The New York Herald Newspaper, July 5, 1876, Page 2

ba —_-___—__ mnial Fourth Grandly and oriously Celebrated. YORK’S REJOICINGS. wl” Greeted Yesterday by the Thunders of Artillery. ACADEMY MEETING. ? Singing, and an Oration by Dr. Storrs. ANY HALL’S PATRIOTISM. le and Enthusiastic Gathering in Irving Hail. eh AND NEW seieerincteenh ines KLY JERSEY. r Demonstrations in the Sister Cities ; and Elsewhere, naka ‘onday uight, ina pageant, and with universal demonstrations of joy, of which our children ik when they are gray-haired men mpire City stepped hghuy and proud jd century of the national independenee, questiens which mark men off and ifferent and oppos into the All the er them election issues and Nps; ses aud sins of the administration which the public mind has been stung into flerce r, all seemed for the nonce ne weak ne 1 aside, in order that York, with the rest of the mation, t send the cry of liberty xchieved rin round the world, Long alter the newspapers bad Nerday morning begun to tell the people what had 4 doue throughout the city and in the vicinity, the pts and squares were thronged not only fe our urban sight rs, but with iB §«6of §=«thousands) «= whos bad = come in ow the metropolis of the country would com rt herself on the great aad memorable occasion. It Was not until dawn had shot its silver sheen high into he Eastern sky that the streets of the city resumed heir usual aspect. Then profound quiet fell up bem. A population used to much indoor employment nd to little exercise in the open air, had necessarily feel the suporitic effects of a day’s rejoicing pro- Jonged into the first hours of the morning. The con many way: A CONTRAST TO ITS PREDECESSORS, All over the city the window-biinds seemed belat ere was no one in the streets in the early art of the dfy, and the imevitable matutinai milkman was greeted by eyes that looked as | hough smiling through a fog. But New York richly deserved the rest she was taking, there was no one with a heart abroad in the fore part ‘of the day who would not have uttered a gentle benison upon the slumbers of the population mighty acclaim of the past night had a.ready been sped by the lightning to the uttermost ends of the eart then, in peace, ye grateful children of a proud if youthtul mother, while the wakeful Hekano man moves rapidly through the great city and catches for your weary eyes the expression of the city on the Fourth itself, NATURE ABHORS & VACUUM This fundamental axiom of physical Made palpable yesterday morning by aumber of lager beer barrels (thems looking thirsty now!) which might be seen ou their way home whose Sleep, science was the prodigious Ives all In almost every tboroughiare in “he city. How provi- dential that they were in the metropolis on Monday to fill ‘another ever-recurring vacuum to which the slendercst and most delicate reference is the best! Combined with the weather the last week. they argued more cogently | against the Sung, in calf, so suggestive of the framers of the law itself, | There they were in the long drays in every attitude of quiet, complacent disdain for stupid every posture of hearty good humor as they thought of the parching throats they had slaked the night be fore, and were now on their way home to get their own fill. Beyond these evidences of life and’ crawling Btage or two, the streets wore a more than Sunday air wita their closed stores aud their pavements that re- echoed the unfr quent footfall Until tour o'clock in the afternoon, irom the Battery up to Union Square, pedestrians wiinin each hundred yards might easily be counted on the fingers. slatio Union Square itself was the first place which gave any evidence of ile, and this, in art pariance, was of a partica- lariy ‘still’? character. The seats were occu Pied, bat by people who looked as though deterred even {rom breathing by the heat It sounds like @ paradox to say so, but the liveliest thing en countered betweea the Henao office and Central Park was a funeral passing the Fifth Avenue Hotel Death Wul insist upon being ilibred aod upon rgnning coun- ter to the general feeling of the population, even upon wwe Fourth of July. It 1s to be presumed that the ex- cellent services of the guardians of the public peace had been designediy rewarded by extra sloop, as not one policeman could be seen on Broadway far as Central Park. Perhaps, too, the Police Commissioners took account of the wstheftic tasies of (he people and withdrew the Derby hat from their gaze jor at ove day. Tho juvenile population of the aumerously represented, but seemed to have expended as least chy was ail its detonating munitions the previous evening Hero and there only a rare firecracker could be heard, as though in protest at not baving been let off the night before. * It should mot be omitted, however, that in contrast to the general quict the sharp, ominous ‘clang of t g was b there beard during the day, and that the rapid the ambulance spoke of other added to the list of eny easugyics The Sabbath-like repose of the city, , fn dn upon at suprise, noon aud sunset by the Peoming ot the guns from the foris. ORNTRAL PARK Wat about five o'clock yesterday afternoon the heat evidently bad a deterrent effect upon the Park going part of the population. in the early part of the after. Boon the number of visitors was small, and the sought sach shade as was afforded by the trees along ire go eand hot the walkx Indeed, with the absurd “ Keep off the Grass” rule, i i a wonder = th people visit the Park at al for virtually they have mo such thing. The asphalt walks ere at a temperature of about 180 degrees in the sua ‘and it is upon them that the Park Commissioners sen- tence the people to walk in this weather if they would walk at all And yet this is a great municipality ja o great republic in which the citizons govern them selves! yesterday Tax 8 The river yesterday was « gay, prett, dock sides of the island the shippiag bad PPING. sight. On ung out its suntihg tq the breeze—the tiny boat, the sw y pl ng steam Yre%, tho sober schooner, the tali-mosted ship and the ocean steamer were alike be teckod with wy imaginavie national color. Tho eit s surik. tng and an mated and bad significance to tt by the sontigany, {a numerous instances, of the Stars and Seripes to the Union Jack for tho defnre and effectual sundering of which so mach noble blood was shed a century ago Yesterday the two flags waved to (he breezo in iriead!y acoord o the shipping, and, as though the church would not be bebindband tn the sinking of bygone broily, the fa of the two great Any!o-Saxon nations iluttered Logether fo the 4 trom Grace chureh tower, As the Hrmaty man came down the east side of the ory tho grim, on Blackwell's Island cbullenged bis devoted to the reveytion of our ny caldly at the ater OMS - JUBILEE. and women, | quence was that the real Fourth of July was this year | and | Excise law than a thousand quartos | ent bu unrelieved, g During the day Mayor Wickha shed party visited the various lus and a dis e isl TUE PULPIT AND ROSTRUM. As was fitting, the day was celebrated by special services in many of the principal city churches, Various political organizations heard from their ceredited spokesmen, but the shades of party were for the day lost in the effulgence of our celevration as a nation united and tree, Ag night closed in the work of pyrotechnic demonstration, | reiaxed during the day, was vigorously taken up; there was a grand display in the City Hall Park and at Mount Morris 8 The unwelcome feature of all this enthusiastic display is the number of casualties by which so many will, in later years, remember the Cen- tennial Fourt of July; but considering the unusual maguitude of the demonstration all over the city, it is a matter of congratulation that accidents were not quare, | more