Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1883-11-27
EVACUATION DAY.
Celebration Of the Centennial OF Peace
ana the Birthday OF the
Republic.
Historic "reminiscences OF The Early
Struggles for Liberty and
Union.
Washington the Central Figure IN Peace
as Well as in Union.
Speech by Geo. WIN. Curtis--A Grand
Gala Day udJubilec.

udia i'Ny nuuJnDiicc.
New York, November 26.--At thu
! celebration Of the centennial OF ;ht
evacuation of New York city by the
I british in lTfS, an account OF which Is
given elsewhere In this mornings
| GAZETTE, the following speech was
! delivered 10y Geo. William CARTS,
ORATOR or TuE NAY;
The great series OF centennial cole.
1 brations end titlv upon this day and
I upon this spot The nomentous
events that marked the opening, the
cnimination, and the close of the con.
iiict, have been duly commemora,rd.
and for eight years the full-strotched
/ memory OF the country, harp of n
I thousand strings swept by patrintic
emotion, has rcsoundcd with the he
4 role music OF the revolutionary story.
I To-day the revolutionary story ends.
/ At this hour, u hundred years ago, the
last British sentry was withdrawn.
| The imperial standardoi Great Britain
fell Mt the fort over which Il had iloat-
ed iora hundred and twenty wears,
aud In its place the Stars aud stripes of
American independence flashed In the
sun, Fleet md army, royal fhg
and scarlet uniform, corouet
and ribbon, every sign and symbol OF
foreign authority, which from Con-
cord TO Saratoga, and from Saratoga To
Yorktown, had sought to subdue the
colonies, vanished from these shores.
Colonial and provincial America had
ended national America had begen.
and after the lapse oi u hundred wears.
Inn gItianlfl fl,sa HON.
iso of our national nativity is stili the
prn of our mature power and assured
prosperity; glory &C. God In the high
est, peace on earth, good viii TO man
Yet II more sorrowNll departure his
tory does not record. In that humil-
iating moment, the fruit Of Victories
OF the elder Pitt, which had glrdlcd
the globe with British glory
and had supplied the prcteXt
for taxing America, tumblod To-
ashes Tho catastrophe was
not that an English army was van
quished, 1t was that England was
wounded. II was not field lost, II
was an empire rent asundcr. II was
not blunder Of military strategy, IL
WAS moral miscalculaiion. As her
wisest statesman had predicted Eng
land had fallen upon her own sword;
and she had drawn II against herself.
In striking at her kindred in Amerl-
en-, she struck at the political iradi.
lions, the inmcmorial rights. the
Jealous liberty, which are tie herodi- |
tary pride Of the English name. and |
the rustic contincnt,ls who had do. |
Tended those rights from Bunker HIN |
10 Newhurg. and who returned hithcr
on this day hundred years ago,
marched through these streets as they
had marched to the buttlenclds of the
revolution, keeping step to the stendy
drum-beat of Cromwell's Iron.sides at
Worcester aud Dunbar, and winning
at last as great victory for the Eng
rice. But none the less
the political separation of the two
countries was complete. England had
declined the greatest opportunity
that was ever Offered toa great nation,
and America, panpplied In the mighty
OF her birtbright, with the
sturdy self-rellahce of indomitable
and OF conscious power
turned 10 carry forward ~ u new
nation under other conditions aud
through other institutions, the cardi.
nal principles of constitutional liberty.
This day, therefore. commentaries
lh' 'h' VI WV 'lh oIhNIt Nllu lllN spot
the beginning of the now. with The
of New York monarchy
ended; with tho Inauguration Of WASH
ngton the national republic began.
The result, indeed, had been foretold
~ the course Of events through all lie
'OlOni period, which eliminated In
he total overthrow Of British power.
rhe carly New England confedeIn.
ions-the colonial leagues against In
liam hostility William pennis sup-
,estion OF Il provincial c0ngress-the
military association for II common In.
crest and with q common impulse, In
he old French and English wnrs--
franklin'S scheme OF union at ALBANY
1.-The lifHi doubt and distrust Of Brit
-h antllofity--the morning gun OF the |
evolution 'in Jonatnan Mayhew's
thunder.burst Of Jumcg
)tis' plea against the wdts If assist
nce--thc keen and fatal logic of John |
'lurin Scott in New York, with its
lnin forecast Of separation the fiery
Warming of Patrick Henry 10 the I
ing the massacre In State street
ile Boston port bill---tl:e Response OF '
,cw York and Virginia the stamp
81 congressman 40 last, following I
he shots on Lexington Green and the
olley at Concord bildge, the varying
jftune aud liual triumph Of Tie CON 4
ast~ali these, our renowned and glo- ).
lous traditions, immortal ms the tale 7,
I ThermopyIe and pIatica, al Gem I,
acb and Kunnymede, revealed the :
Dinmon American heart and con. y
1ience, the essential and lnstlDctIyc Z
nifty Of the colonies; aud surely and !
.siatlessly as The revolution Of the =
lobe through the darkness Of the y
light turns the continent 10 the morn =
~, the progressive development OF y
ne colonies brought the great consnni- J,
iation Of American national union, ="
Inch conseerates this spot. !,
But il was accomplished only after ,,
,ng and anxious and arduous tontro. y
ersy, with Doubt and apprehension y.
nd bitter hostility. The general Joy y
lat followed the evacuation OF New y
'ork fh. satisfaction with ach unul. "