The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1866-05-19

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Ia Memoriam.
Upon the memory of the Southern braves
who offered up their lives as a willing saeri-
flee upon the altar of liberty, we, their SUR
yiyors, should bestow something more than
che mere passing tribute Of a sigh We
should erect the stately cenotaph, and rear
the enduring monument in commemoration
Of their glorious deeds, that those who come
after us may be reminded that though they
lost the feld-though their efforts to secure
for the country they loved so well a place
among the nations Of the earth proved IN
a7ailing-yet the people who held the same
faith they did were not unmindful Of their
devotion to the principles Of civil and re-
ligious liberty that their ashes were rcspec-
ted, their names cherished, as the laureled
dead are always cherished by those in whose
behalf they foughta and died The South has
a treasure in her dead more to be priced
than all the gems Of the mine, and let her
not forget their memory Let her cherish
1t as she does the apple Of her eye MAJ. yrs
to cause as glorious as ever engaged the
sword Of a warrior, or beguied the eIoquence
of the orator the land you sought,to redeem
from the thraldom Of oppression win never
cease to remember thy splendid achievements.
Poesy viii sing her sweetest strains for thee,
while the historic muse, proud Of SO much
valor, and viewing with partial eyes thy
deeds-which surpass all Greek, all Roman
fame-wil carefully garner up thy every
noble feat Of daring, and transmit it in her
most engaging colors to the latest posterity
who VIII peruse it with wonder and admit
ration. Heroes in thought and deed, We de-
serve the renown which viii ever be linked
with thy names for the manifest protest
ever made against tyranny and usurpation,
We made it, and it is meet that your heroic
deeds should never be permitted to perish
from the face Of the earth. Nor viii they =
No.
9 Tho meanest rill. the mghtcst river
Rolls mingling with your fame forever"
As long as virtue, honor, and patriotism
command the respect and invoke the sympa-
thics of mankind, the self,sacrifcing spirit
evinced By you during the recent grand
struggle between the cavalier and the Puri
tan will live in. song and story each vieing
with the other as to which shall best honor
your memories, and crown thy deathless
names with the greenest laurels.
Like another Niobe, the oppressed, down
trodden South stands childless and crown
less in her voiceless woe-an empty urn
within her withered hand The wall Of the
heart-broken can be heard throughout all
her borders Rachel is weeping for her
children, and refuses to be comforted be-
cause they arc not She mourns in accents
Of deepest grief for her brave sons who
went to the battle fed, and came not back
again when the battle was over. She feels
deeply their absence, for were they not the
brightest Jewels in her casket-the. very
rose and expectancy Of the fair State
How can she ever cease to regret them =?
And who so dastardly as to assal the mo-
tiycs Of men who regarded their lives as but
dust in the balance when compared with
the blessings which follow in the train Of
VOL regulated liberty governed by law
Who so lost to honor who so devoid OF
the best feelings that ever found a Judgment
IN the human heart, as to throw an obstacle
in the path Of those who would fam rear
hcaycnward the monumental altar to perpet-
uato the names and deeds Of those whose
hearts bled and broke in freedom sacred
caas6l We sometimes think that if the
bright spirits who, on beauteous wings,
cleaye the pure air of the heavenly Para
disc, ever look down from the heights Of
bliss and regard with interest and concern
the affairs of men, they must needs desire
peculiar pleasure from the sight presented
by alpatriot struggling to give liberty to his
country, and dying, if need be- with philo-
eophic composure Of mind to secure so pre-
cious boon. It was said by renowned
philosopher that great man struggling with
adversely was sight worthy Of the gods.
He might have added, % and patriot suffer
ing all things, and doing all things, to WOO
liberty to his embrace, was spectacle that
angels could not regard but with feelings OF
superlativc pleasure
We read in Eastern story that The Peri,
upon losing her place in Paradise winged
her way from star 10 star, and traversed the
hounds Of this duh earth to find the offering
most acceptable to Heayen-an Offering
which, when presented at Eden's gate
would secure to her the place she had lost
by the rccreancy Of her race We read II
tho same beautiful story that, although Che
gifts which cancelled tho sin of tho Peri
and caused the crystal bar of Paradise t.
move that she might enter in, was the tear
that believed the repentant sinners cheek
vet, when she bore to Heaven the last glo
rious drop
''-Ehc patriot heart bad she'd a-
Before its Eree-5orl spiTt ae5,"
LcIinrina- as She did fhat