The daily gazette., 1875-04-28
CENT ENNIAL.
Lexington and Concord.
NOBLE DEEDS GRANDLY COM
MEMORATED-A MEMORABLE
ANNIVERSARY - TREMENDOUS
PILGRIMAGE TO HALLOWED
AND HISTORIC GROUND.
eC1rsosity versus Patriotism.


AND OTHER DIaNITARIEs-aRANr LAT
AT LExINdToN-No THIRD TERM VOTE
IRON THAT QUARTER.
Correspondence of the Gasette.)
| CONCORD, Mass, April 10, 1875.
In looking over the record of the pas
we observe that nation has risen in arm
| against nation, and tribe against tribe
and persevered in the merciless slaugh
ter OF their fellowmen, and in spreadin,
ruin and destruction until the greer
earth drenched in blood has groaned fo,
deliverance. And We instance how {
few individuals, governed by selfish mo-
tiyes, have devasted and laid waste
| whole regions for the establishment oil
their own fame, and how the widow has
| sat heavy hearted to her frugal meal
and sighed and wept over the vacant
seat OF her blue-eyed boy whose bones
| lay. bleaching in some foreign cline.
This presaging cloud once settled over
| renowned Rome; once surrounded in
gloom the sunny shores of classic Greece.
1t darkened the sky of France and ter
ror and dismay seized her inhabitants
while streams OF gore, qs well royal as
plebeian, flowed from the bloody guillo-
tine as water from the fountain. It has
spread over our own fair land and while
the wars with the French and the Indi-
ans resulted in the conquering Of the
former and the suhjugation Of the lat
ter, and while the Revolution, Ameri.
cans tell us, resulted in the establish
ment OF a free and independent Repub-
lie now rivaled by but few, and hence
were all to us productive of good, vet
whether the one between the States will
be productive of like effect remains
for future ages to determine; at time
when prejudice shall have grown less
tagrant in drawing caricatures, and
when Americans shall have begun to see
things In their true colors. For since
upon our loved shores the last boom of
the beliigerent cannon has died away
into silence; since the rude contending
blllows OF martial strife have abated,
and the direful war clouds which cast
their portentous shadows over our coun-
try have been chased away by the congo
NAL rays of the sun Of peace, legislative
enactments still tend to the submersion
OF the peoples wishes, and civil discord
and excitement are quite at their climax.
And not until morality shall have waved
her ensign triumphantly over the vast
heads Of mankind; not until man has
ceased to be the idle worshiper of his
EVIL passions and learns what true man
hoed Is, may we ever expect to see or
realize those inestimable blessings which
should be the necessary concomitapts of
peace.
True is it that every nation owes its
birth and preservation to the Rallantry
and valor of its soldiers and the wisdom
OF its statesmen; and these should shed
q combined lustre. But granting that
the true type OF wise statesmen is retro
grading in our land at this day, and our
chief rulers avail us nothing of much
good, yet it is becoming every true
American to commend, reflect upon and
celebrate the noble deeds and the good
our lllustrious ancestry has accomplish
ed likewise it will be the part of cur fol-
lowers to honor in becoming manner our
feats which may be worthy to transmit
to posterity. Already Americans have
begun their duty in this respect.
1t may well be conceded that this and
a few succeeding years furnish very
interesting and important era in the hiss
tory OF our nation, and one of the most
characteristic reasons for this is the re-
lation which she bears to celebrating the
centennial anniversaries of the various
battles of I'll American Revolution and
q grander centennial in commemora-
tion OF American Independence For in /
this war many of Americas 8 sons fought |
their last battle, achieved their last vic
tory and made their last animated and |
triumphant charge. Yet in passing the /
oourn from whence no traveller return
eth, they passed like brave and great
they were in defence of their
native soil. OF such brave and noble
ancestors it is well to be reminded, and
t is with but marked justice that we,
oy celebrating their exploits, that we
show to other nations that we honor
them with patriotic hearts and fully re-
allze that though kingdoms may crum-
ble and monarchies may fall, vet the
deeds OF the illustrious dead shall ever
'emain brilliant in the minds of NATIONS
ind be chronicled in the writings of
.ges. Mindful that portion of our own
sndured the hardships and trials of mil
tary life, we celebrate their most i'm
'ortant exploits as pleasant reminis-
'ence OF their fortitude and valor. With
viii note those Of 1878.
One hundred years ago found what ;s
low the United States of America
ubJect to Great Britain, one of the most
powers of Europe upon whose
Iomain the sun never set, and to whom
many nations had bowed in submission
nd become OF her a component part.
Being in this relation to mighty sover-
ign power, the colonies had but very
United opportunities for making known
nd carrying into effect the wishes of
heir own people. By the mother coun-
ry taxes were imposed, which were op-
'osed on the ground that taxation with
ut representation was repugnant to the .
principles of Magma Char
a. Troops were also sent over to en- {
orce the arbitrary decree and TO fright. :
n the people into submission, and King !
ieorge III. was told that by the funda. !
aental law of the province the military
aust be subordinate to the civil power, {
nd that marshaled armies in time of | ]
eace could not lawfully be encamped
mong US without the consent of our '
legislature. These declarations Great f
britain needed not; hence the colonies '
: once resolved to sever their connec- {
ion, by peace if they could, but if me-
essary by the force of arms, and to es- =
lblish free and Independent Repub- =
C, having as motto Liberty and :