The Arizona sentinel., 1898-11-05
CGL. ERODE.

1 rom the GeSHS lN1y came -lGt- ! chant and mechanic, clerk and Ila6orcr, millionaire and miner, the ] hands that wore gloves, the hands that wore grim, clasped round muahet stocks; eyes blazing with 8 new light; faces set toward the South and hearts swelling with.a i purpose never to pause for hunger nor cold, nor weary march, nor the 1 thunder of battle, nor wounds, nor death until the banner of the Union ] should float upon the nights of Moro and Spanish despoaition and
 missrule disappear forever from the Western Hemisphere.
 The world looked on at this con aict. The nations of the earth gathered about them the robes of self consciousness and said, Eve will see" See whether liberty and
 union be but the empty clapg of dsmagogUes, or the opening sesma 1 by which we may look into the 1 future and know that 1t is our duty
 to frame a policy that will lead to what the Czar of Russia asks, "a world wherein the nations of the earth may be at universal peace, land war no more" Religious liberty, at one time in the. life sf the human race was intolerat in
 what was then the SO called center of civilization,
 Rome, lifting her head above the cities of the world declared absolute supremacy, and the Roman citizen was the "lordliest mortal whom iluxagy ever pampered. "Busts of . cato adorned the vestibuIe, while ] brutality and excess ran riot through
 the halls" The people, taking
 pattern from thelr leaders, were no : better, and we see time of fearful r depravlty. There was no faith in
 the past as built upon human re-
 cords dating from the fall, and peo- e pie had lost faith m one another; I bat there remained to each human
 heart the God gift ferver of patrio-
 tlsm and love of country. History
 tells us, that in that period, the
 world was 6 Roman farm, and the
 Mediteranian Roman lake"
 : In the advance of human liberty l we see the "Wail of Waters rent a
 twain" and Israel marching to her
 destiny. To rocieye from "Slnis 2 Flights the commandments, which, 'by their light" we see the basis
 upon which. is built the temple ol
 reformation, civil and religious
 liberty. War, they tell us, IS the
 argument of kings"-patriotisul
 and love of country, the basis upon e which nations are built and modern = civilization a feature of the nine
 teeth century. Never has goIdjer
 of the union gone forth to do battle B for his country but what he knew n the ringing purpose" that existed
 behind the point of his bayonet He fought, not 10 determine wheth. CT God should be worshipped in
 surpiice or coat; not to uphold or iover-throw a dynasty; not 10 clothe
 some adventurer with the purple, or cement with his blood the crum- 9 bling foundations of some throne
 but he went forth to die in order s that a government of the people ? and by the people should not perish : from the earth"
 No grander soldiers, no fercer < warriorers ever existed than those ! of Spain in the middle centuries r but spain in ali her career has hat no use for the school-house, he
 interests were welded to the slave Q collie and the inquIsition. Ari5to $ cray was her breeding farm, ana Q prison damp and dungeon chains
 the reward Of the a0venturers wro braved the dangers of unknown seas and planted the flag of Spaj' upon three fourths Of the "Ae0
 World" One by one we see her pos
 sessions become a thing of th' 8 past" Little by little the eee6 f sown at Lexington has spread anl I 5orn it's fruit. Spain, baraft oI al T her possessions. save one, through
 miss-rule and despo.esim, at las
 mus. loose the "brightest jewel II
 her crown" the Antilles the I..ariohta-t land" the sun ever shoWI