numerous and of a graver character, OVERCROWDED CARS. for seats in the cars of the ay morni The rus! car lines on yeste celebration in Union square, Was very great. the lines anticipating @ rush of enterprising and less solicitous of the public comfort, made no extraordinary arrange- Some of put on, but others, less ments, The Fourth avenue line ran extra cars until two P. M., and no “block’? occurred owing to over. crowding.” Tbe disgracetul disregard fer the wants and comfort of the travelling public which hus for years | the Third avenue line, was noticeable in a arked degree on the morning of the Fourth. Itis well knowa that cars leave the stand at Ahn street every ten minutes afer tweive P. M. and notwithstanding the tremendous crowd which as. nbied all along the route of the procession, no eflort was uy those of th ors who lived in Harley r homes. s leit the lower stand on the usual headway, and cousequence was thut the crowd was so great the cars were unable to proceed and a blo ultod. he cars stopped att Twenty-third bill, the horses being unable to aw the load. tops of all the cars were filled with assengers a time it was feared tha g tho cars are not con reported; but the er eo rather than to the rat who were unable fifth street, hoping there to throngh to Huriem, After an bour of weary waiting the offleials at the depot consented to send outa car, One car Was, ot cour insall t for the demands of the peopie, abu AS many as Were taken were lef, A cr of people who would have been in Harletn ¢ company kept its engagements, Hess, of the Eigh centh precinct, himself yesterday morping in acting the a Bergh” toward the poor, overworked horses r Avenue Ratiroad, He deserves much or his conduct, which Was sensible and humane, THE ACADEMY OF MUSIC. The audience which assembled in the Academy of Music yesterday morning was not by any means so large a had been expected. More than one-ball of the proscenivm and artists’ boxes were quite unoccupied, and the body of the bouse was by no means full. Colonel Rush C, Hawkins, chairman of the committee, ned tuis fuet in ths way :—'You know,” said he, emy will not permit any exp “the proprictors of the A one who renis their buifding to throw its doors open to being issued, for every seat in the house; the general public, but insist apou ticket Well no more, after we issued oue ticket Many of those who received tiexets are tired the demonstration of last night and unable We dare not give their seats to others, They way their tickets, and hence the seats wed to give main idl Among those se: ted upon the stage at eleven o'clock, when the proceedings opened, were the Omef Justice | | of the United States Supreme Court; Thurlow W ed Sudge Swayne, of the United States Supreme Court; Geueral ayne, of Toledo, Ohio; Judge White, of the Court ot Appeals; ex-Governors Morgan and Dix Judge Larremore, Roy, Dr. Budington, Peter Cooper, ler Green, Judge Veabody, Dexter A Haw" ssor Theodore W. Dwight, KV, Welch, H, William KE. Dodge, Rev. Dr. Armitage, Mayor Hun Brooklyn; Frederick DePeyster, Rey. Dr, Potter, D, D. 'f. Marshall, General Kiddoo, R. G. Beardsiee, Mayor Wickham, eral Franz Sigel, Judge Van Hoesen, N. U, Borden, Samuel B, Ruggles and Thompson De The full depth of the stage was exposed, tfe rear half being set apart for the accommo- N. Beers, dation of 150 members ot the New York Centenuls nger-Verband, who Were seated upon a raised plattorm. A canopy was erected — overhe the proscenium boxes were tastefully festooned and suspended in mid-air inthe rear of the of the rs Was an cmblematic It was in the spread cagle, bolding in its talous a bunch Above were the words, with tags, age over the head picture lormed of gas jets, of arrows fod and and @ sprig of U Our Country,” and below “Liberty,” while on either side were the dates, 1776," 1876." Shortly atter cleven o'clock the assemblage was Hawkins, who announced that ex-Governor Jolin A. Dix had consented to preside. The announcement was received with applause, GENERAL DIX'S ADDRESS, He, coming jorward, said :— Feitow Citizens:—One hundred years ago, in our sisier city of Philadelphia, a band of courageous and devoted men, at the peril of their lives aud every called to order by Rusn C tuing they held dear, set et defiance one of the most powerful nations of Europe and proclaimed to the world iat the American Colouies, wich they repre- were free and independent States, assuming ng the powers of the earth,” to use daze, “the separate and equal station isthe lawso! nature and of navure’s God en- | tiled them"! We, their descendauts and successors, in sympathy with (he millions congregated at this very fr throughout the Union, have to ther to give expre to (he sentiments tuspired by the a aud iis sacred monores, und lo our ven yn for the patriotism, the courage and the perseverauce of our Revolutionary fathers tn overcoming the appalling ebstacles Which opposed them ia laying the founda- tons of ow Vast empire and im Uransinttting to us the pricele inheritance of freedom.” The three millions in whose behalf the Declaration of Independence was made aro now more than forty millions, and wherever — patriotic hearts are to be feund—whether in the crowded thor- ougblares of cities and habitations—the. ur prosperity, our wns or in the quietde of pverflowing with gratitade ood Dame among the nations, free institutions, oF Widespread domain, never in to be presse 4 BOTY! t, and tor our deliv: rom te dangers through which we have ; avove all, the late fearful peril of disunion, You will bear from eloquent lips (he story of our trials | and our triumpbs, and of the fulfilment of that: memo- rable prophecy uttered a ceuvury and a hall ago of the progress of “the star of empire’? westward, But first let us listen to the Rey, Dr. Adams and join him Hacknowleaging our thankfulness to Ainughty God or our preservation during the hunured years that are past, and in reation for His continued pro- lection and favor t he years that are to come. LORD, HEAR OUR PRAYER At the conclusion o. these remarks the singers in Attendance reudered Schubert's hymn, “Lord, Hear Our Pray style, woder the direction of Dr. Damrosch. fam Adams, D. D., 1h rod ab eloqu n whieh be thanked God for rais- ng up Was {his compatriots of the Revolu- ton tor Ub n ol slavery and for tbe general try oi! rea per ity Mert larution of Inde- which runks He was ire Sanger-Verband ennial Ode, the aherly happy 01 elocuiion m rt yant’s Ceo have atready been publisued im’ the ence joiping in the choras eu ina few well chosen remarks in- troduced S. Storrs, D, 1, orator of t ys who was rece with load applause as he came tor- ward and began bis address. Alter dwell nth felt throughout the wt y they had assembied to comme worate with other grea h wenoral history, ub manner with snd Irurtiul actions history wh the way for it, n whieh, be said, tbe thoaghtiul student o past will always set it oe Tue ‘ din the theadow ot fiveand a half ries tetore the Eng met King Joba ved irom him the M was provured in pomp and y, with the foriress of trown ‘om the clit above. The prestniment of n of te—the secoud great tes of Kagland—to Charles |. by I bed, and the scene and ts Ae- « » be hardly less impressive than th was pectured dence Hall 10 physi to cousider (he paper prepared by « young V1 From this (he speaker passed to an moral 1d 8 ' » comes of n which they t the Colonie munner 4 become ore the momentous period under discussion, by every species of common work, of a nesion, POdurance sud martal straggles, so that it needed ouly some signal occasion, ne summons to herote decision, to wake th prget that their ances- tors bad been diferent—in on consciousness y aud were velore that they bud now a commoy count all elso Amoricane, The eemonis whic make tne docume rumk with the