The Russellville Democrat., 1890-06-12

years II tuiS COHtAHcub SAOuAA haNS continued in loyalty to throne on the other side of the sea No one would
 propose a Governor-General for tho United States as there is Governor General for Canada We have had splendid queens in our American Capi- tol, but we could hardly be brought to support Queen on the other side of the Atlantic, lovely and good as Vic- toria is. The only use we have for Earls and Lords and Dukes in this country is to treat them we'll when they pass through to their hunting grounds in the Far West or when their fortunes have failed, re-enforce them by wealthy matrimonial alliance. Imagine this nation yet part of English pos sessions! The trouble the mother coun- try has to-day with Ireland would be 8 paradisaic condition compared with the trouble she would have with as. En- gland and the United States make ex- celent neighbors, but tho two families are too large to live in tho same house. What a godsend that we should have parted, and parted long agol But can think of no other way in which we could have possibly achieved American inde- pendence. George III, the half-crazy King, would not have let us go. Lord North, his Prime Minister, would not have let us go, General 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 accommodations than
 London Tower. The only way 1t could have been done was by the sword d-your great-grandfather's sword. JefTerson's pen could write the Declaration of h. dependence, but only Washington's sword could have achieved it, and the other swords bathed in Heaven.
 So now the sword has it's uses, all | though it is a sheathed sword. There is not an armoty 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 rufiian 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 councils, and police, there were not in the arm ories and arsenals some keen steel which, if brought into play, would make quick work with mobocracy. There are in every great com munity unprincipled men who like a row on large scale, and they heat themselves with sour mash and old rye and other decoctions, enriched with blue vitrol, potash, turpentine, sugar of lead, sulphuric acid, logwood, strychnine, night-shade, and other precious in- gradients, and take down whole glass with a resounding "Ahr' of satisfaction.
 When they get that stuff in them, and the blue vitrol collides with the potash, and the turpentine with the sulphuric acid, the victims are ready for any thing but order and decency and good government Again and again, in our American cities, has the necessity of homo guards been demonstrated.
 You remember how, when the sol diers were all away to the war of 1S63- 64, what conflagrations were kindled in the streets of New York, and what ne- groes were hung. Some of you remem- Der the great riots in Philadelphia at fires, sometimes kindled just for the op- portunity of uproar and despoliation. In 1ss9 a hiss at theater would have resulted in New York City being de- molished had it not been for the citizen soldiery.
 Because of an insult which the Amer ican actor, Edwin Forrest, had received in England from the friends of MT. Mac ready, the English actor, when the lat ter appeared in New York in Mac beth," the distinguished Englishman was hissed 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 crowd, insane with passion. Tho riot act was read, but it evoked louder yells and heavier volleys of stones, and the whole city was threat ened with violence and assassination. But the Seventh Regiment, under Gen eral Duryea, marched through Broad way, preceded by mounted troops, and at the command: Fire! Guardsi Firen' 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 in stitutions. They are as old as the Ephesian mob that howled for two hours in Pauls time about the theater, amid the ruins of which stood last January. They were witnessed in 1657 in London, when the weayers par9ded tho streets and entered buildings to destroy the machinery of those who because of their new inventions, could undersell the rest. They were witnessed in 17s1 at tho trial of Lord George Gordon, when there was a religious riot Again. in 17l9, when tho rabble cried: Down with the Presbyterians! Down with meeting housesln There always have been, and always will be, in great com munities, class of people that can not govern themselves and which ordinary means can not 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. e
 Arbitrament will take the place of war between nation and nation, and na- tional armies will disband as a conse- quence, and the time will come-God hasten iti-when there will be no need of an American army CT navy. or Rus sian army or navy. But for some timo after that, cities gill have to keep their armories, and arsenals, and well-drilled militia, because until tho milleDial day there will be populations with whom arbitrament will be as impossible as treaty with cavern of hyenas or jungle of Stakes. These men who rob stores and give garroter's hug, and prowl about tho wharves at mid night and rattlo the dice in gambling hells, and go armed with pistol or dirk,