The centennial anniversary of the city of Hamilton, Ohio . inall of them the tendency has been towards a recognition ot the rights of mento govern themselves. Republican forms of government have been estab-lished in all the states of Spanish America and in France. Where old formshave been retained, power has been gradually passing from the few to themany and the thrones of tyrants are going into decay. The people insteadof being the tools of tyrants, and like the last of Egypt, their existance onlyknown by the desolation which have marked their progress and apertingtheir manhood and their inal
The centennial anniversary of the city of Hamilton, Ohio . inall of them the tendency has been towards a recognition ot the rights of mento govern themselves. Republican forms of government have been estab-lished in all the states of Spanish America and in France. Where old formshave been retained, power has been gradually passing from the few to themany and the thrones of tyrants are going into decay. The people insteadof being the tools of tyrants, and like the last of Egypt, their existance onlyknown by the desolation which have marked their progress and apertingtheir manhood and their inaleinable rights. The fatherhood of God and brotherhood ot men is a principle forcingrecognition in all lands. One hundred years ago the right of property in man was claimed by themost highly civilized and christian nations. One hundred years ago theslave trade was regarded as legitimate commerce. Even our christianMother England was engaged in capturing negroes from the African coaststowing them away in vessels constructed for the purpose and disposing ot. THE CENTENNIAL ANNIVERSARY OF HAMH,TON, O. II3 them as human chattels wherever a market could be found. Englandssovereigns participated in the profits of the traffic ; now the slave trade ispirac}- by tUe law of Nations. By the richest baptism of blood ever poured upon freedoms altar,slavery that greatest impediment in the way of the triumph of christiancivilization his been washed out in the land of boasted freedom. Englandhas stricken the shackles from millions of slaves in her colonial no longer recognizes the right to barter in human flesh. Russia hasabolished surfdom. These sudden and eventful changes have been hastened in their comingby a conjunction of causes. By harnessing together steam and electricitydistance has been annihil ited and the whole human family have been gather-ed around the same fireside. Heathen and barbarous nations once at an infinite distance are now ourneighbors. At the sound of t
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