Alton Advertiser

Ozark "Black Gold" Walnut Festival

Saturday, October 1st, 2016Limited booth space still available.

Deadline September 23rd.

Run the Town

for the Gold

5k Run/Walk

Friday, September 30th, 2016$20 students, $25 adults

For more information call Diana Clary 417-270-1536

or Dinah Slaughter 417-778-6475

See back page ofthis issue for details about somefeatures and activities

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But thanks be to God, which giveth us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.I Cor. 15:57

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RETIRINGPlease join us in extendingbest wishes to Vicki McGhee,who is retiring from OregonCounty Family SupportDivision. Vicki has been anesteemed member of theDivision for 28 years and shewill be greatly missed. Wehave all benefited from hercommitment to excellence.She has been an inspiration tous all. If you would like tosend a card to wish her wellas she starts a new chapter inlife, you may send it to HC 64Box 125, Alton, MO 65606no later than 9‐28‐16.

There can be no prescriptions old enoughto supersede the law of nature, and thegrant of Almighty God, who has given allmen a right to be free. Governmentsprings from the necessities of our nature,and has an everlasting foundation in theunchangeable will of God. The firstprinciple and great end of governmentbeing to provide for the best good of allthe people, this can be done only by asupreme legislature and executive,ultimately in the people, or the wholecommunity, where God has placed it.The right of every man to his life, hisliberty, no created being can rightfullycontest. They are rights derived from theAuthor of nature,‐—inherent, inalienable,and indefeasible by any law, compacts,contracts, covenants, or stipulationswhich man can devise. God made all mennaturally equal.

James Otis

It would be as reasonable to say that all government isaltogether unnecessary because it is the duty of all men to denythemselves and obey the laws of nature and the laws of God.However clear the duty, we know it will not be performed, and,therefore, it is our duty to enter into associations and compel oneanother to do some of it.

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If you with united zeal and fortitudeoppose the torrent of oppression; ifyou feel the true fire of patriotismburning in your breasts; if you fromyour souls despise the most gaudydress that Slavery can wear; if youreally prefer the lonely cottage(whilst blest with liberty) to gildedpalaces surrounded with the ensignsof slavery,—you may have the fullestassurances that tyranny, with herwhole accursed train, will hide theirhideous heads in confusion, shame,and despair. If you perform yourpart, you must have the strongestconfidence that THE SAMEALMIGHTY BEING who protectedyour venerable and piousforefathers, who enabled them toturn a barren wilderness into afruitful field, who so often madebare his arm for their salvation, willbe still mindful of you, theiroffspring.May this ALMIGHTY BEINGgraciously preside in all our councils.May he direct us to such measuresas he himself will approve and bepleased to bless. May we ever be apeople favored of God. May ourland he a land of liberty, the seat ofvirtue, the asylum of the oppressed,a name and a praise in the wholeearth, until the last shock of timeshall bury the empires of the worldin one common undistinguishedruin.

Joseph Warren

I recommend it to my sons, from my own experience in life, to prefer thehappiness of independence and a private station to the troubles andvexations of public business; but, if their own inclinations or the necessityof the times should engage them in public affairs, I charge them, on afather's blessing, never to let the motives of private interest or ambitioninduce them to betray, nor the terrors of poverty and disgrace, or the fearof danger and death, deter them from asserting, the liberty of theircountry, and endeavoring to transmit to their posterity those sacred rightsto which themselves were born.

from the last will and testament of George Mason

Here is my creed: I believe in one

God, Creator ofthe Universe. That

he governs it by his Providence.

That he ought to be worshipped.

That the most acceptable service

we ought render to him is doing

good to his other children. That

the soul of man is immortal, and

will be treated with justice in

another life respecting its conduct

in this. These I take to be the

fundamental principles of all

sound religion, and I regard them

as you do in whatever sect I meet

with them.Benjamin Franklin, letter to Ezra Stiles,

March 9, 1 790

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Grateful to Almighty God for the

blessings which, through Jesus Christ

our Lord, he has conferred on my

beloved country in her emancipation,

and in permitting me, under

circumstances of mercy, to live to the

age ofeighty-nine years, and to survive

the fiftieth year of American

Independence, adopted by Congress on

the 4th ofJuly, 1776, which I originally

subscribed on the 2d day of August of

the same year, and of which I am now

the last surviving signer, I do hereby

recommend to the present and future

generations the principles of that

important document as the best

inheritance their ancestors could

bequeath to them, and pray that the

civil and religious liberties they have

secured to my country may be

perpetuated to remotest posterity and

extended to the whole family ofman.Charles Carroll, ofCarrollton

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The Supreme Intelligence who rulesthe world has constituted an eternallaw, which is obligatory upon allmankind, prior to any humaninstitution whatever. He gaveexistence to man, together with themeans of preserving andbeautifying that existence, andinvested him with an inviolableright to pursue liberty and personalsafety. Natural liberty is the gift ofthe Creator to the whole humanrace. Civil liberty is only naturalliberty modified and secured by thesanctions of civil society. It is notdependent on human caprice, but itis conformable to the constitutionof man, as well as necessary to thewell‐being of society. The sacredrights of mankind are not to berummaged for among oldparchments or musty records. Theyare written, as with a sunbeam, inthe whole volume of human nature,by the hand of Divinity itself, andcan never be erased or obscured byhuman power. This is what iscalled the law of nature, which,being coeval with mankind anddictated by God himself, is, ofcourse, superior in obligation toany other. No human laws are ofany validity if contrary to this. It isbinding over all the globe, in allcountries, and at all times.

Alexander Hamilton