The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1890-06-07

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go. although after Yorktown he was glad
enough to hayo us let him go. Lexington,
n Bunker Hid, and Monmouth, and Tren-
ton, and Valley Forge, were proofs positive
that they were not willing to let us 60. Any
committe Of Americans going across the
ocean to see what could have been done
would have found no bctternccommodationa
than London Tower. The only way 1t could
nave been done was by thesword, your great
Grandiather'a sword. Jefferson's pen could
write tho Declaration of Independence,
but only Washington's sword could have
achieved 1t, and the other swords bathed in
heaven.
So now the sword has its uses, although it
is q sheathed sword. There is moi an arm.
DRY in Brooklyn, or New York, or Philadel.
phia, or Chicago, or Charleston. or New Or
leans. or any American city. that could 10
spared. We have in all our American cities
o rnftian population who, though they aIe
small in number, compared with the good
population, would again and agnin make
rough and stormy times y, back OF our may
ors and common councils, and police, there
were not in the armorics and arspnn!s some
keen steel which, il brought into play, would
make quick work with mohocracy. There
are IN every great community unprinGpled
men who like o row on a large scala, and
they heat themselves with sour mash and
old rye. and other decoctions, enriched with
blue vitriol, potash, turpentinc, sugar OF
lead, %sulphurie acid, logWood, strychnine,
nightshade. and other precious ingredients,
sounding "Ahl" of salts action. When they
get that stuff in them, ind the blue vitriol
collides with the potash, aud the .turpentine
with the sulphuric acid, the victims are
ready for anything 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 tho aoldiers
were all away to the war in 1S63-64, what
CONGREGATIONS 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
Tor the opportunity of uproar and despolia-
ton. In 1s49 u hiss at a theatre would
have resulted in New York City being de-
molished had it not been:or the citizen soldi-
cry. Because of an insult which the Ameri.
can actor, Edwin Forrest. had received in
England from the friends OF Mr.. Macready,
the English actor; when the latter appearedin
New York, in Macbeth. the distinguished
Englishman was Missed and mobbed. the
walls Of the city having been placarded with
the announcement: "Shall Americans or
English rule in this city?' Streets were
filled with q crowd, insane with passion.
The riot act was read. but it only evoked
and the whole city wns threatened with vic.
lence and assassination. But the Seventh
regiment. under Gen. Duryea, marched
through broadway, preceded by mounted
troups. and ut the commando: Fire! Guardsi
Fire" the mob scattered, and New York was
two or three years ogo, when the police lay
dead in the streets, had not the sharp
command OF military officers been
given. Do NOT charge such scenes
upon American institutions. They are
as old as the Ephesian mob that howled
for two hours in Paul's time about the thea
Ter, amid the ruins OF which l stood last an
uary. They were witnessed in 1875 in Lon
don. when the weavers paraded the streets
and entered buildings to destroy the maclIin.
cry Of those who, because of their new inven:
tions, could undersell tho rest. They were
witnessed in 1871 ut the trial of Lord George
Gordon. when there was q religious riot.
Down with the Presbyteriansl Down
with the meeting housesl" There always
have been, and always will be, in great COM
munities, a class Of people that cannot gov
ern themselves and which ordinary means
govern. and there are exigencies which moth.
ing hut the sword can meet. Aye, the mill
tin are the very last regiments that it will b.
safe to disband.
! Arbitrament will take the place of war be-
tween nation and nation, and national
armies will disband as a consequence, and
the time will come-God hasten itl-when
VhcF0 Will ue uO Heeu Oh uu American army
and navy, or o. Russian army and navy.
But some time after that, cities will have to
keep there armories, and arsenals, and we'll
drilled militia, because until the miilenial
day there will be populations with whom
arbitrament will be as impossible as treaty
with a cavern of hyenas or ajungle ofsnakes!
These men who robstores and give garroter's
hug. and prowl about the whurves at mid.
night, and rattle the dice in gambling helIs,
and go armed with pistol or dirk, will re.
train from disturbance of the public peace
just in proportion az they realize that the
militia OF a city, instead ofbeing an awkward
squad, ana in danger of shooting each other
ing down into the gun-harrel to see Tit is
loaded. or getting the ramrod fast in their
boot leg, are prompt as the ~sunrise, keen as
the north wind, potent as a thunderbolt, and
accurate, and regular, and disciplined. in.
their movements, as the planetary isystem
Well done, then, ] say to legislatures. and
governors, and mayors, and oil officials who
decide upon larger armories and better places
for drill and more generous equipment for
the militia. The sooner the sword con safely
go back to the scabbord to stay there, the
better; but until the hilt clangs against the
case in that final Judgment, let the sword be
kept free from rust; sharp all along the edge,
and its point like a needle, und the handle
polished, o only by the channels OF the
regimentnl servant, hut by the hand of
brave and patriotic officers, always ready to
do their full duty. Such words are not
bnthed in impetnosity, or bathed in cruelty,
or bathed in oppression, or bathed in out
rage, but bathed in heaven.
Before / speak Of the doom or the sword,
let me also soy TINT it hos developed the
grandest nature that the world eversaw. 1t
has developed c~ourage-that sublime energy
of the soul which deies the universe when it
feels itself to be in the right. It has develop.
IL - AvE a AAo MI H. -
that our life is worth more than anything
else, when for n principle it throws that life
away, as much as to say. 1t is not necess-
Try that | live, but.it is necessary that right
eousness triumph. There are tens Of thou
sands among the Northern nnd Southern
veterans OF our civil war;, who are 95 per
cent. larger and mightier in soul. than they
would nave been, had they not. during the
four years Of national agony, turned their
back on home, and fortune, and at the front
sacrificed all for a principle. 1t was the
sword which on the Northern side developed
o Grant, q Mcclellan. a Hooker, a Hancock,
a Sherman, . Sheridan, and Admirals Far.
Iagut and Porter. and on the Southern side
o Lee. n Jackson, q Hill, q Gordon and the
Johnstons, Albert Sydney and Joseph E.
md Admiral Semmes, and many Federals
and Confederates whose grave In national
cemeteries are marked Unknown" yet who
were just as selfsacriicing and brave rs any
places al up and down the banks OF the And
roscoggin. the Hudson. tho Potomac the
Mississippi and the Alabama, have recently
been showed under with white flowers typical
OF resurrection, and strewn with rod flowers
commemorative ofthe carnag through which
they passed, and the blu flowers illustrative
of the skies through which they assembled.
But the sword il doomed. There ID one
word that needs to be writtenin every throne
room, in every war Office. in every navyyard,