an epidemic which raged over
all the eastern states and infused new
life into the heait of the de'poudvnt
It cro-sed the ocean and its infectious
breath quickened the puKe of the Ku
ropcan laborer and awoke the man
hood that .lumbered in his breast to
action. The enterprise, energy and
daring that had Leon suppressed by
the weight of poverty aud servitude
ro?e beneath the force that bound it
down and asserted it might. From
the cities of the Atlantic coast and the
farms of tho Mississippi valley, daring
and intrepid men began their long
journey across the plains. From the
grecu fit-Ids of England, her factories,
her cities and her luines. the tenant
and the hireling turned their lougiug
eyes to the uew werld. Whatever
there was of courago and resolution
burst the shackles of servitude from
their bodie, tore the fetters of poorly
paid service from their limbs, and took
passage to that new country where la
bor was free and man's energy unre
strained by feudal taws.
On the fhores of the great oceau,
where the Golden Gate opens into a
beautiful harbor, aroe. as if by magic
a large and wonderful city, the marvel
of the world, tho homo of all that is
extravagant in enterprise and daring,
fanatic in its liberalism, reckless in its
energy, and magtiiueent in its prodi
gality. In two years California became
a stato, the peer in wealth and impor
tance of the states that lined the Mis
sissippi. Oregon followed more tardily,
Nevada war born, poured her glitter
ing treasures in the nation's lap, and
Colorado radiant with the glory of the
setting century has just united herself
to the sisterhood of states.
This was the work of the American
miner. The bluffs of Lake Superior
with their vollow copper and bright
t-ilver ores, the hills of tho Upper Mis
sissippi with their blue gleaming Gal
enitc, the broad surfaces of Illinois
and Ohio overlying the thick strata of
coal, and the faituesses of tho Alle
ghanies, iron-ribbed, yield their treas
ures to the miners industry and swell
the vast volume of the nation's wealth.
SETTLEMENT OF THE WEST.
The settlement of tho country be
.twecn the Missouri river and the
Rocky Mountains, rendered couipara-tivt-ly
eay has commenced, aud is
rapidly going on. We Maud here now
in the midst of that work, our labor is
easy and our burden light. Our pro
gress is sure and rapid. The unbrok
en prairie is fast developing into farms
rich in agricultural wealth. Houses
aud h mies iudicate increasing prosper
ity. Villages neat and attractive dot
the courses of our rivers. "Westward
the star of empire takes its course,"
and the great plains arc already teem
ing with their population and alive
with industry. The great work of set
tling the continent is completed. The
most insurmountable obstacles, the
most gigautic difficulties have been
overcome. To-day the American peo
ple extend in au unbroken Hue from
oceau to ocean. Wealth and prosper
ity and civilization gladden the desert
aud the plain. To "3 ay the grand cho
rus of praise and thanksgiving rising
from American hearts, starting from
the white walled shores of the eastern
oeean. rolls onward in one uniform and
unendiug anthem, over valley and
'plain, oyer mountain and desert, until
it loses itself in the trammil waters of
the Pacific.
THE MOVER'S WAGON.
Ladies and Gentlemen, I cannot, my
feelings will not permit me to pass
without paying tribute to a very im
portant factor in our progress and de
velopment. Next after the .staff of
Franklin and the sword of Washing
ton, the star-spangled banner and tho
American eagle, let us appreciate and
honor the mover s wagon, the old
mover's wagon, the canvas-topped
wagon, the slow goiug wagon that
crawls o'er the plains. Bird of the
bright andsnowy plumage, tho prairie
schooner, the veritable ship of state,
the beauteous bride of the prairies,
pirouetting in the morning breeze,
waltzing before the evening zephyrs,
careening before the gale, and moving
with solemn dignity in the calm.
Truest emblem of American enterprise,
with sails wide spread, launched on
the rolling billows of the plains.
