Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-06-02

OI Tue CITY HAVING Oe60 pidCdlOcu s,S
announcements: .Shan Americans or English
rule in this city?'
RIoToUs MoBs.
Streets were filed with crowd insane with
passion. The riot act was read. but it only
evoked louder yells and heavier volleys of
stones. and the whole city was threatened with
violence and assassination. But the Seventh
Regiment, under General Duryea, marched
through Broadway. preceded by mounted
troops, and the command: Fire! Guardsl
Fire? the mob scattered and New York was
saved. What would have become OF Chicago
two or three years ago when the police lay
dead in the streets, had not the sharp command
OF the military officers been gwen. DO NOT
charge such scenes upon American institu-
tions. They are as old as the Ephesian mob
that howled for two hours in Paul $
time about the theater, amid the ruins OF
which 1 stood last January. They were
witnessed in 1875 in London, when the
weavers paraded the streets and entered build
ings to destroy the machinery OF those who, be-
cause of their new inventions, could undersell
the rest. They were witnessed In l7Sl at the
trial of Lord George Gordon, when there was a
religious riot. Again, in l7l9, when the rabble
cried, Down with the PresbyteriaDsl Down
with the meeting housesr' There always have
been, and always will be, in great communities,
a class of people that cannot govern themselves
and which ordinary means cannot govern, and
there are exIgencies which nothing but the
SWORD can meet, aye, tD6 mll1Ila are Tue NcL1
last regiments that it will be safe to disband.
Abitrament will take the place of war be-
tween nation and nation, and national armies
will disband as consequence, and the nme
will come-God hasten itl-when there will oe
no need of an American armyor navy OIL Rus-
sian army or navy. But some time after that,
cities will have to keep their armories, and
arsensls. and well-drilled militia, because until
the millenial day there will be populations with
whom arbitrament will be as impossible as
treaty with a cavern of hyenas or jungle OF
snakes. These men who rob stores and give
garotters hug, and prowl about the wharves at
midnight, and rattle the dice in gambling hells.
and go armed with pistol or dirk, will refrain
from disturbance OF the public peace just in
proportion as they realize that the militia of a
city, instead OF being an awkward squad, and
in danger of shooting each other by mistake.
or losing their own life by looking down into
the gun-barrel to see II it is loaded, or getting
the sunrise keen as the north wind, potent as
a thunderbolt, and accurate, and regular, and
disciplined in their movements as the planetary
system,
USES OF THE SWORD.
Well done, then. say to Legislatures and
Governors and Mayors, and all officials who de-
eide upon larger armories and better places for
drill and more generous equipment for the
militia. The sooner the sword can safely 60
back to the scabbard to stay there the better;
but until the hIlt clangs against the case in
that nnal lodgment, let the sword be kept free
from rust; sharp all along the edge, and its
point like needle, and the handle polished,
not only by the chamois of the regimental SER
want, but by the hand of brave and patriotic
officers, always ready to do their full duty.
Such swords are not bathed in impetuosity, or
bathed iu cruelty, or bathed in oppression, or
bathed in outrage, but bathed in heaven.
Before speak of the doom of the sword let
me also say that it has developed the grandest
natures that the world ever saw. 1t has devel-
oped courage-that sublime energy of the soul
which defies the universe when it feels itself to
be in the right. It has developed aself-sacri-
fee which repudiates the idea that our life is
worth more than anything else, when for prin-
say 1t is not necessary that live. but it is nec
essary that righteousness triumph. There are
tens of thousands among the Northern and
Southern veterans of our civil war, who are 95
per cent larger and mightier in SOUL than they
would have been, had they NOT, during the four
years Of national agony, turned their back on
home and fortune. aud at the front sacrificed
all for a principle. 1t was the sword which on
the Northern side developed Grant, a McClel-
Ian, a nooker, a Hancock, a Sherman, a Sheridan
and Admirals Farragut and Porter and on the
Southern side Lee, Jackson, q Hill, a Cor
don and the Johnstons, Albert Sydney and
Joseph E., and Admiral Semmes, and many
Federals and Confederates whose graves in
national Cemeteries are marked unknown"
yet who were Just self sacrificing and brave
as any of their major generals, and whose rest
ing places all up and down the banks of the
the Hudson, the Potomac, the
and the Alabama, have recently
been showed under with white flowers typical
of resurrection, and strewn with red flowers
commemorative OF the carnage through which
tney passed, ana tne olue mowers illustrative OF
the skies througn wnlch tney ascended
Dut tne Sworn 10 uooneu. Inere Is one woro
Ihat neeos 10 pe "rltten IN every throne-room,
in every war office, IN every navy yard, in every
naIlonal councll. lhat woro is Disarmament.
Dut no gofernmSnt can auori TO throw It's
sworn away until an the great governments
inence of the " recent s convention of .ne IN
SuenSe 4 oi tne recent conVentlon OF North and
% SCUM & AneriSan @ goVerhmehts at Wasnlngton.
ana t9roueh tne feace convention TO be held
he1t July IN honoon, anu other movements in
d mnlcn prime d inihIssers, ana kings, ana queens.
anu ; ;'i anu @ o1ais sna5 take part an CIVIL
lzed natlohs VIII come 10 disarmament. and If
q al rev p9I oaTian races uecIine 10 quit war, then
au tne oecent natlons VIII sefd OUT force of
9 contlnenIa, polce 70 wipe out from the lace of
WIG e- VI HTs.n,,.s1nS sne % o~n
But until disarmament and CONSEQUENT arbi.
Iraton snail oe agreed 70 Dy all the great gov
any single government that disman-
ties its fortresses and spikes its guns. and
breaks irs sword, would simply invite i'm own
destruction. Suppose. before sucb nanaraI
1-oa,+ Enole.a .h.,,1. seneiai
-. tr tuio" away her
Sworc; thlhk you FRANCE mas forgotten Water
should throw away her sword: how
onp would Alsace and I,orra,n. s,ov .o +ho,.
% Srrnosa tho Czar ot -. .'.S . '"eS
1Ie. SuPPo w o--- Va "ussia' oeiore any
'uch genera agreement, should throw away
his sword: all the eagles and vultures and Ions
0f European power would gather for a niece of
he Russian bear. Suppose the United States
without any such general agreement of dis.
Tonid not be long before fbe Narro ner SWORD; 1t
harbor would be ablaZe with the bunting of