Sharp County record., 1890-06-26

drove back tho Roman cavalry till the
horses, wounded, flung 'heir riders, and
the lastrder perished, and the Hercynian
forest became the scene Df Rome 5 hum!l-
ia,ion? The sword, tho brave sword, the
triumphant sword Of Arminius. While
passing through France last January
my nerves tingled with excitement and
! rose in the car, the better to SEQ the
battlefield of Chalons, the mounds and
breastwOrks still visible, though nearly
five hundred years ago ihcy were shoy-
elod up, Here Atuila, the heather mon
ster, called by himself the "scourge OF
God for the punishment OF Christians,
his lie massacre of nations, came to
ignominious defeat, and he put into one
great pile the wooden saddles of his
cavalry and the spoils of the cities and
Kingdoms he had sacked, and placed on
top Of this holocaust the women who
had accompanied him in his devastat-
ing 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.
TO come down to later ages, all in
tclligent 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
continued in loyalty to throne on the
other side of the sea. No one would
propose Governor-General for the
! United States as there is 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 Vic
toria 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 failed, re-enforce them by
wealthy matrimonial alliance. Imagine
this nation yet a part of English pos
sessions! The trouble the mother coun-
try has to-day with Ireland would be a
paradsaic condition compared with the
trouble she would have with us. En-
gland and the United States make ex-
celent neighbors, but the two families
are too large to live in the same house.
What 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 indie
pendence. George ILL.,, the half-crazy
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 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 SEQ
kwhat 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-grandrather' sword. Jelferson's
pen could write the Declara tion If In
dependence, but only Washington's
sword could have achieved it, and the
other swords bathed in Heaven.
So now tho sword has it's uses, al
though it is sheatbed sword. There
is not an armory in Brooklyn, or New
York, or Philadelphia, or Chicago, or
Charleston, or Now Orleans, or any
American city, that could be spared.
We have in all our American cities q
rulllan population who, though they are
small in number compared with the
good population, would again and again
mako rough and stormy times If, back
Of our mayors and common councils,
and police thore we're not in the arm
ories and arsenals some keen steel
which, If brought into play, would
mako quick work with mobocracy,
There are in every great com
munity unprinciplod mon who like a
row on large scale, and they heat
themselves with sour mash and old rye
and other decoctions, enriched with blue
yitrol, potash, turpontinc, sugar of lead,
sulphuric acid, logwood, strychnine,
night-shado, and other precious in
gredcnts, and take down a whole glass
with u resounding "Ah! of satisfaction,
When they get that stun in them, and
the blue vitrol collidcs with the potash,
and the turpontino with the sulphucic
acid, tho victims arc ready for any
thing but order and deccnoy and good
government Again and again, In our
American cities has the necessity of
homo guards been demonstrated,
You remember how, whtG tho sol
diers were all away to the war of 1868
Ct, what conllOgrations wore kindlcd in
tho strocts Of New York, and what ne.
grocs were hung, Somo of you romcm.
bcr the great riots In Philadelphia at
fires, sometimes ltindlcd just for the op.
portunity of upronr and dospoliotion,
In 1910 hiss at u thoatcr would have
resulted in New York City being de-
molishcd had IL not been for the citizen
soldiory,
Because OF an insult which the Amer.