The Centennial Celebrations of the City of Newton, On the Seventeenth of June And the Fourth of July,
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Its earliest beams gilded the rocky peaks of Katahdin; then Mount Wash- ington caught its splendor; the Green Mountains of Ver- mont seemed clad in a fresher verdure under its rays; the broad lakes became seas of molten silver; the fertile plains of our Central States teemed under its revivifying influ- ences ; the Rocky Mountains, the Sierras, Mount Hood and Mount Shasta, snow-capped and majestic, were next lighted up in their solitary splendors ; and at last far-off" Alaska, one of the younge...st children of our Union, has shaken off the midnight chills at its approach. For four successive hours, each second has been a moment of sunrise to some part of our magnificent terri- tory. From the fisherman on the banks of Newfoundland to the seal-hunter of Alaska, from the coral reefs of the no THE NEWTON CENTENNIAL. Tortugas to the Golden Gate of San Francisco, millions of freemen have welcomed its coming ; and the roar of cannon, the shouts of human voices, the unfolding of that beautiful flag which overshadows with its protection alike the millionnaire and the freedman, signify to the world, not only a nation's joy and pride, but, far better, the deep-felt gratitude which wells up in every heart to Him who has " caused our lines to fall in pleasant places," and " crowned our lives with his loving kindness and tender mercies." The event which we have this day assembled to com- memorate was not the result of a fiat from some autocrat, nor of any sudden outbreak of a mere popular tumult.
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