Connecticut western news., 1890-06-04

and Tripoli, and Afghanistan, and Be loochistan, and Armenia, a host that had Asia under foot and proposed to put Europe under foot, and, if successful in that battle would have submerged by Asiatic barbarism European civiliza- tit,a, and, as 8 consequence in after tii.e American civilizations lie swords of hiiltiades, and Thenistocles, and Aris tides. At the waving of these swords the eleven thousand lancers of Athens on the run dashed against the one hun dred thousand insolent Persians, and trampled them down or pushed them back into the sea- The sword of that day saved the best part of the hemis- pheres, a 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!
 RoME's EAGLES WE'RE vANQUIsHED.
 What put an end to infamous Louis XVPs plan of universal conquest, by which England would have been made to kneel on the steps of the Tuileries and the Anglo Saxon race would have been halted and all Europe paralyzed2 The sword of Marlborough, at Blen- heim Time came when the Roman war eagles, whose beaks had been punched into the heart of nations, must be brought down from their eyries. All other attempts had disgracefully failed, but the Germans, the mightiest nation for brawn and brain, undertook the work, and, under God, succeeded. What drove back the Roman cavalry till the horses. wounded, flung their riders and the last rider perished, and the Hercynian forest became the scene of Rome's humiliation? The sword, the brave sword, the triumphant sword of Arminius.
 While passing through France last 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 Attila, the heather monster, called by himself the "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 the wooden saddles of his cavalry, and the spells of the cities and kingdoms he had sacked, and placed on top of this holocaust the women who had accom- panied him in his devastating 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 Europe9 The sword of Theodoric and Actius.
 THE COLONIES VICTORY.
 To come down to later ages, all in telligent Englishmen unite with all in telligent Americans in saying that it l was the best thing that the American colonies swung off from the government ] of Great Britain It would have been 1 the worst absurdity of four thousand years if this continent should have con- tinued in loyalty to a throne on the other side of the sea- No one would propose 8 governor general for the l United States as there is a governor | general for Canada. We have had i splendid queens in our American Capi- tol, but we could hardly be brought to l support a 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 fail ed, re-enforce them by wealthy matri- monial alliance. Imagine this nation yet part of English possessions! The trouble the mother country has today with Ireland would be paradisaic con- 1 dition compared with the trouble she would have with us.
 England and the United States make excellent neighbors, but the two fam flies are too large to live in the same house. What a godsend that we should have parted, and parted long ago! But can think of no other way in 1 which we could have possibly achieved American independence. George the Third, the half crazy king, would not have let us go. Lord North, his prime minister, would not have let us go. Gen. Lord Cornwallis 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 Any committee of Americans going across the ocean to see what could have been done would have found no better ac- commodations than London Tow. CT. The only way it could have been done was by the sword, your great-grandfather's sword. Jefferson s pen could write the Declaration of In dependence. but only Washington's $ sword could have achieved it, and the other swords bathed in heaven.
 THE SWORDS USES.
 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, o1 Charleston, or New Orleans, or any American city that could be spared. We have in all our American cities a rufian 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 coun- cils 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 I with sour mash and old rye and other decoctions, enriched with blue vitriol,