The Lincoln County leader. [volume] (White Oaks, Lincoln County, N.M.) 1882-189?, 1886-05-22
NUMBER 50.

D IVY III gay et"HuIhS az
. attention. You cannot help
feeling the deepest respect for a
people who were reduced to pow
. erty, but who have rallied. and are
enabled to pay such homage to
their dend. Allthrough the South
there are monuments to their bows
Perhaps il our boys had been de.
toated, we should have had as
many monuments to them as the
Southern people have. Milwau-
kee, or Chicago, or almost any city
of over hundred thousand people
in the North, have wealth that
makes the wealth of Southern cities
seem insignificant, but where are
the monuments to the soldiers that
saved these cities2 In the South
there is scarcely q city of twenty
thousand inhabitants but has
monument to it's dead but defeated
boys in gray In the North the
monuments to tie successful sol.
diers in blue can be counted,
almost, on the fingers. Let each
side have the privilege of burying
is dead in peace, and erecting
monuments as much as they please.
and above all do not kick if the
boys who walked home without
any laurel wreath of victory on
their brows get together OCCASION
ally to talk over the times that
tried their souls, and paint a town
or two pretty red. Had there been
ten thousand Union soldiers at
Montgomery and Atlanta, to mix
up with the Confederates and
shake hnnds, the old time enemies
would have locked arms, and done
q double act OF painting the towns,
and when the monuments were
unveiled, the Union boys would
have uncovered their heads the
same as the southerners, aud
shown respect to as brave an en-
emy as ever fired q gun. There
is something somewhere about
picking the meat out OF your bone
eye before you remove the boat
from your nother-in-law's eye,"
which people would do well to
practice. The constitution OF the
United States grants to every mau
the privilege OF having a high old
time, and yelling the top of his
head off, if he wants to, and where
is there any law to prevent a late
Confederate soldier from shaking
hands with his comrades, or his
leader, or everlastingly hopping
it up, one day in twenty years2
There was a reunion OF Union
soldiers at Chattanuga, a few years
ago, and the Confederate survi.
vorS in that part Of our glorious
country heard of it, and they got
together and entertained the blue
fallows, and escorted them. and
drank with them, and made them
so happy and so glad that they
wished it might occur again. The
next time we hear OF Confed-
crate reunion, let's get up crowd
Of boys in blue and 60 there and
make them think they are took"
The Sun would like to live long
enough to see Il reunion of about
half a million boys in blue and
gray, all mixed up so you couid'nt
tell t'other from which. Speaking
OF the complaints about bringing
Jefferson Davis from his retire.
ment, prominent Georgian said
"This does not mean any disloy-
atty. / will wager that if any
thing occurred to make it necessary
for the government to call out
troops, that Georgia wonld fur.
nish more men for the Union army
than any northern state OF her
population" Aud that is about
the size of it; Now let us quit
bowling about poor old Jeff Davis.
He has had happiness enough
thrust upon him to make up for
rwenty years OF isolation. and to
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