Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1890-06-02

CONSOLIDATED SWORDS.
What more consecrated thing in the
world than Joshuas sword, or Caleb's
sword, or Gideon's sword, or David's
sword, or Washington's sword, or Mari
ons sword, or Lafayette's sword, or
WellingtOn's sword, or KOsciusko's
sword, or Garibaldi's sword, or hun
dreds of thousands of American swords
that have again and again been bathed
in heaven. Swords of that kind have
been the best friends of the human
race. They have slain tyrannies, pried
open dungeons, and cleared the way for
nations in their march upward 1t was
better for them to take the sword and
be free, than lie under the oppressor's
heel and suffer There is something
worse than death, and that is life if it
must cringe and crouch before the
wrong.
Turn over the leaves of the worlds
history and find that there has never
been a tyranny stopped or a nation lib
Grated except by the sword. am not
talking to you about the way things
ought to be, but about the way they
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Saracens at Tours and kept Europe
from being overwhelmed by Moham-
mechanism and subsequently all America
given over to Mohammedanism? The
sword of Charles Martel and his men,
Who can deal enough in infinities to tell
what was accomplished for the worlds
good by the sword Of Joan of Arc? In
oc+ off 1,,
the distance the battle field of Mara
thon, and l asked myself what was it
that on that most tremendous day in
history stopped the Persian hosts, rep
resenting not only Persia but Egypt,
and Tripoli, and Afghanistan, and Be
Ioochistan, and Armenia, a host thathad
Asia under foot and proposed to put
Europe under foot, and, if successful
in that battle, would have submerged
by Asiatic barbarism European civiliza-
| ton. and. as a consequence, in after
time American civilization2 The swords
of MiItiades, and Themistocles, and Arts
tides At the waving of these swords the
| eleven thousand 1ancers of Athens on
the run dashed against the one hun
| trampled them down or pushed them
| back into the sea. The sword of that
| day saved the best part of the hemis-
| pheres, trinity of keen steel flashing
in the two lights-the light of the set
ting sun of barbarism, the light of the
rising sun of civilization. Hail to these
| three great swords bathed in heaven!
RoAIE's EAGLES WE'RE vANQUIsHED.
What put an end to infamous Louis
| XVFs plan of universal conquest, by
which England would have been made
to kneel on the steps of the Tuller1es
and the Anglo Saxon race would have
| been halted and all Europe paralyzed
| The sword of Marlborough, at Blen-
neim. Time came when the Roman
war eagles, whose beaks had been
! punched into the heart of nations, must
be brought down from their eyries. AL
| other attempts had disgracefully failed,
| but the Germans, the mightiest nation
| for Drawn and brain, undertook the
work, and, under God, succeeded
What drove back the Roman cavalry
till the horses, wounded, flung then
riders and the last rider persisted, ano
the Hercynian forest became the scene
of Rome's humiliation? The sword
the brave sword, the triumphant sworo
of Arminius
While passing through France las
January my nerves tingled with excite
ment and I rose in the car, the better
to see the battlefield of Chalons, the
mounds and breastworks still visible
though nearly five hundred years ago
they were shoveled up. Here Attla
the heather monster, called by himself
the 4'Scourge of God, for the punish
ment of Christians, - his life MASSACRE
Of nations, came to ignominious defeat
and he put into one great pile TIL
wooden saddles of his cavalry, and tn
spoils of the cities and kingdoms h
had sacked, and placed on top of thi