Connecticut western news., 1890-06-04

AANSsAo~S 7 member the great riots in Philadelphia at fires, sometimes kindled just for the opportunity of uproar and despoliation In 1S49 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 Mir. Macready, the English actor, when the latter 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 city9" Streets were filled with a crowd, insane with passion. The riot act was read, but it only evoked louder yells and heavier volleys of stones, and the whole city was threatened with violence and assassina- tion
 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 Paul's time about the theatre, amid the ruins of which I 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 undersell the rest. They were wit messed in 17S1 at the trial of Lord George Gordon, when there was re- igious riot.
 Again, in 1719, when the rabble cried, 'Down with the Presbyterians! Down with the meeting housesm 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. Ave- the militia are the very last regiments that it will be safe to disband.
 ARBITRATION IS COMING.
 ArbitrameEt will take the place of war between nation and nation, and national armies will disband as a con sequence, and the time will come-God hasten it!-when there will be no need of an American army or navy, or a Russian army or navy. But, some time after that, cities will have to keep their ar1nories, and arsenals, and well drilled militia, because until the millenial day there will be populations with whom arbitrament will be as impossible as treaty with a cavern of hyenas or a jungle of snakes These men who rob stores and give garroter's hug, and prowl about the wharves at midnight, and rattle the dice in gambling hells, and go armed with pistol or dirk, will refrain from disturbance of the public peace just in proportion as they realize that the militia of city, instead of be- ing 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 ramrod fast in their boot leg, are prompt as the sunrise, keen as the north wind, potent as a thunder bolt, and accurate, and regular, and 1 disciplined in their movements as the planetary system.
 We'll done, then, say to legislatures, and governors, and mayors, and all officials who decide upon larger armor- ies and better places for drill and more generous equipment for the militia | The sooner the sword can safely go back to the scabbard to stay there, the better; but until the hilt clangs against the case in that final lodgment, let the | sword be kept free from rust; sharp all along the edge and it's point like a needle, and the handles polished, not l only by the channels of the regimental servant, but by the hand of brave and | patriotic officers, always ready to do their full duty. Such swords are not bathed in impetuousity, or bathed in cruelty, or bathed in oppression, or bathed in outrage, but bathed in heaven.
 Before speak of the doom of the sword, let me also say that it has de- veloped the grandest natures that the world ever saw It. has developed courage-that sublime energy of the soul which defies the universe when it feels itself to be in the right. It has developed a self sacrifice which repudi- ates the idea that our life is worth more than anything else, when for princi- pie it throws that life away, as much as | to say, It is not necessary that live, but it is necessary that righteousness 1 triumph. There are tens of thousands among the northern and southern vet erans of our civil war who are 95 per cent larger and mightier in soul than they would have 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 prin- ciple.
 It was the sword which on the north ern side developed a Grant, McClel- Ian, Hooker, a Hancock, a Sherman, a Sheridan and Admirals Farragut and Porter, and on the southern side Lee, a Jackson, a Hill, Gordon and the Johnstons, Albert Sydney and Joseph E., and Admiral Semmes, and many Federals and Confederates whose graves in national cemeteries are marked ''Un- known" Y" yet vsho were just as self sac
 rificing and brave as any of their major
 generals, and whose resting places al
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