Weekly Trinity journal., 1865-09-23
The Return of our Braves.

They are coming. o my brothers. they coming,
From the frnles distance creeps the growing sound
Like r fed torrent. in whose rapid summing
Stream, doth follow stream. till Of joy abound
These have lan-ui.hed in the shadow of the prison,
Long with hunger pains and bitter fever low;
Welcome back our lost from living graves arsen
From the Wild despite and malice of the foe
These have heard the cannons roar the mu~kcts rattle
Where grim Death attroned these have down before,
Set their standard in the fiery tide Of battle
TIL the red waves parted. and the right went DER
As the tcnii of the clouds refresh with
Plants and precious seeds that bear the life Of States
These have poured their blood in meadows sown with
slau-hteri
Where The harvest OF the Lands redemption awaits
Haste We mothers, let your household vigils sackcn
For these martial these ranks the doth backet
Are your Babes. indeed. the children of the North
Bv the loves We prize and live for ask that
Need again the heart Of hen" invade;
Neither brahen trump voices that wall and quiyer
Bid You yield the living and take back the dead.
Better let them build who rear the house of nations
Than that Fate should rock it to foundation stone;
Leave Earth her the stars hef perturlation-
seaiflst Welfare stays where Justice binds her zone
When the human faults that mix in human labor
Miss the measure set to caution and constrani-
Let the wise Of heart instruct his ruder neiehbor,
Let the loving soul hold violence in chain
But when sehood lifts her challenge cry -tupeudou=
When the fiery angel bars gates Of bliss
Ask the holy heavens such hosts again to Tend Us.
With such leaders. such righteous cause a' this
SourHERS IDEA OF LAnoR.-The chiyaIry
not consider labor blessing, but begin to real
ize it as Il grim necessity. The Georgia Coasti-
tatoaqiist of a recent date thus speaks of the
= situation aud its requirements
= The chivary, says a snaring scrub-writer,
must work for living. The fellow is undoubt-
edly right, though he might have used little
more courtesy in expressing his opinion. Hence
forth the impoverished youth of the South must
look to labor For a livelihood. and the sooner the
truth Is realized the better. We are far from be-
leying in the so-caIled nobility of labor, for if
our memory serves us. labor is but the primal
curse. In the days OF our first innocency we
read of such thing as eating ones bread in
the sweat OF one ; brow, and it would take more
than the tumid platitudes Of rhetorical parsons
to convince US that there is any dignity i'll toll.
Still, while holding to the Scripture doctrine
that labor Is curse, we can readily see that the
highest manhood may be displayed in the cheer
tul, stout-hearted performance of any response
biitv which Providence may see it to east upon
US. Death, too, is curse, and we fancy he
would be a dextcrous sophist who could find any
material for glorifcation in the existence Of that
stern Incident to humanity--vet death may be
met in such a way as to reflect the highest honors
on the dauntlcss soul that smiles at all its hor-
rors.
But this is rather DEPRESSION, and the little
patience one can have with the absurd trash of
the day about the dignity OF labor must plead
excuse for travelling from the record. We are
speaking Of the necessity incumbent on our
young men to work, in order to rebuild their
broken fortunes. or at least n decent and
comfortable livelihood and gratifcd at
knowing many have met that responsibility as
promptly as they have encountered others