S. OF V. ANNIVERSARY. 
(Continued from page 1.] 
Comm. of Allen post Edwin P. Stan- 
ley,ofressAllen, hk GoMrs. Klien cl: 
Horton, Ex-Mayor Ramsdell of Lynn, 
Hon. C. O. Bailey of Newbury and 
Comm. L. W. Floyd. 
The ushers were Thomas A. Baker, 
C. H. Dennis, Orrin A. Martin, E.W. 
Baker and E. R. Sargent. 
A buffet lunch, consisting of salads, 
fruits, coffee, cakes and ice-cream, 
was served by the committee in charge 
of the entertainment — Curtis B. 
Stanley, William D. Goodwin, John 
L. Prest, Arthur Smothers and Chas. 
Morse. Bullock was the caterer. 
The evening’s entertainment was 
opened with a selection by a brass 
quintet, and then, with a trooping of 
the colors, all joined in singing ‘‘ The 
Star Spangled Banner.”’ Rev. E. H. 
Brewster was toast-master of the 
evening. 
Commanders lL. Wo alovdate- 
sponded to the toast “The American 
Flag’ with the following eloquent 
remarks: 
“The student of American his- 
tory will recall that in the vears 
1812-14 this then infant republic 
had a little difficulty with Great 
Britain, It is ‘a -matter ‘of record 
that on the 12th of September, 1814, 
sixteen of his majesty’s warships, 
under command of Admiral Coch- 
rane, appeared off the city of Balti- 
more. These vessels had not been 
delegated by King George the Third 
to convey to this republic the felici- 
tations of his majesty, but on the 
contrary from the mastheads waved 
in defiance the union Jack, while 
from the open port-holes, frowned 
the muzzles. of a hundred guns. 
Guarding Baltimore by land and 
sea was Fortress MacHenry, from 
the ramparts of which, waving in 
the newday breeze, was that flag 
which had been borne to victory at 
Yorktown and at Lundy’s Lane. 
“Jameson, in his ‘Facts on U. S. 
History,’ implies that boats of Car- 
tell had been sent down the harbor 
to interview the British admiral, 
and that certain hostages had been 
detained by him, among whom was 
Francis Scott Key. 
“On the day of*the 14th of Sep- 
tember, at the word of command 
the British seamen, stripped to the 
waist, rammed home the charges, 
and at the word ‘Fire,’ a hell of shot 
and shell was poured upon _ the 
rugged sides of Fortress MacHenry 
and upon the city of Baltimore. 
All through the day this bombard- 
ment continued and even the even- 
ing shadows saw no secession of 
hostilities. 
NORTH SHORE BREEZE 
“Anxiously, we may imagine, 
Francis Scott Key paced back and 
forth the deck on which he was 
confined a prisoner. As the longest 
night must have an end, such was 
the case in this instance. And as 
the first glimpse of the morning 
sunlight, made resplendent the 
eastern sky, we may see Scott Key 
shading his eyes and anxiously 
looking for the flag. The rising 
Ex-Sen. CHAS. O. BAILEY, or NEwBuRY, 
One of the Speakers. 
mists of the early morning, for a 
time obscured his vision, but as the 
sunlight grew stronger and the day 
away and there, floating proudly 
began to dawn, the mists _ rolled 
over the ramparts of Fortress Mac- 
Henry, the flag of his country, the 
one which he loved, and under the 
inspiration of the time and the oc- 
casion, he wrote the stanzas which 
we have just sung (The Star 
Spangled Banner). 
“Shall we change the scene to 
another spot in Maryland? Freder- 
ick City stands unique in the his- 
tory of this republic as the only one 
the most historic spots in Maryland. 
to the speaker’s knowledge which 
was compelled to pay cash tribute 
to the rebel army. It was alter- 
nately occupied by the forces of the 
contending armies and it is one of 
“It was the speaker’s privilege as 
well as pleasure, some years since, 
to be the guest of one of its most 
We passed into the city streets. It 
was in the glow of the eventide. 
Behind the Maryland hills the sun 
loyal citizens, and at his invitation 
was setting red. From the low- 
lands could be heard the chirp of 
the cricket, while from the chestnut 
tc inspect the points of interest. 
boughs on the side of old Brad- 
dock’s mountain could be heard the 
plantation call of the whip-poor- 
will. 
“We wended our way to the 
resting place of the city’s heroic 
heads 2 -l(n® the). immediate " fore 
ground, fronting the main entrance, 
was a giant shaft to which the 
speaker paid not particular atten- 
tion, until his host, advancing to 
the pedestal, removed his hat. I 
then observed on the fasade_ the 
following inscription: 
“By the loyal citizens of this re- 
public, this monument is dedicated 
to the memory of Francis Scott 
Key.” 
And this noble patriot, with the 
evening zephyrs playing through 
his white locks, sang in a full round 
tone every stanza of the ‘Star 
Spangled Banner.’ 
“The speaker is not much given 
to sentiment, but I must say that 
the place and the occasion was such 
that the tear-drops unwittingly 
and unreservedly followed one an- 
other down my face, and I was 
taught a lesson in patriotism which 
i shall never forget. 
“Behind the Maryland hills still 
sets the sun‘at eventide; the chest- 
nut boughs on the side of Brad- 
dock’s mountain still wave in the 
noonday breeze, but into the home 
of that loyal citizen came oné day a 
silent messenger, noiselessly, even 
as the sunlight comes when the 
night is done, and at his call, the 
soul of this patriotic Roman was 
called to his rest, and if halleluiahs 
are sung in that land where the 
brightness thereof is as it radiates 
from the throne of God, I believe 
there were joyous acclaims at the 
home coming of this noble heart. 
“The American flag, before which 
this organization,—as such, from 
Plymouth Rock to the Golden 
Gate,—stands at reverend atten- 
tion, wherever unfurled. It stands 
for all that is best in civilization,— 
at the ballot, for freedom of thought, 
freedom of speech, 
press, and freedom to worship God. 
“It stands for the purity of wo- 
man and the sanctity of home, and 
the American home with the free 
public schools are the foundation 
stones upon which rest the entire 
structural fabric of our national 
union. Remove them and God 
from the constitution, and the re- 
public crumbles even as the dynas- 
ties whose relics we are excavating 
today. 
“Across the political horizon of 
the eastern world are written the 
words so large that he may read 
who runs: ‘Mene, mene, _ tekel, 
upharsin”—weighed in the balance 
and found wanting. But this Amer- 
freedom of - 
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