Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1865-08-04
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even pace" of nations: but in the latter
days it seems that nations stride, and that
over the whole world there is one con-
tinuous rush and roar. This month OF
July ended the most magnificent hundred
days in history The hundred days of
1915 are memorable for the multitude Of
events that crowded them. although moth
ing remained but Government which
took no root and lasted thirty years. and
the exile of man who only wanted that
exile to turn the worlds hatred into the
worlds pity. In those Hundred Days
Europe was thrown back century,
Tyranny and superstition and oppression
were all sustained and protected by the
great name of Wellington. The tiuged,
expensive and dusty robes that England
calls royalty. and which cover and clog
and check everything like free thought and
free deed were FURNISHED anew and wrapped
tighter around the growing limbs of a
struggling people. In our Hundred Days
we have completed the overthrow Of Re
bellion; we have reduced our armies to a
mere contingent; disaYmed a navy and
sent ships -of-war back to the better duties
of carrying corn and cotton; hurried a
victorious army into the mines and canons
of the Western Territories. and raised
money enough oat of Our own farms and
looms to pay the extraordinary expenses
of Government. Our victories of peace
are even greater than the victories of war.
On one side our pioneers are glrdling the
Rocky Maintains with railroads-on the
other we stand waiting to grasp the hand
of the Euglishman who brings us within
an hour of London. There is something
uneasy i'll our very ambition. To the
South we have territory newly conquer
cd-unsettled, and sadly wanting "Reeon-
struction''-and yet we begin TO look
longinsly to the North, and coyet the St.
Lawrence and the vast Canadian Countries,
and chafe at any boundary this side of the
Polar Sea. In the majesty of ncwlyas
serted strength we stride toward a dazzling
destiny.
Do we feel that every step brings us
more important and burdensome duties
For the second time in the worlds history
we are called upen to rise up and control
the destiny of the world. This is no vain
thought. Men are but representatives of
ideas-and ideas are not bounded by re-
hgion, race, or territory. Cromwell.
Washington. Franklin, Mrabeau, Napo-
leon. Hugo, John Brown, Lincoln-stcp
by step the Idea of Resistance to Tyranny
has Travelled over the world--savcd Eng
land. revolutionizcd Francc-dcstroyc
slavery in America. Those who lock at
these men and their times, and see what
they call the chb and flow Of ideas
Comwcll followed by Charles, Miraheau
by Napoleon. Franklin by Calhoun, Hugo
banishcd by IA Bonaparte, and Brown hang
cd by Buchanan-forgct that generations
are but as days-that whatever temporary
cbb may come the tide always riscs-that
Cromwell dead was as powerful as i'll life
and that when John Browns body went
down to moldcr in he dust, his soul still
marched-on. Nor is our work done. 1t
is merely beginning. When John Stuart
Mill triumphel over palace aud treasury,
aided by 'two hundred woikmen," it was
the logical result Of Grants success
Those workmen took comfort from Ameri-
ca, and were strong and bold when they
saw men Of their own blood and lineage
defending their flag and giving up their
lives for a government with more devotion
than ROYALTY ever commanded. America
has not triumphcd in vain. There is not Il
desponding Republican that crouches I'M
der the Hapsburgs and Bonapartes or eats
hard bread away down in dismal mine.
that my Lord of Westminster may carry
a stick before Her Majesty and eat up
thousands of broad acres in feeding foxes,
hounds and deers, who does not feel
stronger, and more rcsolute, and more
J anxious for hours to strike. Men call this
a selfish, sensual. mcrcenary age, but only
cncc. 1t is a grand old Nineteenth Cen.
fury, full of good deeds and brave cndeav-
ors, and proudly to he remembered in song
and story and over many cup of gener-
Gus wine in the good days coming. TIT
bune.
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