Waterbury Democrat., 1901-05-29

which they were joined by a number of sailors from off the bay, who, draw ing after them a huge cable, encircled the printing office and pulled it down. The rebel party procured new ma terial and removing into a large brick building, defied the mob, and continued their publication. Anticipating another attack they wrote to Roger B. Fancy at Fredericktown, who belonged to their party, to come down to their as sistance, bringing with him lathing hatchets, pitchforks and any other inn plementS of warfare he could obtain. Roger was a sober citizen, who thought discretion was the better part of Yalor, and stayed at home. The Baltimoreans renewed their attack upon the build ing, from which many of them were fired on and killed. Governor Winder then ordered the military to rout the mob, which they did, and the sheriff entering the house, the offenders sur rendered to him and were put in jail for their patriotism. All seemed quiet until the following night, when the populace reassembled, broke into the jail, killed General Lingan ill the door way, and cruelty beat and wounded many others. They then threatened the postoffice, in which several of the newspapers were said to De deposited, but the civil and military authorities again interfering they were quiet Thus you see how history reproduces itself. You have heard of Admiral Cockburn, who commanded the British fleet? The atrocious scoundrel Words can never paint the miserable coward and boaster in his true colors. After his depredations along the eastern shore of Maryland, there followed the lii Of hslt Ia nf North Point, and the attempt of the enemy to take the city of Baltimore by water, as they had failed to do it by land. You know all about the bom- bardment of Fort McHenry, September Is, 3,1S14. 1 have gone over it again, 1n fancy, hundreds of times, and I'll tell you, Frank Key, patriotic as he was to his hearts core, could not help com posing that poem. It was forced out. of him. Just think. He was a pris- oner on the fleet which was anchored two miles from Fort McHenry, the city's main defense. He could watch all the enemy's preparations, and he knew the danger they foreboded. Through the terrific cannonading of that midnight fight, while the sky was lighted up with the fiery courses of the flying bombs, do you think that he could sleep As the struggle ceas- ed upon the coming morning and he looked through the dim twilight for the flag of his country, his heart sick with fears and doubt, could he help the grand outburst of that first verse And then, as through the mists of the deep, the banner loomed dimly in the morning suns first rays, and he exclaimed
 Iris the star spangled. banner;
 Oh long may it wave,
 Ger the land of the free and the
 home of the brave."
 It was prayer and praise all in one; and there has never been anything like it since.
 Mir Tendon stopped to wipe his sweating face. MT Hendon stopped with his red bandanna handkerchief, and took a few rapid strides across the floor. He had forgotten his cane and the weight of eighty years in this reminiscence of his strong young man. hood: and if Admiral Cockburn had that moment stood before him in the flesh and blood insolence of his real self, would have been the chronicler lnof his fate.l [ IL ,. sd4 1ti v n58L 6
 '.NVheFe were youcduring all that ex- lfcitement. sir ?'' Il Jaskebft@ Wbkenl him out of his reverie. .'Chafing like a caged tiger because was. not in it. The first day of August that same 1 year I with hundred and thirteen | others. volunteer militia, were the first | to leave Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, | in defense of Baltimore. Our rendeZ- l yous was York, Pennsylvania, where we expected to meet General Watson | of Lancaster, commander of our di- l division" "How were you uniform | ed sir ?' 'In blue cloth coats, turned up with red, blue pants, white vests, shoes with cloth gaiters over them, | fur hats and high leather stocks with | the United States coat of arms stamped upon them. I engraved the | impression for those stocks in type metal for our company. and proud day's work it was. Every man found l his own uniform, and of the many l thousand PennsylvanianS 1 have seen march from Camp Curtin within these | last ten years none felt bolder to pro- tect our country than we. When we reached York, where General Watson | was to meet us with new Harper'S $ I Ferry musketS and tents he was not on hand. and we were quartered at first in the court house. Hearing our | camp equipage was at the Carlisle bar racks, a squad of us got wagons, went after it, and brought it to York jail,
 whence each man drew his musket, l cross belt and cartridge box.
 We were on duty there several | weeks before the division of 5000 was organized. We grew dreadfully inn
 patient. Telegrams were not dreamed
 of in those days and daily newspapers
 were almost as scarce as roses ill win
 ter. One morning some of our guard went out to gather wood and hearing
 dull, rumbling noise, they laid their
 ears to the ground and listened. The
 sound of cannon was distinctly heard,
 and they hurried to camp with the 1 news. Soon wagons. outwardly filled
 with hay, but containing the specie
 from the banks i'll Baltimore, came in
 for protection, followed by every kind
 of vehicle, packed with fleeing Balti-
 moreans. Then, in tremendous haste,
 we were filed into ranks and marched
 to the seat of war, three days after
 the battle had been fought. General
 Armstrong had brother-in-law
 named Kennedy who was appointed
 colonel of the regiment He knew as
 much about military tactics as bear
 does of mathematics An old school
 master. with scarcely an idea above
 the common spelling book of that pc
 riod, and vain and tyrannical in pro-
 portion as he was ignorant, he was
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