Liberty advocate. [volume] (Liberty, Miss.) 1835-1866, 1866-12-22

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! py0s. lhe husbln3 VIM folded Y9u 81 b.
! breast, lhs laibsf " your babes, aud ~
say Of your bousf, kaDw, si'lrfa 80
}, brothers, that lhp boy Who Dmppd at
. 700 ~ tbp home, and set Nv yoi 10 N
j school, All rode Win tou l1ibecbufch, ~
vent ION 900 h. be- manly Strength ~
= know, aon and daughter, lbi' The iaibe
, whom you loved and honOfrd. ahl knos
4 lilbef moiloL wfe, sister, brother, .of
: daughter, hoe oil these, sbo sill psvo
come back, are with you 10 day, anj hOs
as ! speak, you pfe thinking, ihlGkinp
The quick coming memories hat lhfOnI
and lbfob through ihe sensitive brain so
lhe loving heart, AID yet know, 100, iha
your dropping Dyes must fs0 aud YOU
blood course proudly through sour veins
and your souls glow with triumph us yol
recall their devotion to their lund lhnu
tolls and sunsfngs, and draths--aI EN-
IIdurod and bfuyoJ Tor you and her, Tor lhru
homes and their alias. OH Jas lheso CONE
o mind, eau you not lay them on The altar
Of sacrIlice, onnobled and embamed, your
hearts richest Offering to truth, honor
: and dutyi As you recall The glorious
career OF hose two gallant nrmies, he one
ever conquerlOg while battling 90 Virgin
las soil, enclrclng as n LIVING wall be
Ieagured Richmond, Until its Alnnpi ranks
make skill and vaor and dcv oDion power.
less agaInsr ounumUerIng hosts; the OH
or, ever overmached ana vet as vaIrtnl
and as true, ever renewing llsell alter DIS
aslers, and, though driven and batllcd, true
TO its leaders and lie colOrs-wlll NJ, your
hearts leap up as you read the mines OF
your dead written on their rolls OF honor ?
Soldiers of the war! know youu hearts
! are full to-day, burdened with the mem
ores OF brave nen. You are kurylng
your dead friends over again, and pale
faces and cold forms come vivldly 70 MO d.
And the camp, the bIVouac, the hospital,
the prls on, the marches, lhe trenches, the
battles; IN thought you live these over
gain. And you, comrades of our Cd com
mand! do not Shiloh, and Viclsburg,
and Murfreesboro, and Chickamau!a, and
Chattanooga, pass 10 re view before you
to day? And those later ovenlu cam
palgns, when from Dalton TO Atlanta you
contested, step by step, the advance OF a
mighty host under trusted leader whom
you would have followed 10 the gun; with
an army wrapped in gloom because Of his
removal, and the quick following disasters
OF Peach Tree Creek, Atlanta, JoneSboro;
continued by that fatal onward movement
TO the Tennessee: the crossing tina Rubi-
con by brave little army, flushed with
expectation, which, disappointed of lls
righliui prize, by the fatal lnaclon at
Spring Hill, broken by the vain sIauGhter
tat Franklin, and frozen in the cold trench
Ies at Nashville, was hurled back % tn at
lated stream; its rear guard, its furlorn
nope, beating OH It's pursuers al Antnony 5
t1III and Sugar Creek this dread work
all wrought IN one disastrous month the
lille remnant forming again under It's
great General, whose presence rene wed rs
HE, to close in The Caroi,nas under his
wise head and careful hand the unequal
struggle! know you remember all this
Ah, Franklin! Can you ever forget 1t,
with the seventy stffened forms that we
lad away in their wlntry sleep! And
here stands a general tThoS, NJ. ScOtt)
who, leading another brigade OF our dlvis-
| ion, shares with US the memories of that
dread day. And can we ever forget the
noble people of Franklin, and those noble
women, and has not our division ernbalm-
ed in its heart that prince of men, (Col.
Jno. McGavock) whose home was opened
TO its wounded, his house and grounds a
, field hospital for three hundred bleeding
: men; grounds since haIIowed yet more
as the resting place Of all the Confeder-
/ ate dead buried on that fatal field and re-
, moved at his desire?
} Alas! but few Of our great fields will
: get for their deaG such noble and gen
, erous care but wherever our slam soldiers
3 lie, that, TO US, is hallowed ground Yes!
there uncovered bones may bleach beneath
9 the sky and the needless farmer turn
them over with his pillow, YET, just a:
| wind, and sun, and rain shall whltea
3 these neglected bones, so their names
: which, to-day, may be cast out, will in
t the keeping Of time (Which is the shrine
| of virtue rather than its tomb" be rem,
r dered fair and clear
. We of the South were once a power
!. Our conquerers for four years conceded
: that: one of their highest Judges defined
5 our limits as compact and bounded by a
| line of bayonets hat could be crossed on
Iy by force" We are power no longer
: Yet the men and deeds of those four years
: will live while the world stands lamou.
| in It's history. Poland is crushed bul Kos
t ciusko's name is immortal; Ireland is en-
t thralled but Emmel's memory lives IN gong
. and story. Think you that the land OF
: Lee, and the Johnsons. and Jackson: OF