The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1884-08-15
STARS AND BARS.
HON. D. 3. TARLEToNs ADDRESS
DELAYED, hut Too Good to Miss-His
Speech not Based on Experience
Paints the Picture Truly
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reunion, at this place. 1t was prepared
too late ON the evening of that day to
send with the report of the celebration
published yesterday morning:
have case to put before you: Tito
your home should come one who had
given TO you the supreme and ultimate
test of friendship who for you had
brayed dangers manifold and varied,
disease and death in all their forms, how
would you treat the guest? How
warmly would you not grasp
him by the hand? How your
heart would 20 out to him, this friend |
who had ratified or protlered 10 ratify /
his friendship for You, his fidelity to |
YOU with the great high and lofty seal
of his best hearts blood. In this atti- |
tude toward you, |, Confederate soldiers
of Parsons Brigade, stand for the most
part for the men,women and children OF
this fair county of Hill and Of this young
city Of Hillsboro, in whose name | bio
you welcome, thrice welcome III their
midst. Believe me that the greeting in
warmth is commensurate with the graft
tude which they feel and the debt which
they owe TO you. You, and
each of you vino, in the
dark and dreary days, followed
with fealty the banner OF the Lost
Cause" that banner which went down
i'm disaster which lives alone in history,
it is true, but which Will live there rs
long as history shall tell Of deeds Of
yalor done, as long rs poets can sing and
sagcs write Of martial glory You and
each of yOu, have given TO the men,
women and children of this fair land,
the supreme and ultimate test of your
friendship. For them you have bravod
dangers manifold and varied; for them
perhaps, you have suffered the
pangs of slow and languishing disease:
you have found on an hundred battle
fields, death in all its horror and its
grimness; you have endured, perhaps,
the gloom and darkness of the prison;
YOU have ratified or proilered to ratify
to your fidelity to them, with tho high
and lofty seal of your best hearts blood.
In the spirit then of such host to such
a guest they extend to you the hand of
friendly greeting. They bid you well
come, thrice welcome in their midst.
In these bright days of peace in this
fair land of plenty and prosperity, you
are come to renew for Il day the assOcia-
tions OF a rugged and trying past. II
is beautiful custom. 1t is all the more
beautiful because it is exclusively fca-
ture of these latter times, and of the
days that have succeeded the late war.
History does not record the reunion OF
English or of French veterans, after
the great European wars, to exchange
the greetings of friendships form 20
to renew the associations had n military
days gone by. 1t was left to the Amen.
can mind and to the American heart e
suggest and adopt this comely practice
of meeting year by year, and ro-enkind
ling those strong attachments which
sprung from the bitter experiences o.
grim-visaged war.
1t was not mine to incur these dan
gers; it was not mine to perform the
hard tasks and undertake the stern du
ties of the soldier. | know not tn,
Haunting of the banner in the battle
breeze. heard not the bugle's blast il
the morn's revelle. sat not arount
the campfire at night recounting Tin
doings OF the day nor indulging in tn
anticipation of the morrow. Tn
cleaning of the bayonet; the flashes q
the sabre; the neighing of the war stced
loud, earth-quaking boom of the ear
nonade; the agony of the wounded; I'll
moan of the dying cOmrade; the deaf
grapple with the relentless foe; I'll
WEAKNESS and privation of the prise
all these were unknown tome. But
you they were familiar, and il Is ndee
comely spectacle to see the soldiers
1861 meet as tho citizens of 1851, and r
call the rugged experiences Of war in Il
halcyon days of peace.
Some two or three years ago, uud'
the command of Lieut.. Greedy, thcl
sailed from an American port statel
ship, manned by gallant seamen, bour
for the regions of the Polar sea. The,
gallant men at length reached the iroze
realm, their place of destination. The
looked abroad, and on all sides street.-the
scene of cold and lev splendor. Ice
front of them; ice to the left of them; l.
to the right of them; ice hchir
them glttered and glcamC
in q waste OF cold gud dreai
magniiicencc, These men were wa
riors, fighting the battle Of science NJ
civilization with the foes which natu
had created AS obstacles to their pr
gress. Day by day, in those inhospitat
regions the time went by, and at last [
festival Ofthe Christian world, the hap
Christmas time, when "man's good "
to man breathes forth in everything
visited them IN their desolation.
the wild regrets that could not be 81
pressed! the lOngings that could not
satisfied! Their thoughts sped, sw
low-lilIe, over snow, and ice, and In
and sea to the happy tlresides VIII,
they knew their loved ones W,
gathered. In their minds eye they $
and missed the grace of children,
bushes of the maiden, the sweet all
ton of the wife, the soft caresses of
mother. And still the time sped on, a
!lunger came and fell disease, and {
by one the heroes dropped, and then
the lonely and boundless waste of sn
and ice. overlooking the frozen Po
sea, far from the hauntS of men and
hum of civilization, the we,
eve of the soldier of civili2at
closed In death. And thus until, wi
succor came at last, only six suryiv
Six with the life tide last obblng fr
their nodes. Six with their for
rinched and emacatod, thois che
pale and sunken, looking through G.
almost glazed in death with graft
mt their rescuers; and these six have
turned from that realm of desolat
and despair TO the brightness of he
and of domestic love. Now, mono
these men will ever he able to reco
the horrors tney endured; and, in n
years, when they shall hold their re
ions from year to wear, perhaps,
sweet will be the greeting they will
tend the one 10 tine otherl How W
the grasp of the hand! How kindly
glance of the eye! None but they
know; and so IL is with YOU ex-soldi
Like the heroes of the Arctic exp
ton, like the surviving explorer
those inhospitablo climes. you
shared alike the dangers and hOrro
the Confederate war, you who '
barefooted together, We're hun
together. who for four long years
separated from home and loved &
YOU who fought against ovorwcli
numbers, and fought till nought
left of your fair land save blast and