New-York tribune., 1906-08-13

Fort Bill
A convention Of towns in Suffolk County. Mas
sachusetts, resolved thata king who violates the
chartered rights OF his people fOrfeits their al
| legiance, and IT therefore refused obedience TO
70 the recent act. One Of the first things the
Continental Congress did was 10 send Paul
Revere TO bear to Boston their warm approval
| Of the Suffolk County resolutions. General Gage
now undertook to arrest Adams and Hancock as
conspicuous leaders in this policy, and transport
! them TO England for trial. He sent a body OF
regular troops TO do it under cover OF night.
Werren started Paul Revere midnight ride,
ahead Of the British troops, to give the alarm:
At Lexington these Troops came upon BODY OF
minute men commanded by the grandfather OF
Theodore Parker. ordered them to disperse. and
as they still stood. grim but undemonstratlVe
fired upon them. Eight fell and ten more we're
wounded Concord followed. an hour or Two
later the ernbatfIed farmers fired the shot heard
round the world, and the was begun Frank
lin, seeing that there was no more hope in Lon
don was already upon the ocean returning TO
take his place with his people.
l have finished the story What remains IS
merely the hghting-the CHASTITY civil war be-
BOTH SIDES sons But the contest was not
WON. really between the British peo-
pie and their colonizing sons,
and as matter Of fact both profted by the re-
| suit. Even the fighting was largely between
Americans and Hessians The Ministry hired
soldiers to carry on its war. because Great Brit
ain did not readily furnish them. The actual
contest between what now universally
recognized as AnRlo-Saxon principles of govern
ment and movement under the King or the
day that would have set England back 10 the
times Of Charles l. The colonists were inspired
Charta- The intellectual emancipation that
came from the and the fervOr for personal
rights that came from the other reached their
natural development easier and quicker amid the
untraunelled surroundings of new world
Their triumph checked a reaction in England,
and the British government or the nineteenth
century was distinctly more advantageous to
the people, more glorious for the nation and
greater beneicence to Europe and the world be-
of this struggle with the colonists in the
last quarter Of the eighteenth.
1t used to be said that American histories Of
mfr o
Britain. Perhaps they were. At the close Of
this civil war with the Mother Country, Aperi-
cans may have been somewhat in the temper
OF the Puritans after the Parliamentary wars,
or Of the Royallsts after the Restoration. Ger
! tainly they had not reached that stage in the
evolution OF free government which enabled
them, eighty years later, to close another civil
war without single execution and with a speedy
return TO the defeated side of all It's political
privileges. It has even been said that histo-
rans now tend TO perpetuate an old unfairness
ana bitterness. If that were ever true, nope
and believe it IS true no longer At any rate,
Americans, while not always agreeing. accept in
/ the main with pleasure the work upon that pc
riod of recent English historians like the la
mented Lecky. They are satisfied with the ad-
mirabie history Of The American Revolution on
/ which the Right Hon Sir George Otto Trevelyan, .
late of your own government is still engaged.
And they are likewise content with the compre-
! hensive report Of what that Revolution led to,
In the luminous pages of The American Com
monWealth," by member of your present gov
ernment, the Right Hon. James Bryce, Secre-
tary for Ireland May take the liberty, If not
| American at least a, loyal and grateful
I son OF cambridge, TO add ana ADOPT the INES OF !
your great Victorian poet with which one Of
! these Engshmen introduces his work:
20 thou that sendest out the man
To rule by land and sea,
Strong mother Of a lion-line
Be proud of those strong sons of thine
Who wrenchd their rights from thee
When the war began Edmund Burke. estimated
the population Of the colonies at from one-fifth
to one-fourth that Of Great
GROWTH Britain. White and black.
! INFLUENCE: il scarcely reached two and
SECRET OF three-quarter millions When
THE SUCCESS. the closed there were
2.3S9,000 whites. and prob
ably in all little short of three millions. Seven
years later at the first periodical census in 1890
there were nearly four millions The war cost
the cOlonists one hundred and forty millions OF
dollars Eighty years later they had another
Civil War which left them with debt of s2.s44,-
millions; and to-day their debt is reduced more
than one-half (to S12S4. ABB and their popu-
lation increased 10 over eighty millions Seventy
six millions by the census Of six years agol. to
say nothing of the population OF island depend 4
encies. Then they formed narrow fringe along
the Atlantic Coast. with few frontier settle
ments breaking through the gaps in the Alle-
gheny range 10 the fertile valleys on its western
slopes to-day they overspread continent. and
swarm in the islands OF the sea
To follow the effects of this rise OF the United
States further nov Uod o1Itr1In anv rea sOrabIe
drafts upon your time and patience. That Its
echo first heard amid the crashing of old
doubted. Il was certainly factor in the subse-
ouent rapid extension of popular rights through
I our Europe, the DrOaGenlng OF ClllZenSnlp, Lne
freer participation or the people IN their govern
Tnents. AS il stimulated Liberty by its political
development so il stimulated material welfare
by its inventions, its products and its oppOr-
tunities. We scarcely conceive now of
world without American food and American cot
ton without the American applications Of steam
and electricity, without the American outlet
for superhuous energy and superfuous popula-
ton.
The people OF the new nation hold as firmly
as they had while cOOnists that there should
be taxation without representation. and they
We're some time IN 0ouDt as 10 Whether there
should be any representation without taxation
In several States ownership Of a freehold of fifty
acres or town lot was necessary; in scarcely
any could the suffrage be exercised without a
return of considerable taxable property, real or
personal A reasonable degree of intelligence
was also exacted and the Iuterate
cluded Far fewer offices than were
elective. The Judges were generally appointed
sometimes for seven years. sometimes during
good behavior. Even the delegates to the Con-
tnental Congress were chosen not by the people
but by the Legislatures
There n hindrance in learning trades;
limit TO the hours Of labor; power keep
a man from working II he wanted to work and
found work. The coonists would have accepted
unreSerVedly those golden words with which
Clenenceau lately thrtlle6 the French Chamber
Of Deputies, but while accepting them would
have wondered why he thought II necessary to
say so obvious thing IN so solemn a way
y Jestime que tout homme, qui besoin de ira
WALLER ct qui trouve dU travail, a le droit de
travailler: Testime que la societe ct les pOuvors
publics ont le devoir de lui assurer Texercce de
&c drotss''
The result Of it all is the marvel of modern
history II was English prelate and scholar
who said OF IT, Time nOblest offspring is the
last" What in the Anal analysis made the sue
cess2-for who shall say the splendid growth Will
survive if what made it be lost?
Well first OF all 1t made. most
cesses are. by character America In the max
ing was intelligent moral religious and relig-
{o,,cl daT0fa fad n he o0TT m Of