The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1889-06-04

IN tue sum tOtaI lmpOVerisntJ as 10 world
ly estate, but rich IN fame for military skill
and downright valor and manly honor.
they quietly returned to civil pursuits and
have since been wr<stling heroicslly with
the problems containel in the civiliz alton
OF the New South.
Noting that the rank and file of the men
in both armi.s 10 our great strife were COM
posed OF men not previously tutored In the
art OF war, who spontaneously responded To
the call for action, We propose for the theme
OF their Eoncr "The Volunteer Soldier"
Our volunteer soldier came clothed in
jeans, wearing broadcloth and gold ring /;
clothed with the buckskin suit Of the from
tiersman's apparel, the fashionable cut of
an Inhabitant of the town. He
came from the carpenters bench.
the anvil, the p!ow, the shoemaker's
shop, the mschinist's lathe, the miner.
chamber. He came, the butcher, tire
baker, the csndlestickmaker, the lawyer,
the doctor, the merchant. priest. preacher
capitalist, lahOrer, editor. He came out of
the lumber forests, out of the rows of In
dian corn, upsfrom the depths where coal
is gathered, down from the hills into whose
secret places pits were digged fer gold
and silver ore. He came, the mill opera
tive, the fisherman, the bankers clerk, the
bank president, out Of the mountain ham
let, the prairie town, the wayside village
the lonely farm house, the cottage, the
mansion. He CINE using the speech of
the illiterate, the tongue of the letter,d.
He came cultured, boorish, simple, Dip
Tomato quoting Sh ikespeare, Milton, traus-
lsting Homer. chanting the Dies Iral aud
Master Of Horace and Virgil, the malhe-
matician proficient from the table of nu-
merals 10 qua:ernioDs, acquainted with
trees like unto KING Solomon, speaking
them from the cedar tree that is in Le-
banon, even with hyssop that springeth
oHt of the WALL" speaking ALSO Of beasts
and of towels, of creeping things and o
hshes :" l k-4-33 an astronomer as
Ormsly, NJ. knight, Mitchell, telling the
number of the stars within the range o.
his glass and calling them
by their names governor If
the cOmmonwealth-such as was Sprague
OF Rhode Island U. S. senator as was
Baker In Oregon an inventor Of wide rep
utatiOu as was Elias Howe, whose sewing
machines made him a millionaire before he
took his place as a private in the ranks.
The volunteer soldier came, a Oh ristian,
an infde! an atheist, 8 Roman Catholic,
a protestant, Jew. He came a white
man, red man, black man. He came
a beardlesS you h, patriarch adyanced In
years.
He came speaking the language of
almost ali the nationalities under Heaven.
John Ruskin tells US "Five great intellect
ual professions relating to daily necessities
Of life have hitherto existed
The soldiers profession is to defeat Ii;
The pastors TO teach ii;
The physicians TO keep it in health;
The lawyers to enforce Justice i'm il;
The merchants to provide for it;
And the duty of all these men is, on due
occasion, to die for it.
On due occasion, namely: The soldier
rather than leave his post in battle the
physician rather than leave his post in
plague; The pastor rather
than teach falsehood; the law
yer rather than countenance Injustice
the merchant rather than practice dIshon-
esty and extortion."
But MULTI udes out of all the avoca-
tions pursued in the states remaining In
the Union after the several acts of seces-
sion had been passed and the government
at Richmond had been established percs w.
ed that 'due occasion" to imperil life for
the country, had drawn very nigh them
yea waited at their very doors, and multi
tudes out OF those avOcatious of every In
social, religious and temporal
condition among US bent the knee to the
god OF war, for flag and country, entered
upon the soldiers profession.
Our volunteer took upon himself the
clothing trimmed with the blue of the
infantry branch OF the service, with the
yellow OF the cavalry, the red of the artil-
lery or else the some what fantastic Zouave
uniforms assuming the respectively accom-
panying Equipments special tasks, With
his face toward the Sunny South, be took
leave of home of wife and children of
parents. brothers, sisters, sweetr arts. neigh
bors and to the tune of the Star spangled
B inner, or Yankee Doodle, he marched off
on a wave of patriotic enthusiasm, leaving
aching hearts behind him and alas: to
NEE: With bitter hardships sore
privations, pain and possibly
death as he campaigned through
the fair landscape of that mild climate,
Words are inadequate TO express their
agony, who In prayer and thought followed
his fortunes with The solicitude of personal
affection. A sworn and willing defender
Of his people and their interests; bulwark
to them against mortal dangers. They re-
garded with intensest desire his safety and
his success. A tent his house, 9 blanket
his bed, gun his defense, unpalatabie ar
ticles his food. habitual exposure to in
clement weather, the midnight march in
rain and mud a common thing. the days In
camp dresr, monotony, human blood
familiar spectacle, wounded and dead men
frequent to his sight, obliged TO witness
suffering, if not himself tc suffer wretched
horrible outbreakings of sin all
around him. No one was able to render
with deeper pathos than he, the pathetic
measures of John Howard Payne's "Home,
sweet home"
We beard of our volunteers sturdy,
at Perryville, Fort Donaldson,
at Alexandria under EIIsvorfb and &c the