Woman's chronicle. (Little Rock, Ark.) 1888-1???, 1889-08-10

SHERMAN marcn 10 tne sea With the boys In blue
behind him. and Grant fighting the battle out and
on to the glorious triumph Of our Northern arms,
then my heart prophesies with all patriots
gratitude, "Amerca will win against the awful
tyranny Of King Alcohol and King Gambrinus, and
proud am to have part in it, for, thank God,
IL too, am an American.
Bound together in our mutual faith in Mary T.
Lathrap, of Michigan and Salle F. Chaplin, of
South Carolina; cemented by the martyr blood of
Iowa's George b. Haddock and NIisslssippis
Rhoderck Dhu Gambrell made one by the pride
we feel for these grand old pioneers, John Russell,
the father of our party; James Black, its earliest
presidential candidates Gideon 7. Stewart and H.
W. Thompson; St. John and Daniel the heroes of
a later day and a more dreadful crisis; Green
Clay Smith and Samuel Dickie, Hopkins and
Brooks, Clinton B. Fisk and George w. Balm, and
glorious old Neal Dow, the father of prohibition for
the world, surely temperance people Of the North
and South may we'll say to each other: ''Whither
thou goest will go; where thou lodgest will
LODGE thy people shall be my people, and thy
God my God. The Lord do SO to me and more
also, if aught but death part me and thee
Here upon Indiana genial soil, midway between
the sections that shall ere long be s'sections" no
more, but part of the greatest party's family
circle, gracious and great, let unitedly say to
the fre-eaters of the South on the one side and
the chasm-diggers of the North on the other:
"oh, meaner folks ofnarrower souls,
Heirs of ignobe thought,
Stir not the campircs backened GOALS
Blood -drenched by those who fought
Lest out of heaven a fire shall yet
Bear Gods own vengeance forth
On those who once again would set
Diseord 'twiXt South and North
H. a.,.;.,. - 20 4uo rroot N rn,;ac ,voro On
camped on either side of the Rappahannock river,
one uniformed in blue and one in gray. As twi-
light fell the bands of music on the Union side
began to play the martial strain, "Star Spanged
Banner" and orally Round the Flag" and that
musical challenge was taken up by those on the
other side, who responded with ''The Bonnie Blue
Flag" and "Away Down South in Dixie After
awhile it was borne in upon the soul of single
soldier in one of the bands of music to begin
sweeter and more tender air, and slowly as he
played it they joined with all the instruments on
the Union side until finally mighty chorus
swelled up and down our army, "Home, Sweet
Home" When they had finished there was no
challenge over yonder, for every Confederate band
had taken up that lovely air, so attuned to all
that is hottest and dearest and one great chorus OF
the two great hosts went up to God and when
they had finished came from the boys in gray
challenge, "Three cheers for home, and as they
went resoundng through the skies from both sides
of the river, something from the soldiers cheek
washed off the stains of powder"
Fellow soldiers in the fight for clear brain,
am proud to belong to an army which makes
kindred of those who once stood in arms against
each other. Let us cherish North Cardinals motto
from Isaiahs words: 'Fear not, am with thee;
| will bring thy seed from the east and gather
them from the west; | will say to the north, give
up; and to the south, keep not back; bring my
sons from afar, and my daughters from the ends
of the earth" am glad of these good times,
and to think we women are in them, equal mem
bers of the greatest party, as we have been since
the day of its birth.
1t shall shine more and more
Till its glory like noontide snail be-
1t shall shine and more