Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1896-10-15

to receive them, they landed. their only vel I
come the Indian ~war-whoop. Red men On /
the beach. Red men in the forest. Red men q
on the mountains. Red men in the valleys. t
Living gates Of red men. Gates OF car 7
buncle! =
Aboriginal hostility pushed back, surely |
now our forefa.hers will have nothing to DO
but TO take easy possession Of the fairest
continent under the sun. The skies 50
genial. the sod so fertile. the rivers go pop
ulous with fnny life. the acreage 80 ir,
n"n.a. th3e will be nothing 10 do but ca,
drink AMI be merry. No. The most power
.ul Nation, ~ army ana navy. sounded its
protest across three thousand miles Of water.
Then came Lexington. and Bunker Hill, AMI
Monmouth, and Long Island battles, and
VALLEY Forge. and Yorktown. and starva-
ticn. and ~widowhooI. and orphanage. and
the thirteen colonies went through suferings
which the historian has attemp pied to put
upon paper, and the artist 10 put upon can
ya-, but al in vain. Engraver's knife, and
reporters skill. and telegraphic wire, and
iaI.y press, which have made u acquainted
4 With the horrors Of modern battlefield, had
not yet begun their vigilance. aud the story
" the American Revolution has never been
told. and never will De told. II did not take
much ink to.sicn the Declaration Of indie
Iendence, but i, took a terrific amount OF
Dtood to maintain it. 1t was an awful gate
of opposition that the men and w0ntg
and the women as much as the men
pushed back. It was a gate Of self-sacrihce.
it was a gate Of blood. 1t was a gate OF
carbulcle.
We are not indebted to history for our
knowledge OF the greatest OF National
crises. Many Of Us remember it. and fathers
ana mothers now living had better keep tell
ing that story 70 their children. so that in
stead OF their being dependent upon cold
type and obliged t. say. ION such Il page OF
such a book you can read that. will they
rather be able to say, my father told me
5 -g,,' MY mother told ma, So" Men and
women who wildly remember 1861, and
{ 1862. ana 1863, and 1864, be yourselves the
+: historians, telling it, not with pen, but with
] living tongue and voice and gesture. That
) j., the great use Of Memorial Decoration Day,
] kfor the Gala lilies on the grave tops soon be-
t come breathleSs Of perfume, and in Il week
S turn 10 dust unto that which lies beneath it.
But.the story of courage and self-sacrifice
and patriotism told on platforms and III
) households and by the roadside and in
t churches and in cemeteries by that annual
I recital will be kept fresh in the memory OF
. generations as long. as our American lnsutu-
tons are worthy of preservatIon- Long
after YOU are dead your children will be able
Z 70 say, With the Psaimist: eve have heard
j. With our ears, O God. our fathers have
/ told US. what work Thou didst in their
IS days. in the times o. old" But what
g 4 time it was! FOur years OF home
Il sickness. Four years OF brotherly
= ana ~sisterIy arrangement, Four years 81
m InartyrIom, Four years Of massacre Pnt
= them in a long line, the contlacration o.
x cities, and see them light up a whole cont
rs nent.. Put them in long rows, tho hospitals
r. making "A vast metropolis Of pain ant
III paroxyism, Gather them in one vast assem-
IL. hlaxe. the millions Of bPreft from the 81
tn lawrence to the Gulf. and from the Atlanta
T." to the Pacific beaches, Put the tears int
Il! Iakrs, and the blood into rivers. and tn
r., shricks into whirlwinds, During those fou
NJ years many good and wise men at the Mort
20 aut South saw nothing ahead but annlhlia
OF ton. With such a National debt W
We could never meet our Obligations. WIT
Is. such moral antipathins Northern and south
lis ern men coild never come into amlty! Rep
,rs reqentatlvcs e Louisiana and Georgia. an
He the CarolirAs could never again sit side b
side with the representatives, OF Maine
all Massachusetts and New York at the Ma
Yas tional ca pital. Lord John Russell had de
tes clared mat we were ca bubble bursting M
tional;tv." and it had come true. The Ma
his tion5 OF Europe had gathered With very IT
for sigaei spirit at the funeral Of our America
Vi Republic. They had tolled the bells o
ore Parliaments and Reichstags aud lowere
their flags at half mast. and even the Ito
hat on the other side Of the sea had whined f(
)ng the dead eagle on this side. The deep gray
hal been dug, and beside Babylon, al
ALT Thcbee, and Tyre, and other dead Nations
nv the past our dead Republic was to
Dad buried. The epitaph was all ready: He
ads lies tho American Republic. Born'at Phll
hell ~delph,a. 4th Of July. 1716. Killed at bu
low Rnl. July 81. 1861. Aged eightv-tlve yea
| in anl seventeen DAYS. Peace to its ashes
re- But befor. the of,sequies had quite close
there was an interruption OF the ceremo
)rli les, AMI our dead Nation rose from
ITO mortuary surroundings. God had made I
of it Il special Resurrection Day, and ere
the Come forth, thou Republic OF Washln
the ton, and John Adams. and Thomas Jef1t
aims son. and Patrick Henry, aDa John Hancoc
itv. and Daniel Webster. andS. 5. Prentiss. al
YES. Henry Clay. Come forth And she cat
am forth. t. be stronger than she had ever bee
the Her mightiest properties have come sin
nm that time. Who would want to push bh
You this country to what it was in 1860 or -.
acri- But. Oh, what a high gate. what "A stro
vice gate She had to push back before she cot
walk make one step ia advance, Gate OF han
sub See Norfolk Navy Yard. an Columbia, a
the Chamhersburg. and Charleston on Il
the Gate Of hayonets, See Glittering rifles q
the carbineS flash from the Snsquehanna. a
wing the James, t. the Mississippi. and the
acle. kansas, Gate of heavy artillery. MAXI
inful the mountains of Tennessee and kentuc
hope and Virginia tremble as though the ca
hand itself were struggling in its last agony. !
,ries. gate wa- 50 fiery and so red that | can tn
red Of nothing more appropriate than to Il
ear 'he suggestion Of Isaiah in the text anu
it u gate OF carhunCles.
tenn This country has been for the most I
older Of its history passing through crises,
It of after eaah crisis was better OF than bel
AMI i, enterei il. and now We are at anot
Will crisis. We are told on one hand that II {
time i, kept a. n standard and silver is not
,-v 10 waited confidence will be restored AMI
very Nation Mil rise triumphant from all
SELF financial misfortuneS that have been att
ing Us. On the other hand we are told
lheri- II the free coinage or silver Is allowed
men me wheels of business wall revOlve. the |
that man will have = better chance. ana all
and industries will begin 70 hum AMI r
in al During the last six Presidential eiectl'
req have been urged TO enter the political AT
tursc- Int | never have and never Will turn
a pulpit in which l preach into q poll
miles stump. Every minister must DO as be
forces called to 40. and | Will not criticise hin
and dong what he considers his duty: hu
the political haransues from pulpits
!, II now until the 81 Of November will not L
hose the Tn.tei states change one vote, but
the leave many ears stopped against anyt
trat such clercym@n may utter the re
STATE, their lives. As q general rule the Jay
nnsv.- 81 ,hur.he> understand politics better
Ja,-e thu clergy. because they (the laymenl :
politics more than the clergy. and have
ana Ter opportunity Of being intelligent On
be- subinrte. But good morals. honesty. !
!, r-h. Il. tflristian patriotism and the Ten
-haSA xJt. ~ II = Ir[ac