Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1890-06-02

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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 Europe? The
sword of Theodore 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
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 con-
tinued in loyalty to a throne on the
other side of the sea. No one would
propose a governor general Tor the
United States as there is a governor
general for Canada. We have had
splendid queens in our American Capt.
tol, 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 when they pass through
to their hunting grounds in the far
west, or, when their fortunes have fail
ed, REINFORCE 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 a paradisaic con-
dition compared with the trouble she
would have with u.s.
England and the UnitCI States make
excellent neighbors, but the two fam
lies 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
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 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. Any committee
of Americans going across the ocean
to see what could have been done
would have found no better &C
commodatiOns than London Tow
er 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 its uses al
though it is a sheathed sword. There
is not an armory in Brooklyn, or New
York, or Philadelphia, or Chicago, or
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 cOun-
ellis 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
unprincipIed 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 vitriol,
potash, turpentine, sugar of lead, sui
phuric acid, logwood, strychnine, night
shade and other precious ingredients,
and take down a whole glass with a re-
sounding "Ah" 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 anything but
order and decency and good govern
ment. Again and again, in our Ameri-
can cities has the necessity of home
guards been demonstrated.
We remember how, when the sol
diers were all away to the war in 1863
Ga, what coAfagratiOns were klndled
in the streets of New York, and what
negroes were hung Some of you re-
member the great riots in Philadelphia
at fires, sometimes kindled just for the
opportunity of uproar and despoliation.
In 1649 hiss at theatre would have
resulted in New York city demolished
had it not been for the citizen sOldiery.
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 appeared in New York, in Mac
beth, the distinguished Englishman was
Kissed and mobbeI, the walls of the
"a I, Ill 1a1 hn
announcement: "Shall Americans or
English rule in this cityw Streets were
filed with a crowd, insane with passion.
The riot act was read, but it only
evoked louder yeIls and heavier volleys
of stones, and the whole city was
threatened with violence and assassina-
ton.
But the Seventh regiment, under
Gen. Duryea, marched through Broad
way, preceded by mounted troops and
at the command: Fire! Guards
Fire!" the mob scattered, 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
military officers been given. Do not
charge such scenes upon American in
stitutions. They are as old as the
Ephesian mob that howled for two
hours in Pauls time about the theatre,
amid the ruins of which [ 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
underse1 the rest. They were wit
messed in 17S1 at the trial of Lord
| George Gordon, when there was a re-
| ligious riot.
Again, in 1919, when the rabble cried,
"Down with the Presbyterians! Down
| with the meeting houses" There al
ways have been, and always will be, in
| great communities, a class of people
that cannot govern themselves and
which ordinary means cannot govern,
and there are exigencies which nothing
but the sword can meet. Aye, the
militia are the very last regiments that
| it will be safe to disband.