Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1873-09-27
"lf they once may win the bridge,
What hope TO save the tosUR,
HeU down the bridge, Sir Consul,
With all the speed We may!"
FOURTH MISUNDERSTANDING
ATE SERIES.

( n ~ O4t4 II 4t1L~ADAI1s
ATE SERIES.
Entered according to Act of Con-
gress in the year 1866 raises The Bat
| tie Cry of Freedom" and ''Clears the
Way" for THE Good Time Coming"
of Union and Liberty. The leading
writers are Harriet Beecher Stowe,
Fanny Fern and Charles Mackay, all
showing firm faith in the progress of
Good, and Human Rights in certain
| localities.
Open the Fifth Reader, and form
into ranks all ye heroes of the fam
ished rebel hordep Here is an emf
lade:
BARBARA FRIETCHIE.
A True Story-Narrative and De-
scription-Jno. G. Whittier. Jno.
Greenleaf Whittier, distinguished
American writer, (often called the
Quaker poet, was born at Haverhill,
Massachusetts, in 1868:
Up from the meadows rich with corn,
Clear in the September morn,
The clustered spires of Frederick stand,
Green walled by the hills of Maryland.
Round about them orchards sweep,
Apple and peach tree fruited deep,
Fair as a garden of the Lord
To the eyes of the famished rebel horde,
On that pleasant morn of the early fall,
When Lee marched over the mountain
WALL
Over the mountains winding down,
Horse and foot, into Frederick town.
Forty flags, with their silver stars.
Forty flaOS will their Grim harS
Flapped in the morning wind, the sun
or noon looked down, and saw not one.
Up rose old Barbara Frietchie then,
Bowed with her fOur-ScoIe years and ten;
Bravest of all in Frederick town,
She took up the flag the men hauled dotcn;
In her attic window the staff she set,
70 show that one heart was loyal yet.
Up the street came therebel tread,
Stonewall Jackson riding ahead;
Under his slouched hat, left and right,
He glanced ;-the old flag met his sight.
"Haltp'-the dust-brown ranks stood fast.
"Fire r'-out blaZed the rifle blast.
1t shfvered the window, pane and sash;
1t rent the banner with seam and cash.
Quick as ii fell from the broken staff
Dame Barbara snatched the silken scarf;
She leaned far out on the window sill,
And shook IL forth with a royal will:
"Shoot II you must, this old gray head
But spare your country's fiag!" she said.
A shade of sadness q blush of shame,
OUer the face Of the leader came;
The noble nature within him stirred
To life at that woInan's deed and word.
Who touches a hair OF yon gray head,
Dies like n DOG! March on he said.
All day long through Frederick street,
Sounded the tread of marching feet;
All day long that free flag tossed
Over the heads of the rebel host.
Ever ifs torn folds rose and fall
On the loyal winds that loved it well:
And through the hill-gaps sunset light
Shone over 1t with warm good night.
Barbara Frietchie's work is DER,
And the Rebel rides on his raids no ns0rs.
Honor to her !-dnd let a tear
Fail for her sake, on Stonewall's bier.
Over Barbara Frietchie's grave,
Flag of Freedom and Union wayei
Peace. and order, and beauty draw
Round thy symbol Of light and law;
And ever the stars above look down
On thy stars, below at Frederick town!
Read, We heroes of the crutch, whose
buried feet followed Jackson into
Frederick town whose empty coat
sleeves remind you that once you claim
ed to be soldiers, and tell me will ye
spend your toll and sweat and blood
lOl DOttOH llkt THAT
1t is sickeniag-shameful-and if
the dead could feel the creeping worm
around them steal, we should soon see
a realization of the legend of the Lake
of Lucerne.
These books not Sectional Masked
Batteries with
"Cannon to right of them
Cannon to left OF them
Cannot behind them
Cannon in front of them
Straight into death,
Will-Ride the six hundredv
l wish l could write with the fervor
| feel This is a Transition Period in
Literature. What our children read
now, no wave will wash out. A great
upheaval hundred years hence will
reveal the impressions imbedded in
the rocks forever -.
Dropping tear on Stonewall's bier,
| ask you to turn to page 216, and read
to page 286-''The Great Forensic
Contest Between Mr.. Webster, of
Massachusetts, and Mr.. Hayne, of
South Carolina, in the American Sem
ate, January, 1890" Nothing section
al in these books, Yet we are told
what Mr.. Hayne said, while Mr. Web
ster's reply is gtrea. We are informed
that To these remarks of Mr.. Web
ster, Mr.. Hayne replied in a speech of
considerable power, occupying two
days in the delivery, a speech ranging
through national and party politics,
sectional jealousies and the slavery
question, in which the speaker took oc-
casion to make general assault upon
the opinions, parties and politics of
New England; but without even a re-
mote allusion to the Public Lands, the
subject nominally under discussion.
He also took occasion to advance what
he denominated the South Carolina
Doctrine-the doctrine of State Rights,
popularity known as the doctrine of
Nullifcation-the right of the State
Legislatures to interfere, wherever, in
their judgment, the General Govern
ment transcends It's constitutional linn
its, and to arrest the operation of its
laws"
The next Lesson gives Sufficient
Extracts" from the speech of Mr..
Hayne to illustrate the bearings of
Mr.. Webster's great argument In re-
ply. The Constitutional questions
here discussed were at this time, as
will be seen, already threatening the
most serious dangers to our country;
and thirty years later they eliminated
in what the South called The Civil
War" and the North The Great Re
bellion."
"The North wind doth blow,
And we shall have snow"
The small showing given Mr.. Hayne
allows Mr.. Webster large space, so
that from the beginning of the Exor-
dium to the close of Peroration we can
watch the lightning play and hear the
thunders roar This is an evident eff
fort to make the same impression on
the reader in 1872 that was made in
1880. What would be thought if
Southern publisher should put into a
child's hands Mr. Brownlow speeches
in defense of slavery?
Matter eminently proper even fif-
teen years ago can not now be used in
school books without creating preju-
dice calculated to widen the breach
between the sections, to open anew the
wounds which time and gentle treat
ment alone can cure.
If YOU have finished Mr.. Webster's
speech, turn to page 293 and read From
the Atterney-General's speech in the
famous Emmett case: Gentlemen Of
he Jury-If / have said anything to
excite within you an additional indig-