Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1896-10-16

some new stone structussf at Hagerstown,
an arch and a tower. Their cost seemed
within the limit Of encouragement which
the friends of the press night extend to Its
veterans.
Commencing work the ,14th of April. the
anniversary Of Mr.. Litcoln's death, we
have in six months achieved our memorial
and raise our flag upon it this thirty
seventh anniversary Of 1.-THE raid Of John
Brown from among these, hills upon the
arms and armorers at Harper's Ferry. Two
anniversaries of wrath i and blood. their
trophy to men who peacefully recorded
the var.
AS in ST. Peters Church at Rome the
Evangelists alone who took down the story
of the Christian CONFUSION, Matthew,
Mark, Luke and John,t are painted in
mosaic stone above all other things in the
ear of that great dome, so on the South
Virginia to New England, this m onument
stands alone in the world to war corre-
spondents.
Symb0lism.
All who wrote and sketched that war
are preserved here without discrimination.
The movement of this fund has hardly
aroused comment; in two cases the de-
sire was expressed by non-subscribers that
Washington city was the better situation,
but the men who chung to Washington in
the war expressed not the campaigns and
feats of the field.
The feudal form of this gate shows Amer
lean liberty as 1t was with garrison and
yassal, Its portal pinched, jealous and
flanked with sentry towers, and overhead
the warder on the battlemented walk.
John Browns Anniversary.
Here between slave and free states on
the narrow border land, dividing the orig
inal slave dominion, Virginia. and the
original anti-slavery commonwealth, Penn
nj (Uh cd hafo no
Constitution), the spot of this monument
afforded almost the only prospect of the
light of valleys and of homes to our rum
away fellow-beinss, along this lninhabited
ridge. To them happily nights candles
were burnt out and jocund day stood tip
toe on the misty mountain tops"
Among these very ridges also hid the
grizzly captain and his parti-col ,r I'd band.
which. like the Trojans spies, with their
one horse, lodged within the walls, and by
night stole down to the armory below.
Look westward through the notch of Sol
omor's Gap, where hardly five miles away
John Brown began the war!
Look east across the Catoctin range, but
fourteen miles. where the chief justice
lived and lies buried. who had announced
the lasting rights Of old feudality!
Look up on our monument and see the
star spangled banner. which Judge Taney's
brother-in-law apostrophized over Baiti-
more In 1914 and which John Brown de-
clared was the. flag Of his forefathers and
he would have no other.
The bolted gate and portcullis are shat
tered. The arch stands open to the light.
The mountain roads are Freedoms.
Never before nor since was the activity of
news and letters so much recognized by a
government as in the great American war;
and 1T is not with presumption, but after
all the branches and particulars of the serv-
ice have erected their trophies, that we
uEveil this. the only monument in the
world, to the reporters of a war.
Their Time Ripe.
At our period the press was just ready
with the higher appliances of printing, and
our themes and contributions capitalized
the press institution. ~.
Seven years before our war William How
ard Russell had shown the influence of a