Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1850-07-17

human race; he earned immortality, and
posterity will pay the debt. Napoleon
reared in his own Capital, the lofty brazen
column of his victories, cast from artillery
won on the bloody fields Of Marengo and
Jenna and Aus,erliz. How much more
worthy of durable monument are the he
roes of Concord and of Lexington, of Mon
mouth, Camden, Trenton, Bennington and
Saratoga! Nor can the charge, so often
brought against Republics, that they are un-
grateful, be brough. against us. Already
on Bunker HlIl-rendered forever memora-
ble by the fall of Warren, the first grea.
martyr of American liber,y-a monumen. to
our revolutionary worthless, with its lofty
summit, towers 10 the skies; and there is
now being erected in the metropolis of our
nation, monument TO the Father of his
Country, designed to be the most magnifi-
cent Of ancient or modern times. 1t is we'll
that it should be so. These monuments are
of highly beneficial tendency. They serve
not onl y to testify our gratitude TO the il
lus'rious dead, but also to keep alive in our
memories, the virtues and achevments which
distinguished them. They address them
selves to the Imagination, one of the mos,
useful faculties of the human mind. They
stimulate to a generous emulation Of fame
they direct the feelings they swell the bo-
som to deeds Of glory and renown. And
in this view of the subject, it is also well,
that throughout our wide borders, we should
set this day apart from common time that
we should consecrate i. to the men, and to
the deeds Of our glorious Revolution. LIE.
US then, as often as the great anniversary re-
ours, remember the suffefings,~ and recount
the virtues of our fathers; let the cannon peal
the notes familiar 10 their ears ; let the stars
and the stripes float ploudly in the breeze /;
and let nations gratitude beeofefed up 10
a nations benefactors.
Since our Revolution, the country has
passed successfully through two great wars.
The war with Great Britain, which CON-
menced in 1912 and ended in 1915, which
may properly be regarded as our second
great war Of Revolution, in which our Army
and Navy reaped rich harvest Of laurels,
and greatly added to the military fame of
our country. This war ended with the fa-
nous victory at New Orleans, by which
General Jackson was we'll said TO have filled
the measure of his country's glory. Our
late war with Mexico resulted, as we all
know, in the signal triumph of our arms
over our unfortunate and misguided neigh
Dor, and in the vast extension Of our terrific
ry, taking in California with her mountains
Of gold and precious metals, and gems sur
passing in richness the diamond caves Of
Golconda. In all our wars, we have given
to the world evidence that we need no large
standing army for our protection; but tha,
our citizen soldiers, when fighting in de-
fence Of their homes aud their firesides, are
invincible by any force that may be brought
against them. But though there may be in
"lhe pride, pomp, and circumstance of glo-
rious war;" something which may urge on
its votary with noble enthusiasm to NEE,
danger, and to meet death at the cannon's
mouth something which may blind the
eve to the promiscuous carnage Of the bat
tie field; something which may close the
ear TO the mingled shrieks of the wounded,
the groans of the dying. Fame may place
an honorable wreath upon the brow of the
conqueror-may hand down his name in
grateful recollection to those who shall
live after him, yet there is in the disastrous
consequences of war, much to pain the feel
ings of the philan,hrops,. Even the con-
querors do not come off without their share
in the evils. The biogrspher of Napoleon,
when speaking of the loss sustained by the
English on the field Of Waterloo, says, ff-
teen thousand men killed and wounded
threw half Britain into mourning. ]. requir
ed all the glory, and all the solid advanta-
ges of that day, to reconcile the mind to the
high price at which it was purchased. Wha,
was said Of that memorable conflict, between
the mighty armies of con.ending nations,
presents to us but too faithful picture of
war IN general. While other nations have
been engaged in wars and the bloody lhroes
Of revolution, we, during most of our ma
.ional existence, have been blest with peace.
Peace is the great interest of nations as of
individuals. In season of peace we may
develope all the great resources of coun-
ry-agriculture, commerce, manufacture,
the mechanic arts, and all other arts and
sciences, which tend to build up and dig
nifty society. The triumphs Of our coun-
try in war have not been more glorious
than her triumphs in peace. In the triumph
of art over nature, Of mind over matter, our
people have distinguished rank in this age
Of progress. The genius of Whitney, and
Of other kindred spirits, by the invention OF
the cotton gin, and various other laborsav-
ing implements and machines, have vastly
facilitated mans labors, increased his COM
forts, and added TO his wealth. While to
Fulton and Morse we are indebted for steam
boats and magnetic .elegraphs, which, to-
ge!her with steam cars and steamships, en-
able US, as it were, to annihis,e space; to
carry on all sorts of commerce, and parti-
cularly the vast commerce of Thought, which
has done and is doing so much for the me
Iteration of mans condition over the whole
world These Inventions have, iu some