The Hancock Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Ohio) 1857-1870, 1863-01-30
For the Jeffersonisn
True Heroes Of the Rank.


Nations erect monuments to com.
memorials the gloriee OF individuals
who bave distinguished thensel YEA
es chieftains upon the battle field -,
The rank and file sleep in a common
grave without stone to mark .heis
resting place The ashes Of the bo,
ro who leads, are inurned beneath
sculptured marble, bis doeds are
craven upon It tears OF affection
Hall upon It's base, and moisten the
sod npon which it reats. Fame
claims him as her own, and inspires
the pen of history in bis euioey:
while Sensies listen with rapture 10
his praise. The hero who falls lion.
like, under the glorious banner he
defends,
with his back TO the earth, and his face ,o
the foe,''
Dies, and 10 buried in the trench
wberin the thousands of his slain
comrades are placed IN companion-
ship OF death; the aching heart TO
whom his memory and his virtues
are enjesred, in vain seeks among
the mass OF commingled mortality
to individnalize the obioct OF its love
and mourning. The next cavalry
charge obliterstes tho last vestige OF
the assembly chamber OF the dead:
hie very nsme is forgotten, or found
only in some obscure muster roll:
and the annals Of time. for whose
salvation he poured out his life's la.
test blood, know him only az figure
in Arithmetic, Of loss in notion.
OF sll the dead may the Goddess
OF Liberty stand sentinel over their
graves, whilst angels companion
their spirits in the realms Of tho
bless. The applause OF the vulgar
belongs not TO him, for IL knows him
not; hi2hcr--higher, lofticr, into the
heavens OF pure, ansslflsh, God,like
patriotism, must we rise with him to
discover his nobls ambition; tho fer
vor OF chat spotless devotion to tho
country which bas inspired tho sac.
riiice he has made, and from tho
few, the very few with moral ca,
pscity, to appreciate the exsltstion
OF his virtue will 90 forth that price.
Iess praise of him that out weighs
the acclamasions Of multitudes.
This war hae produced heroes
whom the nation to the latest poriod
will delight TO honor; gallant names,
whose fame will be onshriued in
song, and live in story; men thai
tho world call great. But ito true
heroes are those noble hearts, who,
sacrificing everything earthly; seek
ing nothing for self, Of rsme or
place or distinction; regardless of
oil else, save the peril Of ths coun-
try; hoping for nothing but the sal.
walton and perpstui.y OF .he glori.
Gus Union established by their isth.
sra, with lofty patriotism cp,o,n-
plaininGly endure hanger, thirst, IL.
t!gur, ~ junds and even death itself,
ia all 10 varying horrors In the
ranss OF the arny.
Elossed DO that one 10 smooth his
dying pillow, TO wipo the death,
damp from his brow, or whisper to
him words OF comfort or CT hope; al
though 40 tears OF earnest mea and
angel women mingled and eonsccra.
tod the dus, that lies upon his breast.
rhoy are the heroes fer whose in-
teres's there nre no crbsIs, no
cliquss, no array Of virulent pens,
no uproar of clamorous voices
No matter who botrcJs, they are
true--who vavers, they are firm and
untiinchingly. II military errors
have been committed, they have re.
trievst them by iDdomitablc valor,
and wrested victory cat Of de.Sat by
unconqueFsbile tenac,ty.
All honor, then, to tho herces of
the ranks-to the noble, the pure,
the patriotic, the soll-sacriticing SOL
diers Of the Republic.
o. p. K.
BEsroN, Ohio, Jan, Goth, 1863.