Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1899-01-09

The following is the address deJiUered by
ReU. T. L. Goodspeed Of SpringJfetd'
Mass, before the Congregational club
ct the church an this viuage recently:
It is not necessary to glorify war in order
to recognize the fact that history has been
largely made and human rights advanced
through the stern arbitrament of the sword.
IN his great History of the Middle Ages,
Hallan speaks of those few decisive bat
ties of which a contrary event Woul have
changed the advance of the world" The
blood of the slain has been the seed of lib
erty and the impulse of progress, and the
victories of the battlefield have been the
great milestones in the onward march OF
mankind. Marathon made Europe Greek
and not Asiatic. Zama gave the mastery
of the world to Rome instead of Carthage.
At Tours Charles Martel and bis Franks
drove back the Saracens and saved Europe
to Christianity and the future, by break
ing the threatening power Of the followers
of Mahammed. Naseby and Dunbar were
the birthplaces of A~nglo-SaXOn freedom.
The victory of Waterloo, where Victor
Hugo says, "God defeated Bonaparte," was
the triumph of constitutional liberty over
French glory and despotism. Napoleon
had mastered the mobs of Paris. His eye
had glanced along the Alps and he climbed
them; he had crossed deserts, fought un-
der the shadow of the monument of Che
ops-greatest soldier of modern times, most
willy in strategy, SURPRISING Caesar in bril-
liancy, excelling Alexander in courage.
He failed and passed, and the relgns OF
empire dropped from his fingers because
he was not the champion Of a divine idea,
because he held no splendid and generous
hopes for mankind, because he never bound
his conscience and his life back to a cause
greater han himself and more lasting than
time, because he did not link his amb1-
lions with the onward march Of Gods
purpose, a movement which is the force
and glory of history. Standing beneath
the Pyramids he had stirred his soldiers
to Withstand the shock of the Mamelukes
by saying, "Soldiers, from yonder Pyra-
mids forty centuries are looking down
upon you" 1t was the appesl to French
emotion and glory and chivalry. But in
that same war Nelson signaled to his sail
il al SNHSOOS WY
man to do his duty" That was the ap-
Deal 10 the Anglo-Saxon sense of duty
personal responsibility, and exhibits
he difference in ideals which has always
the Saxon and the Celt. In
hat day when William of Orange stood
10 there in the Neither lands and lifted up
he flag of freedom and progressive civil
zation upon the dikes Of brave little Hol-
md, there was another crisis in the affairs
t the world. 1t was an unequal contest,
,ut 50 brave and true were the Dutch and
o great the ideals for which they stood
hat at last victory came and sat upon the
anners of their noble cause. Another
uch dramatic and far-reaching event was
he destruction of the Spanish Armada.
that formidable feet left the har-
ors OF Spain and flew like a vast flock of
uItures toward the shores of England,
be fate of America and of the Future
ung in the balance. If Philip had over
Inclined the English, no English-speak-
ng colony would have been planted in
he western hemisphere, the western con-
would have repeated the mediaeval-
SIN and the oppression of Spain, and the
oloCSo VI II I'LL - NCOO
and blessing would have been a
hing unknown. Protestant England and
Spain met when Drake entered
be harbor of Cadiz and decided the des-
of America and the future. Professor
ohm Fiske says, 'EThe defeat of the in
mobile Armada was the opening event in
he history of the United States" Sara
oga and Bunker Hill and Yorktown made
-merica American and not British. And
where rebellion received it's
cath blow, proved that "a nation conceiv-
d in liberty and dedicated to the sublime
roposition that all men are equal" can
endure.
Fifty years ago there appeared a notable
ook entitled "Decisive Battles of the
by Greasy, but he left out of his
count one of those critical incidents in
istory which later investigation has
to be as pregnant with destiny to
ne world as the battle of Marathon in
-hich MiItiades checked the advance of
EASTERN barbarism and drove the Persian
Ordes into the sea. [ mean the battle of
uebec, in which the Latin and Saxon
0ntended for the supremacy of the conti-
ent. England had already achieved lib
rty and constitutional government. At
her barons had Wrested Mag
a Charta from King John. Upon this
he English people had established rep
sentative government, the rights of all
a parIiment of the people. But in
rance the direct contrary had taken place;
1ere the king had conquered the barons;
e had absorbed their rightr, cofiscated
leir property, and reduced them to sim
lie vassals and courtiers. The government
as an iron militarism and dospotism,
rushing and terrible. In Canada this
ystelm of despotic feudalism had been re-
reduced. Although the valley of the St.