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

| heaven!
! What put an end to infamous Loui
| NVI's plan Of universal conquest b.
which England would have beer
made to kneel on the steps of tn
Tuilelies aud the Anglo-SaXon rac'
would have been halted and all Eu
rope paralyzed? The sword OF Marl
borough, at Blenheim. Time came
when the Roman war eagles, whose
beaks had been punched into tht
heart of nations, must be brought
down from their eylies. AL othe,
attempts bad disgracefully failed, but
the Germans, the mightiest nation
| for Drawn and brain, undertook the
work, and under God succeeded
What drove back the Roman cavalry
till the horses, wounded, flung then
riders and the last rider perished
and the Hercynian forest became the
scene of Romes humiliation? The
sword, the brave sword, the trium
phant sword of Arminius. While
passing through France last January
my nerves tmgled with excitement
and I rose in the car, the better to
see the battlefield of Chalons, the
mounds and breastworks still visible,
though nearly 500 years ago they
were shoyened up There, Attila, the
heathen monster, called by himself
the ''scourge of God for the punish
ment of Christians" his life nassa-
ere OF nations, came to ignomlnous
defeat, and he put in one great pile
the wooden saddles Of his cavalry,
and the spoils of the cities and king
doms he had sacked, and placed on
top of this holocaust the women who
had accompanied him III his devasta-
ting march, ordering that the torch
de rut to the pile. What power
broke that sword, and stayed that
red scowge OF cruelty that was roll
ing over Europe? The sword Of Theo-
doric ank Actius.
To come down to late, ages, all
intelligent Enghshmen unite with all
intelligent Americans in saying that
it was the best thing that the Ame:l-
can colonies swung off from the gov
eminent of Great Britain. It would
have been the worst absmdlty OF 4
900 years if this continent should
have continued it's loyaltyto throne
on the other side Of the sea. No one
would propose a governor general
for. tha Tinted States as there is a
governor general for Canada. We
have had splended queens IN our
American capitol, but we could hard
ly be brought to support d 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 failed, rem
force them by wealthy matrimonial
alliance. Imagine this nation yet a
part of English possessions! The
trouble the mother country has to-
day with Ireland would be a para
disaic condition compared with the
trouble she would have with US.
England and the United States make
excellent neighbors, but the two fam
lies are too large to live in the same
house. What god-send that we
should have parted, and parted long
ago. But I can think In no other
way in which we could have possibly
achieved American independence.
George the Third, the half-crazy king,
would not have let US so. Lord
North, his prime minister, would not
have let us so. General Lord Corn
wallis would not let us SO, although
after Yorktown he was glad enough
to have US let him go. Lexington,
and Bunker Hill, and Monmouth,
and Trenton, and Valley Forge, We're
proofs positive that they We're 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 accom-
modations than London Tower. The
only way it could have been done was
by sword. JeAerson's pen could
write the Declaration Of Indepen-
dence, but only Washington's sword
could have achieved it, and the other
swords bathed in heaven.
So now the sword has its uses, al
though it is a sheatheds word. There
is not an armory in Brooklyn, Or New
York, or Philadelphia, or Chicago, or
Charleston, OF New Orleans, OF 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
a good population, would again and
again make rough and stormy times
if, back of our mayors and common
councils, and police, there We're not
in the aImories and arsenals some
keen steel which, if brought into
play, would make quick work with
mobocracy. There are il every great
community unprincipled men who
Ike row on large scale, and they
heat themselves with sou mash and
old rye and othelidecoctions, enriched
with blue vitriol, potash, tnpen-
tine, sugar of lead, sulphrlric acid,
logwood, strychnine, night shade and
other precious ingredients, and take
down whole glass with resound-
ing .Ah!" Of satisfaction. When
tie: get that stuff: in them, and the
blue vitriol collides with the potash;
and the tuupentine with the sulphu-
lic acid, the victims are ready for
any thing but orde: and decency and
good government. Again and again,
in our American cities, has the neces-
sity of home guards been demonstra-
ted.
You remember, how. when the sol
diers were all away In the wal III
lSe3-G4, what contiagrations were
kindled in the streets of New York
and what negroes were hung. Some
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