The Lamar register. [volume] (Lamar, Colo.) 1889-1952, 1907-08-07
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BUNKER HILL
By MAX ADELER

ueI hb 6uDtultOI thc "a
gus. On the day before the anniver-
stry of Bunker Hill, Bangs asked
Scudder II he was familiar with the
history of that battle, and Scudder
said he was. So Bangs told Scudder
he would like him to write up little
sketch OF 1t for the anniversary day.
and Scudder said he would try. The
next morning the sketch appeared In
the Argus. and attracted good deal
of attention. When Bangs saw 1t he
called Scudder in and said:
Mr. Scudder, didn't you tell me you
thought you were familiar with the
battle of Bunker HIP"
Yes, sir
We'll, II that Is the case l will be
obliged to you II you will mention
to me what you mean when you say:
by four o'clock the Confederate
troops were ready to make the attack
General Washington had the catapults
put in line to await their coming, and
when Napoleon saw them, he drew
his sword, and exclaimed: Soldiers!
Twenty centuries look down upon
you
Now, Mr.. Scudder, II you had pos
sessed the most ordinary acquaintance
with that conflict, you would have
been aware that Napoleon was not
resent. and that the idea of George
Washington fighting the Confederate
army with catapults is calculated to
excite the derision of educated per
sons. And / wish to direct your at
tention. Mr.. Scudder. to another his
torical inaccuracy. At the bottom Of
the second column there you say:
No sooner were the battering rams
leveled against the walls of the castle
than the Duke of Wellington sent
word to his mother by General Butler
that he would either win or be brought
home upon his shield. Then order
Ing his men to fire at the whites OF
the enemy's eyes. he awaited the on,
set with that majestic calmness which
ever distinguished the hero of Buena
Vista
Now, I don't want to hurt your
feelings. Mr.. Scudder, but really. for
journalist, this kind of thing won't do.
| You certainly must realize that the
battle of Bunker Hill was not fought
In a castle with battering rams; and,
| ut any rate. when you allude to the
| Duke OF Wellington communing with
| General Butler. and connect him with
Buena Vista, there 10 actually no hope
Of your molding public opinion on
those topics. The public mind is
made up. And then a little farther
on. in 10 next column. you say:
This WIS the very crisis of the
1 Aat ~
Jackson behind the cotton bales,
dashed at him upon her snow white
charger swinging her ponderous bata-
tle-ax above her head; her fair hair
streamed behind her in the wind. As
her steed pressed forward. her hair
caught in the bough of a tree, and as
she hung there, Sergeant Bates shot
| her through the heart with bolt from
an arquebuss. Her last words were
Don't give up the ship
Now. you soc. Mr.. Scudder, this
II hurts the paper. You've got Absa
lom mixed up somehow In your mind
with Joan of Arc. who died about
10000 years before General ), ckson
who wasn't at Bunker Hill, and who
never knew Sergeant Bates any more
than Sergeant Bates knows how tc
fire an arquebvss. Arquebuss! Ora
cious Heaven! No doubt you meant
well, but you've about done the bust
ness for us, especially here, where you
say:
THE duke could stand 1t no longer
The Mamelukes bad slain all OF his
| L..
his leg and retired on pension; and
the enemy's administers. lodged II
the top of the monument, were pour
ing boiling oil on those who attempt
cd to scale 1t. Leaping upon his
horse. he shouted. "Up guards. and Al
them!" and the next moment, will
the glorious nag of truce in one hand
and his sword in the other. he hurled
his legions upon the Lava-beds, ant
crushed the savage foe to the earth
killing, among others, the well-knowr
General Harrison. afterward Presi
dent of the United States
THE duke! Mamelukes! Flag O
truce! Lava-beds! Awful. sir. aw
full! The Argus II a goner! Gone up
Mr.. Scudder! Slain! But how coult
you nave scared up tnat lQea aDOu
man fighting with nag OF truce
in his hand? And how, oh. how coult
you have killed q man who you admi
was afterward President of the United
States? No comic paper ever sur
passed this. It 10 terrible! thinl
we shall have to part, Mr.. Scudder. /
seems to me that your career as ,
journalist ought to come to an ent
right here. 1 will accept your resig
nation.
And II any one asks you why 20,
left the Argus. point to this last par
agraph and say that 1t was becaus,
the proprietor was afraid he'd muir
der you when he read your statemen
that AT the battle Of Bunker Hill tn,
Confederates lost $4,000 and the Car
thagenians only $780, and that 'ther,
is no spot in Virginia that the peopl,
hold more sacred than that blood,
hill where the bones of Cromwell II,
with those of Roger Williams, as 1
in life they had never fought agains
each other in the cause of the consti
tuition and cheap transportation Poin