The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1874-07-10

low, ut valley Forge the little
rmy of patriots under the great
Washington, suffered all the
igors of an uncommon winter,
nth shelter and clothing scarce
efficient 10 hide the sky or cover
heir nakelness, marking the
now ami ice with the trickling
,ore of naked feet, and suffering
II the pangs of famine. How at
Monmouth brave men fell beneath
he heats OF 4 July sun. and the
imothering dust of a deep sandy
Ialiey, from sheer thirst and eX-
laustion, as they stood toe to toe
md crossed bayonets with the
British veterans under CORVALLIS. |
How with dubbed guns, for want
IF ammunition, they disputed
nch by inch the bitches of Bun
kerhill. How at Fort Moultrie |
they ~ithstood the volcanic |
shocks and earthquake broad |
sides of nine terrible British war
ia a small hastily built |
fort, pronounced by Major Gener
al Lee as entirely untenable.
Had their powder lasted, not one
of those proud ships-royal sky
Scrapers rs they were-would
ever have visited the sea again.
AS it was. they were made to look
like selves and smell like
pens. Who has
not followed with bounding
pulse and streaming eyes, the
mastery retreat of General Greene
through the CarOlinas, as he con-
Quoted the beaten and disorganized
remnants OF a fine American army
from the fatal field of Camden
where fell the brave old Dekslb-
''that generous stranger who came
here to water with his blood the
tree of our liberty"
The wrathful Britou, flushed with
victory and raging like a hungry
lion, hoped to capture Greene. and
thus end the war IN the south.
Large rivers must be crossed; the
sick and wounded cared for. The
progress of the army of patriots
must be slow and perilous in the
extreme. But those squads of cav
airy, under the immortal colonies,
Lee, Williams aud Washington,
hung sleeplessly about the van OF
the British army like the brow of
fate. Now charging, with drawn
sabers, ten fold their own numbers
now retreating aud destroying
bridges or Telling trees i'll the road
of their pursuers, and even thWart-
ing and Gripping their enemy and
saving their friends during a cam.
paign of nearly three hundred
miles.
| We have all read with admiration
and delight of the final seige and
surrender at Yorktown, where
Lord Carnwallis, with the main
British army, WAS compelled tC
| ground arms at the feet of the
American troops. We are too APP
10 call it the end of the struggle fol
American Liberty. 1t is mistake
The struggle for liberty is never
ended. The foes of freedom arr
diverse and protean! One day il
is the king OF England; next it il
1 the slave power; now it is corporate
monoPolies, controlling commerce
finance and government. Tomor
row the tyrant may assume some
new form, but the struggle will bt
the same. 1t is might seeking t.
crush the qTght-prerogative ani
power on the part of the few, seek
ing to tax and dominate the many
| Fortunate shall we be if in eacl
conflict we can so far conquer as t.
compel our enemies to assume new
forms and new names. Less en-.
| lightened nations than ours have
not always been thus fortunate
The popular English revolution o
I648 seemed to conquer monarchy
| The house of Stuart was driver
from the realm, and the ruling mon
arch lost his head. On the next pag.
of Englih history, liberty lies bleed
ing at the feet of Oliver Cromwell
We turn but a single leaf, and 10
the restoration of the dissolutG
Charles IL! The kingly name anG
| power with all its prerogatives ant
tyrannies still lives! The struggle
for English liberty must commenc,
again in the very dust at the fee
of royalty and feudalism. AL
true government and lasting liberty
is founded on the intelligence ofthI
masses of the people. And we have
cause of graduation to-day at sigh
of this host of beaming faces, now
assembled, in the name of brother
hood, whose aims and watch words
are all redolent with wisdom
see 81 Take another example
The history of France, that land
| WI fYn
rather than popular intelligence, il
but a repetition of the same old
story. Let me give you single
| picture drawn from French history
The year 1889 will long be remem.
bered by the world for its notable
events at Paris. Louis XVI at firsl
yielded to the demands of the PEG.
pie, and agreed to grant the nation
constitutional liberty. The buoy
ant heart of France was frantic
with joy! 1t was determined to
celebrate the occasion on the 18th OF
July. The place is chosen and pre-
pared in the Champ de Mars The
morning was cold for July one, bnt
such a festival in the midst of gay
and jubilant Paris would make
Greenland smile. Through every
| inlet of the great amphilheater,
floods iii the living thrODg, Two
hundred thousand patriotic men,
and twice as good, one hundred
thousand patriotic women, all deck
ed and glorified, as one can fancy,
sit waiting in this field of Mars. A
picture of bright-dyed life, spread
out on that thirty-seated slope,
amid the foliage OF the green
trees, an background of green
sward, amid the CLEAN of waters
and the brigh; sparkling of white
stone edifices. On steeples, roofs
and belfries, stand men with spy
glasses. All Paris is one thickly
peopled amphitheater, assembled to
take the oath to law and to liberty.
The heights have cannon, and a
floating battery of cannon is on the
river. When the eye fails the ear
shall serve. And all France, prop
eriy, is one amphitheater, for in
paved town and unpaved hamlet
men walk listening, till the mufiied
thunder sounds audibly on their
horizon, that they too may begin
swearing and firing. To streams
of music come the eighty-three de-
partments with banners; comes nat
ional Assembly and take seat under
the conopy comes Royalty and take
seat on throne beside; and LRfay-
cite, on a white charger is here, aud
all the civic functionaries. There is
wheeling and sweeping to slow, to
quick to double quick time Lafay-
cite, as General of France, in the
kings stead for twenty hours, must
step forth in the sight of heaven
and scarcely breathing earth, and
pronounce the oath to king, TO law,
nation, in his own name and that
Of armed France. The National
Assembly swears standing in its
place. The king swears now be the
weikin split with WHAT'S; let citi-
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