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(ient.lcrii'ja of Cue Ly< earn art, I Foil: 10- Citizens :
Notwithstanding the combination of forces, impcdiinmu..
and organized obstructions which have been marshalled fur
the purpose of eioging the wheels of progress, andparahrsmg
the enlightened ideas, liberal and advancing agencies of the
age.
"We meet to-night under fee most happy congratulations
and friendly greetings ever prompted by the triumphant
victories of a civil conquest ft \s srud that after Galileo
had signed the bill of recantation tbre,mvh the coercion of
the Roman Inquisition, retracting the, truism that the world,
planets and their satclites revolved ascend a solar centre,
that he threw his jneu on the ilour-. ". ■} stamped with has
feet, exclaiming at the same time, ''It moves, nevertheless "
But later investigations through ihcaid of the telescope and
mathematics, have demonstrated that the world docs
move, and that at a marvelous .speed, but birr axial
whirl has never been more rapid, than has the strides of
her moral and civil progress withm the, last few years in
this country, where liberty, equal h v and simple justice has
lifted tohea\cn their banner flags, amid, the sweet cadences
of a happier dispensation, heralded, as it were, by the
strains of an archestral melody, more enchanting' than Apol¬
lo's choir, or the celestial dreams of the Muses.
Here, alone, despotism, has had to bite the duct, and
shrink before the ascending glories of a brighter era, while
equal rights and civil rectitude despite, the cunrng and
strategy of men, have gathered strength at every srridw
Though, as Hayes said:/ With tardy step Celestial Justice
comes, that step is sure, unerring in her bolt, but whcio it
falls, eternal will the ruin be.-
11 fA i\ seraph from some distant, re-ion vi.sited our portion
of tliis mundane sphere, about ten wars ago,, noted ()ur 'Vl.
stitutions, read our law- and mark. ' the pi'oscrietive pro
visions of our st;il nice, and were lie now to return (or 'i
similar inspection, he would either g,i! io I'ecoci,;■,.,., p|(,
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