Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1891-06-06

BLOWERS FOR BOTHsIDES

ID OVERSIZE BOTH SIDES
Ess UNIQUE MEMORIAL DAY SERVICE.
IN BROOKLYN TABERNACLE.
Or. Talmaso rrcachee a Sermon About
ssstbo Soldiers of the Civil War. md OF
y, 3;fers u Garland for tho North and One
|ssfor the South.
| BRooKLyN, May 81 yesterday hav-
|dng been observed rs Decoration Day,
DE-. Tnllnage this morning preached an
ssappropriate sermon. It was a novel
5aad unprecedented service, Us in differ
lesiti IartS OF the audience were many OF
staose who had belonged to both Fed
efllsund Confederate armies the Mlb-
Jsct Having BEEN previously announced,
namely. Two tiariaads for Northern
and Southern Graves. Over tile pull
pit were two wreaths OF beautiful flow
seIrs, and they wero linked together so
that.they were an object lesson Of the
subject. presented. Text: Isaiah xiii,
g. viii say to the north, Give up.
aid TO tho aontil- Keep not back
AN.APPRoPIIATR TRx'r..
| 5Iiistt iswha text meant blythe
north and south .iino ts bateln;
file United States the two words are SO.
point blank In their meaning that no
one can doubt. They mean more than
scast md west, for although between
those last two there have been rvalries
md disturbing ambitions and infelicities
;an,l.sllver bills and World fair contro-
wersies there have been between them
no batteries uuIimbered, no intrencl
lnents dug. no long lines OF sepulchral
mounds thrown up It has never been
Massachusetts, Fourteenth regiment
against Wisconsin zouaves; It has new
Ter Been Virginia artillery asainst his-
tassippi rifles.
East and west pre- distinct words,
and sometimes may mean diversity OF
interest, but there lsno blood on them.
They can be pronounced without any
intonation OF wnilipg and death groan.
But the north and the south are words
TINT have been surcharged with TRACE
dies. They arc words Which suggest
thar for forty years the clouds had been
gathering for four years tempest
wllici. thirty years ago burst in fury
that shook this planet as it has never
been shaken since it swung out at the
first world building.
thank God that tho words have
lost some OF the Intensity which they
possessed three decades ago; that a
vast multitude Of northern people have
moved south. and vast Multitude OF
southern people have moved north,
and there have been hternnarriages by
the ten thousand, and northern colo
.nels have married the daughters Of
southern captains. and Texas rangers
have united for life with the daughters
of New York abolitionists. apd their
children ere half. northern and half
southern and altogether patriotic. But
mort, and south are words that need to
be brought into still closer harnoniza-
ton.
thought that nov, when we are half
sasny between presidential elections, and
sectional nnimosities are at lowest ebb.
and,nov Just after q presidential jour
,,ey, when orr chief magistrate, who
was, chiefly elected by the north. has
been cordially received OF the SOUTH
and now, just after two Memorial Days,
one OF them month ago. strewing
flowers on southern graves, and the
other yesterday, strewing flowers on
northern graves, 1t might be appropri-
alto and useful for me to preach SER
mon which would twist two gaslands,
one for the northern dead and the
other for the southern dead. and have
the two intetlocked In chain of 6ow-
ers that shall bind forever the two sec
lions into one; and who knows but
that this may be the day when the
prophecy Of the text made in regard to
the aneients may be fulfilled in regard
to tllisoountry, and the north give upits
prejudioes and the south keep NOT back
it's confidence. Il will say to the
north, Give up. and to the south, Keep
not back.
THE PARTTNGS.
But before / put these garIands ON
the graves. mean to put them this
morning little while ON the brovs of
the living men and women OF the north
and south who lost husbands and sons
and brothers during the civil strife.
There is nothing moro soothing to a
wound than cool bandase, and these
two gariaDds are cool from the night
dew. What morning that was on the
banks, OF the Hudson and the Savan-
nah when the 500 was to start for the
warl What fatferiy and inotlerly
COUNSEL What tearsl What heart
bfeaks What charges to write home
oftenl What little keepsakes pat away
In the knapsack. or the bupdie that was
to be exchanged for the knapsacA
The crowd around the depot or the
steamboat landing shouted, but father
and mother and sister cried And how
lonely the house seemed after they
went home, and what an awfuIly va
cant chair there was at the Christmas
and Thanksgiving table, And after
the battle, what waiting for newsl
What suspense till the long lists Of the
killed and wounded were made ont
All along the Penobscot, and tho Con
nccticut. and the st. Lawrence. and the
Ohio. and the Oregon, and the Jas,es.
and the Albelnarie, and tie Alabama,
and the Mississippi. and he Sacramento
there were lslnent4stioa and mourning
aud great Voc. REACHED weeping for her