The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-05-25

will not suffer II to grow weaker.
splendid Grafton by Lodge.
The orator of the day was Senator
Lodge of sachusetts, who began his
address as the French band concluded
a selection.
Mr.. Lodge reviewed the connection of
France with the early history of North
America, her departure from these
shores, and her return to wreak an
ample vengeance upon Great Britain
for depriving her of an empire here.
The French government aided us
with money and with men, by land and
4 by sea-" he said, but the decisive force
4 was that which landed at Newport In
\ the long July days of 1880. To that
4 brave we'll Differed, highly disciplined
army we raise a monument to-day by
placing here in the nations capital the
statue of it's commander. For their
service and for his own we owe him a
debt of gratitude, for which we should
here make lasting acknowledgment,
one which will stand unchanged be-
meath the sunshine and the rain long
after the words we speak shall have
been forgotten"
lie reached the United States at a
dark hour for the American cause. The
first fervor of resistance had cooled,
the active fighting had subsidized in the
North, Congress had grown feeble and
inert, government and finance both
dragged heavily and it seemed as if the
revolution, so successful in the field
would founder upon the rocks of polit-
ical and executive incapacity. Wash
lngton and the army in the midst of
almost unparalleled difficulties alone
kept the cause alive. The coming of
Rochambeau and his army was a great
good fortune and yet it's first result was
to induce further relaxation of effort
on the part of Congress. Washington,
realizing all the event meant, opened
correspondence at once with Rocham-
beau, but it was not until September
that he was able to meet the Franch
commander in person at Hartford. 1t
was great relief to the heavily bur
dened General to meet such a man as
Rochambeau and yet even then as he
turnd back with lightened heart and
lifted hopes the news of Arnoid's trea-
son smote him on his arrival at West
Point. The summer had gone and
nothing had been done.
Time forbids me to tell the bril-
liant story of that campaign; of the
manner in which De Barras was in
duced to bring his squadron from the
North; of the adroitness with which
the skill and rapidity with which the
french and American armies were
hurried from New York to the Chesa-
peaKe and thence to Yorktown. The
great the golden moment so longed
IoI oy Washington, when he could
unite both land and sea power, had
al last arrived. De Grasse was master
Of the bay. The English fleet was
scattered and divided. Clinton SUM
oered in New York and CORVALLIS,
with some 5000 men, was in Yorktown,
win the united French and American
armies drawn close about him. Fast
followed the siege, nearer came the
enclosing lines; Lauzun dashed back
b bariton S cavalry at the very
beginning, and every British sor-
tie from that moment was re-
pulsed. Day by day the
parallels were pushed forward and al
Iast Washington declared the advanced
BRUSH redoubts practical for assaults
me French, under Viomenil, the
the grenadiers of Gatinois, the regi.
rent of Auvergne and Deux-Pont.
s.ormed one and here the most famous
VI the French regiments recovered
mom their King the proud motto o.
AuVorgne sans tache.'' The othei
aeuoubt was assigned to the Aemri
ms under Lafayette, led by Alexan
Hamilton and John Laurense
poth assaults. brilliantly delivered
we're successful and the American
ines included the ground which haC
zen so calamity Won A desperate
~ Sol lie under Colonel Graham complete
h. Iepulsed. vain attempt to escap,
~ water and than all was over. o.
az S.s 18TH Of October CORVALLIS surren
30 and on the following day the
lush hled out and laid down thei
ms iHs' passing between the ordered
li'i,Ss OF the French drawn up under tn,
-'.'ss and the ranks of the American.
ealalng beneath the thirteen star:
Nv. NJ on that day in the armament Of
b aS The American Revolution
ne oeen fought out and the new peo
STAT the square there stands thu
am OF Lafayette. He brought M
de- y IKE Rochambeau: no fleet like
Of b,ldSse He came by no command
ms. ring. Yet has he always beer
AM, TO the hearts of Americans thar
rasss s,ldn not of their own people. TIL,
HE ~. - not far to seek He came OF
a. oWn accord and brought with him
sympathy Of France. He repre-