The Orangeburg news. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1867-1875, 1873-03-15
NUMBER S

OmiuouD ciouus RaCner Sape aarkcu an1
burst to leave happy homes in ruins.
Sounds of melody ldeed are heard AZ
armies, with banners, march in, grand
array 80 sounds Of martial lhusic. to gour
rulers and kings amid the clashings
and thundoriugs of the mighty engincgy
of wor, and all these die away only to be
followed by the groans of dying heroes,
and these again by the softer, holier
sounds that are wrung from bIighted,
orphaned, widowed hearts. Here aud
there flower buds and blooms, and
slows soon perhaps to be blighted by
wintry blIst, and buried under the fros,s
and the snow. Now and thea. suns
moons and stars glitter aud glimmer, aud
gleam in all their wouted splendor aud
loveliness, only perhaps to intensity che i,
gloom, When pail rises from the pssiti
cal horizon, to blot them from the sky.
And yet in that very gloom there il
life, there is light, there is bca uty. aye.
there is glory there.
Let but one little spark of life remain,
and one little ray of hope will linRer
with it. Let but one little star, peop
through rift in the clouds and W. are
ready to excla;m, how beautiful! Bus
let the full splend RS of Oriou's bands
surround it aud uoue will be so poor to
! do it reverence.
The very clouds that ovcrshadow the
earth, do but heighten the glories Of the
skies while they are bearing life aud
strength, and beauty to the flowers.
and what shall we learn from such
lessons as those which have been left By
history aud by nature for our gaidauce
and instruction
Above all despair not. However deem
the glsom that surrounds US let us
remember that otherssup than, that of
the South have gone doom in gloo.n, sad
yet come forth again in glory, that other
peoples than ours, haze been bowed
down in woe and yet come forth syain
i -
Oh! let US labor. to farsett the bitter
ness and forsive the wrongs of the past
to overlook, even the injuries OF the
| present, and wsth patience reach
forward to the gIories Of that day, when
The returning reason of the North, shall
tear down the barriers which now
divide our Country, as with hand
extended across the chasrn, she shouts
in tones which shall shake the world.
traitors and rebels no more tt27foa
Americans, freemen all away. away.
ye powers of darkuess, which have
desecrated the temple of our freedom
aud stained it with fraternal blood,
away, away the spirits Of our Fathers,
command you avail Oh there Is life in
the "Old Land, yet. Our mountaius,
and our valleys, our forests, our plains
aud our streams, are teeming with
wealth and power, aud they are waiting
only for those strong arms, and rea dy
hands, which shall some day come, to
build up the waste places of our sunny
land, aud make them once again 90
bloom as the rose. oh! then let US hope
on, hoping ever, with our eyes upon the
prize. go
The roads exceeding long, that never turns.
And Vesta's FIRE still on the altar burns
! Hope on--foreyer those sacred fres shall
As things should be, so shall they be again.
Aye, even now, there is rift in the
clouds-the master.spirits, of the North
have at last turned their breasts TO ths
storm, which has SO long beaten upon
the South, and ere long, the two sections
of our land, shall see each other 10
more, through glass darkly," but in
the broad sunlight of the open day,
animated by one grand impulse, staud
shoulder, to shoulder, to work ont to.
sether the glories of common destiny.
Then shall we feel Indeed thet,
This is the land of the poets song,
The patriots proudeSt theme. I
Then indeed shall we make new
song of glory, and send il sounding
down the ages, to make glad the hearts
of our childrcn's children, as they rise
up, with rejoicing, to bless us for onr
wisdom--and ah! methinks the very
stars themselves will take up the swell.
ing notes OF our refrain and boar them