Storms may assail thee. Tempests
may wreak their fury on thy devoted
head. But thy pinions are never furl
ed. Capsized, indeed, thou may be ;
but with the first lull in the storm, the
earliest glance of the sun, thou light
est thyself on thy beam ends and gocst
forth to conquest. Beautiful eymbol-
of American energy, mcving, forever
moving, onward, forerer onward. The
genuine chariot of liberty, and the
Divine Goddess herself the charioteer
thereof. A thing of beauty and a joy
forever.
MORAL ENERGY OF THE AMERICAN
PEOPLE. LINCOLN.
Dwelling on these scenes and remin
iscences we bare watched our country's
progress towards wealth and'greatness.
One important question remains to be
answered. Wealth- and prosperity
effeminate,. looen the morals aud
weaken the purpose. How have
Americans been affected by their pros
perity-? Are they less tree to principle,-
less courageous in uuty f.
Let our minds go back a few years.
In the capital of the country, in the
highest office of the nation is a- man
whose name is dearer to our hearts
than that of any other American past
or present. Tall, awkward and un
couth in figure,, even sore homely in
countenance. A life of coarse bard
struggle has left its marks upon him.
Core and anxiety have deepened the
farrows on his brow and sharpened the
lines of his face. Yet the countenance
is one of the most attractive that man
looks upon. A noble charity, a deep
earnest sympathy, and a genial hearty
benevolence smooth down the angles
and soften- the hardness that toil and
trouble have engendered.' The rugged,-care-worn
face is almost beanriful
with the frank honesty, the hutk'mor-
aLwoxth,.aqd he Under. l&riufcjTiaBa-
thy that characteriro the wuL Severe
trial, and arduous tat-or hire been
rhi lot In hf. But the severest triU.
the heaviest re-ponsibiiit'c-. lbs mo
drying dtK are yet to come.
A uieegeT brings in a fcleram tht
moment tii-hed oer the wire- con
taining the ominous intcl'veoce that
the rebels had fired on Sampler. The
coment was cmie. The dreaded dan
ger was at hand Hi- wor-t forebod
ings were realized. The grest cond ct
between the states and the Federal
g.vrutsert bad culminated. The in
tricate and j-erpleJing qiie-tion a- to
the respective powers of the two gov
ernments were to be solreil. The de
cision mut bu nrade. The re-olution
taken aud action commenced Th
gloom that had been approaching
deepeued upon hi countenance. 'Hie
shadow that already ch'iled hi
brow darkened above him. The cloud
of trouble, of tria'. of di-trf arid
dmbt thicke e' ore tin until the
lightning tla-h ot a asstuatiuu burst
upon hu devMed head.
But no superincumbent weight could
conquer the giant roul wiihiu. No
difficulties or anxieti-could suidue
the lofty courage au-i rich full teuder
nes5 that swelled up in hi- h;irt.
Lincoln-was ready. Hi-dec sion wa
made, his purpose tixed With m.i!
taco toward none aud charitj firal.
with Grume- 111 lb" right a-i God gave
hiai to see the right, foreseeing the
burdens and dutie- an 1 trial- which
were to banish re.-t from his mind and
gladness Iron hi- hear:, anticipating
the death that should end his labors,
he highly resolved that the nation
should have anew birth, that govern
ment of the people, by the people, for
tho people, should not perish fro.u
the earth. Lincoln ws a m.ui of the
people, his heroi-m was the heroi-111
of the people. Hi- patriotism wa tii
patriotism of the people. Whatever
there was of nigral grandeur, ol uu-sclfi-h
devotion to truth andju-tiee,
of unswerving fiielity to duty, of in
vincible firmness to do, to dare, and
to suffer for the right's ?ae, was the
genuine re'leuum of the mo'-al senti
ment and deepest purpose of the A
tiieiican pcoi Ie. That man is not
American who doe not cheri-h his
memory with hi.- fouriest love. There
is no p'ttnoti-m in the -oul that docs
not swell with udoration of hi- name.
Theie H no purity in the mind that
reveres not his integrity. Tin-re is no
tenderne-s in the heart that melts not
with sympathy at the recollection of
his life.
THE SOLDIER.