great English ebarcers were discus et pointed our that the to asa den culminat 4 impuct upon pubhe atairs and the yorid was not (o be measured by Its eon but Dy the relation In which there stood to nt discussion and struggle of which it slow tenden n init, and that mind { ots alone al the latest outcome, The priucies upon whieb 0 Declaration is iounded were d scussed eloquently ent gt leneth nod the efere af ther covelinmeant they wero, by a single strip of | tutions on the | different horse | immediately after the | patrops hud extra cars | ~ | that w to | form of a ot | NEW YORK HERALD, WEDNESDAY. JULY 5, 1876. were pointed out. One result of their spread was the present tendency, even In the most despotic countries, toward popular sovercignty. Dr. Storrs then entered into ap {nvestigation as to how far the tmmortal decu- | ment the signing of which they bad met to com- memorate bad contributed to the peace, the advance- ment and the permanent welfare of the peopie by which St was set forth, and bow It had ARPROTED UTHER NATIONS, Itcould not be sad, he affirmed, that we bad yet | reached the ideal stute of private liberty combined with 4 periect public order, or of culture complete and a supreme ebaracter, The political, like the religious world, 18 looking forward, not backward, for its mil- Jennium. In this country, wo, there bad been immense special impediments to “hinder wide popular progress sn things Which are bighest, Our people bad bad a continent to subdue, oud hud been tb a constant state of migration. Under these circumstances the speaker thought It would not have been strange if a great | dangerous decadence had occurred in that domest | virtue of whieh home ts the nursery, in that generous | and reverent puplic spirit which is but the combined effluence of its rays. It would have been tuo much to | expect that under such influences the highest progress | should have been realized in speculative thought, in artistic culture or in the researches of pure science. The speaker admitted that our progress in these had not been signal, but said that history had been culti- vated among us with exceptional enthusiasm, and in- | stanced Prescott, Motley, Irving and Ticknor, Going on in that line, ‘he sketched the progress of our nation in poetry, medicme, iw, theology, fiction | and biography, aud the names of Wheaton, Kent, Rutus Choate, Clay ana Webster were spoken with terms ot | praise ‘and loudly and long applauded by the au | dien The growtn of the Church was then dwelt | upon at considerable longth. The result of the whole’ | isevidentenough. ‘1am vot here,” be said, “as the, | eutogist of our people beyoud what fucts justity, adinit, with regret, that American manners sometimes are coarse and American culture often very imper- fect; that the noblest examples of @ consummate traiuing imply a leisure whieh We have not hud, and are, perhaps, most easily prowuced where social advantages are more permanent than here and the law of heredit- ability bas a wider recoguition, We ail know too well how much of even vice and shame there hove been in our | national lle; how corruption bas entered high places nthe government, and the blister of its touch has been upon laws, a5 Well as on the acts of prominent | olficiale, And we know the reckless greed and am- bition, the fleree party spirit, the personal wrangles and jealous ammosities with which our Congress been often dishonored; at which the nation-— } er still—has someum laughed in idiotic un- on. | But knowl i} this, and with the impression of it full on our thoughts, We may exultin the real, steady | aud prophesying growth of w better spirit toward dom | inance im the land. | 1 ScoUT THE THOUGHT a8 a people, are Worse than our fathers. Auums, at the head of the War Department in 1776, | wrote bitier laments of te corruption which existed iu even that intantage of the Republic, and of the spirit | of venality, rapacious and insatiable, whieh was then the most alarning enemy of America, He declared Himself asuumed of the age be lived in! In Jeiterson's day all federalists expected the universal duminion of French infidelity. IN JACKSON'S DAY all whigs thought the country gone to rum alr dy, as if Mr. Biddle bad bad the entire public hope lo up in the vaults of nix lecninated bank. In Polk’s day the exciten the Mexican War gave life and germin | ton w There ever been | time—not he country—when the tlerce light of mcessant inquiry viazing on meu in public lite wouly not have brought out such forces of evil as we seen, or when the condemuation which followed discovery would bave been sharper, And itis among my deepest convictions that, wiih ull which kas ed to debase aud debauel It, he nation at largo ver belore tnore mentally Vigorous or morally mid thaa It 1s to-day, rhe demonstration of this proposition, he said, was around nis hearers, This city, ifaby place on the conti- nent, should have been the one where a reckles- wic | edness should have had sure prevalence ana reforming Virtue the least chance of success, but when the war o. 1361 broke upon the land it rose up gradually to sustain the Umwon, and when afterward advised 0 the doings of the ring tl rose upon tts members as Samson) rose upon the Philistines. Its leaders of opinion to? day, be suid, Were men hike him who presided over thé ssemblage Le Was addressing. And it was part of Stave Whose present position in laws and officers and in the spirit of its people does no discredit to the nog | blest of fs memories, What was true of th city Was true inelfect of the land, In this age of th he said, and in all the State whien Christianit Kons, the allowance of free movement to the popus mind’ is essential to the stability 0, public inst uons, ‘There cannot be force enough used to resist or reverse its gathering current, It ih ernment ts swiltly overthrown, Tho | traced the progress of England and cputury just ended and compared the their sttuation a prospects with those of our Repuolic, which, be sui 5 4 | stands Whole as the marble, founded as ¢ | As broad and Dr. Storrs concluded lis oration with # drifliant pera | ration, in which he said, thank God that be who fram | the Declaration, and he who was its loremost cham | pion, both hved to see the nation they had sta | growing to greatness, and to die togetin that mar | Vellous concidence, on its setmi-centennial! ‘The tity eueral as be eH | years whieh have passed since then have only sull (further honored their — work. Mr. Adams was mistukeu in the cay which he named ax tue | ove to be most fondly remembered. on Which the independence of the Empire Britain was tormally resvived. — It was thi the reasons were given which ast principles Were auvounced wiich made it ot ge significance to mankind, lely right im saying of «he fourth day what he d y secoud—it “will be the most remarkable epoc history of Amerieu; to be celebraved by suc ing generations as the great anuiversary festival, com memcrated us the day of dehverance, by solemn act of devotion to Almiguty God, trom one end of the con; tinent to the other”? From barren soils come richest of Great) on which se aly grupes, and On severe and rocky slopes the trees ar oiien ‘of toughest fbr The wines of Ruder | hean and Johaunisverg cannot be grown i | the tuess of gardens, and the ceudrs of | Lebanon disdain the levels of marsh — an | meadow. Soa heroism 1s sometimes native to petur, which luxury enervat and the great resolatiot | which sprang up in the blast and blossomed under in clement skies may lose its shapely aud steadfas | strength when the air is ail of summer sottpess, exuberant resources 18 to be the coming Americal peril—in a switly increasing luxury of hie. The ol humility, hardihood, patience, are too likely to be lor when material success again opens, as it will, ail