The silver state. [volume] (Unionville, Nev.) 1870-1903, 1880-07-06

able, undefinable feeling of approaching
danger of the near approach of great
crisis was depicted in every face. The
attempt to wrest from the Colonists
their liberties had been almost imper
ceptibly begun years before Resist
ance to THAT attempt had led to con-
test which gradually pushed the COM
batants into the threatening shadows
of war, and the deep gloom of these
shadows, like the darkness which pre-
cedes and heralds the approach OF the
fiercest war of the elements, had settled
over that audience as they listened to
the prudent yet burning words of Jos.
Warren. The occasion Of that celebra-
ton was the celebration of the 9TH an
niversary of The famed Boston Massa-
ere. i'll which three citizens had. in
time OF peace, been slain by the sol
diers of the British Government, and in
direct violation OF the common law OF
England, which was the Constitutional
safeguard on which that people relied
for their rights and liberties. And at
that 9th celebration of the sorrowful
event, Government officers and soldiers
gathered in force on the very stairs
leading up to the high old-fashioned
pulpit where the orator stood, that by
their presence they might overawe both
orator and audience, and seize on some
word which might be construed into
treason or rebellion, which both orator
aud audience well knew would eonsign
its utterer to an ignominious felon'
death. The concluding words OF the
orator seem almost prophetic. Ailud-
ing to that peaceable contest for liberty,
in which many of bis audience were
then active participants, the orator con-
Guided III these memorable words: III
these pacific measures are Intellectual,
and it appears that the only way To
safety is through fields of blood, | know
you will not turn your faces from your
foes, but will undauntedly press for
ward until tyranny is trodden under
foot. Having redeemed your country
and secured the blessing to future gen.
erations vino, following your example,
shell emulate your virtues, and learn
from you the heavenly art of making
millions happy with heartfelt Toy, with
transports all your own, you cry: The
Glorious work is donet"-then drop the
mantle to some young Elisha and take
your rests with kindred spirits in your
native skies
1t was in the redoubt at Bunker Hill,
at time when the Government troops
were swarming around, and the Ameri-
can troops had all retreated--ali save
the dead-that Warren, a stranger to
fear. with full faith in the sanctity OF
the cause, alone and single handed,
still fighting on, scoruing to turn from
the foe, true to the prophetic words he
himself had uttered three months be-
fore, fell forward, shot to death,
noble sacrifice on that altar to liberty
he had labored so long and 50 earnestly
TO erect. All visitors to modern Bos-
ton have seen that towering, ele-
gantly built shaft, erected by that
independent. liberty loving people War
rem saw with prophetic vision, which
is known to history as Bunker Hill
Monument monument to mark the
spot where young and inexperienced
Freedom made its first oganized stand
on American soil i'll defense of those
uIialenable rights of all mankind, and
a monument to those patriot saints in
Liberty's calendar who fell in her de-
Tense on that memorable 18th day of
June, 1915. The fate of the patriot
martyrs who fell at Bunker Hill and
other battle fields during that period
bound the Colonists into closer con
federation and union for mutual pro-
lection, and eventuated in the promul-
CATION OF the Declaration of Indepen-
dcnce at Philadelphia just l0i years
ago yesterday late i'll the afternoon.
Thcu succeeded that gloomy period an
ticipated 10y the audience which cele-
brated in the old church; then came the
defeat at the battle of Long Island. the
capture OF Fort Washington and other
kindred disasters; local jealousies and
discussions in the Continental Congress
and i'll the various military camps; Con-
WAYS cabal against Washington, the
detection and intrigue of Generals Lee,
Gates and others; the never-to- be-for-
gotten horrors and sutierings at Valley
Forge; Arnold's treason; and, oil the
time. the Indian scalping knife; the con.
hagrations of savage warfare, and all
the heart -rending horrors of almost UNI
restrained and rnopposed rapine and
plumber. These are but few of the
dreadful details that go to make up the
dark days of our revolutionary war, of
gloom that to any save the clearest
eye was impenatrable, and to any save
the stoutest heart was utterly appall-
ing. But. the rising sun of American
Independence, dispelled the black can.
opy on Yorktown's famous field, and