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Show shall have been duly convicted shall exist within the United States or any place subject to their jurisdiction." It is blessed to think that the new State just admitted to the Union Un-ion is under such a humane Constitution Consti-tution and that every citizen will be protected in life liberty and property prop-erty and every "saint" and every professor of religions shall be protected pro-tected religious rights and privileges, privi-leges, and eren the women of the new state have a right to say who shall represent them in state and National councils. Many of us are intensely interested in these things We were born here; this is our country. We love our country-men and are determened that they shall enjoy the rights of freemen. Among us are adopted citizens and" they are entittled to the protection of that flag which no man has a right to haul down without taking the consequences. It is a pleasure to note the joy of the people who enter the Union and display their love of country. G. M. Hardy. ' 189 6. Some of the Canadians have boasted they could with the English Eng-lish regulars take Plattsburg on Lake Champlain. That was tried once and we have been over the ground where the retreat was made when a certain class of men found thy had got "too far from Canada." That was not a great success when the English fleet tried praying pray-ing and fighting Commodore Mac-donough Mac-donough who fell with his men' on the deck of his flag-ship and asked Jehovah for help and then arose and in two hours caused the English Eng-lish to surender. That is one side of the Plattsburg buisness. Not far across that country is the place where the glorious Stark declared to his men :"Thero are the red-coats J We must beat them to-day or Molley Stark sleeps a widow tonight" to-night" The name of this hero's wife was Mollie, and he was a conqueror con-queror and "Molley" was not a widow. It was not so very far from PlaUsburg that Burgoine murdered six thousand men to Gates showing British skill against American volunteers. It is not a matter to forget the stubbornly contested field of Lundys Lane where the sound of battle drowned the roar of Niagara's Niag-ara's thundering noise. It is said the Englishmen who fought at Lundys Lane, were not Canadian militia but veteran troops who had served under Wellington in the wars with Napoleon." It was" bur own Perry who with Hardy carrying carry-ing the colors did the heroic work on Lake Erie and sent the message: "We have met the enemy and they are ours." It was at New Orleans where Gen. Pakenham so gallantly tried the Americans . and where Englishmen trained in the European Eu-ropean wars found out about Americans. Amer-icans. ( Those men were brave but there wre brave men opposed to them... Theie are some ways Englishmen Eng-lishmen can provoke the people of the United States and one is by speaking disrespectful of those who put down the rebellion. American citzens allow no pepole to insult the soldiers who carried "old glory" at Gettyburg and over Missionary Ridge and from ''At-lantio ''At-lantio to the sea." Be it kown to the universe that the record of the destruction of the slave-holders rebellion re-bellion is one of the brightest on the pages of history and the forgiveness forgiv-eness was never equaled only by the God of the Ages. Americans forgave the men who built a con federacy against God and humanity. human-ity. They pardoned those who starved to death their noble sons. Let no one insult us there. We admit that Southern men were brave. .We admit that Englishmen Eng-lishmen are brave but no one must slur the ' men who were, led by Heaven to destory the Evil system which darken the Bky of the great Eepublic of the west It was glory enough for one generation to crusn out such a gigantic crime against humanity and place in the Constitution: Consti-tution: "Neither slavery nor involuntary invol-untary servitude except as a punishment punish-ment tor crime whereof the party |