The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1898-05-27

ish wars, and of the 60, 900, 900 slain in
wars under Julius Caesar; of the $780,
10000 slain in wars with Turks and
Saracens; of the so, 900, 900 slain in wars
of Xerxes; of the 2O,OOp, 900 slain in
wars of Justinian, and the 90, 900, 600
slain in the wars of Genghis Kahn, not
one man was sacrificed by mercy; but
shooter, or cavalryman, or artillery
man, or engineer, who falls, falls in
the cause of mercy, and becomes a
martyr for God and his country.
Another alienation of this war is
that it is for the advancement of the
sublime principle of liberty, which
will yet engirdle the earth. Not only
VIII this war free Cuba, but finally will
free Spain. BY what right does a
dynasty like that stand and corrupt
court dominate a people for centuries,
taxing them to death, riding in gilded
chariot over the necks of beggared
population? There are 10000 boys in
Spain growing up with more capacity
to govern the nation than will the weak
boy now in the Madrid palace ever pos
sess. Before this conflict is over the
Spanish nation will be well on toward
the time when a constitutional conven-
ton VIII assemble to establish a free
government instead of the WORKOUT
dynasty that now aff1icts the people.
The liberty of all nations, transatlantic
as well as cisatlantic, if not already
established, is on the way and it can
not be stopped.
Napoleon III. thought he had sue
cessfully driven the principle out of
France, when, on the second day of
December, 1851, he rode down the
Champs Elysees of Paris, constitutional
government seemingly crushed under
the hoofs of his steed. But did it stay
crushed? Let the batteries on the
heights above Sedan answer, and the
shout of go 900 conquering hosts, and
the letter of surrender to Emperor
William tell the story. ''Sire, My
Brother: Not having been able to die
in the midst of my troops, it only re-
your majesty's hands. am, your
majesty, your good brother, Napoleon.
Sedan, September 1, 1870" That mon
archy having fallen, then the French
republic resumed its march.
Another alienation is that the war
opens with a great victory for the
United States. 1t took our govern
ment four years to get over the fasco
at Bull Run. A defeat at the start of
this present war would have been dis
heartening to the last degree, and
would have invited foreign interven-
tion to stop the war before anything
practical for God and humanity had
been accomplished, and would have
prolonged the strife for which we are
hoping a quick termination. In the
most jubilant manner let this victory
OF our navy be celebrated. With the
story of the exploding battleship fresh
in the minds of the world, it required
no ordinary courage to sail into the
harbor of Manila and attack the Span
ish shipping. That harbor, crowded
with sunken weaponry of death; to en-
ter it was running a risk enough to
make all nations shiver. But Manila
is ours, and the blow has shaken to the
the palace at Madrid, and
for policy's sake the doubtful nations
are on our side. For Commodore Dew
ey and all who followed him let the
whole nation utter its most resound-
ing huzza; and more than that, let us
thank the Lord of hosts for Ills guild
ance and protecting power. Praise
We the Lord! Let everything that hath
breath praise the Lord!"
Another alienation is the fact that
in this war the might is on the side of
the right. Again and again have lib
erty and justice and suffering humani-
ty had the odds against them. 1t was
so when Benhadad's Syrian hosts, who
were in the wrong, at Aphek, came
upon the small regiments of Israel,
who were in the right, the Bible put
ting 1T in one of those graphic SEN
fences for which the book is remarka-
children of Israel pitched
before them like two little focks
Of kids, but the Syrians filed
the whole country" 1t was SO in
the awful defeat of the Lords people
at Gilboa and Megiddo. 1t was so
when gallant and glorious
Greece was in conflict with gigantic
Mohammedanism, ard the navies of
Europe lowering about the Bosporus
we're in practical protection of the
Turkish government, fresh from the
slaughter of 100000 Armenians. 1t
was so when, in 1776, the Is colonies,
with no war shipping and few I'M
drilled and poorly-clad soldiers, were
brought into a contest with the might
lest navy of the earth and an army
that commanded the admiration of ma
lions. 1t was SO when Poland was
crushed. 1t was so when Hungary
went under. 1t has been so during all
The struggles heretofore for Cuban in
But now it is our power
iul navy against a feeble group of
ships, crawling across the
ocean to meet our fotillaS,
which have enough guns to send them
Is completely under as when the Red
sea submerged Pharaoh's army. 1t is
so in these times, when only a few
thousand Spaniards can reach our
hemisphere, and we go out to meet
them with 1880 armed men, to be
backed up speedily with 500, 900 more if
needed. We do not have to ask for any
but only fair shot at the
ships headed this way and time enough
20 demolish them. This is one of the
,aseses in the worlds history where
night and right are shoulder to
shoulder.
Another alienation is in the fact
hat such an atrocity as the destruc-
ion of 266 lives in Havana harbor in
lime of peace can not with impunity
be wrought in this age of the worlds
The question as to who
lid that internalism is too well settled
% need any further discussion. But
what small crime it was, compared
With the systematic putting into their
graves of hundreds of thousands of Gu
pans, or leaving them unburied for the
to take care of. If Spain