aves nues to Weatih, and whew its brillant prizes solictt, a& again they will, the nations! s,irtt Let us make ree ligtous aa: sion here, as a force in politics, as absurd as witeteralt. LRT PARTY NAMES BE NOTHING to us in comparison with that costly and proud in- heritance of liberty and of law Which parties exist to couserve and enlarge, which any party will Have here to maintain if 1 woald not be buried at the next cross- roads. with a stake through is breast. Let us seek the unity of all sections of the » through the prevalence in all of mutual res b the assure auce in all ol local freedom through the mastery in | allot that supreme spirit which flushed from te lips of Patrick Henry when he suid, in the first Continental Congress, “Lam pot a Virgimian, but an American,” Let us take care that labor maintains its ancient place of priviege and honor and that industry bus no fet- tors imposed, of legal restraint or of social discredit, to hinder its Work or to lessen its wage. Let us turd and overturn in public discussion, in political change, Ull We secure a civil service, honorable, intelli worthy of the land, in’ which capable integri not partisan zeal, shall be the — conaitio of each public trast; and let us resolve | that, whatever it may cost of labor aid Ot patience, of sharper economy and of general eacri- tice, 1 suall come to pass that wherever American jabor toils, Wherever American enterpr.se plans, wher. ever Americun commerce reaches, thither again stull | gO as of old the country’s coin—the American eagle with the encireling stars and golden plumes! Let us not be unmindrul of tais ultimate aud inspiring lesson of the hour, By all the memories of the past, by all the impulses of the presen the noblest instincts of our own souls, by the toneh of His sovereign spirit upon as, God make us fithiul to the Work and to Him! that 0 not only this city may ab: in jong and bright tranquillity of peace, when our eyes have stiut forever on street and spire and populous square; that so the land, in all its future, may redect ani ¢ from this anniversary, and that, WHEN ANOTHER CENTURY HAS PAssKo, the sun whieh then ascends the heavens m, look on a world advanced and iiumined beyond our t hat, aod here may behold the same great nation, born of struggle, baprized into liberty, aud tn its second torrifie | trial purenased by blood, then expanded and multipled till ail the land biooms al its touch, and still one in its life, because still pacitic, Christian, tree Dr. Storrs read bis oration trom printed sips, It occupied tbitieeu columns ot closely printed matter. tw thstanding that the Doctor ski a para Judiciousiy now and then, the address proved very long, aud the atmosphere was so bot that many of bi hearers left the ball. Among those who lett were th solo quartet Who were ty sing Song ot ” the words of which were composed for the occasion by Baywra Taylor and the music by E Koeliner, tozethe with many other singers, These gentiemen said they had to aitend the demonstration at Jones’ Woods at two o’elock, and that they had le an agreement with the managers of the present celebration that the orator should conclude by one o'clock, It was near: two when Dr. Storrs concluded, notwithstanding he had omitted about one-fourth of bis oration. The quartet being gone, the song Wus necessary omitted, and the programme conciuded with singing “The Star Spangied Banner,” in the chorus of which the entire audience joined sianding. AT TAMMANY HALL. Tammany’s annual celebration of tue glorious Fourth was rather thinly attended, 1. commenced as usual by a meeting of the “sachems, braves aud warriors” for business in the Council ee) stairs. When d bacges hod peen distributed and Joibor preliminaries disposed of a line was formed, wit Augustus Scneil and Fernando Wood atthe bead, Joho Keliy and several prominent “brothers” in the immediate rear. To the music of the Seventh regiment band they marched up to the platform. The national flig was arranged im tasteful folds about the hall and platform. Pictures of the St. Lous eindidates—Tilden and Hendricks—were placed in fromt of the chairman's stand, On the plate form were Grand bem Schell, who presided, | Sactems Joba Kelly, Thomas D , BE. L, Donnelly, | Frederick Smyth and Meozo Diefendor£ When the members of the society and ther guests bad seated themselves tho chairman delivered a brief ad- | dress of welcome We meet on this matal day, ha ent stn nant tha one er At Nonantann It was not that) ed the act snd that! But he would bave been ube | | possession he will resort to subterfuge aud cunuing. | Why change, | personal hate, ‘ndependence, We meet, too, under favorable cir- cumstances, while our neighbors at Philadetpbia are celebrating the centennial anniversary of our liberty— acelebration that commends itself to us who bave been so long in the habit of meeting here on each re- curring Fourth of July. Mr, Schell made brief refer- ence to the St Louis nominatiqns, the names of the candidates being received with coutinued applause. INDEPENDENCE. - The next thing in order, Mr. Schell said, would be the reading of a copy of the Declaration of Independence, which bad been printed by order of the authorities | of New York on July 9, 1776, and which has been pre- served in the tamily of Colonel Mulford. Major Will jam H, Quincy read the Declaration, which was re- ceived with the old-time favor. ; Mr, Frank O'Donseil, being next announced, sang “The American Boy,” and in response toa recall sang “Know Ye tho Land.”” THE LONG TALK. — Next in order was the long talk of the day, which on | this occasion was given by Hon. Fernando Wood, Mr. | Wood said: As one of the son§ of Revolutionary ancestors, whose blood wus shed apon tbe battle feids of their country, | 1am proud to be here to-day. ‘This day Is allowed to | sacred memories which mark au epoch fn the period | | of time which proved more productive to human de- | velopmeut thay any other but oue since the creation of 0 It was second in importance only to the appeur- | ance on e2rth of the Diving Master. After a century's | duration, tried by fire and sword, by pestilence and famule, by internal convulsions and’ by the ever chang. | | ing vicissitudes of party aud sectional conflict, we | | emerge to-day from all the dangers and trials of the | past brighter, Stronger and greater than any other | people on ‘earth of one individuality, ‘fhouga | so young in years we are among the | | oldest in term of government of the Chrisuan nations | | of the world, Few in Europe that have not changed either their dynasty orthe character of their rule | Within the per‘od of our pation. | ality France has been a wosarepy, an empire anda | republic, Germany has been a combination of dis cordant, petty monarchies and is now an empire. It has been a collection of disintegrated Staves and du) doms, audis nowakingdom. Poland, Sardinia, Naples, and viber monarchies have ceased and become exunct. | A century ago the government of England was e ercised by the Sovereign; it is now practically vesied | in the popular branch of Parliament, The Crown re- muing, but the House of Commous governs in tts | power to compel a change of Ministry, which 18 tbe | | actual executive authority, Spain has alternated be- | tween anareby, republicisim and monarehy, Other na- | tions of Europe have been partivion | within the century, or dismem- | bered; have undergone the infliction of foreign control or been subjecied to the caprice or ambition of more powerful neig bors. | Now, cau we fail to remember those Hlustrious men | who laid the foundation so broad and deep upon which | hus been erected this splendid structure? Is it with n | the compuss of human thought to dwell upon our | present greatness and forget thuse to whom We are in- | debted