Bridgeton pioneer., 1908-10-01

LULU uooICdUou yesterday pOlHteu OuU
Inspiration to the people of the present
day, and he urged his hearers to stand
for the government, and to stand for
the enforcement of every law that was
made by the representatives of people,
Concluding a most remarkably inter-
esting, intellectual and educating ad-
dress, Miss Adaline W. Sterling, Reg
ent N. J. Society Daughters of the
Revolution, said:
'To-day we offer this memorial as
tribute to these patriots of 1774 to
stand until it crumbles into dust,
reminder Of a deed for principles sake
and integrity of purpose. It will not
detract from the merit of the men
whose names are here inscribed if we
mention some other patriots of Cum
berland and adjacent counties who gave
service and even life for the cause of
independence. On this roll of honor
we find the names of Ensign Charles
Howell, Col. David Potter, Capt JON
adab Sheppard, Col. Enos Seeley
Lieut.. Constant Peck, Lieut.. David
Mulford, killed at Haddonfeld; Isaac
Preston, who died in service at the
Forks of the Raritan, Ensign Furman
Sheppard, David Davis, John Tice,
David Riley, Lawrence Sheppard,
Ananias Sayre, Judge of the Court of
Common Pleas, and from Salem county
Col. William Shute and Serg. John
Elwell. All these men of '76 are repre-
sented to-day in lineal descent in the
Daughters Of the Revolution. 1t was
said of Dido of old 'dux femina facti'
"a woman the leader of the deed.
Without overstepping the bounds of
modesty, it may be said of these
Observation-Disclosures of the deed-for it
is to their initial effort and persistent
work combined with the generosity Of
the State and the interest of its former
xecutive that we owe this beautiful
memorial teaching its enduring lesson
of righteous resistance to wrong and
self sacrificing devotion to country.
Miss Sterling in her address stepped
far back in the history of the country,
directing attention to the ending of
the long struggle which was continued
between the French and the Indians in
the new world, and which was ended
by the Paris treaty of 1863 after sew
enty-four years of strife. 1t was then
that France was stripped of every acre
of her North American possession, and
great was England's glory. But war
must be paid for, and Miss Stering
pointed out how the oppressive taxes
were laid upon the Colonists by George
ILL., tea being one of the chief imports
that was taxed. The patriotic people
of the colonies cut out tea from their
homes and Miss Sterling explained how
an occasional tea drinker was ostracised
ana held up to ridicule and scorn and
pointed out as an enemy of liberty.
Brightly and with remarkable accuracy
Miss Sterling explained the govern
ment partnership with the East Indian
Tea Company. of the efforts to land
the depised cargo in this country, OF
the outbreak in Boston, and how the
news of that tea destroying episode
slowly carried over the country by cor.
respondence, and the good patriots OF
Cumberland county were apprised.
Eloquenty, Miss Sterling told the ro.
mantle story of the burning of tea at
Greenwich. With telling emphasis she
extolled the patriotism of the Indian"
outbreak, and how the British SYM
pathizers made every effort to bring
about punishment for the two score
daring men both in the criminal and
civil courts. But all without avail.
Punishment never came to the earnest
heroes, and to-day great homage was
paid these men and their achievement,