The Idaho world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1864-1918, 1872-04-04
IDAHO CITY, THURSDAY. April. A. 1872

lady goodbye; mounted his horse; ordered
one of his niggers to follow him; and set forth
to Join the "lawless hordes," in their attempt
to p" overthrow the government" He was made
Commander-in-Chi of fourteen thousand
ragged "rebels;" the old flag" was fired on,
and then began that glorious, heroic career,
which earned for him the holy title of "PATER
PATRIE."
For seven long and bloody years, through
evil and through good report; amid the burn
ing sands of Monmouth, and the frozen SHOWS
of Valley Forge; ia hunger and nakedness; In
gloom, distrust and WEAKNESS; this dauntless
old "rebel" battled on for Justice, Right and
Liberty; until at last, the world, astonished at
devotion so deathless, heroism SO divine,
pronounced him and his country" Freer'
Then was he proclaimed, "First IN war, first
in peace, and first in the hearts of his country
men" Mothers held up their babes, to see
him, as he passed Maidens strewed his path
with flowers Strong men rent the air with
accamations, and old men wept, as he rode
by. The world rose up to do him honor
THIS "OLD REBEL STAKEHOLDER!
But death spares not even the idol of hem
isphere. That mournful winters night of 1899,
settled down like pail upon the land. And
bewaed by q nation. revered by the world.
GEORGE WASHINGTON. the great, the good,
the patriot hero, sage and "REBEL," quietly
breathed his last. For more than sixty years,
Mount Vernon's shades were holy ground.
Pilgrims from every land, from every cline,
did homage at the shrine OF one who had been
Freedoms n0blest champion. Patriotlsm's
most glorious exemplar.
But puritanigger "high-moral IDEAS" yam
kee philanthropy" Jacobinical "progress"
swept over the Confederation. And for years,
Mount Vernon was in a foreign land. The
ashes of the Father of his Country" reposed
in alien soil Virginia, the grand old mother
of the Republic. was District No. l." A
tinseed satrap, surrounded by the bayonets of
his brutal ianizaries, ruled with ruthless des-
pots sway, within her hapless borders. Her
pround capital, that once resounded with the
eloquence of Henry and Marshall Randolph
and Lee. swarmed, through long and horrd
years, with blasphemOus, tiendlsh, foamlng
assassins and banditti. Over the bones of
Washington and Jefferson, frothing, bowling
hyenas, like Hunnicutt Wells and Underwood,
led the bacchanalian orgies of horde of Atrl-
can savages, skunk scented cannibals, bob
tailed orang-outangs, and interloplng yankee
thieves and vagrants And to-
day, though some faint improvement has
taken place, queenly Virginia still weeps over
aud vagabonds trample her under their hoofs.
Her fields are laid waste: her homes rendered
desolate Her children, broken-hearted and
almost despairing. groan beneath the scourge
of the oppressor Virginia gentlemen, coun-
trymen, of Washington, meet with glbberlng
niger BARRIERS, boot blacks and cornfield chat
tells, in proud. historic Richmond on the
James," To leeislate for once peerless Com
All these degredations heaped
upon them, for having been, like their fathers
before them, "REBELs!" And beastly below
ers and driveing idiots are laboring, all over
this Rebeion.born Republic, to make the
glorious old name of Rebel a reproach, a
kissing and a byword, Why should we longer
pretend to celebrate the Birthday of WASHING
ron, THE IMMORTAL REBEL? Bah! Throw
away those crackers, boys! Wipe your noses,
and 90 home. The Twenty Second of Febru-
ary's but the anniversary of an old Rebels"
natal day-An old "Rebel," no better, no
brayer, no truer or nobler than Robert (. Lee,
Jackson. Sterling Price, or Albert
Sidney Johnston. Down with loyalty