Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-06-05

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the work, and, under God succeeded.
What drove back the Roman cavalry till
the horses, wounded, flung their riders
and the last rider persisted, and the Her
cynian forest became the scene of Rome 8
humiliation? The sword, the brave
sword, the triumphant sword of Armi-
MUS While passing through France last
January my nerves tingled with excite
ment and 1 rose in the car the better to
see the battlefield of ChRlons, the
mounds and breastworks still visible,
though nearly 500 years ago they we're
shoveled up. Here, Attila, the heather
monster, called by himself the ''Sconrge
of God, for the punishment of Christ
tians, - his life a massacre of nations,
came to ignominious defeat, aud he put
into one great pile the wooden saddles of
his cavalry, and the spoils of the cities
ana Kingdoms he had sacked, and placed
on top of this holocaust the women who
had accompanied him on his devastating
march, ordering that the torch be put TO
the pile. What power broke that
sward, and stayed that red scourge of
oruely that was rolling over EuropeI
The sword of Theodorio and Actius.
To come down to later ages, all intelli-
gent Englishmen unite with all intelli-:
gent Americans in saying that it was the
best thing that the American colonies
swung off from the government of Great
Britain. It would have been the horst
absurdity of four thousand years if this
continent had continued in loyalty to
throne on the other side of the sea. No
one would propose goyernor-general for
the United States as there is q governor
general for Canada. We have had splen-
did queens in our American capitol, but
we could hardly be brought to support
queen on the other side of the Atlantic,
lovely and good as Victoria Is. The only
use we have for earls and lords and dukes
in this country is, TO treat them well
when they pass through to their hunting
grounds in the far west, or when their
fortunes have failed, reinforce them by
WEALTHY MATRIMONIAL ALLIANCE.
Imagine this nation yet part of Eng
lish possessions! The trouble the mother
country has to-day with Ireland would
be paradisaic condition compared with
the trouble she would have with us.
England and the United States make
excellent neighbors, but the two families
are too large to live in the same house.
What a god-send that we should have
parted, and parted long ago! But 1 can
think of no other way in which we could
have possibly achieved merican indie
pendence. George the Third, the half
crazy king, would not have let us go.
Lord North, his prime minister, would not
have let US go. General Lord CORVALLIS
would not have let us go, although after
York town he was glad enough to have us
let him go. Lexington, and Bunker
Hill, and Monmouth, and Trenton, and
Valley Forge, were proofs positive that
they were not willing to let us go. Any
committee of Americans going across the
ocean to see what could have been done
would have found no better aocommoda-
lions than London Tower. The only way
it could have been done was by the sword,
your great-grandfsther's sword. Jeffer-
son g pen could write the Declaration of
Independence, but only Washington g
sword could have achieved it, and the
other swords bsthed in heaven.
So now the sword has its uses although
it is a sheathed sword. There is not an
armory in Brooklyn or New York, or
Philadelphia, or Chicago, or Charleston,
or New Orleans, or any American city,
that could be spared. We have in all
our American cities ruffian population
who, though they are small in number,
compared with the good population,
would again md again make rough and
stormy times If, back of our mayors and
common councils, and police, there were
not in the armories and arsenals some
keen steel which, if brought into play,
would make quick work with mobocracy.
There are in every great community I'M
prinoipled men who like a row on
large scale, and they heat themselves
WITH SOUR MASH AND OLD RYE
and other decoctlous, enriched with blue
vItriol, potash, turpentine, sugar of
lead, sulphuric acid, logwood, stryoh-
nine, nght-shade, and other precious
ingredients, and take down a whole glass
with a resounding "Ahl' of satisfac-
ton. When they get that stuff in them,
and the blue vitriol collides with the
potash, and the turpentine with the sui
phuric acid, the victims are ready for
anything but order and deoency and good
government. Again and again, in our
American cities, has the necessity of
home guards been demonstrated.
You remember, how, when the SOL
dieTs wc-e all away to the war in 1863
g., what confiagrations were kindled in
the streets of New York, and what ne
groes were hung. Some OF you remem-
Der the great riots III Philadelphia at
fires, sometimes kindled just for the OPP
portunity of uproar and despoilation. In
,1S49 hiss at theater would have re-
suited in New York City demolished had
it not been for the citizen soldiery. Be-
cause of an insult which the American
actor Edward Forrest had received in
England from the friends of Mr..
Macready, the English actor, when the
latter appeared in New York, in Mac
beth, the distinguished Englishman was
Kissed and mobbed, the walls of
the city having been placarded with the
announcement: "Shall Americans or
English rule in this city?' 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 threat
ened with violence and assassination.
But the Seventh regiment, under Gen.
Daryes, marched through Broadway,
preceded by mounted troops, and at the
command, f'Firel Guardsl Firel'' 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 military officers been given?