The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1896-10-16

| education 10 600 IYar HFIliH of Enrs
| lHut Hl1 Amoss1i lad VI bishop James,
Hhl iu hIH h0ghoed W1faeI hla pH.alrH
u0m Ireland Oh America, aHd became lhn
| iuy 90 liHihaIIHH and DIE HIuE io ihH rac.
01 Gao Geographical H.e0fo .u rity, State, or
national lIhuy. Hnd Cod nt least every
other book Hu Illustration OF overcome ODE
Ha.Is. aud OF camm8 suio thH had 90 Do
Forced aIsn.
Whnt e traaof individuals true of Nr.
lions. NnEItG mlIi spring morning when
the HIIsIm Fathers landed 700 plymouth
Roofs. and dId theY come iu o. gIldn1 yacht.
cay slreamors nwngf no. 81 was in a cold
December, and ron ship m which one
would not want 90 cross tho Hudson OK the
Potomac R.vor 8calping knives an ready
to receive fhem, thoY landed. their only well
come Tho Indian war-wh00p. Red men on
tbe beach. Red men iu the Forest. Rcd msn
ON the mountains Bed mon in the valleys.
Living gates OF rcd men. Gates OF ear
bunsle
Aboriginal hostility pushed back, surely
now our i0rofaihgu viii have nothing 90 do
bat Go take easy posses lon OK tho iaireat
continent under the sun. The skies no
genial. the soil so fertile, tho rivors 50 pop
ui0ua with inny life, tho acreage 30 lm-
mcnso. there win be nothing 90 do but ear,
drink and be merry. No. Tho most power
ful Nation, by army and navy, sounded its
protest across three thousand miles of water.
Then came Lexington, and Bunker Hill amt
Monmouth, and Long Island battles. aud
/ Valley Forge, and Yorktown, and siarya-
ton, and Wid0wb0od. aud Orphnuage. aud
the thirteen colonies wont through udcrings
which the historian has attempted 90 put
/ upon paper, and the artist 90 put upon can
vas, but all IN vain. AnRrayer'8 knife, and
reporters skill. and telagraphie wire, and
daily prose, which have made us acquainted
with the horrors OF modern battlodeid, had
not yet begun their vigilance, aud the story
of the American Revolution has mover been
| told, aud mover viii De told. Il did not take
much ink 20 sign the Declaration OF Inde-
| penlence. bat Il took a terrific amount Of
| blood 20 maintain it. It was al awful gate
Of opposition that the men and women
| and the women as much as the men
! pushed back 1t Tas o gate OF soli-sacrihce.
Il was q gate Of blood. Il was cute Of
! earbulcle.
We are not indebted to history for our
/ knowledge OK the greatest OF National
crises. Many OF US remember IT, and fathers
/ and mothers now living had better keep toll
| ing that story 20 their children, so that In
/ stead Of their being dependent upon cold
/ type and obliged to say, "On such page OF
/ such a book you can read that, A" will they
/ rather be able to say, "My father told me
/ sol" "My mother told me So" Men and
/ women who wildly remember 1861, and
| 1862, and 1863, aud 1864, DO yourselves the
/ historians, telling IL, not with pen, but with
! living tongue and voice and gesture That
! IS the great use OF Memorial Decoration Day,
/ for the Gala lilies on the grave tops soon DO.
| come breathless Of perfume, and 10 q week
4 turn 10 dust unto tlat which lies beneath It.
/ But the story OF courage and seli-sacri1cs
| aud patriotism told on platforms and In
households and by the roadside and in
! churches and In cemeteries by that annual
/ recital will DO kept fresh In the memory OF
| generations as long as our American institu-
| tions are worthy Of preservation. Long
/ after you are dead your children will be able
/ TO say, with the Psalmist: eve have heard
/ with our ears, o God, our fathers have
/ told US, what work Thou didst In their
/ days. In the times OF old" But what
a time 1t wasl -Four years Of home
sicknessl Four years OF brotherly
ana sisterly arrangement! Four years OF
| martyrdom Four years OF massacrel Put
/ them in q long line, the connagration OF
| cities, and see them light up a whole conti-
nent! Put themin long rows, the hospitals
making a vast metropolis Of pain and
| paroXyism Gather them In one vast assem-
| blage, the millions of bereit from the ST.
Lawrence to the Gulf. and from the Atlantic
to the Pacific beachesl Put the tears into
lakes, and the blood into rivers, and the
shrieks into whirlwlnds! During those four
! years many good and wise men at the North
and South saw nothing ahead but annihila-
| tion. With such a National debt we
could never meet our obligatlonsl With
such moral antipathles Northern aud South
ern men could never come into amityl Rep
resentatives of Louisiana and Georgia, and
the Carollnas could never again sit side by
| side with the Representatives OF Maine,
Massachusetts and New York at the Ma
tional capital. Lord John Russell had de-
clared that we were "a bubble-bursting Ma
tiOnality." and II had come true. The Ma
tlons OF Europe had gathered With very re-
signed spirit at the funeral Of our American
Republic. They had tolled the bells on
Parliaments and Reiohstags aud lowered
their flags at half mast, and even the lion
on the other side OF the sea had whined for
| the dead eagle on this side. The deep grave
had been dug, and beside Babylon, and
Thebes, and Tyre, and other dead Nations Of
the past our dead Republic was to be
buried. The epitaph was all ready; Here
lies the American Republic. Born at Phila-
delphia, 4th OF July, 1776. Killed at Bull
Run, July 81, 1861. Aged eighty-hve years
and seventeen days. Peace to its ashes. B"
| But before the obsequles had quite closed
there was an interruption OF the ceremon-
les, and our dead Nation rose from its
mortuarY surroundings. God had made for
it special Resurrection bay, and cried,
"Come forth, thou Republic OF Washing
ton, and John Adams, and Thomas Jeffer-
son, and Patrick Henry, and John Hancock,
and Daniel Webster. andS. S. Prentiss, and
Henry Clay. Come forthl' And sho came
forth, to be stronger than she had ever been.
Her mightiest prosperiues have come since
that time. Who would want to push back
this country to what 1t was in 1860 or 1850?
But, oh, what a high gate, what a strong
gate she had to push back before she could
make one step in advanced Gate of flame!
See Norfolk Navy Yard and Columbia, and
ChambersOurg, and Charleston on fire!
Gate OF bayonets! See glittering rifles and
carbines flash from the Susquehanna, and
the James, to the Mississippi and the Ar
kansas Gate OF heavy artillery. making
the mountains OF Tennessee aud Kentucky
and Virginia tremble as though the earth
itself were struggling In Its last agony. The
gate was 80 fiery and 50 red that can think
OF nothing more appropriate than to take
the suggestion OF Isaiah Ia the texr and call
1t gate OF carbuncles.
This country has been for the most part
Of its history passing through crises, and
l after eOnh erisig was hAffpr nff fnnn haforp