The Palatka news and advertiser., 1916-10-06

sill in daily use in Frederick. More
frankly open to view, in the quaint
shop windows of the older business
part of town, may be seen queer, out
of-date articles which (or the like of
which, have been on display in these
same windows since the day when
! General Washington drank a cup of
tea in the old stone inn that is now
mill. Here, men and women Of the
obsolete sect of Dunkards, in broad
hats and close bonnets, frequent the
streets, as of old; here, nuns and
monks live immured behind monastic
walls as in past ages-the same
walls, in fact, that were given unen-
viable notoriety by the writings of
IAN Escaped Novice" that were used
as campaign literature by the "Know
Nothing" party in 1850; and, crown
ing relic of long ago, it was still the
custom in Frederick not many years
ago, to ring the devil out of town"
at sundown on Saturday evenings
with a clamor of bells from every
belfry in the burg.
Right in the heart of the city lies
buried the body of Whittier's Bar
bara Fritchie, harmless, bedridden
old lady of eighty years at the time
'otonewall' jackson entered the
town, who did not wave a Union flag,
who did not see Jackson and whom
Jackson did not see. So say those
who were there, and know.
1t was at the Monocacy River
bridge, four miles from Frederick,
that General Jubal Early signally de-
feated General Lew Wallace in 1864.
Lees more extended Maryland
campaign failed of complete success
at Antietam solely because of the ia
tality that his plans mysteriously fell
into the hands of General Mcclellan.
On the Severn River, near it's
mouth, lower down the coast than
where blue Patapscos pillows dash"
mingles its waters with those of the
bay, stands ancient Annapolis. Here
the United States Naval Academy SO
fills the foreground of interest to the
majority of visitors as to put out Of
mind the far receding historic back
ground of the old city.
Hardly a passing thought is given
to the momentous "tea party" that
took place at Annapolis in the year
1774. No bal masque was that-as
at Boston. A broad daylight affair,
it was attended openly without eff
fort to conceal identity, by fearless
patriots in citizens clothes. Led by
Charles Carroll, of Carrollton, and
others who were that great mans
peers in the vanguard of the revolu-
tionary movement, the people of An
napols forced the captain Of the
British ship, Peggy Stewart, to burn
his vessel with it's cargo of taxed tea
where it rode at anchor in the har-
bcl. This was Maryland's plain OF
iect lesson to England. By the light
of the illuminated heavens it was
made clear as day that Maryland
would not stand for taxation without
representation.
1t is probable that the grave of
James Iredell Waddell, at Annapo-
lis, is often passed unnoticed, or, at
least, unremembered as the last
earthly port of the Confederate naval
commander of the Shenandoah-that
intrepid North Carolinian who trium-
thantly foated the Stars and Bars
around the globe, capturing in his
cruise thirty eight United States
vessels and finishing the wonderful
exploit four months after the surren-
der of Appomattox, of which he had
rct heard.
Even then, the flag that had "chal-
lenged the gaze of the world" was
but lowered to a neutral power, in the
foreign port of Liverpool. Few,
doubtless, linger for grateful refec-
ton near. another spot, equally sa-
cred, at Annapolis, where the re-
mains of John Paul Jones, command
er of the Bonhomme Richard, hal
low the banks of the Severn.
And it may not be remembered by
every visitor to Annapolis that it
was here that General George Wash
ington, the deliverer of his country,
took formal leave of call the en-
ployments of public life," sincerely
longing to retire to the quietude of
Mount Vernon for the remainder of
his days.
At the moment when Washington
put the match to the first gun fired in
the battle of Yorktown with his own
hand, Marylander stood beside him
on the south bank of York River.
The battle won, it was the same
Marylander, his distinguished aide,
Col. Tench Tilghman, called by
Washington zone of the pillars of the
revolution" who, quick as flash,
mounted and sped away, as an arrow
from the bow, to carry the great
news to the Congress. Up the
length of the Virginia Peninsula,
across the breadth Of Maryland, ever
and beyond the fords of the POO
mac and the Susquehanna, the re-
sounding hoof beats clatter. To those
who stare after him from the scat
tering farmhousese the courier cries
aloud, "Cornwallis is taken" and
speeds ahead. At intervals, on near
ing town or farmhouse, he shouts
the demand for "a fresh horse for
the Congress-" At last he thunders
through the streets of Philadelphia,
where the night watchman catches up
the glad words and rouses the sleep
ing citizens with the woodworking
news, "Twelve o'clock, all's well and
CORVALLIS is takenw
An epoch in the betterment of man.
kind is marked by Tilghman's ride.