The Monitor-register., 1896-10-02

Safe, certain and sure. All
druggists. 25c. C.. 1. Hood & Co.. Lowell Mo-.
The only Pills to take with Hoods Sarsararsns
tan eloquence, and of George Peabody
who never owned a carriage and dan;o5
himself all luxuries that no m;aL.
while living and after death. tbrongh
last Will and testament, devote his M
counted millions to the education of the
poor people in England and Amer;ca
and OF Bishop James, who in bovboo5
worked his passage from Ireland ~
America and became the joy of Metbo-
dlsm and a blessing to the race. Go IN
the biographical alcove in city, state or
national library and find at least every
other book an illustration of overcome
obstacle and of carmine gate that had ~
be forced open.
Living Gates.
What is true of individuals is true If
nations. Was it a mild spring morning
when the pilgrim fathers landed .on
Fiymouth rock and did they come in a
gllded yacht, gay streamers fyinpp No
1t was III cold December, and from a
ship in which one would not want n
cross the Hudson or the Potomac river.
scalplng knives all ready to receive
them, they landed, their only welcome
the Indian ~warwhoop. Red men on the
beach. Red men in the forest. Red men
on the mountains. Red men in the val
legs. Living gates of red men. Gates of
carbuncIe.
Aboriginal hostility pushed back,
surely now f~orefathers will have
nothing to do but to take easy possess
SION OF the fairest continent under the
sun. The skies SO genial, the soil SO fer
tile, the rivers SO populous with finny
life, the acreage SO immense, there will
be nothing to do but eat, drink and be
merry. No. The most powerful nation,
by army and navy, sounded its protest
across 5000 miles of water. Then came
Lexington, and Bunker Hill. and Mon
mouth, and Long Island battles, and
Valley Forge, and Yorktown, and star
walton, and widowhood, and orphanage,
and the ID colonies went through suffer-
ings which the historian has attempted
to put upon paper and the artist to put
upon canvas, but all in vain. Engraver's
knife, and reporters skill, and tele-
graphic wire, and daily press, which
have made us acquainted with the hor-
rors of modern battlefield, had not yet
begun their vigilance, and the story of
the American Revolution has never been
told and never will be told. 1t did not
take much ink to sign the Declaration
of Independence, but it took a terrific
amount of blood to maintain it. 1t was
an awful gate of opposition that the
men and women-and the women as
much as the men-pushed back. 1t was
a gate of self sacrifice. 1t was a gate of
blood. 1t was a gate of c%arbuncle.
Red Letter Days.
We are not indebted to history for
our knowledge of the greatest Of nation
al crises. Many of us remember it, and
fathers and mothers now living had bet
ter keep telling that story to their chill
dren, so that instead Of their being de-
pendent upon cold type and obliged to
say, "On such a page of such a book
you can read that, will they rather be
able to say: my father told me 60. "
''My mother told me So" Men and
women who wildly remember 1861,
and 1862, and 1868, and 1854, be your
selves the historians, telling it, 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 become
breathless of perfume, and in a week
turn to dust like unto that which lies
beneath them. But the story OF courage
| and self sacrifice and patriotism told on
platforms and in households and by the
roadside and in churches and in ceme-
teries by that annual recital will be
kept fresh in the memory of generations
as long as our American institutions
are worthy of preservation. Long after
you are dead your children will be able
to say, with the psalmist, "We have
heard with our ears, o God, our IA
theirs have told us, what work thou
didst in their days in the times of old. "
But what a time it was. -Four years of
homesickness. Four years Of brotherly
and sisterly estrangement. -Four years
Of martyrdom. -Four years of massacre.
Put them in a long line, the con1agra-
ton of cities, and see them light up a
whole continent. Put them in long
rows, the hospitals, making a vast me-
iropolis of pain and paroxysm. Gather
them in one vast assemblage, the mil
lions of bereft from the st. Lawrence
to the gulf, and from the Atlantic to
the Pacific beaches. Put the tears into
lakes, and the blood into rivers, and
the shrieks into whirlwinds. During
, those four years many good and wise
men at the north and south saw nothing
ahead but humiliation. With such a
national debt we could never meet our
obligations. With such mortal antlpa-
| thies northern and southern men could
never come into amity. Representatives
of Louisiana and Georgia and the Caro-
linas could never again sit side by side
with the representatives of Maine, Mas
| sachusetts and New York at the nation
al capital.
Lord John Russell had declared that
we were "a bubble bursting national
| ity, and it had come true. The ma
| tions of Europe had gathered with very
resigned spirit at the funeral of our
| American republic. They had tolled the
| bells on parliaments and reichstags and
| 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 Philadel-
| mia. July 4, 1776. Killed at Bull Run
| July 21, 1861. Aged So years and II
| DAYS. Peace to it's ashes" But before
| the ~obsequies had quite closed there was
| an interruption of the ceremonies, and
| our dead nation rose from its mortuary
surroundings. God had made for it a
| special resurrection day. and cried:
"Come forth, thou republic of Washing
| ton. and John Adams, and Thomas JEFF
| ferson, and Patrick Henry, and John
| Hancock, and Daniel Webster, and 5.
S. Prentiss, and Henry Clay. Come
forth!'' And she came forth, to be
| stronger than she had ever been. Her
mightiest properties have come since
that SINE. Who would want to push
! back this country to what it 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 ward. and Columbia, and Cham
| bersburg, and Charleston on irel Gate
of bayonetsl See glittering rifles and
carbines flash from the Susquehanna
| and the James to the Mississippi and
the Arkansas Gate of heavy artillery,
| making the mountains of Tennessee and
Kentucky and Virginia tremble as
though the earth itself were struggling