tori? | Reme:nver those poor colonists, who had mostly | sought a refuge from either political or rel | oppression at home op this cold and inhes table shore; see the reception the savage gave them, the struggle with the elements, the im- poverished settlements, the deprivation and Megiect which followed, the tinal lodginents of detached und | far separated populations, the struggling communi tes, the destitution and horrible events inenent to | border tile, far removed from any of the tacilities of either deiensive protection or means of continued ex- istence, and the nal formation of buta pro forma gov- ernment with the name but without its essential re- | quirements ‘Thus we bring them down to tho | middie ot theeighteenih century. They had perse- | vered and had conquered tho” savage on the seaboard, | | had increased in population, procured some trade and | commerce and atiractea the notice of their European | masters B@t this notice Was not in the roterest of their advantage and progress, It was rather tiat no- lice by which avarice sees and covets the accumula. | tons of a poor or dependent neighbor. Exacuions were imposed, representatron in the home government | was denied, bumble petitions were treated with con- | tempt, remonstrances were held to be treasonavle, | more Lroops were ordered across the ocean to overawe aud to command obed:ence, and the hand of despotisin | | laid 8 mailed glove upon the spirits and almost crushed the pride of the colonists, who found in their mother country a more terrible foe than they had originally “encountered in the native barbarity of tue American Indian, A long, deep | murinur rau along the Aiantic shore from the far east | | to the southern extremity. Here and there a popular gathering gave veut to the too long pent up indigua- tion, Here and there a prominent man spoke out as did Patrick Heury in the Provincial Councilgf Virginia, wheu he exclaimed, that as tor him, “give him hberty or give tim death.’ (Applause.) A general co oniul | Congress was scuiled to assemble at Philadelphia. Every colony sent 1s representative to, sit in council | aud to determine the great questions which the crisis app to call for—und what u council, and what a | gathering! Here was Jefferson, the great founder of tie pure democracy, whose precepis furnished the un- | deriying strata upon which resis the gemius of our in- suitutions, aud which established the guide to our po- liueal faith and the ouly relable beacon light to our | national hberty and glory. | THOMAS JEFFERSON, And now let me pause a moment to refer more es- pecially to thi- illustrious personage. It was not war and war alone that produced a successful revolation. 1c was not war at all that constructed our government Betore a Continental army existed, and betore Wasb- ingion was brought from bis couniry home on the | banks of the Potomac, to lead the troops, this Repub- | lic was born in the conception of the genius, the pa- | triousm and the courage of Thomas Jeflerson, He | Was nota military man, nor military here, but the | posen instrument of the Almighty, m whose brain and heart had been infused the peacetul spirit of God Himeeit, who bad brought order oat of chaos mm the great whiverse, as Jeflerson tormed and massed the heterogeneous eclemouts of disunited colonies into ove granu national republic. SCAND BY TILDEN, Alter dwelling at greater jength upon the principle: of the democratic party Mr. Wood advyerted to the present poiit situaiion. He said he knew Mr. Hayes, the republican nominee, personally, and bad hothing to say agaist him as a man, He was an honest mau, and an honorable one himself, und in this respect hy could not be said to be a representative re- pubire ‘An honest man ushered into office by the | republican varty would be a strange spectacle, unless | he Was such an honest man as could be used by its | leaders, Jf a man is a fool aud a weak man be is mo | expensive than arogue. That was the speaker's ob- jection to Mr, Hayes, who always went whatever way | his party weut, applauding when they applauded and shutting his eyes and mouth when be saw stealing golog on. The other nominees elected by the demo- crave party were better representatives of their party, Itis now, be suid, the Imperative duty of all good men to combing in one common effurt ty secure tue ascen- dancy of Inedemucratic party to power in the national government. There must be ho taitering, no difference of opinion, no indulgence of preierences or prejudi r Our country is above individuals or persoualiti We must be actuated vy a common eflort to accom: plish a common purpose, by which to obtain a com- mou good, It 18 no weak bulwark We are to assault, The enemy ies entrenched behind works of imm political strength, in the possession of the pabiic treas. ury, lavishly and corruptly used to conunue bis ill- | gotten guins and their iiegitimate advantage. He is | adroit as weil as prolitie in resources. To continue in LETTERS AND COMMUNICATIONS. Letters were read by Hou. A. S. Sullivan from United States Senator Witham Pinckney White, Wilham Ruger, Syracuse; Congressman scott Lord, Hon. A, A. Hunt, Schoharie: Charles 0. Woodbury, Bostoa ; George i. Scott, Balsion spa; Robert A. Andrews, Hadson, N, .; Albert R. Hatch, Portsmouth, N. H. ; William Beach », Rhode Island; A. C, Hand, Elizabethtown, N. Y.; Harmon 8. Cuttieg, Buflulo: Congressman John | Robbins, Coaries HL. Simenton, South Caro ina; Richard Vaux, Poiadelphia; David Naar, Trenton; Hon. Kijah Ward, Everett ?. Whecter, Benjamin F, Garter, Wood- bury, N. J., and somo otners. OTN KRL POR TILDEN. Then Jobn Kelly was introduced and thanked his audience lor their reception of him, He had observed that papers of late wanted the name of Tammany Hall | changed if its organization was to be effective in poli. In 1789, be said, this hall was dedicgged to hb. erty, and its books have enrolled upon theif pagas the nemes of Jefferson, Jackson, Madison and Monroe, then, because that hall was once dis- graced by dishonest men who got into this organization some years ugo to use its privileges for purpuses of personal xatn ? neing at the work done at St.Louis r. Kelly eaid:— P tor to the determination of the Convention this organization, as is well known, was opposed to the candidate chosen at St Louis on principle and not from They wanted a Western mau, but the Convention, in its” judgment, selected a nou of New York—Samuel J. Tiden— jause)—and I desire now | toeay that | witldo all that lcan to secure his eieo- | tion, (Applause. ) 1 has been said, too, that our doors are closed | against patriotic democrats desiring Lo unsie with us, but | as you Know the doors of this organization have never kept out true democrats desirous of coming in. Some detmocrats have remained out to trade with the repub- licaus for their personal advantages, In conctasion Mr. Kelly urged lis nearers to keep steadily in view | the evils arising trom republican maladministration, | and to do their best to give the country democratic | rulera next tail, (Applause. | Alter brief addresses by Surrogate Calvin and Hon. | William KE. Robinson the exercises closed with the Singing of the ‘Star Spangled Banner.” Then tne sachems and their gucsts went down stairs to a collation. marenyetd | AT IRVING HALL, The celebration at irving Hall, under the auspices of } the anti-Tammany democracy, was well attended, The hall was profusely draped with bunting and the coat of arms of the thirteen original States occupied conspicuous positions on the walls. A life size paint- ing of Washington on horseback covered the rear of the platform, and the Seventy-first regiment band dis~ coursed patriotic music irom the balcony, Jud; Gildersleeve delivered the opening aadress, As ho arose a storm of applause grected