Not a in the old revolutionary times
did another Paul Il-veie ride with the
news from villngu to village, or beacon
fires- blaze on the hil't.jp- , but il.i-h-ing
along the wirs i.-uing fiom a
thousand pre-:s, borne on the wing-
of eteaiij, sped the dread news that
war was begun. In the villages aud
in the towns rarg out the shrill notes
of the fife and the hoarse clangor of
the drum. Flocking together from
the store and shop of the city and the
farms of the country, came the brave
and courageous spirits of the North.
Up from the cities and the plains,
from ocean to occ:.n, with the sound
of fife ind drum, tho onward tramp of
marching men and cheers of hyil
hearts, rang out the iroud, hopeful
tones "We are oouiinj:. Father Abra
ham 300.000 Jioro." Gatherirg to
gcthcr from all the states of the uorth
came the mighty armies Forming
into line undT the waving folds of the
stars mid Mriites, nerving their breasts
for the conflict- before them, at the
word, march, tbey moved forward,
piercing the air with tho bugle notes
of exalted enthu-hsui, shaking the
earth with the solid tread of an uncon
querable determination. On to the
Miisis-ippi, through the blood bathed
field of .""hiloh, by the easy won Don
aldson, down to Vicksbfg triumph
crowned. B ick an-l cast to Chatta
nooga, up above the clouds on- Look
out Mountain, through the smoke and
carnage of Mission Kidg'i, forward to
the sea with Sherman. Following the
', tramp of armiu.-, the beat of drums
and roar of batt'e swelled the brave
song of loyal men,
"John Browa'j body lies moulderiag in the
grave.
But his toul i tuarchiagoo."
Close packed in the deathfnl wild
erness, fulling by thousands before the
sickness of the swamp, falling by tens
of thousands before the desperate fire
of the Ltiemy, Lut 1 ailing not, weary
ing not, fainting not, pushing forward,
pressing onward, in the face of de
struction, in the teeth of slaughter, in
the jaws of death, until in he hiartof
the rebsl capital, over the walls Of
tsassxDzrt
v&'jfts ' BAUM'S j"Eu" CHICAGO Srl m;
I MCM17 J Rtitr.K-1 ! II '"t ""Ttl 'T IKK r
RED CLOUD, 1UEB.
CALU'U. N.I0KS. NA.NM.V-r
TRCTONNK.
LAWNS',
COTTONAJ'K?.
CASHKMr.KrS. PKI.Al.VS
mix twoons, .oT)t4f
Iteadv ftmlY CMIiIh, lluf& dip
lloot & HIiotvH. rMri',
U, llltf .UIUIieU 11: uiur ua- w - - I ai I
eady, a- willing, n cour-geoui the and ccrrtttttt" I lr iiitr of bCnerai wTclCnanUSa
...!...:.... I.. .)... ....... I J
I Libby I'non. orcr th:d
otrr thiit urar hou-n? o
inc anJ tJndt.hn, whre !b lTo
Sokfe- Ivr confined. fltcd th: Ixsnnir
ot freedom, crimsoned with victory.
its gi-.Tioos bsw iMfedir and endur
mg a the heaTctr. sod jtt glittering 1
tar beAminjf upon tbv darkened an i
war deluded l-n.l the bright and pr
cioui protuici of s ilvcn' peace
Tli- war h over, The rebellion i
rrtuhtvr. Slarerr m no more. The
noble prophecy of Lincoln is fulfilled
"The tuyst.s cfwnd? of memory .trrtch
ir.g from every tiattiefield and patriot
grave :o etory living heart and hearth- J
-tone all over thi brja 1 lind hare 1
-welled thecfurut of the I'nion. when
touched," a- x foretold they would j
be. "by the better an!-, of our na-
tare." The sold.cr's work i over. In
tim'. of peaee we are unconvjiom of
the virtj? t iv is in jjt milt, b-it
when the cri-is came, when duty cull-
i.i Mix A met lean i: i tr ilav- i a
v- - f -.. .- --. -
CAMBRICS.
riQl'K,
CHKVIOTS.
JAt'ONkr.
