The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1875-07-09

| Uttief~. Some were I0uhuti upon pf0pfit.
tary giants, others upon municipal charters
all obtained by the founders OF the infant
communities with great difficulty aud re.
lucrantly conceded at last, as a cheap en
enlargement to the extension of British
commerce. and power. They all, however.
contained with more or less completeness
IL recognition of the right OF local self.
government recognition of inestimabe
value when the struggle for Independence
finally began. Isolated from each other
moved by intense religions convictions. III
stn ags, wien religion meant an ir'f-h hearted
bigotry thrown upon their own resources
l surrounded by hostile sayages, each colon,
WAS at war with itself, and cherished 81
thinly disguised hostility to its neighbors
The preaching of Roger Williams and the
| wise statrsmanshp Of Calvert gradually
:lssuaged the bitterness of religious contr,-
versy. while the common dangers upon AT
exposed frontier drew these fierce and
warning sects toward sentiment of union.
The p. election which the mother country
ext hd d to these colonial waits was purely
nominal. The troops which were ostenfa
tiously MT To aid them in their various
French and Indian wars mainly distinguish.
I'd themselves by their ins.,lence TO the
towns people while in barracks and ended
their military career by having their scalps
saved by the provincial rIhemen. whom
they patronizngly took with them in thei'
campaigns to witness their expected tri
umphs on the tented field.
AS soon as tile colonies acquired sufficient
wealth and population to make them
desirable places of abode, they were over.
run by Il swarm of carpet-bag officials sent
| to them from abroad. to &c once ill all th,
lucrative offices of public trust and thin out
the dlssipated scious from the titled houses
of the English peerage. No careful reader
of colonial history Gun doubt that the pecula-
lions, insolence and irritating airs of supe-
rioiity of these foreign officials was the
primary cause of the final outbreak that
involved two continents in a disastrous war.
Ii was his that put the first severe strain
upon that sentiment of loyalty, which,
III spite of Il neglect that almost amounted
| 10 persecution, still bound our Fathers
| hearts to the fruitful Mother from which
they sprung. In tribulation and disaster
~ turned tu the English people with {,
:llid's unutterable longing for sympathy:
our for the Crown, The source of this dis
| gushing patronage. which i'll it's manifesto
| ti,ns nldcly trod upon ttieir sentiments oi
self respect, and too often exposed their
| matrOns and tender maisiens to the lOuss.
manners of tie exiled arpoIntees of Il cor
upt court, they early lost the reverence of
faithful liegemen. The military operations
| vi the combined British and provincial for
| .es, in the old French and Indan war that
closed III 1850. left the colonies with large
iumber of trained soldiers of their own OF
| riie highest order of military merit, and
| leepened the popular contempt for the
whole brood of official adventures, BORN
nvil and military. From Alexandria, Vir-
glnia, the boasting Br;t,idock had left his
wine and women and MAJ chca forth to his
| .eath-liis brave but Inflated command
d ing saved from total destruction by the
,nsrage and address OF Washington and his
ifsm.n. The strong fortis 5, of Loni>burg
std been besieged and ca. tured the col.-
iial contingent Ill the allied army bearing
ii all the h,uors of the sn e.. Misled b,
incompetent commanders, uiiskilled In hor-
der warfare, with i. fatal lack of discipline
! tud allowed ail almost uniulnitru
indulgence, the regular troops during the
whole course of this war showed greatly To-
their disadvantage when compared with he
provincial forces. The only noteworthy
operation ON their part WAS the capture of
quebec. where the heroic Wolfe and in
rep!d Montcalm found Il common sepuchre
lpuu the Plains of Abraham.
From this plotracted struggle, the colo
aies issued with All immensely increased
feeling OF seli-relianee. Plainly they were
III no mood to longer submit without pro-
test to official iRsolence, Or bear any tam
pering with their chartered rights. And
yet it was precisely at this juncture that
Parliament, under the plea that Il large
debt had been incurred in defending the
colonies, the burdens OF which it WAS but
just they should help to bear, began for
number and variety OF Imperial taxes.
Then commenced that long struggle be-
tween right and power-the stubbornly-at-
tempted rape of the colonial liberties, and
The dogged resolution displayed in their de-
fence-the needless irritatiuns-the wanton
insults. to local dignitaries and populace
alike--the arbitrary aud illegal acts of the
KING i'm Council echoed by ~ snperseryice-
ble Pa. lament, all briefly summed up in
that terrible Indictment against the British
Crown, which has been read here to-day
the old, old struggle between personal free
dom and organized authority which began
when mankind firso formed themselves into
civil communities for mutual protection.
Not for the first time did Freedom then
unfurI her banner. No!-fhe world had
grewn old and gray and sad in witnessing
the trampling Of human rights. II for
brief periods here and there it's sombreness
nad lit up with transient light as it beheld
some noble endeavor, for whose success
good angels prayed and brave men died,
this light had swiftly faded into chronic
gloom. The superficial poets of the strug-
gle had been often presented. R.yolts
against established governments originat-
ing in the ambition Of vassal princes, the
hatreds of nationalities OF the jealousies of
e,ol Il bod
passed into successful revolutions. In de-
fence of their religion myriads of martyrs
had perished at the stake, fiinging above
the cracking flames and the hoarse voice
of the executioner the glad hosannahs of an
approaching Immortality. IL defence of
their religion kings and pottntates had
sprung to arms and severed their connection
with the parent State, not because they de-
nitd the rightfulness OF their temporal al
iegiance, but because they felt constrained
to break that allegiance at the command Of
God himself.
For this did the phlegmatic but dauntless
burghers for eighty years bleed and die in
the marshy fens and along the dykes of
Holland. For this was James the Second
practically expelled from the British throne,
and William of Nassau called to assume
it's purple. Yet neither in Holland nor in
England was there recognition Of the
fundamental truth contained in the second
paragraph of our great declaration. At
great length and with heart-breaking YER
bosity did the Dutch doctors argue that
Philip of SPAN in attempting to subvert
the chartered rights of the Netherlands,
was violating his coronation oath; but the
reason they gave for resisting these attempts
was that their cOnsciences forbade them to
arfhnrYfs tt9ssa hu rxy ysnrffraffnr1 nn-
mitting that, SO far as secular considera-
tions went, tyranny was right. They
doubtless felt the truth, but their minds,
obscured by ages of religious and political
tradition, had not become sufficiently illu-
mined to enable them to phrase il into
words. So the English Parliament, after
foreign invasion, aided by the English peo-
pie, had driven their hereditary sovereign
from the kingdom, solemnly resolved that
the King by leaving in the hasty and dis
trnstful manner that lie did, had abdicafed