Norwich bulletin., 1916-05-31

nentiy laid on Plymouth Rock three
 hundred years aso. From this small
 esgsnn,nas s,,ssn1,a stsle @ one hes S eeeeme se a expansive that its benedcent branches
 ofHer protection to the dowutrodden the Il world over. No braver men ever Faced Il
 the fury of the Atlantic than those
 who sailed into Massachusetts bay h
 1920. They were a triune mixture of
 blood, iron and holiness; strong men
 from the physica1 mental and spiritual |
 standpoint. They had the brawn and bone necessary to make a etubborn |
 wilderness bend to the purposes Of
 civilization: the mental vision to see that Q free people must he an enl1ght- ened people, and hence the academy |
 and college: and the spiritual wisdom 1
 republic of God. From what these
 men were it is easy to sec what their ] newly founded country demanded. |
 They were patriotic to the last atom l exactly what was called for. What 1 these men beQueathed to their descend- l ants. muscle, brains and faith, is the greatest heritage that father can give
 to child, and it made a race of men
 who have never been surpassed and in three centuries built up one of the igreat nations of the world. It has sometimes been asserted that | the white man resorted to pagan tac-
 tics in his treatment of the Indian l Let 1t be remembered that the God fearing settlers of this country treated the red man with great consideration, and that they lived anicably together.
 It was the unprincipled adventurer, in spired only by greed, who abused the red mans confidence, and when the latter retaliated 1t was in accordance
 with the code of savagery, not of cfv- i1izat1on. And was it strange that un- der the man of his cruelty the whole
 white race fell without discrimination? cannot agree with those who see
 nothing but dishonor in preempting a domain that was occupied by another
 race. What right had 5oo,o00 savages to the exclusive possession of a conti-
 ne1t capable of supporting 500,000,0O Would the red race, already on the wane, if left unmolested, have carved out this mighty political fabric which | in a few years is to celebrate its ter centenary? They had had their op- portunity, they had been tried in the [ balance and found wanting, and hence here, as elsewhere, 'the survival of the fittest" proves itself to be the law the age received from the hands of the early settlers just the sort of patriot ism that was demanded?
 g American Patriotism.
 . America has never been wanting in
  2 ots when the imperative call of duty o came. As people we have always Z been slow in realizing a great danger. ' We are more suffering under a burning sense of tnjuStice and wrong z than most nations, but think that our y history bears out the assertion that z when once the public opinion of Amer U ica is thoroughly aroused it's Nemesis e is as irresistible as it is awful. The ' causes that underiay the Revolutionary ! lra Sfaf folx s unanswerable. It has always been 2 0 puzzle to me how the widely scattered
 and unorganized colonies, with raw d inexperienced troops, could have me II and successfully overcome the bes : trained and most thoroughly disci IT plined troops of Europe belonging to { e nation that made war trade. Yol ,- may point with pride to the nobl' le Washington, but that distinguisheC l. leader is not the complete solution er The nearest approach to solution tha n can find is that the patriotism tn ot struggling solonies had to give was tn le rist1t sort of patriotism and the mel c, who exposed their precious lives wer g proven more than once on decisive bat l. tlehelcs that mercenary soldiers fight ,d ing for pay, however finely disciplined in are not equal to raw recruits fightin Of for home, country and liberty.
 T. The United States may justly clair le that she has never engaged in war C oi aggression. More than once she ha LII been called upon to defend her rightl el as in tae second clash with Englan y. in 1872, when American ships wer IL seized and an embargo put on Ameri 4s can t1ade with by both England an IS France; and when naturalized Ameri '. can sailors were impressed into Eng oL fish service. More than once has thi ot country been known to offer protectio oI to the down -trodden by the use of he -e army and navy. The nearest we eve gu came to being the aggressor was m settling the Texan border line wit " Mexico in 1S46. This is probably th IT. only war in human history in wt1ic ut every battle was gained by the victor 1Il ous party.
 t. When speak of the internal vol ,,t cano, fourteen years later, touch uT in on a theme, gentlemen of the Gran en Army, that makes your hearts thril ,n but it is a thrill in which the sur to light mingles with the shadows. Jo nd is uppermost in your minds when yo II- remember that your patriotic devotio a to the needs of your country-an
 those whom you represent in thes exercises today-saved the Unic ed from disruption: a Union that wa 1S founded amid tears and prayers, ar to nurtured by the blood of heroes. It ~ only natural that this joy should l n- tinged with sadness as you look abo1 Ioa for faces which are invisible, an de strain your ears for footsteps whiC 6 be are inaudible-but they are such on ue as we measure them by the limits ;oe the outward senses. As it is natur -e that man should Ego the way of 2 ,iii the earth" it would be very strange Tis 1Ti after a period of fifty years, the va 4le majority of those who fought on eith a o side of the Civil war should not .ta ,l this time be residents of the Sile 7l City. If the price of patriotism is f 1e the time being sacrifice, and for t future, sadness, there is always th
 oh consolation, that the institutions sS' which brave men expose their precto ln l lives survive as the most gloriol 1e heritage which old veterans can b p queath to their sons, has not this ia been triumphantly proven since t
 i War of the Rebellion? When in IS 'e9 the United States was called up I@n9 @ again to unsheath its sword, and SC ;no ;ii out it's warships. in the interests ,lisii ,ns humanity, another generation respon llts n4 ed to the nations call, and they we e'y the political sons of those who h Il.,1, fought at Vicksburg and the Shena VIII VIII doah valley. If the ranks of the ( a aIli veterans grow year by year pathe 0ii' cally thin, the wealth and reserv