him. JUDGE GILDERSENRVE'S ADORESS, Fuitow Citizens ;—Wo are gathered hero to-day from every quarter 0! this great metrop hs, imbued with a common purpose and aciuated by a common metiv whieh overy individaal present understands tail well. Our cars are straining to bowrand our minds are eager to recelvo the words of gratitude, patriotism and lib. eriy—the thames to-day of 40,000,000 of treem: oar joarts are awoiling 0 greet (hese seutimenia, and with shoaw of applause to walt them on untii they echo | Pleasant task; but oh, bow difficult! | Bal | sceptres and wiadems shall | rea | olive and the | lialy, the sammons was carried 0) the westera winds. | over ali our land to-day? 1y¥ | scrtbed the radical differences amid tho white pills of the Kuet and the mountains of Te fee pa ein ee ae He boat wt rie One hundred years of liberty and union! Not every year of peace aud quiet, but if maintained sometimes by battle and blood so much the ricuer and dearer. Shall we not be (ogy nv on this aay for maniicet Uons of pride at the success of the Republic? The hi tory of Lue world shows the people of every nation boseess, instinctively, pride and love of country, and are we Bot justly proud of our country, which can point to more progress and more great achievement in a single century than have been vouchsaied to any other nation ina decade of centuries? The love of country! Time cannot offnce it, Nor distance dim its h en descended light; Nor adverse fame nur fortune ¢ . It dreads to tempest and it knows no night. Who would not be an American citizen and claim a home in these United States? It has a bome, bread and raiment tor the fam‘ly of every honest und indus- trious man, no matter under what hiseyes frst of day, nor by what language he would be Our lands are broad and tree to all, The lateh- tring that opens to Uncie Sain’s domain hangs ever on the outside and honest immigrants are always welcome ‘within our borders. We try to-day to show our grat tude to the noble men who secured our imdependence and Jad the foundation ef our prosperity. Whava We have ee e memory rich with thankfulness that 18 not theirs, | bave no praise rich with reverence that is uot theirs, ‘The worid never saw more unseifish or truer patriots, No legisiative hall ever beld wiser statesmen, Our liberty 1s the frart of their labor and sucrifice, Atthe mention of ghe name of the humblest of their numbers we now bow in hamble adoration and thanksgiving. May this warm affection never cool in the hearts o! the American peopie; may we never tire in studying th early history of our Republic and the characters and lives of the great men who lorged for us $0 strong aud well the pillars ot nberty and equality. They are (be boasted sirength of our government and the envy of the other nations of the word. The past 15 a sure and guide by which to build hereafter, Our history as- sures us Of tbe Uright and lastuung tuture if we but cling to the sheet anchor of our. safety, the constitution of the United States, and in barmonisus accera remain loyal to our country’s tag—emblem ot liberty, “fag of the free beart’s hope and howe”? And’ when | thrones shall bave crumbled into dust, when ave been long forgotten, the tlag of our Republic snail still wave on, and its stars, its stripes, its eagle shall still float in pride and strength andglory over the whole land; nota stripe erased or poliuted, nor a single star obscured. RXADING THE DECLARATION, The “Star Spangled Banner” was then sung by Mr. Lumbard, basso of Piymouth eaurch choir, The ng of the Declaration of Independeuce by Mr. James D, McClelland was next in order, and when bi ead the words “these united colonies are and of right ouzht to be tree aud independent States” the wails suouk with the thunderous applause and cheermg. Letiers of regret irom the Hou. Clarksoo N. Potter and numerous others were read, | The orator of the day, the Hon, Richard O'Gorman, | Was then introduced wih a few remarks by Judge Gildersiceve, RICHARD O'GORMAN’S SPEKCH. Testeem myseli much honored, citizens, In being al- lowed to participate in your fostival to-day. I know tbat there 13 no need of my speukin, to you. It seems to me, Citizens, us It to-day were not like other days. Men’s voices ‘have in them @ more genial, amore hearty rivg; anen’s looks are more cheeriul und fricnaly, A thoasand banners float upon the breeze. From a thousand charch steeples the chimes ring out their melody on the throvbing air, In a thousand stately houses of prayer anthems peal and hymns of a aven, ‘These are the Voices of the greas city, the signs and symbols by Which it strives to | give utterance to the sentunents of pride, praise and exuitation with whieh its million hearts are jubilant to-duy. And in all this tumult, this tempest of enthusiasm, there is neither uflectaiou, nor extgyeration, por ex: cess. For the event we celebrate is a great event— greata hundred years ago, great to-day, and to be great gad memorable iv the lime to come, whea you and I sail ail bave passed away and the memory of as shali have perished irom the garth, You have ull read the Declaration of Independence you have it by heart; you bive heard St. read to-day. ‘A hundred years ago’ 1¢ was a new revelation, staring ‘with new terror Kings on their thrones, and bidding serfs in their poor huts arise and take heart, and look up, with new hope of celiveran | France caught the sound und awoke and tore off the | tattered trappings trom feudajism and trampliea tho decrepit thing under her tect. Greece, dreuming of Marathon aud Thermopyle, shook off her long leth- argy, caught up again sword and shield, beat back, as of old, Asia and barbarism, and consecrated anew to freedom the Home of Atnene, the fair land of the vine. To Foland, Hungary, Belgium, Even England herself found in the protest of her revel colonies the forgotten lessons ot hers wn liberties, ond in the success of rebel urns the dearest rights of her own people were saved, And that.trampet blast still is pealing and will peal, still summons Whatever of manbood remains in inaa- kind to assert itself, Stull at that sound the knees of tyrants will be loosened with tear, and the hopes ot freemen will rise and their hearts beat faster and higher as long as this roand earth hangs poised in air and men live upon it whose souls alive with tnemo- Ties of the past, Un the 2d of July, 1774, the Continental Congress was in sessiun in Philadelphia. Phere were about forty-nine delegates present, That day was a day ot gloom. The air was dark vod heavy with ti news —il news from the North. Montgomery had Quebecand the expedition aguinst Canaia had miser- ably iaiied. The lakes were ail open to British ships, anda dusky cloud of savages, armed and enisted in the name of the King, was gathermg in the West, threatening at any moment tw. burst on the defence: | Jess land tn a storm of bavoe and siaugnter and devas- tation, compared with which the ordinary horrors of war were ucts oi mercy. Lil news from the South—a fleet of Briush men-of-war bad crossed the bar of Chariesion, 3. C. Ail dating the jong summer's day had been pouring shot and shell upon the litte forts, where Moultrie and Marion and Wilfam Jasper were Sullenly returning sbot for shot, And now the Dight was come, und from steepie and housetop the citizens of Chareston watched flash alter fash und prayed for the dawn, to give them hight to see i the defiant flag of trecdom was suill there. lit news “from New York—Lord Howe's ships were riding in the lower bay, ausa British army of thirty thougund men menaced tho city with attack. From all sides came ili tidings, Everywhere doubt and suspicion and despondeney, It was a dark aud gloomy time, whee even the boldest might weil be forgiven Jor losing eurt. Mr. O'Gorman then gave a rapid summary of the