Idaho tri-weekly world. (Idaho City, Idaho) 1875-1875, 1875-06-06
The First Battle of the Revelation.

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following:
On Monday Major General B. f. But.
ler' OF the Massachusetts militia, noun.
TED his charger, cooked his eye down
the vista of a hundred years and cele.
brated the skirmishes of Concord and
Lexington. President Grant was there
IN high feather also, riding in process
ION with the corked-up Major General
OF militia. But the Commandcr-in-
Chief Of all the militia, the head and
trout OF the celebration, was Governor
Castor, the Democratic Governor
Inc occasion was, no doubt, iolly
one. Much powder was burnt, MUCH
rhetoric pumped out, and huge gug.
zIlng ofliqnors and stui1ing of stomachs
took place at the Lexington dinner.
The two villages both claim to have
commenced the Revolution, but the
truth seems TO be that our forcfatbcrs
socalled, made no resistance at Lex.
'ngton and none Immediately at the
village Of Concord The first British
blood was drawn at the bridge north
Of Concord, and the actual firhiinr
took place after the British commenced
their retreat. The battle, which nav
hc designated as tie first Bull Run
was a running fight with John Bull
all along the road from Concord to
Charlcstown.
John Bull was badly worstcd in the
route. and much honor is undoubtedly
due to Paul Revere, Sam Adams. John
Hancock, and other patriots. who led
the Johnny Kcbs Of the Tea, Drinkers
Rebellion. But the first battle of the
Revolution was not at Concord nor at
Lexington. Resistance to tyranny al.
ways finds its cradle in the South, The
Revolution had already advanced So
far, when the skirmish about Lexing-
ton took place. that very soon after
that event the army Of Gen. George
Washington, 4 Virginian, was en-
campcd around Boston. The move
mcnts toward revolution had been
going Oh for ten years before the bat
tic ut Lexington The odious stamp
act was passed in 1865, and from that
year until the 10Th Of April, ITS. the
clarion voice Of Patrick Henry was
constantly proclaiming resistance. The
Southern colonies were at a white
heat long before Major Pitcairn set ont
upon his march for Concord. When
the stamp act was passed in 1865 and
the stamps were sent out to America,
almost similar and simultaneous action
took place in all the colonies, but the
people Of North Carolina were decided.
ly more dcmonstrativc than those in
any of the other colonies. Chief JUS
lice Francis Xavier Martin, Of Louisi-
ana, wrote history Of North Carolina,
where he had long lived. He says:
"The sloop-of.war Diligence came
nto the Cape Fear river with the
stamps on board, a1d Gov. Tryon is
sued the proclamation in relation to |
hem; but Colonels Ashe and Waddle
;alled their regiments of militia to-
,cther, and marched to the river and
'otificd the commander that they were
to resist the landing Of the .
lamps. They captured a boat be. q
onging to the sloop-of-war, and mount q
ng it on cart, hauled it through the y
own of Brunswick, with the town il. .
and all the people in process .
ion. :
Governor Tryon tried to conciliate te
nd cajole the people, but they marched N
!, his house and demanded the stamp|I
|licial, James Houston, and threat. OF o.
ned to burn the Governors house # IN