The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-06-02

thar sword and STAYED that red scourge of
cruelty that was rolling over Europe. The
sword of THEODORE and Actius.
To come down to later ages, all intelligent
E1glishmen unite with all Intelligent Amer
icaSs in saving that it was the best thing
tbat fine American colonies swung off from
tha government of Great Britain. ltwould
have been the worst abSurdity OF four tn u
sand wears If this continent should have
cuntinued in loyalty to throne on the
other side of { ne sea. No one would propose
a Governor general for the United States
as there is a governor general for Canada.
We have had splendid queens In our Ameri-
can capitol, but we could hardly be brought
TO 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 whea they pass through to their
hunting grounds in the far west, or
q wren their fortunes have failed, re-
inforce them by wealthy matrimonial
alliance. Imagine this nation yet
part of Englisl possessionsl The trouble
the mother country has day with Ireland
would be paradisaic condition compared
with the tro lble she would have with US.
England and the United States make excel
lent neighbors, but the two families are too
large to live in the same house. What
godsend that we should have parted, and
parted long agoi But l can think of no
other way in which we could have posi-
bly, achieved American Independence.
George the Third, the half-cgazy king,
would not have let us go. 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 CO. Lexington, and Bunker Hill,
and Monmouth, and Trenton, and Valley
Forge, were proofs positive that they were
not willing to let us CO. Any 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'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 sheathed sword. There is not an arm
ory in Brooklyn, or New York, or Phila-
delphia, or Chicago, or Charleston, or New
Orleans, or any American city, that could
be spared. We have in all our American
cities ruffian population who, though they
are small in number compared with the
good population, would again aud again
make rough and stormy times if, back of
our mayors and common councils and po-
lice, there were not in the armories and ar
senals some keen steel which, if brought
into play, would make quick work
with mobocracy. There are in every
great community unprincipled men who
like row on a large scale, and they heat
themselves with sour mash and old rye and
other decoctions, enriched with blue vitriol,
potash, turpenune, sugar of lead, sulphuric
acid, logwOod strychnine, nighJ-shade and
other precious ingredients, and take down a
whole glass with resembling "Ahl" of sat-
fsfactioD. When they get that stuff in them,
and the blue vitrlol collides with the potash,
and the turpentine with the suiphuric 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 the soldiers
were all away 70 the war in 1864, what
confiagrations were kindled in the streets of
New York, and what negroes were hung.
Some Of you remember the great riots in
Philadslphia at fires, sometimes kindled
Jus, for the opportunity OF uproar and
dsplliAtion. In 1S49 hiss at a theater
would have resulted in New York city
being demolished had it not been for the
ciriEsa soidiery. Because Of an insult
which the American actor Edwin Forrest
bad received in England from the
friezds Of Mr. Macready, the English
New YORK. in Macbeth, the distinguished
Esglishmsn was Kissed and mobbed, the
walls OF the city having been placarded
with tns announcement: "Shall Americans
or English rule in this cityl7 Streets were
filed VITA a 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, preceded by
mounted troops, and at the COM
mand: "Firel Guards Fireln the
mob scattered. and New York was
saved. What would have become of Chi
cago two or three years ago, 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 Ephe-
sian mob that howled for two hours in
Paul's time about the theatre, amid the
ruins of which l stood last January. They
we're witnessed in 1875 in London when the
weavers paraoed the streets and entered
building to destroy the machinery of those
who, because of their new inventions,
would undersell the rest. They
were witnessed in 1881 at the
trial Of Lord George Gordon, when there
was a religious riot. Again, in l719, when
the rabble cried: Down with the Presby-
DOWu Will Tie Ili666lQS-lOuS0SI'
There always have been, and always will be,
in great communities, a class of people that
cannot govern themselves and which ordi-
nary means cannot govern, and there are
exigeacies which nothing but the sword can
meet. Aye, the militia are the very last
regiments that it will be safe to disband.
Arbitrament will take the place of war
between nation and nation. and national
armies will dlsband as a consequence, and
the time will come-God hasten itl-when
there will be no need of an American army
or navy, or Russian army or navy. But
some time af,er that, cities will have to
keep their armories and arsenals, and we'll
drilled militia; because, until the mlllennial
day, there will be populations with whom
arbitrament will be as impossible as treaty
with cavern of hyenas or a
jungle of snakes. These men who
rob stores and give garroters hug, and
prowl about the wharves at midnight, aud
rattle the dice in gambling hells, and 60
armed with pistol and dirk, will refrain
from disturbance of the public peace Just in
proportion as they realize that the militia
of city, instead of being 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 ramroad fast
in their boot leg, are prompt as the sunrise.
keen as the north wind potent as thunder