Health & Fitness
1851 Bristol 4th of July Celebration Report
Seventy-Fifth Anniversary of American Independence
The day will be celebrated in every section of our extended country as the 75th anniversary of our national Independence. We have reached the maturity of three quarters of a century, and yet it is the memory of childhood; for in a national point of view, a child may die an hundred years old. Though young, we have attained a gigantic stature and precocity of mind unexampled hitherto in the history of nations.
The Sons of Temperance and the Bristol Total Abstinence Society held prominent positions in the parade. The procession traveled along the principal streets on the town until it came to the Congregational Church where the exercises were held.
The citizens of this ancient town are invited to assemble once more for the orderly performance of such a celebration. May their united devotions be inspired with sincere gratitude to Almighty God for the blessings of liberty, education, and religion pure and undefiled; and may the sentiments communicated be such as shall stimulate them to a more faithful discharge of their individual duties as freemen, patriots and Christians. It is our earnest wish and we doubt not, the earnest wish of all good citizens that the day may pass off without noise, or dissipation of any kind, in an orderly and quiet manner. Phoenix, July 4
