The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-06-28


 act, and of a stamp and, tea taA Ne was ruefui1y hoisted J with his e-1n petard. when in spite of the wiser views and counseis of his ministers. Grenvilie. and afterwards Townshsnd, he gave utterance to these fateful words: Nothing but force will ever settle the trouble with the American colonies" and camped an English army on Boston Commons. The ominous rumbiing of the volcano which was soon to rend the soil had be6n heard as early as 1766. In the wrathfui tones of the patriotic James Otis and Samuel Adams of Boston, while the fiery out burst of Patrick Henry in the Assembly of Virginia, 3 few years later. was the lightning streak that precedes the thunder peal.
 But deaf to the erica of the strug- gling Infant giant. that would not be shackled and enslaved by Taxation Without Representation" England opened fire on the rebels, as she called the coionists. and when, in March, 1770, eleven Boston boys. the flower of that chivalry known as the Sons of. Lib- erty." gathered in their defenceless breasts the bullets from the firelocks of a hundred British soldiers under the command of the savage Preston, the first blood of the American Revolution was shed. and the war. foreseen and foretold by Joseph Warren. the immor- tai patriot. whose statue towers today above the sunlit crest of Bunker Hiii. where he fell in the prime of his glo- rious manhood. the war was begun and well on. History tells us that heralds on swift relays of horses transmitted the war message from hand to hand. Paul Revere sped on that thrilling. breakneck midnight ride. through Med ford and ChariestownSto Concord and Lexington. to awaken the minute men. Village spoke. the message to village. the sea to the back woods. the plains to the highlands.
 It was never suffered to droop. Its loud revellle broke the siumbers of the trappers of New Hampshire, the ringing-like bugIc notes from peak to peak overleaped the Green Mountains swept onward to Montreal, foated down the ocean river, till the responses were echoed from the cliffs of Quebec. The hills along the Hudson told one another the tale. As the summons hurried to the south. 1t was one day at New York. In one more at Philadel- phia. the next 1t lighted a fire at Baltimore. and walked an answer at Annapolis. Crossing the Potomac, near Mt. Vernon, 1t was sent forward with out a halt to wii,Iiamsburg. Patriots of South Carolina caught its tones on the border and despatched 1t to Charleston, and through pines and palmettoes and moss-clad itve-oaks, farther to the south. till 1t resounded among the New England settlements beyond the Sa- vannah The Blue Ridge took up the voice and made 1t ring from one end to the other of the Valley of Virginia. Ever renewing its strength. powerful enough to create a commonwealth, it breathed its inspiring word to the first settlers of Kentucky, and to the hunt CTS, who made the valley of the Elk Horn their stamping ground. With one impulse the coisnists sprang to arms: with one spirit they pledged of Patrick Henry of Virginia:
 "GiYe us liberty or give us deethl"
 Liberty the nation did get, we know, but to how many among the brave bands which first withstood the shock of the contest with England. did death come on those battIeheids enshrihed forever in the memory of every true Concord, Charleston. Harlem, Trenton, Saratoga. Germantown, Monmouth! Names to conjure with, carved as they are Tn the chronicles of military fame in letters far outshining those of Wa. gram, Marengo and Austerlitz. No vigor of youth. no maturity of man hood, will lead the nation to forget those spots. where its infancy was era died and defended. There was tessed the yaior of those raw recruits. who wrested from the tried skill of trained soldiers under Gage. Howe and Corn wallis. the palm of victory There England saw in what mould cur Amer ican boys were cast. when through the lips of her chief cfficer she exclaimed in wonder: "Great God, what heroes those rebels sreF' There. bIazed forth that undauntered bravery of the Amer. ican Minute Men. which filled with hope and pride the heart Of Washington, when with eyes upIifteA and tears streaming down his noble face he pro- phesied: Thank Godl With such men we are sure to wfn!"
 (To hA Continued.l