The colored Tennessean., 1865-10-07
For the sColored Tennessean.
OUR NOBLE PATRIOT DEAD.

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Many noble ones have fallen; many
brave hearts have ceased to throb;
many strong pulses have ceased to
beat; and many bright, fearless spir-
its have assembled from the battle
field to God, since our powerful na-
ton, aroused from her lethargy by
the fiendish assaults Of traitors, i'm
sheathed the sword to preserve that
glorious Inheritance purchased for us
by the bloodiof those immortal ones
the patriots of '76 lai.o " y !
In green glades and grassy dells;
in dark ravines and. hideous noun
tain passes; amid Virginia $ mounts !;
upon Missouri's plains the malarious
swamps Of the Chickahominy and the
bloody field Of Shiloh around the
walls of Donelsony and Henry ,--all
over the sunny South-repose the
mangled and diseased remains of our
noble patriot dead. =
And throughout our own Northern
land too, in almost every burial
ground, the eye beholds new-made
mounds, the final resting place of
some of our citizen soldiers, whose
remains have been tenderly, committed
to the bosom of their. mother earth,
to mirgle quietly with their kindred
dust. And here and there a solitary
tomb, in a shaded grove secluded
spot, tells plainly the tale that here
Lies one who died in discharge of his
duty to his country, and that affection
has chosen this retired spot for his
lengthy repose, so that relatives and
friends may weep unseen by mortal
eyes; and here, too, the passer-by
may stopland drop tearato the mem
oryfof one of our noble patriot dead.
Pre- eminent upon the roll of our
martyred heroes is the name of that
gallant Zouave,9 who SO early in our
great civil strife offered up his life, his
invaluable life, a sacrifice for his
country. Ever should we cherish the
memory of Elmer Ellsworth, whose
noble spirit, winged its heayenward
fight from Alexandria, and now from
the Elysiurn above looks down and
rejoices with his countrymen in their
glorious triumph over treason and
oppression. aoQn {ta4 Eofn Hot i}os
. Greble perished gIoriously at Great
Bethel, and at Balrs Bluff the heroic
Baker fell From the bloody banks
of Wilson's Creek, the matchless
spirit of Lyon took it's upward way
from earth to glory On. Carolina's 5
feyerish coast, that profound scholar,
accomplished gentleman and gallant
Eas
soldier, Mitchell, sunk beneath dis
ease. Amid the scenes of carnage
on the Peninsula, the voices Of the
daring Black and the eloquent Rippey
were :silenced, and they will be heard.
on earth no more. uoql
The roll of American martyrs
What a glorious record !! Behold that
long list of immortal names that
were not born to die = names that
will ever beautify the pages of our
nations history ncoIn, Mitchell,
Ellsworth, Greble, Lyon, Saunders,
and the host Of other martyred heroes
and immortal patriots, who have
sealed their devotion to the holy cause
of liberty and country with their life.
blood. wv '''EF's'' Ell r s4'l 80 I'd
j Their. names should be household
words throughout, our land. They
persisted battling not for hire, nor
t
oppression, nor tyranny, but for our
common country, for liberty, for the
preservation Of our most excellent
form of government. For these glol
rious principles they fought for
these, they FELL Then not only their |
own eountrymnen, but all the friends,
of freedom, all the advocates of self
government throughout the world
should mourn for them and revere
their memories 9.l 81 i.5s' ~ I. =. !.
4 Farewell! farewell! We noble pat
riot dead till the reyeillebo of the re-
surrection morn awakes the. sleeping |
of the silent tomb and brings
them all around Jehovah's awful bar. /
- s.1s - = ,.'13 Ia. a,.;e3e~d R. j. C. 4
id Knoxville, Tenn, Sept 20, 80. &
- Three thousand colored people eel
ebIated the anniversary of the9eman.
proclamation, at Xenia Ohio,
IT f1E4a rflt gaEt# Ea4L IlR 1T L..4 81 II
last Friday uIi n, Lapgston. lEsq,l