Arizona silver belt., 1898-04-21
APRIL IN AMERICAN HISTORY.
The Month in Which all Our Wars
 Begin.

The doings of the month of April fill large place in American history. All the country's wars began in that month. On April Is, 1775, Paul Re- we're took that midnight ride" which Longfellow tells us of, when he"spread the alarm through every Middlesex vil- lage and farm. for the country folk to be up and to arm." The next day the "embattled farmers" at Concord bridge fired the shot heard round the world" That was the beginning of the war of independence. On April Is, IT'S, the aid which France prom ised the struggling Americans when she recognized their independence she furnished, for on that day French fleet was ordered to blockade the Brit. ish war ships which were in the Della. ware. Frances assistance marked the turning point in the fortunes of the Americans. In April, 17Sl, the vic tories under Gen. Greene in the South were the beginning of that years series of triumphs which resulted in the cap ture of Cornwallis at Yorktown and the close of the war.
 It was in April, 1872, that the end came to the long series of shuffles and surrenders to England by the Jefferson and Madison administrations. On the 9th day of that month, in that year, Congress passed new embargo. It differed from tho previous non-impor tation, embargo, non-intercourse and other trade restriction acts which GOV cred the period between 1906 and 1911. All these were directed against Eng land and France in retaliation for those nations attacks on American com merce, but experience showed that they hurt the United States more than they did the countries they were aimed at. The embargo of April, 1912, how ever, which was to last 90 days, was ayowedly preliminary to war with England. The actual declaration of war did net come until June Is of thnt year, but everybody on both sides of the Atlantic knew when the embargo saa enacted that the conflict had vir. tually begun. On April 24, lSi6, large body of Mexicaus attacked and defeated a smaller body of Americans near the Rio Grande, and the war with Mexico started.
 In the war of secession April figures prominently. On the 18th day of that month, in 1861, Fort Sumter was st- tackled by Gen. Beauregard, and the great conflict which John Bright, an enemy of wars, called the only right eous war of the century, began. On April l5 President Lincoln called for 75,000 volunteers, which was Gn evil dence that the government recognized the fact that state of war was in progress Four days later, on the an- adversary of the battles at Lexington and Concord. the opening fights of the revolution, a body of Massachusetts militia, hastening to the defense of Washington, fought their way through the streets of Baltimore, on which oc. casion the first blood of the civil war was shed. Shiloh was fought and New Orleans was captured in that month in 1862; the Vicksburg batteries were run by Porter's fleet and transports be- longing to Grant in that month in 1863; Grants wilderness campaign started in the same month in 1864, and in that month in 1865 the surrender at Appomattox occurred, and President Lincoln was assassinated. If war with Spain takes place in the next ten days April's sanguiDsry associations will be maintained and extended. Globe Democrat.