Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1884-08-07

In the ''Cfadle of Liberty
CONCORD. Mass, July 24th, 1884.
Ed. Register
I suppose it were quite gratuitious
to tell you or your readers that il
would require many columns Of your
paper, and more time than can spare
from my loafing among the homes and
haunts of the Concord philosophers and
poets, to adequately describe the sub
lime grandeur of our trip by steamer
down the rapids of the st. Lawrence.
and under the sVictoria," the longest
tubular iron railroad bridge in the
world being over two miles in length;
across by rail to Piattsburgh, N. Y; up
Lake Chanplain to old Fort Tieondero-
ga, where Ethan Allen and shis Green
Mountain boys bounced in one early
morning before the garrison had its
breeches on, and "by the authority of
God Almighty and the Continental
Congress" demanded the surrender OF
the Fort, and it was surrendered,-
around whose bastions and high en-
bankments, while England and France
were contending for the dominion of
American Empire, had occurred some
of the most heroic fighting possible to
man;-up Lake George on whose bo-
som, in those early days, mighty ar
maments fioated, and on whose sweet
shores is yet to be seen some of the
most charming scenery OH the conti-
nent;-on overland where one catches
glimpses of the hills whose waving
pines witnessed the surrender of the
intripid Burgoyne and his army, in
the early years of the Revolution;-on
and on to this "Concord Town." the
very "cradle of liberty"
The trip is not only pleasant one,
but full of suggestive contemplation
and historical retrospect.
We should have spent a week in
making it, stopping here and there to
leisurely view points of beauty and of
historic interest. But we knew the
Fastening steps of the Philosophers
were hurrying on to this Mecca, and
that made it meet that our Pilgrim
feet should hasten also, else we might
lose some of the golden articuiations of
philoscphic wisdom.
There was no time, therefore, when
the school-bell was ringing, as it were,
for the children to be gathering lilies
by the wayside babbling brook, or fol-
low, o 'er lake, tnoHntain' and moor,
the mill-stones and fingerboards of
history.
know nothing more instructive and
refreshing than to stop on historic
ground and contemplate the acts and
the actors in the drama of individual
and national life;-unless it be, I speak
it with slight trepidation), to hasten to
Concord, and, after a five hundred
mile ride without rest, food, drink or
sleep, to breakfast and dine on thin
dillution of Concord transcendental
philosophy!
In this physical condition., and in
the frame of mind incident to it, and
upon it, one naturally is in
clined, however he may be mentally
after Concord Philosophy,
to debate little with himself which
of Navoli's two propositions, as for
mulated by Carlyle, he approves
PHILOSOPHY can bake no bread" But
after dinner he nswers,-"Ah, but
she can procure for US God, Freedom,
and Immortality"
AS for US, I know not what other
could have SO fastened
thither our weary footsteps.
The lectures thus far have been pro-
foundly deep, and strongly uplifting to
one who can keep his brain clear amid
the supposed bewildering entangle-
meats of speculative philosophy.
AS your readers would not generally
be interested in such subjects, especial
ly in Missouri August, I shall con-
tent myself with such items as will not
disturb their mental repose.
The pleasure feel in walking these
old streets, where some of my ances-
tors have from time to time walk for
more than two hundred years, is not
easily expressed. 4
My father, when small boy attend
ing the Boston Latin School. used to
come out to Concord by the s.old coachn
to visit and play with his cousins here.
Waldo, and Charles Bliss EN-
branch of the Emerson
family which had lived here since
about 1745. The original American an-
cestor having settled in Ipswich about
two hundred aud fifty years ago, and
thence branched out to Salem, Concord,
Charlestown and Boston, with two or
three in the West, numbering now, so
far as known, probably less than fifty
souls of the name on the face of the
earth! If they have been negligent
of the command to increase and null
tiply," they have done something to-
ward "replenishing the earth" with
new thought, and perhaps the one may
balance the other when the final eter-
nal balance sheet shall be made up aud
the Judgment shall be rendered.
July 2sth.-The days that have
flown since began these sheets, must
sufficiently certify to you the saeina-