Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1872-09-05
be with aforeig,n i, foe and not our OWL

be with aforeign foe and not our own
people.
brave in making war upon subdued,
impoverished and unarmed States OF
his own country, while a contemplate,
| fifth rate power wars with barbarie
cruelty upon poor, struggling and
bleeding Cuba at our very doors; I'M
prisons our own citizens or shoots
them down like dOgs,ip the streets OF
HAVANA, without even manly pro-
test from our President against these
outrages upon The honor of an IN,
suited nation, which, under any de-
cent administration, would throw over
every citizen the protection of!sits
flag, no matter7in what laA1he might
be.
We propose toeleet Greeley and
Brown, and the disturbing cause of
all our differences in the past having
been removed, we are determined
:. that henceforth and forever ths blue
and the gray shall mingle together
as friends, and know no rivalry but
that of patriotism. We will unite
to restore the republic tosanF era Of
profoundly tranquil peace, and bury
in deserved oblivion the restless dem
agogues who, to subserve selfish ends,
would delay the coming Of that time
when all the bitter ani4osities begot--
ten of the strife shall be in the deep
bosom of the. ocean buried. When
these things shall have been done
Americas great race for supremacy
will have fairly begun, and the TIME
will yet come when we shall ell look
with an equal tenderness on the
graves of the Northman and the South
ron-for are they not, each, Of US?
the children of common parent, and
Ibid they not each go down to death
las becomes an American to die? Ap-'
Soldiers of the gray, as one who
wore the blue, I welcome you to fra
ternal relationship; we fought you
as men when you had arms in your
hands and assailed the Union you
now love, and we found you :" foemen
worthy oil. our STEEL" as we now find
you friends worthy OF our, warm re-
gard, and rest assured that those who
fought solely TO preserve that Union
will be the last to faunt.in peace the
black flag that would havedishonored
them in war.
No more the flash or the cannon or
the red, fierce glare Of battle shall find
us face to face in tlte terrible realities of
war, but side by sidc, with pulse and
heart III kindred beating we shall
fight IN civic conflicts for the rights
Of all, fof an updivided Union, a con-
stitution unimpalred and sacred
as our birthrght, and a flag with |
radiant stripes and not single
clouded star. II the great generous
hearts OF men who have bravely met
----I.zti.s--eetttit
tie there can be no distinction in
worth between the victor and the
vanquished. for each fought for
cause he believed to be.just. and which
was dear to his heart and his con-
| science, and all submit. to the verdict
in that great trial the jury and t; the
Goo Of Lattles is the Judge The
living shall be brothers and the dead
shall be enshrined in our common
love; they came from our common,
mother earth, and they have returned
to their kindred dust. Like tired
children they have lain down to
sleep. By the still waters of the
Shenandoah; on the banks. Of the
lasglling Tennessee; along the shores
Of the great Father Of Waters, they
rest in long and sweet repose; on Tar
off fields ENRICHED with heroic blood;
in the green forest where the magno-
liza blooms and sheds its fragrant
blossoms down, in canebrake, swamp
and fen, and by the rolling rivnlet
and the sounding sea, the blue and
gray are lying side by side together
they await he eventide of the ages,
when the reveille shall call them to
the resurrection and the life eternal.
Over their graves moistehed by the
dew dropsSthose silent tears Of a
weeping heaven-we, their living
comrades, have entered into a new
covenant that the blue and the gray
shall never more be parted on this
earth, but that united army, over
whom are marshalled the shadowy
hosts who have gone before US to the
spirit land, we shall attain for our
country the realization Of her best
and purest aspirations and make her
to be, for all time, indeed the :" home
of the free" US she is now the land
IF the braye."
By the flow of the inland river,
Whence the fleets of iron had fled,
Where the blades ofthe green grass uuiv'r
Asleep are the ranks Of the dead;
Under the sod and dew;
Waiting the judgment day;
Under the one, the blue,
Under the other, the gray.
LThese in the robings of glory,
;. Those in the gloom of defeat;
All with the. battle blood CORY;
In the dusk OF eternity meet;
Under the sod and dew,
Waiting tho Judgment day;
Under the laurel, the blhe;..'
Under the willow, the gray.
From the silence of sorrowful Hours,
The desolato mourncrs 80,
Lovingly laid with ilowprs,
Alike for tho friend and the fOeI
Under tho sod and the dew,
Waiting the Judgment day;
Under the roses, the blue;
Under thcdilies, the gray.
So, with an equal splendor,
The morning sun rays fall,
With q touch impartially tender,
On the blossoms blooming for ALL
Under the sod and the dew,
Waiting the judgment day,
Broideret with gold, the blue;
Mellowed with gold, the gray.
So. when the summer calleth,
On forest and field Of grain,.
With an equal mrlrmur falleth
;The cooling drip Of the rain;
Under the sod and the dew,
Waiting the Judgment dRy;
Wet with the rain, Tho hluei
Wet with the rain, the gray.