Democrat and sentinel. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1853-1866, 1864-06-29

the Moro and Portobello attest the value Of
! thy provincial troops and in that school
were educated such soldiers as Washino
| ton, Putnam, Lee, Montgomery and
Gates. These, and men like Green, Knox.
| Wayne and Steuben were the fathers of
our permanent army, and under them our
troops acquired that discipline and steadi-
ness which enabled them TO meet on equal
terms, and often to defeat, the tried vete-
rams of England. The study of the his
tory of the Revolution, and perusal of
the dispatches of Washington, will con-
vince the most sceptical Of the value of
the provincial army in achieving our indie
pendence, and establishing the civil edifice
which we are now fighting to preserve.
The war of 1912 found the army on a
footing far from adequate to the emer-
gency, but it was rapidly increased, and
| of the new generation of soldiers many
occasion. Lundy's Lance, Chippeway,
Queenstown, Plattsburg, New Orleans,
all bear witness to the gallantry of the
regulars Then came an interval of more
! than thirty years of external peace marked
by many changes III the organization and
strength OF the regular army, and broken
at times by the tedious and bloody Indian
wars. OF these the most remarkable
were the Black Hawk war, in which our
troops met unfinchingly foe as relentless
and far more destructive than the Indians
that terrible scourge, the cholera-and
! the tedious Florida war, where for many
| years the Seminolcs eluGed in their pesti-
| lential swamps our utmost efforts, and in
which We're displayed such traits of hero
| ism as that commemOrated by yOnder
monument to Dade and his command
| when = all fell save two, without an at
! tempt to retreat" At last came the Nexi-
can war to replace Indian combats, and
| the monitonv of the frontier service. and
for the first time in many years, the mass
| o. the regular army was concentrated,
ard took the principal part of that re-
markable and romantic war. Palo Alto,
! Res1ca and Fort Brown were the achieve
ments of the regulars unaided; and * to
the battles OF Monterey, Bucna Vista,
! Vera Cruz. Ccrro Gorlo, and the final
triumphs in the valley, none can truly say
that they could have been won without
the regulars. When peace crowned ouI
victories in the capital Of the Montezumas.
the army was ~ once dispersed over the
long frontier, and engaged in harrassinl
and dangerous wars with the Indians oI
the plains Thus thirteen long year:
were spent until the present war brolt
out. and the mass of the army was drawn
in to be employed against domestic foe
| cannot proceed to the events OF the re
cent past and the present without adver
ting to the gallant men who were so Ions
of our number, but who have now gone
to their last home for no small portion
of the glory of which we boast was eX
pected from such men as Taylor, Worth.
Brady, Brooks, Totten and Duncan
There is a sad story OF Venetian history
that has moved many heart, and offer
employed. the poets pen and painters pen
, tiers pencil 1t is of an old man whost
long life was gloriously spent in the ser
vice of the State as warrior and states
, man. and who, when his hair was white
and his feeble limbs could scarce bear hi
bent form towards the grave, attained th'
: highest honors that a citizen couid reaci
He was Dodge of Venice. Convicted o
r treason against the State, he not only los
, his life but suffered, besides, penalt,
t which will endure as long as the name o
, Venice is remembered. The spot wher
his portrait should have hung in the grea
e hall of the Dodge's palace was velle'
with black, and there still remains tn
franc with its black mass of canvass
,S tl,a
n spicuous in the long line OF etfigles OF Il
lustrious Dodges! Oh that such ha
. as that which replaces the portrait
' Maurio Faleco could conceal from hlstor
- the names of those, once our comrades
: who arc now in arms against the fla
under which we fought side by side
y voars uone by. But no veil, howeve
thick. can cover the anguish that fill OF
hearts when we look back upon the sa
:, memory of the past, and recall the atfe'
y tion and respect we entertained TOWARD
IL mon aoainst whom It is now our duty
:, meet in mortal combat. Would that II
- courage, ability and stcadfastness the
;e display had been employed in defense
~ the i" Stars and Stripes" against torelS
io foe. rather than in this gratuitous and u
= Unsuitable rebellion, which could not ha
:" been so long maintained but for the SIX
- and energy of these our former comrade
IL But we have reason to rejoice that up
this day, so sacred and so eventful tor
ne one grand old mortal monument OF p'
o. still lifts high his head amongst uF,
=, should have graced by his presence
q | conservation of this tomb by his childr'