The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1890-06-11
MANNING S. c., WEDNESDAY, JUNE IL, 1890.

! and at the command; 'Firc. Guards
FIRE." the mob scattered, and New
York was saved. What would have
| become of Chicago, two OF three
yea:s 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 Ephesian mob that
howled for two hours III Paul s time
about the theatre amid the ruins OF
which I stood last January. IheJ'
were witnessed IN 1878 IN London,
when theweavers pa, .a3 the streets
and entered buildings to >,yy,,:'2,H tn"
machinery Of those who, because o.
their new inventions, could underseli
the rest. They We're witnessed in
l7S1 at the trial of Lord George Cor
don. where there was religious riot.
Again, in 1719, when the rabble cried.
Down with the Presbyterians!
Down with meeting houses. There
| always have been, and alway viii be,
in great communities, q class OF peo-
pie that cannot govern themselves
and which ordinary means cannot
govern, and there are eXigencles
which nothing but the sword can
meet. Aye, the militia are the very
last regiments that it viii be safe TO
disband.
Arbitrament will take the place Of
war between nation and nation. and
national armies will Glishand as Il con
sequence. and the time will come
God hasten it.-when there VIII be
no need OF an American army OF na-
Wy, OF q Russian army or navy: But
some time after that, cities will haveto
keep their almories and arsenals,and
wel-dlilled MALTA, because until the
millennial day there will be poprla-
tions with whom arbitrament will be
as impossible as treaty with a cavern
of hyenas OF 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 so armed
with pistol and dirk, will refrain from
disturbance OF the public peace Just
in proportion as they realize that
the militia Of q city, instead Of being
an awkward squad, and il danger Of
shooting each other by mistake, OF
losing their own life by looking down
into the gun-barrel to see if it IS
loaded, or getting their ramrod fast
in their boot leg, are prompt as the
sunrise, keen as the north wind, po-
tent as a thunderbolt, and accurate,
and regular, and disciplined in their
movements as the planetary system.
Well done, then, l say, to legisla-
lures, and governors, and mayors,
and all officials who decide upon
larger armories, and better places
for drill, and mole generous equip
ment for the militia. The sooner
the sword can safely so back to the
scabbard to stay there. the better:
but until the hit ciangs against the
case in that final lodgment, let the
sword be kept free from rust; sharp
all along the edge, and its point like
a needle, and the handle polished,
not onlyby the chamois Of the regl-
mental servant, but by the hand OF
brave and patriotic officers, always
ready to do their full duty. Such
swords are not bathed in I'M
petuosity, OF bathed in cruelty. or
bathed in oppression, OF bathed III
outrage, but bathed in heaven.
Before Ispeak Of the doom Of the
sword, let me also say that 1t has de-
veloped the grandest natures that
the world ever saw. It has develop
ed courage-that sublime energy OF
the soul which dehes the universe
when it feels itself to be in the right.
1t has developed q self-sacrihce
which repudiates the ides that our
life is worth more than anything else,
when for principle it throws that
Life away, as much as to say, 1T IS
not necessary that [ I've, but it
is necessary that righteousness til
umph. There are tens OF thousands
among the Northern and Southern
veterans of our civil Wal. who are 95
per cent. larger and mightier in soul,
than they would have been, had they
not, during the four years of nation
al agony, turned their back on home,
and fortune, and at the foot sacritic
ed ali fsr principle. 1t was the
sword which on the Northern side
developed Grant, a McCleIen, a
Hooker, Hancock. Sherman. a
Sheridan, and Admiral Farragut and
Porter. and OF the Southern side q
Lee, Jackson, a Hill, Gordon and
the Johnstons, Albert Sydney and
Joseph E., and Admiral Semlnss,
aad many Federals and Confedrates
whose graves in national cemetarles
are marked unknown, yet who
were Just as elf-sacrihcing and brave
as any of their maj generals, and
whose resting places allup and down
the bank of the Androscogsln, the
Hudson. the Potomac, the Mississip-
pi and the Alabama, have recently
been showed under with white flow
ers typical OF resurrection, and
strevn with red flowers commemo-
rativc of the carnage through which
they passed, and the blue flowers IL
Illustrative of the skies through which
they ascended.
But the sword is doomed. There
is one word that needs to be written
in every throne room, III every war
Office, in every navy yard. II every
national council. That word IS dis
armament. But 10 government can
afford to throw its sword away until
al the great governments have
agreed to do the same. Through
| the influence OF the recent corven-