Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1890-06-13

Rava been the worst abSurditv OF 1000 years
if this continent should have continued IN
LOYALTY to a throne on the other side OF the
sea No one would propose a governor
general for the United States as there Is
governor general for Canada. we nave
had splendid queens In our American CAPITA
but we could hardly be brought 70 support
Oueen on the other side OF the Atlantic
IoveiT and good as ictoria is. The only use
we have for ear!s and lords and dukes IN thIs
country is TO treat them well when tney pass
through to their hunting grounds IN tne
far West, or, when their fortunes have failed,
reinforce them by wealthy matrimonial
alliance. Imagine this nation yet part OF
English 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 neigh
bOrs, but the two families are too large to
live in the same house. What godsend
that we should have parted, and parted long
ago. But I can think OF 40 other way IN
which we could have possibly achieved
American independence. George Ill, the
half crazy King would not have let us go
Lord North his Prime Minister, would
not have let us go. General Lord Corn
wallis would not have let US 60, although
after Yorktown ne 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 CO. Any committee OF Amer
leans 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 b. the
sword, your Observation-Disclosures sword. JET
ferson's pen could write the Declaration Of
Independence, but only Washington's sword
could have achieved it, and the other swords
bathed in heaven.
So now the sword has its uses, although
it is a sheathed sword. There is not an
plnIls,
delphia, or Chicago or Charleston, or New
Orleans, or any American city, that could
be spared. We have in all our American
cities a ruttian population, who, though they
are small IN number, compared with the GOOD
population, would again ana again make
rough and stormy times if, back of our may
Ors 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 unprincipled men, who
like a row on a large SCALE and they
heat themselves with sour mash and old rye
and other decOctions, enriched with blue vi
triO, potash, turpentlne sugar Of lead, sui
phuric acid, logwood, strychnine, night
shade and other precious ingredients, and
take down a whole glass with a resounding
'Ahr' of satisfaction. When they get that
stuff in them and the blue vitriol collides
with the potash, and the turpentine with the
sulphuric acid, the victims are ready for any
ching but order and decency aud good gov
eminent. Again and again, in our Ameri-
can cities, has the necessity OF home guards
been demonstrated.
You remember how when the soldiers
We're all away to the war in 1864, what
contlagratiOnS were kindled in the streets of
New York, and what negroes were hung.
Some of you remember the great riots in
Philadelphia at fires, sometimes kindled just
for the opportunity of uprOar and despOila-
"A a would have
resulted in New York city being demolished
had it not been for the citizen sodiery. Be-
cause of an insult which the American actor,
Edwin Forrest, had received in England
from the friends of Mr.. Macready,
the English actor, when the latter APP
peared in New York. in Macbeth. the
distinguished Englishman was Kissed and
mObbed, the walls OF the city having been
piacarded with the announcement: ''Shall
Americans or English rule in this city,"
Streets were filled with crowd insane with
passion. The riot act was read, but it only
evoked louder yells and heavier voIleyS of
stones, and the whole city was threatened
with violence and assassination.
But the Seventh regiment, under Gen.
Duryea, marched through Broadway, pre-
coded by mounted troops, and at the COM
mand: Fire! Guard! Fire!' the mob scat
tered, 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 mill
tary officers been given? Do not charge
such scenes upon American institutions.
They are as old as the E pheslan mob that
howled for two hours in Paurs time about
the theatre, amid the ruins OF which l stood
last January. They were witnessed in 1875
in London when the weavers paraded
the streets and entered buildings to
destroy the machinery of those who, because
of their new Inventions could undersell the
rest. They were witnessed in 1871 at the trial
of Lord George Gordon, when there was a re-
ligious riot. Again, in 1719, when the rab ole
cried, Down with the Presny terians: Down
with the meeting houses" There always
have been, and always will be, in great COM
munities, class of people that cannot govern
themselves and which ordinary means can
not govern, and there are exigences which
nothing but the sword can meet. Aye, the
militia are the very last regiments that 1t
will be safe to disband
Arbitrament will take the place of war
beween nation and nation, and national
armies will disbaud as a consequence, and
the time will cOme-GOd hasten it!-when
there will be no need of an American army
or navy, or Russian army or navy. But
some time after that cities will have to keep
their armOrieS, and arSenalS and we'll
drilled militia, because until the millennial
dav there will be populations with whom
abitrament will be impossible treaty
with cavern of Gyenas or jungle Of
snakes. These men who rob stores and
give garroter's 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 real
iza that the militia of city, instead Of be-
ing 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 if it is loaded, or getting the
ramrod fast in their bootleg, are prompt as
the sunrise, keen as the north wind, potent