Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1885-05-01

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In speaking sf this ssezsfal Euszta,
IN lass weeks Posi- -IsTzLLzaEScEs, yea
szy: 81 The nanbSr of anforsunats events
in Aaersczn history xhieh have occurred
in tie month of April Is remarkable
Then yoa give fe~ Of the most sarik-
ing Of s1eh events, szch 81 the embargC,
firing on r srs Sumpser. etc. IL nasy not |
Be esnerally known, but this fateful
mouth has witnessed more than it, pro-
portion Of notable American evsais'
both Of a calanaito0s and beDeficent
eharacter. can reeall few:
Tbs frst newspaper Published IN .his
couuaFy was established in Boston on
April 9Th. 1904, and no influence il 20
potent IN public affairs today as that
Of the press.
The auttox, or rather she penmaR
who srste the Declaration of Inde-
pendence. for No one man was the 40
thor Of that Thomas Jefferson, was bora
on April ID, 1T43.
James Monroe vas bora on she 5-sa
Of the eventfui month, in the year 1853.
last session Of Congress.
Y01 called Attentions to the fact that
the battle of Lexington occurred 10
April, l755, bat would hardly call that
an unfortunate event. IL was neeea-
sary incident to the requirement OF
liberty.
Il may not be generally known that
the first steps toward the Independence
! OF the American colonies were taken in
April, bat true IL il, aud a Southern
stats was the Erst one TO take thera.
On the I'D Of April, l776, North Caro-
lima elected delegates to concur with
delegates from the other colonies Ito he
chosen 10 general Congress Ia aeelar-
ing Independence.
Ths Revelation alse closed ia April
A cessation OF hostiiitles was proclaimed
on the 18th of that month, 1883. and the
fnal treaty of peace was signed In Paris,
Sept. 81.
Henry Clay. the political giant Of
Kentucky, was bora on the 18th Of
April, III.
Ohio was sestlsd at Marietta, in April,
IT'S. thus opening the door TO the Mis-
sissippi valley.
| Our first President was chosen on
April 9Th, 17e9, and inaHgdrated on the
3Ofk OF ths same month, when George
Washington became first sn peace as
be had bean first in eight years Of
bloody war.
| Among the early events Of Washing
tons administration was the passage of
the patent law, in April, 1880, and the
| first patent granted under that Law was
| 20 Samuel Hopkins of New York, for an
| improved process Of making potash and
peaFiash.
James Buchanan was born in April,
1871.
stephen A. Douglas. one of the three
prominent Northern Democrats who
had backbone along in the latter
part OF the ffties, was also born in
April, 1913.
Possibly it has no national import
ance, but the /. D o. E. vas established
IN this country on the 10Th Of April,
1919.
Gen. Grant, the greatest comm andsr
of large armies who ever lived, was born
on the 9th of April. 1922.
Gen. TAYLOR received his orders from
President Polk to h@arch for the Mexi-
can frontier in April, 1876, and the
first blood of that war was shed on
April 18th.
The battle Of Cerro Gordo, one Of the
decisive battles of the Mexican war, was
fought and won by the Americans April
18Th, lS47. Had the soldiers of Santa
Ana been as good fighters al those of
Scott, the American army might have
been destroyed and our troops kept back
from the Mexican capital. BY tie way,
Gen. Scott started trom Vera Cruz IN
April, as well.
The anniversary of the battle of Shi-
lob came 10 remind the silent man y
of the bloody victory Of '62 ON the 7th
| of April.
OF course. there we're several import
ant events incidental 20 the opening OF
the war OF the Rebellion which neces
sarily would occur in April. among
which may be mentioned the abandon
ment Of the navy yard at Norfolk. the
burning of tbs u. B. Arsenal at Hsr
per's Ferry, and the noble conduct of
Lient. Slemmer, which prevented the
rebels from seizing Fort Pickens, the
most important post on the Gulf Of
Mexico.
/ New Orleans was taken by Farraaut
on April 18Th, which. with the capture
of Forts jackson and st. Philip, on the
18th, was one Of the important strokes
Iteward opening the Mississippi.
There were important Uni0n victories
on Albomarle Sound and at island No.
10 also in April. 1852.
On the Sd Of another April, in 1860,
the Union army marched victorious into
| Richmond.
Twenty years ago. OF the 9th Of April,
the generous victor, the fnsta, the sol
der, our commander, Grant, refused
| tho preferred sword Of the fallen rebel
ehieftain, but 9rasped the outstfetehed
hand Of the defeated soldier. and Lee
surrendered under the apple tree at Ap.
pomattox. Thus We see that the war OF
the Rebellion, like that OF the Revola.
tion. opened and closed In this month
Of our nasion's fate.
JoaKpn W. DohR.
Testified TO by eyswiinessss.