naiion’s bistory to the present time, and taen con~ unued:— THE FIRST HUNDRED YEARS, And now, the tirst hapared years of the nation’s life areover. The lirsi stage in the journey is accomplished. Behind ag hes the pust, Look back atit! Ibis a glori- ous pas ; full of good, ili of nonor, full of beneticence to alita.nkind, Look vack with pr.de. Woe turnto the path belore us—the tuvure—what shall it be? It 1s for you, citizens, (0 ausy ‘The pewer to mould and govern that tutare isin your own hands, You have the ballot. Useit wisely; use it honestly, Beiter weapon Was never yet in Irecmen's hunts. Preserve that weapon always with jealous care. Keep the right of free suffrage at all hazards, for in the hour that right 1s surrendered ihe democratic Republic dies, Citizens of the great Repubiic, your huur is come. Tt is you pow Who are on trial, Yuly through your fault or joy can the Republic fail. Be true to your great past. Acress che chasm of a hundred years your pre- decessors—the fathers and founders oi this pation— speak to you to-day, Have we no answer to give? Have the thoasand Voives of this great city no meaning’ Is there no re- sponse in wil ois maguiticent festival, which retgns Ay, there ts. The chimes from the Ligh steeples ring the answer; anthem and bymo appeaito Heaven to witness its truth, This Re- pubite stall live, ava not die. Fora bundred years to come it stall be prosperous, honored, free.’ This is our deciaration, This promise we make to the past and the jnture, and ag our predecessors a hucdred Sago, sosay we, In support of this declaration, with atirm reliance on Divine Providence, we pledge our lives, our fortunes, amd our sacred honor. YOUNG MBN’S DEMOCRATIC CLUB, It wag an assemblage goodly im numbers and thor- oughty imbued with the spirit of the occasion that gathered yesterday aiternoon in the rooms of the Young Mon’s Democratic Union Club. Mauy of the older members, who have of late years b»en urable to regularly aitend such celebrations, were present and disposition Was genvrally mapitested to make the ob- servance one belitting the day, Mr. Menzo Dievendort declined taking the chair, heu ot bim Mr. Malcolm Campbeil presided, and alter a noat opening address culled upon Mr. Algeruon 8, Sul- livan to fieliver the oration of the day. Mr. Sullivan said that be would pass without pre- ambie to the icading and consoling reflection suited to tho occasion, Wien man turns bis eyes upon the firmament above, glowing Wik myriad constellations, there ts one Bright iununary When aiways catches bis attention. ltis ch. jess in place and undying im lusire, It is the constellation that guides the mariner on (roabied seas, Which conducts the traveller through patuioss deserte—tt is the polar star of the northern And sw in politics. Democrats iar and wide turo the: eyes npon one grand figure which towers above the statesmen of his time, and im Tuomas Jefferson and the grad principles of government he enunciated | they See a beacon to guide them through the dangers and periloas places that Ile along their way. Mr, Sulh- van then Went on to advocate reform. ‘Lhe democrats, he said, had made wistakes. They bad frequently railed at the motes im ober people's ayes and forgoticn | the beam ia their owa. But vow they must make such @ platiorm as would supply aii the needs of the people, It must be one, too, that will be in accord with the laws of trade, with the laws governin. industries and, above all, with the ten commandments ns recorded im the Book of books does not deciare that “thou shalt not steal,’ and if rt is not carried Out to the lever there can ve uo good things in store for the party. But as a democrat, suid the speaker, “1 can thank Heaven that lI never sawan enactment of a democratic body that violated the laws of morality, an. Heaven grant | never may.’? Mr. Sullivan then admonished his hearers to stawd by th: old steriing principles of Jefferson, to wecept the: without any adulteration and ne promised that they would make success assured. « Mr. Thomas A, Glover, one of the oldest members, then gave a history of the club from its inception to the present date. Mr. Deiano ©, Caivin was then catied for and del Vered a stirring speech, in which he spoke o! love of country and the principle whien sbould ua- deriie every action of a man's political life. He said that nowadays there is a deplorable lack of it Sel ness and immocerate partisanship drive it out of sigut aod men go on plotting and conniving, aliogether un- windtal of their taving a country w= labor for and imprisoning ali considerations in the narrow limits of self. Mr. Calvin then de- between democracy ant repubheanem, and after inveimhing smainst Fernando Wood, | jatlen at | Owing to indisposition — Is hav Tf it does not tally with this fast, Mf ie | | | | i called upon his hearers to combine principles of democracy as they were U ‘the father of the party, Mr. William Robinson then m: speech and recited an orignal poem, a: by Mr. James B Fisher, who also deliv composition in verse. 5) afer #el Messrs. Ackert, Woll anda mbter ot AT TRINITY CHURCH. Commemorative services in honor of ouservance of Independence Day wero | church at cleven A. M. yesterday Rev. Dix, rector of the parish, conducted the a Right Rev. Dr. Potter, Bishop of tho di nounced the benediction. The church was The services wero grand and the music Sulivan’s ‘Te Deum’? was impressively the choir, the music being a fitting accom; to the solemn words of the Rev. Dr, He said:—Glory be to God. and here tl the land, far avd near, through all our peace, good will and love. As one family, as one ple, as one nation, we kcep the birthday of our our liberty, our power and strengib. Let us do tl with eyes and bearts raised to the fountain of lite, beginning of all glory aud might, with words of and thanks to God who rules on high, For He is living God, and steadfast forever,and His kingdom t! Which shall not be destroyed, and His dominion s) be even unio the end, Wir re, as He isour strength and hope, let att begin and all go first ani rer with glory tu God the Most High. THINGS TO REMENTER, There are great things to think about to-day. Browth o! the peopie, unparaileled in history; bess of their empire, a wonder of the latter day: bond by which due mighty irame is held together, s¢ slight ‘to the cye, so hard to break; the many racet welded ito one, the marvellous land, with ts oceant on all rides, its lakes tnemscives like legser oveans, its iecbergs and glaciers, its torrid deserts, ils mountain ravges und rich fat valley Lind, its climates of all kinds, its rivers, which would have seemed of all but favalous length; its wealth iu all that rock and earth and Water can supply. And then the people, active, able, {ull of enterprise und co, net with the power of a myriad of gian ing one lane guage, living under ong flag, bound by common im teresis, and, as to-day, kins by ope common feelin, of devotion, pride, joy, hope. Surely there is enon; 4 to think about to-day, enough to fill the soul and make tbe head giddy. But let these things be spokeu of elsewhere; let others dwell upon them, We havea detinite share m tho national celebration. Let us not forget our part, which isto liftto God a great vorce which He shall hear amid ail the other voices of the Why do we gather here? Is it ta the, praises of men and their mighty achievements? Is it to make display of our national greatness; to tell over our victories and conquests in divers scenes of conf to celebrate the manes and acts of chieltains, statesmen and rulera of tLe land; of brave and pie who gave for- tune, iile and sacred nonor ip the State; of any of those wao deserve remembrance to-day? Let this be done elsewhere, a8 1s right and fit Let meu stand Up Where it is convenient aud With set oration and