Arkansas true Democrat., 1861-08-01
Presentation Address of the Flag to the
 Moro Greys, Calhoun County, Ark.
BY MISS LUCY LORRAINE ADAMS.

BY MISS LUCY LORRAINE ADAMS.
 Officers and pricates ofthe Moro Greys-
 l appear before you as the representative of the ladies of Moro township, the bestower of gift wrought by their own fair hands, as the reflex of hearts beating hopefully, prayfuly, tearfully in your behalf; hopefully, as they have unwavering confidence in the integrity of the cause in which you have thus voluntarily enlisted prayerfully, as they believe in Cop, and that Heis the disposer of all human events and protects in the hollow of an omnpotent hand the children of the broUe; fearful ly, the taper ofjoy will flicker but fttully in the hearts if the nght-la lamps of their hopes should go out the field of battle-if the eyes that beam 80 brightly to-day should never throw their softened radiance again on scenes made lovely by their luster. Thus honored with this pleasing, yet pain full position, 1 congratulate you for the invincbe spirit that animates your daring souls, that prompts the mighty purpose to make oir land,
 The home of the good. the brave, the wise, Where all may climb fame's dizzy steep;
 Or where, like magic, the valley lies,
 1 Life's humber sheaves, contented heap.
 Through the broken arches of our once glorious Union, methinks, from the spirit land, there comes the voice of Vernons slumberng hero, rallying its dismembered dust, to lead with Davis, his chosen N South aqaia to victory. The chambers of Heaven that rolled back through their resounding man sions the glad tidings of 76, stM reverbrate with peans of glory to his undying name, and resound with pleas to the ear of the God of battles, to pros her our efforts against fratrcidal foe-to bow the knee of oppression in the dust at our feet, and compel the Goliah of the North to fold the menac- ing arm of power in iagIorious deteGt?
 Our country calls. sacrifice is demanded.-- Like the Patriarch of old, the ready South strong lfaith, binds her beloved Isaac the altar, but, nv the uplifted sword of war reek with the blood olifferent victims.
 n, tallant ensign of the Moro Greys, by this flag h. whh have the honor of presenting through you Ia to Gs undaunted band of hearts, beating high for libey or death-the freeman's palm of glory, or the arrior's gory shroud let the oath be now re- cords in Heaoen, that immortal deeds shall be writts in letters of glory on that escutcheon o southe independence or southern annihilation.- Swearhat you will stick closer to it than to a T., brothe, Swear by that galaxy of newly risen stars, eircled with the halo of woman's hopes a. Id woan's prayers, that it shall nerer trail d;sb onoq, in the dust. Let this motto be in scrbet.' every heart that goes forth under it' streamnsbanner, enfatuated North, " thus fa 4 shall thoueme and no farther and here shall thy nroud wavese stayed." Interchange tie mutua VOW, that ' will aid the South, even at the out lay of life treasure the heart last drop blood in sec;no th at inestimable boon of liberty which the ml;np stars. when first they shouted I together for rt proclaimed in the vault of yonde
 sky, to be mai ;palenable brthright. To-day
 ocean, earth aIsky, wait the echos of that first
 sublimest songf freedom to our ears. Let tn
 cannon's volItrattle, "torn oceans roar' an
 the whisperingAeze articulate the anthem fror
 every embosonieya vale and mountains brow, unt
 every southront t.art vibrates in unison Sho'
 the mercinary fdef this once exalted nation, tha II heroic deeds, as Ultimately flow from our balm
 -s mighty+rents course from the mouz Art, breast the gale'
 - paict nerer quail: