The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1900-04-17


Now the time swing back line the false
gods of prejudice and calamity and reoin the great
"buildngup party again
April 10Th
How many readers of the RRvEw that April
quite historic month and that of its days should be
served Flag Day. How many older readers remember
with quickenng pulse the bombardment surrender of
Fort Sumpter Island No the taking Richmond the
thrilling of Lees surrender the tragic death of the
mortal Lincoln and Johnstons surrender and the disband
of his army, the last coming rapid
succession that the world amazed The goth April
will be remembered the wedding day. speak, of the
states into ndssolvble unon constitutional govern
ment which became affective Washington the
Office Of chief executive This day might we'll be flag day
But the date dearest of all April dates the 10Th of April
when at Lexington and Concord in 775 the first battle of
the Revolution fought and the first lives offered the
altar of liberty In each of these SMALL quiet villages
which, by the way than miles from the
suburbs of Boston, appropriate have been
The at Concord rectangular pedestal eight
feet high surmounted by posture alert
hand resting his pillow handle other
nervousy graspng his musket upon the block
those words of Emerson famous school book
''By the rude bridge that arched the flood,
Their flag April breeze unfured,
Here the embatted farmers stood
And fired the shot heard round the world
AS near as can remember the stands the
river that skirts the AS you look monu
you feel your blood flushing the VEINS thrilling SEN
saton and feel like tossing your hat the air Civ
ing vent to your pent up enthusiasm the
next you awed by the hallowed of the past
If my memory fails me not there be much Of the
old bridge of hewn timber left but SO many his
torlc spots in and about Boston, that being very young
when living there, have but faint recollecons of MANY
places.
prominent New Hampshire newspaper company raises
the flag its office these historic days. pretty
costum we'll patriotic one, and should be pracced
more generally don't believe in flying the American flag
kite advertisement such use of it demeans it,
When foated over Ticonderoga Jones ship, Fl. Nc
Henry, Lake Erie Gettysburg Manila, San Juan Ha
it great deal. Let it be Let it repre-
sent principle, American manhood and womanhood The
boys and girls like to the flag floating silently teaching
its lessons of for law and order and loyalty justice
and good government The stripes should float
school and office April 10TH will tell its
story.
Every school boy knows the clustering words of the
naughty britain, Pitcairn, he orders the minutemen to
dispense In the words of Gage himself .sThey were not
the despcabe rabble he took them be- On the con-
tra the gallant COL Parker told his farmer soldiers to stand
their ground Not to fire unless fired upon but if they
mean to have war let it begin. And it did begin The
British with four many times as many
and took second trained army the remnants of
Ptcairns and Smiths text books tell us that the
British destroyed the military Lexington Con-
cord but that true the ammunition was rehd
womans pluck outdid the britain
Every April 10Th multitudes flock Concord
to Lexington They read again the nscrp-
tons history recte Paul Revees Ride and re-
turn over the roads travelled that famous midnight by
Paul Revere directly Lexington William Dawes by
way of Roxbury.
"a hurry of hoofs in village street,
shape in the moonlight, bulk in the dark,
And beneath from the pebbles in passing, spark
Struck out by steed flying fearless and fleet:
That all! And yet through the gloom and the light
The fate of a nation riding that night;
And the spark struck out by that steed in his flight,