GKASscurriM.
'JRAN&
!r:rv a.
ATRK.TI.Y RKIH'fKI PRICKS.
P. s.
L. BAXJ1YT.
Highest Market Price paid for all kiniS
of Country Produce, Hides and Furs.
CI LAS. l. JONKS,
Juniata. HTcbraslia.
ttho:
Revolution ry patruK. In the name I
of the voter.tn- bo fire me and around j
mo, covered witn the scats ami wound- J
of many a blofy field, waited aud jt wjjj y yoxl l0 f.T-iJa0r my twV iod j.ftc iw .
weakened with the evil- of the march , vrj,,.rt. iuViuHy miatioH rxlmUd ti li.
and camp, bearing the tooth print.- of
the raveiiHU- famine at Ander-ouville, JJi-.M I a-l i a trial and 1 am '' tK r
in the mine ol the uiinjred Lincoln, , Lerp the largest slvck and th cheapttet oe "ct 4 tite M
1 demand that moral heroism, the River.
highe-t and uoble-i, be accorded to rhe ,
Americans of to day. j Thanking thr 1'ulln fr th.ir past jaiiari,-c. I u 1
Lames and Ge.nti.kuen Time 1 cspoctlullj soHci: titnr Uui.
furbids me to cite other incident.- in
our hi-tory. Tho: already cited are
enough for my purpjso I'eacc hath her
victories no Ie.-s renowned than thoo
of war. IjCt us to-day rejoice it-those
victories that have gemmed the east
ern forosts with their noble cities,
gilded ihe we.-tern prairie.- with their
g'lldcn harvests, dug from the hill
uud mountain- their -hintuk trea-urc.
upturna! the oarih fjr the coal to feed
the thtuuug force.-, untied tho Alleghv
me?, and with their iron nhb.- netted
the surface with innumerable railway.
for silver banded commerce to circu
late the nation - wealth. Peace hath
her heroes, noble as the armed warrior
or the punned knight. let Us re mem
ber aud honor the heroism of the
Ohio Uaelwuod- man, the lllinoi
Farmer, the California Miner, nud the
Western Pioneer Patriott.-m and
courage beat high and warm in the
hearts of Americans to-day. Let u
not forget tho veteiau soldiers iu our
mid-t.
Tho century that to day is setting to
rise un more.Ile.ivc- 11- infinitely in ad
vance of our fore-fathern 111 material
progrei-. H ith all honor aud deter
ence to the illustrious dead, we are uot
behind them in moral-, uot behind
them i'i integrity, uot behind them in
purity, not behind them in the energy
and heroism that are necessary to n na
tion's life, vjtteiigtheucd by iat vie
tories conscious of undiminished inaii-
Iwtnil (lLiu.-iriir rli-if llirnii. ( imlniiPi.
which ha- been our cloud and our pil- 1 r m,
lar iu the century that is past, let us t jf .........'.., J.?a-j. Cia -
jfe! """" "ii&t'lHT-rif:. 'UH-f PHr.Uin.1 f
an ft 'JWiisions. L
Ever brought tu the Valley. "Sivi bin a ra:: at.d - n
nud'pricuCK.
-T. G. Fetter
DRY GOODS, NOTIONS HATS,
CAP3. Tinware, Queens ware.
GROCERIES AND ,
PROVISIONS.
lllglMVHt 4'umIi lriv luif! for ' rr. In
T I I K
i$ ?1 ih $ i't ft 3 V ft V 3 TS ?
.1. (J. Potter hiijuM rcfivvd the Giu-nt a r'u it i-
SAM'L GAKBBR
pi: At. Kit IN
Dry (woods ami
iwrocerien
1SOOT& and tt HO K
Hats, Caps, &
llauhj Made Clothing !
We have the Largest
Stock in the Valley and will
not be undersold.
GIVE U3 A CALL, ONE & ALL
Sam'! Carber
47-d
Ited Cloud, Xel
THE NEW
Double
Thread Lock-Stitch
Machine.
fajgauuife
"DflfflESTICfW
k im?ttym'FM:i
5 Sft' at 2
Red Clcud, NettrniktJ
Splendid Crops t jRTn?ndant
HARVESTS.
