The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-07-05


 Puritan Element Blessings Growing Out Of the Present War.
 "The Chosen People of Freedom"
 An historian relates how, in 1865, Louis Wigfall said in Richmond: Sir, l wish to live in no country where the man who blacks my boots or curries my horse is my equal" Three months af- terward Abraham Lincoln walked the streets of Richmond and, as president of the United States, respectfully lifted his hat to the men who blacked boots and curried horses. That action was the result of process running through long centuries. It is the story of the struggle for freedom in all lands, in all ages. This story is the real history of the race. Not all chapters of human chronicles are alike important. The real history of man, of rational, im- mortal beings is found only in the rec ords of those great movements in the world of which human liberty has been established and perpetuated.
 The first chapters of this history were written long ago. Doubtless in pre-his- toric times, unknown heroes and mar tyrs stood up against tyranny, at the cost of life. We have the tale of these golden days of the Grecian republic. There is freedom in the air of the Ro- man forum. We find the spirit of lib- erty on the banks of the Arno, on the snow-capped peaks of the Alps where brave men withstood Austrian oppres- sion, in the fierce Netherlands where Spanish insolence and ambition were overthrown.
 But the ancient liberty of Greece and Rome was not founded on a basis broad enough to live. The suffrage power was in the hands of the few and those making the experiment were not nu- merous or powerful enough to maintain their position.
 Our present freedom is purely Anglo Saxon. It had it's birth In the forests of that Northland whence the Angles and Saxons first came to England. The tribal government survives in New England to-day We take our word town from their tongue. And what an epic is the tale of their heroic de- fense through the centuries of their lib- critics, against all aggressions and us- urpations I have reverentIy held in | Magma Charta, the charter of our rights as freeman.
 The Petition of Rights, the Bill of Rights, the declaration of independence, the constitution of the United States, the Reform Bill of 1882, the emancipa- tion proclamation and fifteenth amend ment--what a glorious series but each resting back on that magnificent great charter extorted at Runymede from King John
 How have men battled for their liber- ties? Spartus and his gIadiators-th sublime Judean under the Maccabees- Harold on the field of Hastings, Crom- . well and his Tronsides, William of Or ! ange! And there was Wat Tyler. head ing his peasants, foully murdered, and Jack Cade, reviled in history and poe try, written for aristocrats as an un- ruly churl, struggling in a riotous up- rising; but he deserves our compassion , and reverence as a leader against grievous oppression, when the ancient rights were ignored and those high in place had laid sacreligous hands on immemorial privileges. They were yeomen like those of Washington s host
 We stand here hard by the grave of one who gave righteous death-sentence against king traitorous to his people He fled in exile, but still felt, as the in- scription of Judges Cave reads, that l 'disobedience to tyrants was obedience l to God" I am proud to be descended | directly from another of those regicdes , Colonel Oakley, who when he was hung in London said T am as confident even as I am of my resurrection that that cause which we first took up the sword for, which was for righteousness and for justice, shall yet revive" He predicted confidently and not in vair that that cause, for which so much ] blood has been shed, shall have another resurrection"
 Queen Elizabeth once said to the Spanish ambassador in England: q cannot tell what these devils want "They want liberty, Madam" was the Spaniards reply, "and if princes dc , themselves and work together to put such people down, they will find before long what all this is coming to-" Go tc the city of Boston and one can see what it came to in our own history. Climt the State House dome and look out in | Dlu oOull CLUTCH, GdtCH Lne Steeple Ol Christ church where the warning Ian. tern hung, follow with your eye tn, route of Paul Revere's ride gaze upor the piece of blood-stained shirt of ont of those Lexington militia men whC fired the shot heard round the world upon the first gun captured in the Rev olution upon part of the original lib erty tree, upon the monument of thos, l who fell in the Boston massacre.
 Stand in the old State House whert "the child of Independence was born and listen to the echoes of the oratory ot Otis and Adams, Warren and Hancock or in Fanueil Hall before the massiv painting of the debate of Webster ant Hayne, with It's inscription of "Liber ty and Union, Now and Forever" O go nearer by into our own Yale art gal e lery and look long upon those origina portraits of Washington and Lincol1 and Grant and the pictured battles O Bunker Hill and Princeton. If yol would know more of what men will d for freedoms sake uncover in Bostol before the memorial of Robert GOul Shaw leading the black troops of a de spised race to the awful carnage of tn assault on Fort Wagner.
 ? Right in the van, on the red rampant