Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1854-12-18
SPIRIT OF THE MORNING PRESS

Inc IRtafageneer Is highly gratiaed indeed
with the reelection of Senator Butler, Of
South Carolina, saying,
There is no member of the Senate whose
reappOintment to it we feel free to say, would
afford more sincere or universal satisfaction
among its membe than that of Mr. Butler ::
nor indeed moro satisfaction to all who value
the dignity, respectability, and usefulness of
the Senate 1t Is the more gratifying just now,
as making some amends for the loss which the
body will sustain at the close of the present
session in the retirement of some of its most
able and esteemed members, under tho opera.
ton OF that most misch ievOus of Democratic
principles, the principle Of rotation in Of
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The CHi0m grows eloquent over the enact
ment of the bill for the relief of the heirs of
Baron de kalb, Of revolutionary war memory,
saying:
- There ia something peculiarly interesting
IN the history OF Baron de Kalb. Let US recall
some Of the incidents of his career, now when
We are demanded by an arrogant party to an
nihilate the recollection Of the brave and gen
erous men who came from other lands to suffer
and 10 die for the cause of American indepen
deDce. twice assailed by the strongest Power
OF he Old World. He was German BY birth.
lie was in France a knight of the order of
military merit, and brigadier general in the
French army. He came to this couutry with
La lyette; was appointed a major general
by Congress, AID served at the head of the
Maryland division. He commanded the ripht
wing Of the Americans at Camden. S. q and
IN that fearful conflict he fell, in his last at.
tempt to achieve a victory, pierced with
eleven wounds. He was rescued from imme
date death by the Chevalier du Bysson, his
aid, land also foreigner who embraced the
OPnarol
body the bayone;s intended for his friend,
exclaining, save the Baron de Kalb; oh.
save the Baron dc Kalb' The brave veteran
survived the bloody battle but few DAYS
Before his death he spoke these noble words
: die the death l always prayed for-rHE
DEATH OF SOLDIER FIGHTING FOR THE RIGHTS
OF NAN what commentary upon this Ian
guage are the doctrines of tho new secret or
der Il is voice from the grave of a great
soldier, pleading against the passions and the
preJudlees, and to the justice and the graft
tude OF the present generation. When GEN
W ashlngton visited Camden, many years after.
he went to the grave Of the German patriot
After gazing upon il, with a counter aucs
marked with deep thought, he exclaimed,
with sigh: so, there lies the brave De
kalo tire generous stranger acko came from
distant fand to fght our battles, and to
1r0ter nth AtS blood the tree or our iibertv
Would TO God he had hired to share its
fruits -
Little did the immortal hero and sage sup
Pose that day would arrive in American his.
tory when such man as De Kalb would be.
come mark of prescription; when his chill
drsn would have been DISTINGUISHED by
tanatical party, and when his services would
be denied by set Of modern reformers whose
ambition can only be satiated by a war upon
all men born abroad, whether naturalized or
not and by crusade upon the religious be-
lief OF large portion Of the American peo-
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