Best Harvesting' Marhtnes arc the
MCCORMICK IJAkVESTKRS i
HKLr-KAKKS, hUOPPKHS and MOWKH.-.
TIjcc machine poinbine nil the mbjrn tinp-Tircitoeal od
warranted to give perfect atiof..:un, or ui tU-
ai''h,-. itiirmn! wlrrC trird by n Inre nxtnlr r the f"
of the county List summer, and drd lUvir work, loiter trm tlif .
chin in the field. A Inruu -toc' wi'l niwni- b riii.d nl hi "'
cHJarber'n store, on xbilfilin, nu.1 bl:i;ivi hnicif will be Of
ro.tJy for bu;ino. aid t "st 'cm up."
- "
NEW HARDWARE STOKE 1
WJIOLKSALE AND KIC'JA 1 1.
' MITCHELL & MOJilLUiT
Have opened a new torc and have just rccjivcJ a full tod ctKp'ff
fciock of
II lltlMVAHK, 1 Htlrv, iarpintcr Sc
FA K MING TOOLS,
COAL and WOOD STOVES. We hive Iso a Tin Shop connt.t.4
with our Store. We manufacture Tin, Copper k Shest Iron Wtn
Our Stock if LAHOE and well MSOTtcd, al we will dckl
as any house "xest of Lincoln.
Call and See Before Purchasing Elsewhere.
Opposite the Lumber Yard.
Red Cloud, - - - Nebraska
-s 1
THE LIGHTEST-RUNNING MACHINE IN' THE WORLD.
With our printed dircTticns, no iaructioo or njecb-icsl skill is refpired to epenre tt.
Tte cocstrucon of the machine is bxsed upon principle of ca!que ad unequalled as
plicitr, coaiprisicjr simple levers working upon csoires. The iarinsjs are lew, aod they
are hardeaed and r-ilished.
The machines are made at' or new works in the dtf of Newark. N. J with new spca
(patented) uiachinrry and toots, conrtructed ezpfessJy toaccoapEii Wat wr cow- oiler.
Every machine fuUy trarranfert
"DCJaCSTIC" SEWING MACHINE COt,
New York an Ohleaero.
WW- 1 TIT i "ST ft SA TTXGS.-BV usir.c th " Domnllr Pa-
U1 A W 3 I f 1 1J W pwfihonthec5tstyLshaBdpcrfect-aiar
r LA k IT I & 1 If ,i eoWmes ca.T 5s prodactd. at a l?c sarinr in
Mi JHLlM. JL A a A 1 MONET to thofswht. caooie to nuke.or rpna-
tead tti caiirj of. theli own garmests. W ith the
highesttolnt and the bes fecOities 1 aD defarttestt, and the best ideas of the mo skflUal
modiss, both at "hoajetmd abnwul, we ars etabied. to attain resulis fcr above the reach of the
average dress-Tnatcr. " Our styles are alwsrs' the latest asd be. Oar fctegastlr-dhatmed
catalogue roailed to any lady sendieg lire cents -crfeh her suidrea. Agents wanted ererywhexa
U
DOMESTIC" SEWIMC MACHINE CO.,
Xew Tuovk. and Ciiicmo
VALLEY HOUSE..
J. C. OITARIVBR. Prop-
I always ready to attend to sad make comfortable Im patron.
This Hotel is entirely new, having been Stted op for the pr
purpose of the traveling public. k
TAGE LEWES FOR THE RAILROAD OX MONI'AY
WEDNESDAY, 4 FRIDAY OF EACH WEEK ATT O'CLOi FT-A.M.
I Claim to Have the BEST STABLE West
dX Lincoln.
Alwayylceeping on hand a good supply ef-
I AT AN D'-Gini,
Ahx food cneveyaoce for the purpose -of conveyfag pssaf rj(
from this place to any otntr at reasonable rates. - - "
Bed CioutC
S'cfeefrU