Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1898-05-11

| let us go. Lord North, his Prime Minister.
would not have let us go. General Lord
| CORVALLIS would not have let us go, al
| though after Yorktown he was glad enough
| to have us let him go. The battleields or
| the American Revolution were proof posi-
| tive that they were not willing to let us go.
Any committee of Americans going across
the ocean to see what could have been
| lone would have found no better accom-
modations than London Tower. The only
way it could have been done was by the
| sword YOUR great -grandfather's sword.
JetTerson's pen could write the Declaration
Of Independence, but only Washington's
sword could have achieved it, and the
other swords bathed in heaven.
"Arbitrament will take the place of war
between nation and nation, and national
armies will disband as a consequence, and
the time will come-6od hasten itl-when
there will be no need of an American
| army or navy, or Russian army or
navy But some time after that cities will
have to keep their armories and arsenals
and well-drilled militia, because until tho
mllennial day there will be populations
with whom arbitrament will be rs impossi-
| BILE as treaty with a cavern of hyenas or
| Jungle OF snakes. These men who rob
| stores and give garroters hug, and prowi
about the wharves at midnight, and rattle
| the dice in gambling hells and go armed
with pistol or dirk, will refrain from dis
turb.nces of the public peace Just in pro-
portion as they realize that the militia of a
city, instead of being an awkward squad,
and in danger of shooting each other by
mistake, or losing their own life by looking
down into the gun barrel to see IL it is load
ed, or getting the ramrod fast in their boot
leg, are prompt as the sunrise, keen rs the
north wind, potent as thunderbolt, and
accurate and regular ami disciplined IN
their movements as the planetary system.
Well DONE then, | say to the Legislatures
and Governors and Mayors. and all officials
who decide upon larger armories and bet
ter places for drill aud more generous
equipment for the militia. The sooner tho
sword can safely go back to the scabbard
to stay there, the better; but until the hilt
clangs against the case in that final lOig-
ment, let the sword be kept free from rust:
sharp all along the edge and its point like
a needle and the handle polished, not only
by the chamois of the regimental servant,
but by the hand of brave and patriotic OH
GERS, always ready to do their full duty.
Such swords are not bathed in impetuOsity,
or bathed in cruelty or bathe1 in oPQres-
sion, or bathed In outrage; but bathed in
heaven.
Before speak of the doom of the sword,
let me also say that it has developed the
grandest natures that the world ever saw.
1t has developed courage-that sublime
energy of the soul which deiies the uni
verse when it feels itself to be in the right.
1t has developed a self-sacriice which re-
pudiates the idea that our life is worth
more than anything else, when for prin-
ciple it throws thai life away, as much as
to say: 1t is not necessary that live, but
it is necessary that righteousness triumph
There are tens of thousands among the
Northern and Southern veterans OF ouT
Civil War who are ninety-iive per cent.
larger and mightier in soul than they would
have been had they not, during the four
years of national agony, turned their back
on home and fortune and at the front sac
rinced all for n principle.
'But the sword is doomed. There is one
word that will vet be written in every
throne-room, in every war office, in every
navy yard. in every national council. That
word is ID Disarmament. But no government
can afford to throw its sword away until
all the great governments have agreed to
do the same-until disarmament and con-
sequent arbitration shall be agreed to by
all the great governments, any single gov
eminent that dismantleS its fortresses and
spikes its guns, and breaks its sword,
would simply invite its own destruction.
Suppose, before such general agreement
England should throw away her sword;
think you France has forgotten Waterloof
Suppose, before such general agreement
Germany should throw her sword away;
how long would Alsace and Lorraine stay
as they are2 Suppose the Gar of Russia
before such general agreement shOul throw
away his sword, all the eagles and vuitures
and lions of European power would gather
for a piece of the Russian bear. suppose in
some future time the United States, with
out any such general agreement of disar.n
ament, should throw away her sword, it
would not be long before the our great har-
bors would be ablaze with the bunting of
foreign navies coming here to show the
folly of the Monroe doctrine"
"What a horror is war and it's crueties
was well illustrated when the Tartars, after
sweeping through Russia and Poland. dis
played with pride nine great sacks filed
with the right ears of the fallen. and when
a correspondent of the London Times, writ
ing of the wounded after the battle of
Sedan, said: Every moan that t. human
voice can utter rose from that heap of
agony and cries of water For the love of
God, waterl A doctorl A dOctOrl never
ceased. After war has wrought such cruel
ties how glad we will be to have the old
monster himself die. Let his dying couch
be spread in some dismantled fortress
through which the stormy winds howl.
Give him for pillow battered shield, and
let his bed be hard with the rusted bayonets
of the slain. Cover him with the coarsest
blanket that picket ever wore, and let his
only cup be the bleached bone of one of his
war-chargers and the last taper by his bed
side expire as the midnight blast sighs in
to his ears: The candle of the wicked shall
be put out.
''In this time of our national trial let us
dedicate ourselves anew to God and our
In tne English cOuuicI, calleu
tho War of the Roses, white rose was tne
badge of the House of York, and the red
rose the badge of the House of Lancas-
ter, and with these two colors they op-
posed each other in battle. To enlist you
in the holy war for all that is good
against all that is wrong | pin over your
heart two badges, the one suggestive of
the blood shed for our redemption, and
the other symbolic of a soul made white
and clean the Rose of Sharon and the Lily
of the Valley.
s'And as for our beloved country in this
crisis, there are three reasons why We
should do our best for that. Three reasons:
Our fathers graves, our own cradles, our
childrens birthright. When | say your
fathers graves your pulses run quicker.
Whether they sleep in city cemetery or
in village graveyard, their ashes are pre-
cious to you. They lived well and they
died right. You will not submit to have
their tombs dishonored by the foot Of any
foreign foe. Then this land has been our
cradle. 1t may have rocked US roughly,
but it was a good cradle to be rocked in.
oh, how much we owe it. Dear land of
our boyhood and girlhood daysl And it
is to be our children's birthright. We will
after awhile be through with it; We will
see only few more blossoms of the
spring; we will gather only "a few more of
the harvests of the summer; we will pluck
only a little more of the fruits OF the au-
tumn; but our children, they must get it
through us, as we got it from our fathers
"a free land, a happy land, Il Christian
land.
The Adams homestead at Quincy Miss
has been restored under the directioy
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