Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1891-06-12

UyluS e:erais anI Conre1eraras L ror>or
anld the horrors to ask on waich siIa TO-
fought, when with what little aid I couii
TAKE them tor their SUFFERING b,dias anita
mlghtler aid I could pray for tn air souls
passeo the Gays and months amid SC enas
LnaC III my memory seem like q phastIv
dream rather than possible reality.
hen new orleans 10Y unable to an
s"er my question as to whers he was bnrt
TOOK out from the folds of the onIy parnant
InaC nad not been torn off him in t6e hattla
New Testament, marked with his own Iifa
Diooo' ana saw the leaf turned down at the
passage, Ny peace1 give unto You not sc
the world giveth give unto Yon If raei
Just as though it had been northern New
testament. And when | sat down and tool
kFom a South Carolnian dying in a harm at
bonneville his last message to his wife and
'mother and child, it sounded just like a mes.
sage that a northern man dying far from
nome would send to his wife and mother AND
child 0n-
And when I picked up from the battle
neld or Ant1etam the fragment OF a letter
winch have somewhere yet, for the name
and the address were torn of I saw IL wa.
the words Of wife to her husband tellino
him how the little child prayed for their
rather every night that hs might not pat
hurt In the battle and might coma mona
sound and come home well, but that ie any
thing happened to them they might all msst
again in the world where there are no part
tngs, 1t read just as a northern wife would
write to husband away from home and in
peril conveying tae messages Of little chill
uren. On, yes; they were honest on both
sides. And those VINO lived to get hons are
living yet vera just as honest, and ought
they not for the suffering they endured have
cOrOnal of some kinda
But we must not detain the two garands
any longer from the pillows OF those who for
quarter of a century have been PROSTATE
In dreamleSs siumber never oppressed by
summer heats or chilled by winters cold.
Both garlands are fragrant. Both have in
them the sunshine and the shower OF this
springtime. The colors of both were mixed
by Him who mixed the blue OF the sky and
the gold OF the sunset, and the green of the
grass, and the whiteneSs Oh the snow crystal.
And do not care which you put over the
/ northern grave and which over the southern
grave.
| These august throngs gathered this morn
ing in these pews and aisles and corridors
| and galleries are insignificant com pared with
the mightier throngs Of heaven who miugle
! in this service which we render to God an
| our country while we twist the two garlands.
| Hail spirits multitu iinous Hail spirits
| blest! Hail martyred ones come down from
! from the Kings palaces! How glad ara Wa
! that you have come back again! Take this
| kiss Of welcome and these garlands of remin-
| lscence, ye who languishe in hospitals or
J went down under the thuniers and the
I lightning Of Fredericksburg and Cold aar-
! Dor and Murfreesboro and Corintn an
| Yorktown AMI above the clouds On Lookout
! Mountain
Among the thousands of gatherings at
the north and at the south for decoration
! Days [ am conscious that this service is
unique, and that it is only one in which there
| has been twisted two garlands, one for the
! grave OF the northern dead and the other for
the grave of the southern dead. OLord God
of the American Union is it time that we
bury forever cur old grudges? Ny! My! Can
Va a RI EHyno crN,<~
ment in heaven dwell, in perfect love,
Ulysses S. Grant and Robert E. Lee, Will
lam T. Sherman and Stonewall Jackson,
! and tens OF thousands Of northern and
southern men who, though they once looked
askance at each other from the opposite
banks of the Potomac and the kahominy
and the James and the Tennessee now are
on the same side of the river, keeping iubi-
lee with some OF those old angels who near
nineteen centuries ago came down one
| Christmas night to chant over Bethlehem,
| "GlOry to God in the highest; on earth
| peace, good will TO men,
l have been waiting for some years for
! some one else to twist the two garands
that to-day twist, but, one doing it, in
| the love of God and my country put now
| my hand to the work, and next spring
about this time, if l am living and we'll
VIII JwlsI Two more gariands for northern
and southern graves, and every sprlngtlme
until some man woman whom [ NAV
have cheered little in the struggle of this
life shall come out and put pansy or two
on my own grave. But if the time should
ever come when this land shall be given
over to sectional rancor and demagogism,
and north and south, east and west shall
forget what the good God built this nation
for and it shall halt on its high career OF
Righteousness and liberty aud peace, and be-
come the agent OF tyranny and wrong am
oppression, then let some young man whom
nave baptized in infancy at these affairs &c
out to Greenwood and scoop up my dust anc
scatter it to the four winds OF heaven, for
do not want to sleep, and [ will not sleep in
a land accused with secGionaliSm or oppres
sion.
And now | hand over the two garIanis,
both of which are wet with many tears
tears of widowhood and orphanase and
chiIdlessnass. tears OF suffering and tears OF
gratitude; and as the ceremony must De
performed in SYMBOL there not being enough
flowers to cover all the graves, take the one
garland to the tomb Of some northern
Soldier who may yesterday have beel
omitted il the distribution of the sacra
ment of flowers, and the other garland t
the tomb of some southern soldier VINO ma
! a month ago have been omitted In the dlstr1
button of the sacrament of the flowers, an
put both the wrsaths gently down over TN
hearts that have ceased to beat. GOD Dies
the two garlands! God save the Unite