ad- dress do honor to the dead and the living, pout the: ral of our Listory, huid up tue ideals of patriotism, Virtue, home and native land. But we must be about our Father s business. We have other words to repeat, deeper, iurther reaching. Our work here is to offen praise and glory to God; to blees Him im His relations to tho nation as 18 lorded king, as ruler and goveruor, a3 Providence tile iawgiver and judge. And ob, what ground for thankfuiness to-day! THINK OF THE MIGHTY TAXD that bath led us and upheld us through these hundred years; What lt has done tor us, what that right hamt of the Most High bath wrought, k back to tum humble beginning, 10 the poor hi colunists wits their scant store and their modest ambitions; think of Ue jong suilering patience, and also of their honor- able resolve pot to submit to oppression aad injusvice remember tho band of men who met together just one bundred years apo to sign the Decjaration; how they did it, not as popular Jegends tell us, with traneports of enthusiasm and mid bell ringing and general jubilation, Lut in secret jon of Congr withan awful sense of whatit meant, With a vision of the gibvet and the axe betore their eyes, and well aware o! the toil and blood and griet that it mast cost to maintain their manly altitude betore the world. Let us have a teuder heart toward the old fathers of the State, TRE MEN WHO TOOK THEIR LIVES IN THEIR HANDS, and brought the new nation to the birth; and then amid what untold — trial und sufferings they curried on their work! ‘Phink of the great hearts ready to break, of the starved and. ragged armies with that migyty spirit: under their bunger-worn ribs, more frequently retreating than advancing, wasted by sickly summer heat, au often in winter standing barofoot in the snow;’? the squalid, sorrowiul, auxious faces working ti sure way through cloud and storm and darkneas to the victory, perfect and finished, at the eud. It ie touche ing 10 read the memorials of those days und to think of ail that has come sinco then; how we are entered into their labors and are at peace, becuase they went through ali that They sowed in tears ands we reap in joy. So then let there be thanks to God ‘for the , past, out which He has evoked the presi grandeur of our State. And let us remetrber what we owe to those who weut before, tora part of that debi is obvious; to imitate the Virtues and return to the simple mind, the pure intention, the unseiiish devetion to the publia weal, Which murked the founders ot the Repubuice. 1 a lur ery to those days, but there still shine the starg which guided them on their way, the light of heavea Wuminating the earth, the bright beacons of honesty, truth, simpicity, sincerity, sell-sacrifice, ander which, as under astrological sigu, the little one was bora, Pray Heaven those holy hghts of morality and publi¢ virtue may not for us already have taded away, The vaste IN THE SYNAGOGUES, Tn accordance with the proclamation of the President of the United States the synagogues tn Thirty-fourch street and Forty-fourth street were open yesterday for religious services. The congregations were relatively small in both places, it being understood that there was no obligation resting upon any persons to attend and no special services appointed for the day, Should anv attend a few psalms would be read, prayers offered and the Rabbis would give extempore addresses. To the few patriotic Hebrews who gathered in Thirty. fourth street synagogue the Rev, Mr. Jacobs made @ few remarks based upon the words of the inspired writer, “This 1s the day which the Lord bath made; ‘wo will rejot nd be glad therein.”” The topic of hig address was that the hand of God is manifested in his tory. Israclites, Mr. Jacobs tought, bave great caust to rejoice and to celebrate this day, for the hand of Providence has been very manifest in their history and thir mission has been to maintain those principles which unverlie the events that are now com memorated here on this Fourth of July. THE ANCIENT STRUGGLES OF THE HEBREWS. Their history asa nomadic tribe in the time of Abraham, when they had to counteract dangers in a strange land 14 to propagate truths that were dearer to them than life—truths concerning the self-existent God and Ruler ot nations, the God of the universe. Isaac, too, bad to struggle against the mightiest of surround.ng tribes which threatened bis peace, With Jacob it was cqually so insomuch that for his protectidn in one case we are told that God had pat the fear of Isracl upon the nations around, In Egypt the same was true. Though the government sought to destroy the race by destroying all the me’ infantdl born, and to depress the adults by a system of servle tude, yet the hand of God was manfested for their preservation and recuperation, Daring the existence of that monarch they bad to fight therm way for self maintenance. During the Syro Grecia, dynasty whea Antiochus: Eptpt a8 sought to destroy the people al their faith, the hund of God was manifested in rais ing up the Maceabean family to be the instruments ot deliverance, Tu later history there is one commons story of prosciptions, expatriations, &e., so that if thé pe ple bad not veen upheld by divine power they in uccumnbed 10 their opposers and destroyers. Ai it 8a singular tact that 1402—the darkest period im Jewish history, which witnessed (he wholesale expatri- ation of Jews from spain—was nrarked us the era of the discovery of America by Columbus. It svems as though, hamanely speaking, there was a divine compensation in the benison of this land for human rights, 90 that Israel and all other peopie should here be com, for the distress which the baseness of men bad wrought upon unofending people, Judaism itself im ius teachings is intenued to conserve the great doo trines of civil and religious liberty, the rguts of maa and the freedom of conscience, The Passover dung ite banners to the wind with this same truth 11 thereon. It is apparent ‘o every underetunding that God is on the side Of those principles, The of America said that God bad here provided a resting ag tor ail peopic, and | say publicly that we Jews jave a greater cause to celebrate tale ‘Fourth ot July than most peopie, For to us it ies and the principles tor which we have glways struggled, ‘This is the understanding of the/ Fourth for as citt- zens of the United States—a distAection more honor- able than that of a Roman o¢/ of old—unu the more 80 to us Jewa, deprived of citizenship in almost every other country. Let ea uot be ashamed of bein Jews, but glory in it rather, Benjennin Frankiin pn to say tbat it was not the apron (hat disgraced the me chanic, but the mechanic that eften Ss ape ie apron, Even so Jews oftener disgrace J shan it disgraces them, wala _— ISAACS” ADDRES, ‘ ut few in namber im thé synagogue yes. terday, the Rev. M. Isaacs remarket toes. Ie sensed ance with the proclamation of the ‘resident and the request of the Buard oi Delegates o Ameri lsraei- ites, and in consonance with their +wo feelings, they had met to celebrate the day in a relgious manner and spirit. This day is a period of joy md gladness, espe- cially When we remember what a emil people were ove hundred yeurs azo, when ow tathers contented With a great nation for liberty and jstice, David, the 8 singer 0: Israel, touched the leynote in the lo2d Psalm, Wuen he declared that it i good to chant the praises of the Lord and pleasant togive thanks to out God, You have seen night, said the speaker, the dispiay of fireworks unequalled unywhere on tne face of the earth except in these Unite: Staves, You have seen thousands marching down tho of this hour after hour without mnasieng any Siges fatigue, You bave seen all this, 0 uller God's praise in the say th the highest meaning. be u spn id ' ioe We Say Pe § tow “