Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1880-05-01

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the people of the South. They are to-
day loyal and patriotic, and if a for
eign foe should attempt to set foot on
this soil for the purposeof intimidation
and conquests, the forces of Bragg and
Geary, Mcclellan and Beauregard,
Lee and Grant would come shoulder to
shoulder, the blue and the gray, and
the cannons of Fort Hamilton, Sum-
ter and Pickens would join in one chor-
us of thunder and flame.
The fact is that this country has had
big family fight, but let a neighbor
come in to interfere, and you know how
that always works. There never was a
time when the nation was so thorough
ly one as to-day. Would to God we
might more thoroughly appreciate it.
You see the whole impression of my
Southern journey was one Of high en-,
couragement. The great masses of the
people are right. If a half dozen pol
iticians at the North and half dozen at
the South would only die, we should
have no more sectional acrimony. 1t
is case for the undertakers. If they
will bury these few demagogues out of
sight we will pay the entire expenses
of catafalque and epitaph, and furnish
enough brass bands to play the rogue's
march. But time, under God, will
settle it. The generations that follow
us will not share in the antipathies and
bellicoes spirit of their ancestors, and
will sit in amazement at a state of
things which made the national grave
yards of Murfreesboro, Gettysburg and
Richmond an awful possibility.
On clear morning of week before
last we took a carriage and wound up
to the top of Lookout Mountain. Up,
up, up! We went out on the rocks
and saw into five States of the Union
scenes so stupendous and overwhelm-
ing that you involuntarily take off your
hat, in the presence of the grandest
prospect on the continent. Yonder is
Missionary Ridge, the beach against
which the red pillows of Federal and
Confederate courage surged and broke
40, 900 on one side, $4,000 on the
other. Yonder are the blue mountains
of North and South Carolinas. With
utmost stretch of the eye, yonder see
Kentucky and Virginia. Here at the
foot are Chattanooga and Chickamauga,
the pronunciation of which proper
names will thrill the ages with thoughts
of valor, and desperation, and agony.
Turn round on the tip.top rock of
Lookout Mountain and see the earth.
works to the north and south, east and
west. There is the beautiful Tennes.
see river curving and coiling all through
the plain in letter S after letter S, as il
that letter written on all the scene
might stand for shame that brother,
should 90 into such massacre of each
other, while God and the nations lool
on. had stood on Mount Washing
ton, and on the Sierra Neyadas, anC
on the Alps, but l never saw so far al
that morning from the top of Lookou
Mountain. Why, sirsl / saw seven
teen years into the past and up thu
sides of the mountain on which stooC
, rolled the smoke of Hooker's stormin,
: party, while the foundations of eterna
, rock shook with the cannonade. Yes
t the four years of intenecine strif
, came back, the events without chrome
| logical order, and | looked in one d
g rection and saw the navy-yard at MOI
f folk on fire, and Sumter on fire, an
r Cham mbersburg on fire, and Richmon
. on fire, and Ellsworth fall, and Bake
e fall, and Lyon fall, and Bishop Pol
|. fall, and Stonewall Jackson fall, and
8 saw hundreds of grave trenches 6nall
!. CIT into two great gashes across th
u land, the one for the dead men of til
North, the other for the dead men
s. the South, and my ear as well as m
d eye quickened standing on Lookol
d Mountain. / heard the tramp, tram
is of enlisted armies, and the explosion {
n mines ana powder-bolts and the cras
e of fertilization walls and the mort'
h batteries, and the "swamp angel" ar
1t the groan of dying hosts fallen aero
te the pulseless heart of other dying host
a and / looked still further till ! saw Q
IS the banks of the Penobscot, and Hu
ID son, and Ohio, and Oregon, and Roa
N oake, and the Yazoo, and the Al
,e bama, widcwhood and orphanage al
I childlessness, some in exhaustion
of grief and others stark mad; and ! sal
ID Enough of the past have l seen fro
of Lookout Mountain. 0, God, give n
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