The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-02-08
THE FARMER: FEBRUARY 8, 1911

he seen his beloved England; never more behold the face of his noble mother; nevermore hear words of af- lection from Katherine Lowther; but at the age of 34. James Wolfe passed into eternity, into immortal history, and into undying honor. When he breathed his last, on the Heights of Abraham, on the morning of Sep tember 13, 1759. the American Repub- lie was born.
 Montcalm's End.
 Behold the noble Montcalm, in his crucial hour! He was a foeman worthy of Wolfe's sharpest. steel. Still on his horse, he is borne toward the town. A shot passes' through his body. He reels in his saddle as two soldiers lead his horse through the St. Louis gate. A woman, recognizing him as the blood flows, shrieks: o mon Dieu! Mon Dieu! le Marquist est tue! Its nothing. it's nothing. re- piled the brave man. But it was the wife, mother, and children whom he so tenderly loved. nor the familiar scenes of his beautiful Candiac. When told that he must die. he said I am happy that I shall not live to see the surrender of Quebec He was car ried wounded from the field to the house of the Surgeon Arnoux. At 1 o'clock on the morning of Septem- Der 14th, in his forty-eighth year, he peacefully breathed his last. No workman was found to make a coffin. A frew boards from a rough box, and soldier. Ne bells were tolled. no can- non were fired. The bier was follow ed by weeping men, women, and children, as it moved in dreary silence along the dusk street. In the chapel of the Ursuline convent, in a hole I hxr fho h1rG irC nf CIo der the floor, the body was laid; nuns. priests, officers, and townspeople si- lently watching the burial. A dirge is chanted, and by the light of torches the body was lowered into the strange grave. Tears and sobs in this rude grave. never to know 8 resurrection, were buried all the hopes of a great New France in America. In 1927, Governor Dal- house, of Canada with equal politi- cal, racial and religious tact, erected honor of the two brave generals, Wolfe and Montcalm.
 Terrible scenes followed, when the capture of Quebec was completed. In due time, came the Peace of Paris. The punishment of the traitors. who so largely contributed to the failure of Montcalm, came in due time also. | November 1762, Louis XIV gave to Spain all the country west of the Mississippi. With the surrender of Fort Chartres on the Mississippi, by St. Ange, in 1765, to Major Grant, of the Black Watch. scarcely a rod of ground was left to France on the whole American Continent. About the same time.she lost her possession Tn India Dupleix and La Bourdonnais were defeated in the attempt to found a great empire in India. Dup leix pursued La Bourdonnais until he lay in the Bastile. France lost all in both hemispheres. No nation ever sent out braver men to foreign strand than those who stood for France. Her leaders were brilliant and adventurous, but they were not supported by the nation, and they were jealous and spiteful rivals among themselves, rather than loyal friends and patriotic Frenchmen. If veins were filled with French blood. as they are with Scotch blood, my heart would ache when I think how nearly France won Canada, the United States, and India, and how utterly France lost all these coun- tries.
 The Hand of God.
 Tn 1903, Napoleon Bonaparte sold the Louisiana Territory to the United States. An American woman. whose maiden name was Moore, whose father had been governor of Penn Marbois, Napoleon Bonaparte. and Almighty God gave this territory to the United States. No American statesman deserves any considerable degree of credit for this addition to our national domain. In another lec- ture, I bring out these facts in detail.
 Tt is now December goth. 1903, and we are in New Orleans at the old Cabildo. This day. the French flag is to come down, and the American flag is to go up forever. Townsmen. soldiers, sailors, and ecclesiastics, the latter in brilliant robes fill the streets. The sun shines brightly; the wind blows softly; it is noon. At the top of the flagstaff floats the French flag. The Arcerican flag is near the ground. Slowly the French flag comes down; slowly the American flag goes up. They meet in the cen tre of the staff. The sun shines: the breeze blows; the flags entwine; the people cheer. A moment more. and the French flag reaches the ground. An officers wraps it about his body, and marches to the Cabildo with bowed head and sad heart. The townsmen uncover their heads; sol diers present arms. Up goes the American flag; at the top of the staff it triumphantly fioats-f1ag, never de- feated; flag, universally honored; flag, whose stripe is a symbol of liberty. and whose every star is an evangel of humanity! Float on for ever, O triumphant flag.
 "'O'er the land of the free and the
 home of the brave!'
 "Every true heart must feel the deep pathos of that moment in French and American history. The descent of the French flag indicated that all was over for France in the New World. In vain had the noble Champlain founded Quebec; in vain had the intrepid La Salle made his Journey by stream and lake; in vain was the splendid soldiership and were the plottings of church and state. All that now remained for France were the iSlets, of which men, ton has been made, of St. Pierre and Miquelon, mere dots of rock protrud- ing from the surf beating upon New foundland. These were the sole remnants of New France. to establish which so much genius and heroism had been lavished in vain. With the descent of the tricolor and the as- cent of the Stars and Stripes, all was over forever for France in the New World. % It is a monument of un- speakabIe pathos for every French man. Green, in his History of the English People, says: Tt is no ex- aggeration to say that three of the many victories of the Seven years destinies of mankind. With that of Hossbach began the recreation of Germany; with that of Plassey, the Influence of Europe told for the first time, since the days of Alexander, on the, nations of the East: with the