The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1890-08-07


horses, wounded, flung their riders, and
the astrider persisted, and the Hercynian
forest became the scene of Rome's humil-
iation? The sword, the brave sword, the
triumphant sword of Arminius. While
passing through France last January
my nerves tingled with excitement and
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 SHOW
eled up. Here Attila, the heather mon
ster, called by himself the ''scourge of
God for the punishment of Christians, !"
his life a massacre of nations, came to
ignominious defeat, and he put into one
great pile the wooden saddles of his
cavalry and the spoils of the cities and
kingdoms he had sacked, and placed on
top of this holocaust the women who
had accompanied him in his devastat-
ing march, ordering that the torch be
put to the pile. What power broke that
sword, and stayed that red scourge of
cruelty that was rolling over Europe2
The sword of Theodore and Actius.
To come down to later ages, all in
telligent Englishm en- unite with all in
telligent Americans in saying that it
was the best thing that the American
colonies swung off from the Government
of Great Britain. 1t would have been
the worst absurdity of four thousand
years if this continent should have
continued in loyalty to throne on the
nthnp c;1n IF hO No III
propose a Governor-General for the
United States as there is Governor
General for Canada We have had
splendid queens in our American Capt.
toll, but we could hardly be brought to
support a Queen on the other side of
the Atlantic, lovely and good as Vic
toria is. The only use we have for
Earls and Lords and Dukes in this
country is to treat them we'll when
they pass through to their hunting
grounds in the Far West, or when their
| fortunes have failed, re-enforce them by
wealthy matrimonial alliance. Imagine
this nation yet part of English pos
sessions! The trouble the mother coun-
try has to-day with Ireland would be a
paradisaic condition compared with the
trouble she would have with us. En-
gland and the United States make ex-
celent neighbors, but the two families
are too large to live in the same house.
| What a godsend that we should have
parted, and parted long ago! But 1 can
think of no other wSy in which we could
have possibly achieved American indie
pendence. George Ill, the half-crazy
King, would not have let us 60 LORD
North, his Prime Minister, would
not have let US go. General Lord
CORVALLIS would not have let us
go, although after Yorktown he
was glad enough to have US let him go.
| Lexington and Bunker Hill, and Mon
mouth, and Trenton, and Valley Forge,
were proofs positive that they were not
willing to let US go. An, committee of
Americans going across the ocean to see
| what could have been done would have
found no better accommodations than
London Tower. The only way it could
have been done was by the sword-your
great-grandfather's sword. jefferson IS
pen could write the Declaration Of In
dependence, but only Washington
sword could have achieved it, and the
other swords bathed in Heaven
So now the sword has it's uses, al
though it is sheathed sword. There
is not an armory in Brooklyn, or New
York, or Philadelphia, or Chicago, OF
Charleston, or New Orleans, or any
American city. that could be spared.
| We have in all our American cities a
ruffian population who, though they are
small in number compared with the
good population, would again and again
make rough and stormy times if, back
of our mayors and common councils,
and police, there were not in the arm
cries and arsenals some keen steel
which, if brought into play, would
make quick work with mobocracy.
There are in every great com
munity unprincipled men who like a
row on large scale, and they heat
themselves with sour mash and old rye
and other decoctions, enriched with blue
Vltrol, potash, turpent1ne, sugar of lead,
sulphuric acid, logwood, strychnine,
night-shade, and other precious in
gradients, and take down a whole glass
with resembling "Ahp' of satisfaction.
When they get that stuff in them, and
the blue vitrol collides with the potash.
and the turpentine with the sulphuric
acid, the victims are ready for any
thing but order and decency and good
government Again and again, in our
American cities, has the necessity of
home guards been demonstrated.
You remember how, when the sol
dlers were all away to the war of 1863
"a, what CONGREGATIONS were kindled in
the streets of New York, and what ns-
groes were hung. Some of you remem-
Der the great riots in Philadelphia at
fires, sometimes kindled just for the OPP
portunity of uproar and despoliation.
In 1S49 hiss at theater would have
resulted in New York City being de-
molished had it not been for the citizen
soldiery.
Because of an insult which the Amer
lean actor, Edwin Forrest, had received
in England from the friends of Mr.. Mac
ready, the English actor, when the lat
ter appeared in New York in "Mac-
beth, )" the distinguished Englishman
was Kissed and mahbad +bo sale - - :