Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1871-05-31

toll and suffering and blood-for Bunker min
and Eutaw and Valley Foree--forits tne,norin,.
o. victory md atriumplti but most OF ali for
| and wounds and death. .ai l. liur '"'r'' 49,
Q Freedom thou art not. as poet. dream. t..e1
nd ir ~ SSSng 9 girl with Light and delicate lnbs
With which the Roman m master crowned hs sIavr 81
x s men AZ he % TOOK on the gyyes. bearded man, IA
asp the BSoad shsa sna Cns SSs esd hand
WlGI,ou, W;s IN beauty though 4 be- Is Scared
are mrohps with strugsling.n Power at thee has
Ills bolts snd with bis iiehtnpes th...yaa.
hsy esnid not saench the life thou hast from Heaven
Have Thy Ssn ye ~se hs aees h5s b,,s
int Inc lnks are shiyered. and the prison walls
4s springs the dsns above S shfss' surhfns ps 1Hs,h
And shoutest TO the nations, who return
my shoutings, while the pale oppressor hes', ..
Well is the land worth saving which has oosi
SO much. But to the price which our fathers
pad, their sons have added their QUOTA
mighty payment of blood and tears. 1t was
.dlpo & that i9ur years struggle for the ma
tons life, but the life was worth the struggle.
1t was q strife in which all hearts grew faint.
and which sent mourning and woe tbrougb
every part of the land, The slow, reientless
one grain to human grief and tears From orT
midst 10 either side of this mighty conflict yvo
sent our best and bravest forth Aching hearts
waited for them in ten thousand homes. Sor-
A"W bhN tstlS hlNS NlSlJeQ every neigh bOrhOnH
and hamloti and the manned and the orphaned
go about our streets, These all died thar onr
land might be saved-these seepers here in
piuei tnose IN yonder cemetery in gray-all
ailke, are the price of the institutions we love
the priceless sacrifice forus who live Sfill 20
ever it is that '''' 40
Every gift on Freedoms shrine .t-
IS man Tor beast, and blood for winen
But the soldiers sacrifice is not the onIv ono
poured on our country's altar There were
those in thousands of quiet homes. who sent the
soldier forth, and cheered him on his way; and
then, through the weary months and wears
waited for his unreturning steps who, mid tbaa
sickness of hope deferred, kept the weary viciI
at homei whose part in the great strife il was 10
wait, and pray, and to bear the heavy burden of
poverty and want, and the long agony of sus
pense and fear: to sit at last in the sad homes
whence the light has fed forever, and TO which
the feet that rest here shall return no more.
1t is meet that we Should do them honor-the
dead-for their country's sake; those unnamed
and uncomplaining heroes and heroines. who
for their country's sake darkened all their lives
and gave up their loved ones to death. -
Cold lips OF monumental marble are power
less to tell the love and gratitude we owe and
pay to that army Of noble souls whose sacrifices
have redeemed our land. Their fitting nponu-
ment is the land they, sayed While onr rivers
roll to the sea, they shall tell Of the time when
their streams ran red with fraternal blood, and
all their frightened waves shrunk back and
rembled at the wreck and roar of battle
While While our valleys bloom with. beauty and
snow
scars of war, and tell of the brave who died
and of the graves that ridge their bosoms'
Whlle our monumental mountains stand guard
the echoes OF battle thunder shall linger in their
cilns-they shall speak from all their caves and
submits of the tragedies they saw-of the deeds
OF daring which they witnessed
by the deeds Of our fathers--by the freely Of
Tered % lives OF our erothers-by all the glorious
past and hopes OF the future, we stand pledged
that our Union and our free institutions blood
bought and blood-redeemed, shall be guarded
perfected and perpetuated while time shall last
Our children and children's children tbrongb
ages 10 come, shall read the deathless records of
our struggle and strife, and learn to honor tho
heroes whose sacrifice shall have made and kent
their country great and free and to prize be.
yond all reckoning the blessings bonght for us
and them, with such uncounted price of blood.
These silent ranks arrayed around the flag be-
meath whose folds they fought and for which
they died, cannot hear our praise; but We and
our children, and the generations TO come shall
be more brave and true and loyal for tho hom-
age which, year by year we pay to those who
died for US. In homestead and hall, let us pre-
serve tho sad relics of strife and saorfce-the
dinted sabre the battered musket the faded
uniform, the banners, torn and rent shall tell
with dumb mouths, in distant times, in elo-
quence passing all human speech, the story Of
There are other sieepers than hose,Sathered
here Side by side, on q thousand battlefelds,
the blue and the gray slept their last sleep
Both wore our brothers, and both were brave,
Niu inc lives, OF al were part OF the price OF
what we now enjoy For every grave we reckon,
somewhere on the hillsides Of the great North,
in the sunny valleys of the South a broken
heart and broken home The same sunlight
kisses theirverdent gravesr-the same soft airs
blow over their sleeping forms. Peace folds her
wings overall and with, bowed faces, in the
presence Of the aeepng dead, we lpour foral
alike.
Long may it be ere our eountry's life and
liberties demand q like offering OF life--long
may the lessons and the holy memories of this
great sacrifice be kept by those who shall come
after us and while the mountains of our land
endure, may her glorious union and her free in
stitutons last, and her sons remember that
..s Whether on the gallows high, ~
Or in the battles van,
The httest place for man to die,
l. where he dies for man" .a. -a.-r
At the hour Of going TO press the services are
fall description of which, together
with the speeches made on the occasion by the
different speakers, viii appear in our next
issue.
SUEz CANAL TRADE.-New York re-
ceived last week $50 bags ofthe new growth
Of Rangoon rice. 1t came by way of the
Suez Canal, and is fully two months ear