Arkansas true Democrat., 1862-04-03
RESPONSE or CAPT. D. ". HARRIS.


 RESPONSE or CAPT D. ". HARRIS.
 In the name of the McCown Artillery, fair lady, accept this flag, and you will permit me, not only for those of our comrades here present. bat fur those far away, for this mark of appreciation, 10 tender to yourself and ali others ol our ie male friends, our most profound acknowledgm and truly can say toyOu, that when we reach our com rades and in their presence fling this banner to the breeze and tell them that We yet hold place. warm and glowing in the hearts of oar friends here at home, and as an assurance thereof, the ladies 0t old Lafayette have sent them thi- their gallant souls will rise equal to any emergency, their arms to any toll on the battle held. Amid disease and death it will nerve thaI hearts to any fate the needs of country can demand. To tie spirit of the poor sick soldier, painfully he turns upon his hard couch of straw, it will bring hope and joy, and thon, if die he must, sa rests his glazing eve thereon ho vi ' sink te hiss lcnS home wi-Gaut murmur. prOud as was the gallant Roman bel fore the scowling Gau, his right arm whitening in flames, to sacrafcc himself for friends, for wife and for country.
 Close by our old onc1mpmcnt under the walls where a few days since, the grim guns of tie once strong hold of Columbus, thundered forth defiance and the battles welcome, are five rude mounds of earth they mark On the old Kentucky shore' the last resting place of five of our c0mrades.- One was all only son, he felt home tulI ot life and strength the pride of his ig!Cnds-ln0taer the main hope and stay of widowed and peri!ess mother-the others were husbands and lAthcfs- they died untouched by the gentle h.ul 0l wife or mother, unsoothcd by the tender la. well of in- noccnt childhood. They went forth brJYeiy and with wiling hands-they have died for You and yours. The widow and the orphan are now with you my fellow -citZens-thev have nude the great est sacrafce the human heart can make--qnd tc5I 1ou-can you-lot them go by uncared for. God forbid.
 We now, my countrymeu. have mighty work to achieve Men and means must come Dirty stinginess, cunning greed and the paltry excuse Of the coward must now be eschewed. Ii there is manliness, if there is patriotism M your hearts, prove it, else all is lost. ! 0J must resolve to make a sacrafce of case and means; Of all that is necessary to sustain a struggling people, or the clanking chains and the defiant cOnqucrers rod will be vour doom. Arouse, my fellow-citzens, to inc nerils that surround you. We are in danger. Our country is being ground to powder by the rel car of war The oqndql heet ot the oBDreSsor is on our soil That great work achieved by our honest and patriot ioretathcrs, with so much tOi and blood and treaslre-tb4t proud temple they erected with 50 much skill--iAe tCaRQeIS Cf the U0rli-ind within the archicycs of which they 50 soemnly de- posted their a0rihen oR281iloa-concoctcd with so much thought and wisom, and so religiouslY ouaranteeng equal rights to all, has, hy the machi
 
 ipc the stolen livery of heaven, been hurled to the earth overwhelming us all in is terrible runs. They bv tn cir Gccursed art have inhamed aud mad dened q once happy, united and pr0peHpu5 people evoking a storm of passion almost only tod can allayand now it $ for Us, the people, to meet ths great misfortune with becoming mdhtaLnfsS- to breast this ruin with honest and upright resolve, aud we once again prove to proud and onNlols Eu- rope, that republicanism $ ao tatare--teach her that
 Truth crushed to earth will rise again,
 The eternal years of God arg hers
 But error wounded, wreathes n pain,
 And dies amid her woralipers
 In our midst we possess all the elements of en- pre, and if we but prove true to ourselves and the rreat nrincjple of truth, we will again come forth triumrhant, and erect another temple to liberty, be- fore whose resplendent glories proud PAsepos shall pale and stand forever mute. Then
 4Trnst no future however plraslnt
 Let the dead past bu.y its dtnd,
 Act act. in the livng present.
 Heart within and God oer head
 AS for ourselves we arc but ono or two of the many engaged in this herculean task. Our part is but an humble one; yet if we fail to do that part s faithfully and honestly" then upon our heads, in burning letters, may all ihe Gods write, 'intam- ous., Nj, comrades, beholi your guide, unsullied are it's folds, may they ever So remain, and that thav so shall ever remain, do say too much, when here III the presence ol uie7e "ltHessts, pieuSe the truth, the honor and the maniness ofeyery one of our company. Ere thirty suns shall rise anu set, the Incoming ofthe Lincoln guns shall salute your ears, awaking you to the stern realities of var Then when the storm of hurting shot and shell shall come screaking and howlIng around your de- voted heads, mpetuously demanding your lives,-- will YOU Eook b this and De sure, remember your pledge.
 Tins shall go before us, on the march and in the bot+ra if ehoI he our guide-it shall cheer us on as did the token Israes God gave his people in the wilderness. Unpolluted with shame it sLaA return, or it must be our shroud and ssiRdlag sh1et.
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